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In an expansion of the JOBS act, the SEC is now permitting all companies to submit nonpublic draft registration statements relating to IPOs. Read more here.
Before the JOBS Act, if a smaller company was going public and made their filing available for everyone to see and the IPO was later pulled, that was a pretty negative connotation on the company itself, and the market typically looked at that as there must be something fatally wrong with this company.