79 days ago by Peter O'Kelly

That didn’t take long Groupon's IPO looks a particular disaster. Barely three weeks after selling just 6% of its shares outstanding to the public, Groupon's share price is in free-fall. At $16.96, where Groupon closed Wednesday, shares are already well below the initial public offer price of $20. Do ...

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86 days ago by Peter O'Kelly

Excerpt from a stark Bubble 2.0 reality check Q: How does this all play out? Parker: I think that when the large established players are done going public, you'll see a few companies that are not ready to go public try. And if the market gets frothy enough, a few of those companies, which are too de ...

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113 days ago by Danielle Sacks

Serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen launches startups with haste, never researches the competition, and makes the same mistakes "again and again." So why do VC's keep giving him so much money?

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213 days ago by Jolie O'Dell

We’ve spent the past year wondering whether we’re currently in a tech bubble akin to the last decade’s dotcom boom. Mashable has offered facts and opinions on both sides of the question. We’ve heard that the current boom is much different from the heyday of the late 1990s and that we have cause for ...

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258 days ago by Charlie White

Valuations of social media companies are starting to remind us of 1999. But are they overvalued? Now that Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion, LinkedIn’s IPO valued the company at $8.9 billion after its first day of trading, and Facebook’s estimated value is pushing $100 billion, you might be st ...

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262 days ago by Peter O'Kelly

Via Kellblog But right now, there is one issue on which every economist I know of actually agrees (and in an unqualified way): that Groupon (a) should have accepted the purported $6 billion bid from Google when it had the chance; (b) that Google was insane to have offered it; and (c) that Groupon is ...

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262 days ago by Peter O'Kelly

Check the post link for detailed Bill Gurley analysis, including a LinkedIn IPO perspective With the IPO market now blown wide-open, and the media completely infatuated with frothy trades in the bubbly late stage private market, it is common to see articles that reference both “ valuation” and “ rev ...

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262 days ago by Peter O'Kelly

Interesting times Last fall, Princeton University sophomore Eden Full began to consider taking a break from school to turn her side project—a solar panel that rotates without using electricity—into a business. In April, Full got all the motivation she needed when she was told she had won a $100,000 ...

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262 days ago by Peter O'Kelly

Also see Exclusive: Zynga About to File for IPO Shares of Yandex, a Russian search engine barely known in the United States, surged by more than 55 percent on Tuesday, signifying the latest multibillion-dollar technology offering and stoking the debate about whether this market has the makings of a ...

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