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- IPO
- Initial Public Offering The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of...
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- The future of tech IPOs
- At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Frank Quattrone, co-founder of Qatalyst, talks about the dismal condition of the current IPO market, why venture capitalist backed companies are not going public right now, and what the future holds.
- Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tech IPOs
- Videos 2008-07-25
- VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits
- Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Microsoft: Doing Facebook, Yahoo search two-step to set up Google showdown?
- The rumor mill over Microsoft's search for an online strategy is working overtime. The latest: Microsoft is working to buy Yahoo's search business and then Facebook. These rumors, swirling about Techmeme from John Furrier with an assist from Kara Swisher, have been stoked by Microsoft's revelation over...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Financial Services, Management, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Google CIO to jump to EMI; And what does he know about music?
- Google CIO Douglas Merrill will reportedly jump ship to EMI to become president of the music label. His mission: Figure out this digital music thing. Merrill's move--reported by John Furrier and confirmed at numerous other news outlets--is a curious move. For EMI, Merrill brings technical know-how and...
- Tags: Google Inc., CIO, EMI Group Plc., Music, Strategy, IPO, Digital Media, Leadership, Digital Music, Management, Financial Services, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Bank that censored WikiLeaks was preparing for IPO
- Correction: This post previously reported that there was a press statement from WikiLeaks; in fact, I did receive it from Wikileaks, but it turns out that email was forwarded, unattriibuted, a posting by Animats on Slashdot. Wikileaks has discovered Bank Julius Baer was preparing to take their...
- Tags: Asset, Bank, SEC, WikiLeaks, IPO, Asset Management, Mutual Funds, Financial Planning, Investment, Retirement Plans, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Congrats to Arcsight
- Hard to believe that a SIM Security Information Management company has made it "out". Arcsight went public yesterday at $9/share. Pure play security company IPO's are few and far between. Managing alerts and looking for abnormal behavior has been a difficult market to crack. But, based on their S-1, Arcsight...
- Tags: ArcSight, IPO, Podcasts, Cellular Phones, Security, Financial Services, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Medical devices are no longer a safe haven
- For several months now we've been told by stock pickers that medical stocks are safe havens, that they're recession-resistant. Maybe they're not. (I first ran this picture last year. It was from a photo contest sponsored by Worth Magazine.) Profits at Wright Medical sank...
- Tags: Stock, Medical Device, Healthcare, Investment, IPO, Finance, Financial Services, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Damn the recession, full speed ahead for a green tech IPO?
- Courtesy GT Solar. There may be an interesting green tech IPO this year, recession or no. Interest among investors will be an indication to numerous green tech companies of their attractiveness. Especially the solar enmergy sector. Today it looks like a solar...
- Tags: Green Technology, Wafer, GT Solar, IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Semiconductors, Financial Services, Finance, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- NetSuite's earnings on target
- In its first earnings report since the IPO, NetSuite came in pretty much on analyst expectations for the final quarter of 2007. Compared to other SaaS providers Salesforce.com, Concur and Taleo, this is a middling performance although it indicates the SaaS market in the SMB space is holding up well....
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Earnings, GAAP, Software As A Service (SaaS), IPO, Financial Accounting, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Financial Services, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- 3Com may divest TippingPoint to seal takeover with Feds
- Bain Capital, the private equity firm trying to engineer a takeover of 3Com with Huawei Technologies, is reportedly offering to divest security software firm TippingPoint to win U.S. approval. According to Reuters, Bain offered up TippingPoint and other proposals to safeguard national security interests. ...
- Tags: 3Com Corp., TippingPoint Technologies, Intrusion Detection, IPO, Network Security, Security, Financial Services, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Microsoft buys a mobile sidekick
- Microsoft finally found someone willing to take its money. The company announced today that it was buying Danger Inc. - better known as the creators of the T-Mobile Sidekick. (Danger had filed for an IPO in December, but given the market, it's not a shock they went the acquisition route...
- Tags: Mobile, T-Mobile Sidekick, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, IPO, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Financial Services, Hardware, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- The art of making science at the High Risk Plaque Initiative
- Science long ago stopped being an individual endeavor and became a team sport. But to do big science, you need more than a team. You need an alliance, with all the political and social implications of that term. A good example of this new...
- Tags: Science, Team Management, IPO, Venture Capital, Business Structures, Investment, Strategy, Management, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Is the open source IPO a pipe dream?
- Is the open source IPO a pipe dream?One more advantage for open source.Remember the days when employees who worked long hours and were underpaid would be given stock options? If the company were successful, an IPO would make them rich.With open source, and especially with acquisition, the owner of...
- Tags: Investment, open source, IPO, Sun Microsystems Inc., destiny
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Is the open source IPO a pipe dream?
- Will Red Hat be the only major pure play open source company to go public? That's what observers are wondering as more and more open source stars are swallowed up by traditional proprietary giants, with Nokia's purchase of Trolltech – announced yesterday - and Sun's buy...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Open-source Company, Red Hat Inc., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Liquidity, Zurlocker, Alfresco, Open Source, IPO, Databases, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- LogMeIn files for IPO, sets up the market for cloud-as-PC-support continuum
- I see that remote PC services start-up LogMeIn is going to conduct an IPO on Nasdaq in the not too distant future, pointing up the vibrancy of the intersection of cloud computing and the personal computer. And the encouraging growth that LogMeIn has enjoyed shows that cloud,...
- Tags: LogMeIn, Microsoft Corp., IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Desktops, Financial Services, Finance, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- 38 European IPOs raised 893 mln euros in 2007
- 38 venture-backed companies completed IPOs in Europe. They raised 893 mln euros, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. The growth is down from 89 companies and 1.7 bln euros in 2006. The median amount raised via IPO was 15.8 mln Euros, the highest in 6 years. by AM
- Tags: Growth, Euro, IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, AM
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- 86 companies went IPO in 2007, raised $10.3 bln
- 31 venture-backed companies raised over $3 bln in IPOs in Q4 2007, the highest quarterly volume in 7 years, according to the National Venture Capital Association. For 2007 totals, a total of 86 companies went public for $10.3 bln, compared to 57 companies for $5.1 bln in 2006. by site...
- Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- A clean hand-off at Mozilla
- As in a relay race, the key to a successful enterprise is often the hand-off, a change in leadership at the top. When it's messy the whole company can suffer. It can die or be taken over. When it's done right the chief operating officer...
- Tags: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Corp., IPO, Web Browsers, Financial Planning, Blogging, Investment, Financial Services, Internet, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- A great day for Larry Ellison
- Earlier in the day, Larry Ellison, CEO at Oracle was crowing about the company's Q2 results. Larry Dignan reported the numbers but in amongst the commentary, the company claimed to have made 365 direct wins against SAP. I live Twittered the call in conference and at least one SAPper called...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Larry Ellison, Investment, IPO, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Smb/Sme, Finance, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- NetSuite auction doubles IPO price
- The NetSuite IPO has gone out tonight at a price of $26 per share, exactly double the lower limit quoted two weeks ago when the company first stated a price range for the offering. According to Reuters, this means the company has raised $160 million in its NYSE debut under...
- Tags: IPO Price, NetSuite Inc., Achievement, Auction, NetSuite IPO, IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
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