The company with the deepest pockets often wins.
Having more money than your competitors can further your technology advantage, allow you to market more aggressively to get a stronger network effect, or simply to scale up production more quickly.
This is why founders can be found scrambling around Silicon Valley trying to raise capital. But raising capital is not reserved solely for privately held startups.
In fact, many fast-growing public companies are increasingly looking for ways to raise capital cheaply, be it through debt or secondary equity offerings.
Raising capital through secondary equity offerings
One of the more common ways to raise money in today’s market is through a secondary offering. A secondary offering is simply the sale of new shares to investors by an already public-listed company. This is especially appealing for a company when its stock price has increased to a lofty valuation, a likely phenomenon for tech stocks in today’s market....