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Contrary to popular opinion, the IPO was good for the company and investors.

An IPO is no panacea: In some cases going public may even stifle the growth of your company. Find out why. Ever since the dot-com era of the 1990s, many management teams at high-growth companies have fallen for the lure of the IPO as the most important validator of success.

Four-time entrepreneur Joe Apprendi talks about exiting three companies and how his latest--Collective, a New York online advertising firm--could be his home run, an IPO. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/how-i-did-it-joe-apprendi-collective-whats-your-exit-strategy.html

The first Inc. 500 company to go public since August exceeded its IPO expectations, despite that it doesn't look much like other companies going public this year

Inc.'s Burt Helm talks to Ernst & Young markets expert Herb Engert about the rocky road ahead he expects for initial public offerings. After months of stops and starts, Groupon finally intends to go public. CEO and founder Andrew Mason has begun pitch sessions to investor groups—part of the so-called roadshow