Quote Originally Posted by Harvey Specter View Post
no. If you own 100% of a business worth $50m, and you raise $50m of new cash, you now have 50% of a 100m business. The amount of money you have at risk is still the same (that assumes the IPO is priced right).

Compare that to a person who sells 50% of their $50m business who now has $25m in cash which is more than enough if your remaining 50% holding doens't do that well.
TY Harvey S. for clarifying that to me.