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IPO'ing again after being delisted
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Uhh, yeah, so my company's financials are not so great...

After two reverse stock splits, with my share value at two cents per share, I got de-listed.

With cash dwindling, debts high, and no financial institutions willing to lend me money, I thought I had about as much of a chance of surviving as Spirit Airlines did on Friday evening.  With no other options, I pressed the IPO button again, and... was able to find new investors!

It didn't raise a lot of money, but I quickly followed up by selling the remaining 75% of the company, raising a few tens of thousands of precious greenbacks.

I don't really consider it a bug since what are the odds that a player company gets de-listed before it goes bankrupt, anyway?  I didn't think that was possible until it happened; always before, I'd run out of cash and been liquidated first.  But in this case I had managed to staunch the cashflow bleed by closing everything (while still having a 20-to-1 debt-to-assets ratio, and thus highly negative equity), and that managed to do it.

I'm curious if anyone else has managed to get de-listed?

I managed to do the same thing again after being de-listed a few months later, but the third time was told that an IPO would raise approximately $0, and was thus unable to issue one.  I guess the investors wised up on the prospects for my company...
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I've been delisted quite a few times. It's quite a balancing rope though to get delisted and then build up enough equity to relist and issue shares.

I've seen it happen in real life, but it takes a couple years. Ideally, we'd add a few different stages of delisting and relisting to the game. Maybe even more realistic dilution options, all of which is probably overkill for the game.
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