Your Exit Strategy: Taking your company public $$$$
The goals of start up companies should be to: A - Make enough money where you do not need funding, or B - Make enough money to pay back your investors to buy them out so you can keep more $$ for yourself or C - cash out through the stock markets - so you need to know how to take your company public. The major world stock markets are listed below by country/region. With the ongoing MF Global scandal http://www.cftc.gov/IndustryOversight/Intermediaries/mfglobal one organization you should know about the is the CFTChttp://www.cftc.gov, for the technology used to conduct trades and safeguard investors click on http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/Events/opaevent_tac121311. Also congratulations to Senator Debbie Stabenow http://stabenow.senate.gov for asking former Senator John Corzine the CEO of MF Global, and the CFO "Where is the money?". For investors unable to access their accounts at MF Global call 1-888-236-0808 (U.S. callers) and 1-503-597-5173 (international callers) and to e-mail the trustee of MF Global Trustee e-mail MFGITrustee@hugheshubbard.com.
NYSEuronext - http://www.nyse.com - U.S. & London based. Currently the DAX based in Germany is bidding for the big board as the NYSE Euronext has been called. The bid must pass the scrutiny of European regulators who are concerned about a monopoly in derivatives trading on the world market if this deal goes through. Also with the future of the Euro now in doubt due to the Greece debt crisis, the DAX may have others things in mind right now, but the NYSEhttp://www.nyse.com web page reported that DAX shareholders have approved the combination with NYSE Euronext per a PR Newswire report.
ASE - http://www.ase.gr/default_en.asp the Athens Stock Exchange in Greece listed due to concerns of the Greek debt crisis and the threat to the Euro. For more info on Euro & Greek debt crisis click on http://wallstreetexaminer.com/2012/05/13/economic-crisis-casts-doubt-on-wisdom-of-europes-move-to-euro-detroit-free-press/
CME - http://www.cmegroup.com Based in Chicago and trades financial futures, commodities and derivaties. Also home to the New York Mechantile Exchangehttp://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy/nymex-daily-reports.html.
DSE - http://www.dse.sy - Damscus (Syria) Stock Exchange listed due to the ongoing crisis and threat of civil war in Syria. To see in Arabic click on http://www.dse.sy.
LSE - http://www.londonstockexchange.com - London based.
NASDAQ - http://www.nasdaq.com - U.S. based.
Shanghai Stock Exchange http://www.sse.com.cn - Based in China.
Nikkei http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/freetop.aspx Based in Japan.
DAX - http://deutsche-boerse.comBased in Germany.
JSE - http://www.jse.co.za Based in South Africa.
Egypt http://www.egyptse.com Based in CairoEgypt.
Isra-elhttp://www.tase.co.il/TASEEng/Homepage.htm Based in Isra-el.
Russiahttp://www.micex.com a big stock (ipo) offering recently is Yandex http://www.yandex.com the Russian version of Googlewww.google.com. Micex according to the Wall Street Journal 10/10/2011, pg R5 will merge with the other Russian Exchange RTS. For more details click on http://online.wsj.com/home-page and do a search. The recent crash of the Russian civillian prototype plane will cause Russian airplane stocks to dip. For more info on the crash click on http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Manthorpe+Crash+sours+Russian+hopes+civilian+aviation+revival/6615164/story.html
Abu Dubai Gold & Com Exchange http://www.dgcx.ae/AboutUs.aspx Abu Dubai, a key country of the GCC on the Arabian penisula.