Which of the following statements about initial public offerings are true? ipos are less risky than a typical stock market investment (i. e. investing in mcdonald's or coca-cola) since they are typically smaller companies an ipo occurs when a private company sells stock to the public for the first time when an ipo occurs, a company raises money from public investors that they use to grow their business ipos are risky investments since the company going public often has a limited track record of performance one benefit of “going public (another term for an ipo)” is that a public company has less regulation than a private one