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This year’s digital health IPOs have put the market in the mood for more
A relatively small group of people from underwriting banks on Wall Street define the market’s appetite for the year’s IPOs. And right now, sources say, those people are thinking happy thoughts about...
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Cyber intel firm iSight plans funding round ahead of 2016 IPO
BOSTON (Reuters) – Cybersecurity intelligence firm iSight Partners is looking to raise $100 million or more this year as it prepares for an initial public offering as early as the end of 2016, the...
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Mobile startup exit dollars have dropped below new fundings, new research says
Dollars made from mobile startup exits — that is, acquisitions and IPOs — have dropped below the number of dollars earned from venture capital investments (per quarter) for the first time since 2013,...
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Square expected to set its IPO price late Wednesday
By Heather Somerville Mobile payments company Square Inc (SQ.N) is set to price shares for its initial public offering late Wednesday in what is expected to be a harbinger for how other highly valued...
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Make sure you know Square’s correct IPO valuation before you invest
GUEST: There is plenty to talk about with Square pricing its IPO down below the last raise. What we don’t understand is why everyone feels the need to make it sound worse than it is. Almost every...
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Tech IPOs were mostly MIA in 2015, but some that listed fared well
REVIEW: 2015 was the slowest year for tech IPOs since 2009, when the Great Recession was coming to an end. Only 23 tech companies braved the market, down 58 percent from 2014. Together, they raised...
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Somewhere way, way under the rainbow: The 10 worst unicorns of 2015
A venture capitalist may have pumped enough money into your company’s bank account to push it into the unicorn category, but that doesn’t guarantee success. Which is good news for people like me who...
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59 percent of UK startups are aiming for acquisition, Silicon Valley Bank says
Some 59% of UK startups say that an acquisition is their long-term goal, while 17% note that their aspiration is to successfully complete an IPO. According to Silicon Valley Bank’s Outlook report –...
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General Catalyst’s Phil Libin says first bot IPOs are 2 or 3 years away
VentureBeat sat down with Phil Libin, managing director at venture capital firm General Catalyst, to get his take on the state of the bot ecosystem. It was just a year ago that the former Evernote CEO...
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VC funding hits 2-year low, drops 18% to $14.4 billion in North America as...
At long last, venture capital’s long-awaited return to normalcy appears to be happening. VC funding for the third quarter of 2016 slid for nearly every key metric: a smaller number of deals, less total...
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Why IPO?: You need the public market’s tough love
GUEST: You often hear about the knockdown, drag-out debates, between CEOs and their investors about when a startup ought to go public, or indeed whether it should at all. During the recent past (as in...
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The benefits of confidentially filing for an IPO
GUEST: Recently, Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., made news with an announcement that it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO). As expected, news about the company’s...
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Tech IPOs doubled in the last half of 2016, setting the stage for a robust 2017
Last year was a bumpy one for tech entrepreneurs. Between shaky markets and a tense political climate, some private companies that had planned for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2016 delayed their...
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How Trump is impacting tech exits
GUEST: We’ve heard a lot of noise about how 2017 will be the year to “save” the IPO market. For now, all eyes (or Spectacles) are on Snap to see how it will perform after its IPO. And other hotly...
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Snap’s massive IPO overlooks lack of performance-based advertisers
GUEST: Snap’s much-anticipated IPO has generated a great deal of enthusiasm in the tech and financial communities, as well as here in Los Angeles, the company’s home town. And, for good reason. It is...
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How to tell when a SaaS startup is ready for IPO
GUEST: If you’re a founder, early employee, or investor of a growing SaaS startup, chances are that the word “Exit” has crossed your mind. Generally, you have two options: get acquired or go public....
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The numbers say IPOs are more profitable than acquisitions
GUEST: We’ve seen a move in exit strategy lately from IPOs to acquisitions amid talk that M&A exits take less effort and produce higher returns. But I’ve crunched the numbers, and from what I see,...
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Can unicorn Dropbox avoid a down-round IPO?
GUEST: Dropbox’s likely IPO is set to be one of the largest offerings of the past few years, but the key question is whether the world’s largest cloud-storage company will go public at a valuation...
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SoftBank’s massive investments are stalling tech IPOs
(Reuters) — Big cash infusions for startups from an ever-expanding group of financiers, led by SoftBank and Middle East sovereign wealth funds, have extinguished hopes that the technology IPO market...
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Startup Europe 2017: More funding, fewer exits offer mixed picture of...
ANALYSIS: Europe has been working hard to rejuvenate the economy by turbocharging local startups, and there has been definite progress in recent years. But a pair of new reports point to a very mixed...
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Dropbox opens trading at $29, up 38% on IPO price
It’s D-Day. Dropbox Day, that is — the day that one of the biggest names in the technology startup world ceases to be a private company and embraces Wall Street. The company’s shares started trading...
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China is dominating tech IPOs on U.S. markets in 2018
Through the first three quarters of 2018, Chinese tech companies have far outpaced their U.S. counterparts when it comes to IPOs on U.S. stock exchanges.Read More
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Slack, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Pinterest top list of companies that could make...
These eight companies could make 2019 a blockbuster year for IPOs: Uber, Lyft, Slack, Pinterest, Instacart, Postmates, Palantir, and Airbnb.Read More
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Tinder CEO Sean Rad’s insane interview busted Match Group’s IPO quiet period
Tinder CEO Sean Rad broke the quiet period before the IPO of parent company Match Group when he gave a revealing interview to a web publication called the Evening Standard. Rad talked in the interview...
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Today’s VC funding drought will drive tomorrow’s adtech consolidation
GUEST: Adtech consolidation is no longer just talk, but a reality that hundreds of small tech companies propped up by VC funding are about to face. Industry leaders have been talking about the...
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WeWork is the latest sign tech IPO valuations are nonsense
When tech companies are losing money and trading at very high sales multiples, what reliable metric can you use to value their IPOs?Read More
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5 IPO flameouts that defined 2019: Uber, Lyft, Pinterest, Slack, and WeWork
In 2019, IPOs ended in face-plants for some of the biggest unicorns: WeWork, Uber, Lyft, Slack, and Pinterest. Expect no lessons to be learned.Read More
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2019 tech IPOs: The not-quite-banner year that could have been a lot worse
Beyond the big tech IPOs that flopped, several smaller companies had decent debuts but roller-coaster rides since. That could make 2020 a tough IPO year.Read More
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How tech and game devs should view stock options at tax time | Scott Chou...
It's time employees to understand the value of their stock options, as tech IPOs are expected to make a comeback in 2024.Read More
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