Question of the Week: Are Small Companies Shut Out of the IPO Market?

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool. Not everyone can be a Facebook or a Groupon or, heck, even an HCA. Large companies like these can often count on a relatively easy path to going public. Big companies often get huge run ups in the press prior to going public and lots of coverage afterward. Just consider the day-by-day coverage of Facebook's long-awaited plans to go public (and the company has not indicated it has any plans for an IPO this year). But small companies often don't get this treatment. In fact, small companies usually face significant obstacles to going public. Jeffrey Bussgang, a general partner with Flybridge Capital Partners, says