教材租賃網站Chegg 融資 業務擴張

Chegg, the startup that began as an analog online book rental service and has itself transformed into a multifaceted digital hub for students, has filed publicly for an initial public offering to raise about $150 million.
Chegg起初是一個模擬在線租書服務網站，現已轉變成爲一個以學生爲服務對象的多元數字中心，並首次公開招股，募集約1.5億美元資金。

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has already been working with the Securities and Exchange Commission, doing what is called a “secret filing.” That means that Chegg used the 2012 law, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, that allows any private company that has less than $1 billion in annual revenue to work confidentially with regulatory agencies ahead of the public IPO announcement. Both Workday and Trulia filed successfully in this manner.
位於加州聖克拉拉的Chegg公司正與美國證券交易委員會合作一起“祕密文件”，這意味着Chegg實行的是2012創業企業融資法案，這條法案允許年收入少於10億美元的私人公司在公開上市公告之前祕密與管理機構合作。

This speeds up the offering process, getting regulatory issues resolved quietly and also keePing the IPO shielded from scrutiny at the start. It also allows companies such as Chegg to make initial contact with potential investors, and sources said that Chegg has done so.
實行該法案加速了招股過程，使得監管問題能安靜地被解決，並使首次公開招股得到起初就接受詳細監察的保護。這使得例如Chegg之類的公司能與潛在的投資方獲得初步聯繫，有消息稱Chegg也確實這樣做過。

Now it will be three weeks before the company can start its official road show to sell itself to Wall Street, which will then be followed by the IPO itself. The most recent valuation of the company was $800 million, but its public market value is likely to be much higher.
從現在起的三個星期內，Chegg就要開始正式會向華爾街推銷自己了，在那之後便要進行首次公開招股。最新的公司估值是8億美元，但Chegg的公開市場價值可能更高。

Chegg will use the money it is raising to expand its offerings. The company is not without competitors, which have had varying degrees of success, including BookRenter, Kno and, perhaps most significantly, Amazon.
Chegg將會使用募得的資金去擴張自己提供的服務項目。該公司並不是沒有對手的，它的競爭者包括：BookRenter，Kno以及可能最重要的對手亞馬遜，這些都已經取得了不同程度的成功。

Chegg was founded in 2005 at Iowa State University as a hyper-local classifieds directory, and the business evolved two years later into a textbook-rental service. It now has a variety of offerings centered on students from high school onward to many thousands of educational institutions.
Chegg作爲一個超本地化分類指南，於2005年在愛荷華州立大學成立，兩年後變成一個教科書租賃服務平臺。如今Chegg已經發展爲以高中和衆多教育機構的學生爲服務對象的平臺。

It has raised $195 million from a variety of venture firms and investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Pinnacle Ventures and Insight Venture Partners.
Chegg已經從很多投資公司和投資者處獲得1.95億美元的資金，投資者包括克萊恩那·帕爾金斯風險投資、尖峯創投和紐約風險投資公司Insight Venture Partners。