For years, the biggest startup founders would dream of an initial public offering. It was the key to raising capital, drumming up attention and rewarding longtime employees and early investors with a big payout. Not any more. These days, many
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USA Today | This anti-‘woke’ investor is wooing Trump voters. His first target: Starbucks
At President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club Thursday, James Fishback, CEO and co-founder of Azoria Partners, unveiled a new anti-“woke” investment fund, the Azoria 500 Meritocracy ETF, that will mirror the S&P 500 index except in one respect: It will not include
MarketWatch | Pony AI’s Nasdaq debut signals possible thaw in U.S. stock-market listings by Chinese companies
Autonomous-driving company Pony AI Inc.’s newly issued stock fell nearly 8% below its offering price of $13 a share Wednesday as the biggest initial public offering in months for a Chinese company began trading. The Pony AI offering potentially sets
Scrolling through memory lane: A year in review at UF Warrington
Heavener students rang in the new year by winning back-to-back case competitions in Mexico and Canada, representing Warrington ahead of 25+ international competitors. In February, the Gators football team traveled to Miami to investigate career opportunities with the Bergstrom Real
Swings in Building Permits Can Help Predict Financial Downturns
For a new study, Assistant Professor Gustavo Cortes and Yale School of Management’s Cameron LaPoint painstakingly assembled a dataset tracking local building permits over the last century. Again and again, they found, peaks in the issuing of permits preceded periods
Mark Jamison | The Case for a Smarter Antitrust Policy
By restoring clarity and rigor to antitrust enforcement, the incoming administration can protect competition without punishing success, argues Mark Jamison, Gunter Professor and Public Utility Research Center Director. Read Jamison’s full op-ed in The National Review.
The Washington Post | Truth Social investors hoped to get ‘very rich’ after Trump’s win. Not quite.
Trump Media & Technology Group’s revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up. The president-elect’s return to the White House could complicate things even more. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights in this story
USA Today | Trump’s social media company in talks to buy crypto firm Bakkt, FT reports
Donald Trump’s social media company ended the trading day up Monday on reports it’s looking to buy crypto trading firm Bakkt. Shares of Bakkt, backed by NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange, skyrocketed more than 160% and were halted multiple times due to volatility.
Underwater academic
Most academics start their careers inside the classroom. Associate Professor Trevor Foulk started his in the ocean. The new faculty member and alumnus of the University of Florida Warrington College of Business was making waves in his career as a
Marketing to businesses has never been clearer
Thanks to Clinical Assistant Professor Michael Carrillo, a new textbook is benefitting the University of Florida Warrington College of Business’s business-to-business (B2B) marketing course. Carrillo’s digital textbook, B2B Marketing: Strategic Foundations and Global Applications, hit the internet earlier this year,
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