1.   Attracting the new entrepreneurs is tough, he says, because investment bankers that take their companies public often rush to manage their personal money too.

2.   Before they departed, they established a reputation for taking promising technology companies public.

3.   Boston buyout king Thomas H. Lee is expected to take another of his companies public this week, his ninth initial public offering in just over three years.

4.   Brown, continues to have a strong franchise in bringing younger companies public, and Bankers Trust itself has a sizable business in underwriting high-yield junk bonds.

5.   Even with the recent market rumblings, taking the company public is a strategy that Alibris is still considering for the future, Manley said.

6.   Even the same investment banker at Merrill Lynch helped take both companies public.

7.   Goldman has always been strong in merger advice and taking companies public.

8.   He is planning to take as many as eight Virgin companies public, starting next year with Virgin Blue, an Australian budget airline.

9.   He knew that only one of them would be able to participate in taking the company public, he said.

10.   He knew that only one of them would be able to participate in taking the company public.