Venrock, the venture capital firm that was originally established as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family, is bulking up its cleantech team. On Monday, it announced that Matthew Nordan, co-founder and former president of Lux Research, will join as vice president with a focus on […] Read more »
[qi:115] Instead of holding out for an IPO or acquisition, these days, employees who have spent years at burgeoning startups are eager to sell their stock holdings in exchange for cash, an article in the Wall Street Journal pointed out today. Case in point: Current and […] Read more »
In the days when a two-guys-in-a-garage startup could morph into a massive public offering with relative ease, SharesPost might have had a hard time making its case. The startup, which launched an experimental marketplace last month for buying and selling private equity, aims to step in […] Read more »
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Update: LogMeIn is trading at $20.13 a share in its first hour of trading. LogMeIn, a Woburn, Mass.-based company that is going public, has priced at $16 a share, according to The Wall Street Journal. LogMeIn will start trading tomorrow under the ticker “LOGM.” With 6.7 […] Read more »
Cleantech investor Steve Westly, managing partner of The Westly Group and former California state controller, is at it again. In a keynote speech at the Thomson Reuters “Financing the Cleantech Vision” conference in Palo Alto, Calif., on Thursday, Westly said that after a major dry period, […] Read more »
Earlier today we hosted one of our GigaOM Bunker Series sessions, monthly events that we’re holding in order to provide an intimate forum at which some of the most pressing issues facing startups can be discussed. Today’s topic was “The Future of IPO/Liquidity Events for Technology […] Read more »
Electric car startup Tesla Motors saw 2,500 of its shares trade yesterday for $10 apiece, valuing the company at $1 billion. No, Tesla has not gone public. Rather, it’s the first private company to have its stock sold in a new — and at this point […] Read more »
Initial public offerings as of late have been about as common as celebratory banquets for Wall Street bankers. Last week, however, after some nine months of an IPO drought, two venture-backed startups, software maker SolarWinds and online restaurant reservation system OpenTable, broke the mold and went […] Read more »
[qi:115] OpenTable’s stunning performance in its first day of trading is a sign of unexpected warmth in the market for technology IPOs. But while the market success of the restaurant reservations software developer may not be a true bellwether that leads to a flurry of additional […] Read more »
[qi:114] While the recession had many predicting the IPO market would be largely non-existent in 2009, several new tech stocks listed on public markets during April and now in May. The companies squeaking out of the IPO queue, however, are mature, profitable and cash-rich. Their proceeds […] Read more »
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Some 40 venture funds raised $4.3 billion during the first quarter of 2009 — the fewest to raise money in a single quarter since the third quarter of 2003, according to data out today from the National Venture Capital Association. And while the dollar figure was […] Read more »
OK, fans of e-books. How many times have you wanted to purchase a digital title but weren’t sure you were getting the best deal? Obviously, the content format plays a part in your decision making process, but the price might have something to do with it […] Read more »
Biofuel developer Changing World Technologies has withdrawn its filing for an initial public offering, making it even more unlikely that we’ll see any cleantech startups debut on the public markets this year. The West Hempstead, N.Y.-based company’s share sale was expected to price this week, but […] Read more »
Is the recession over? Someone must think so, because Changing World Technologies, a West Hempstead, N.Y.-based biofuel developer, is moving forward with plans for an initial public offering, setting terms at 2.8 million shares for $11 to $15 per share. In its latest filing with the […] Read more »
By now, most agree that this recession is likely be longer, deeper and fiercer than those in the past, rendering smaller, newer companies especially vulnerable. Such vulnerability is already playing out in the public markets: Over the past three months, the Russell 2000 has fallen much […] Read more »
The accelerating economic downturn is taking its toll on the entertainment industry, with DVD sales lagging and Blu-ray sales disappointing, according to the New York Times. DVD sales are down 4 percent so far this year, the paper reports, citing data collected by Warner Brothers. The […] Read more »
When I am in my office I am connected to most everyone I need to work with through some sort of Instant Messaging service. I find it convenient to be able to stay connected and have quick discussions. It is outside of the office where things […] Read more »
Based on reported preliminary figures from Gartner, Apple is set to show incredible PC growth in the US compared to the industry. I’m not so concerned with the figures themselves so much as my belief that to properly calculate Apple’s growth compared to the industry you must remove […] Read more »
We’ve written recently about how bootstrapping founders can help themselves navigate a very tight credit market. Now, the implosion of the investment banking industry promises to level what was left of the landscape for both IPO and M&A exits. Startup founders would be wise to reassess […] Read more »
With all of my MSI Wind benchmarking activities, I haven’t had as much of a chance to dig deeper into Google Chrome. Luckily, Gina Trapani over at Lifehacker has had the time. She put together one of the most all-encompassing early "Power User Guides" to Google’s […] Read more »
Stock by stock, public solar companies are returning to the sunlight, and soon a German star hopes to shine. German glass maker Schott is planning on making a public offering of its solar subsidiary, Schott Solar, aiming to raise around €500 million (about $739 million), according […] Read more »
Om shares some info today on the wildly popular iTunes AppStore that’s worth a closer look because it underscores a theme I’ve been harping on since day one. According to Steve Jobs in a Wall Street Journal interview, the AppStore has seen over 60 million application […] Read more »
As expected, lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems has filed to go public. Given that the company is one of the most promising and prominent venture-backed electric car battery makers out there, the move, which will see it raise up to $175 million, is a big deal. […] Read more »
Following recent news that two solar companies were braving listings in public markets, two more bold candidates recently threw their hats into the ring. One of them is STR Holdings, short for Specialized Technology Research. The Enfield, Conn.,-based company has two lines of revenue: It makes […] Read more »
Man, silicon solar gear maker GT Solar has been having a rough couple of days. Shares of the company, which priced at $16.50 for their stock market debut yesterday, closed down almost 12 percent. But the stock lost even more ground today, slumping as much as […] Read more »
We all like to go where everybody knows our name: Unusually I am the only person here with a computer even though the place is hopping. I am not happy that Outlook crashed a minute after resuming from sleep. Sucks. Read more »
Looks like venture capitalists’ attempts to “go green” mean there are fewer venture-backed IPOs out there. Not a single venture-backed company went public in the second quarter of this year, says the New York Times this weekend, citing data from the National Venture Capital Association. And […] Read more »
I happen to have covered the speech recognition arena for many years, and there are few technology product categories that have remained in “almost there” mode for as many years as this one. For the longest time, speech recognition software was capable of about 80 percent […] Read more »
Although a public offering from a solar installer met a chilly response on the Street this week, one of cleantech’s most mature industries, wind energy, might have an IPO of its own soon. Riding high on record wind installations, Noble Environmental Power, a developer and operator […] Read more »
In a long-anticipated and legitimizing move, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today released its new approved video advertising guidelines, agreed upon by some 145 video sites and advertising companies. Like those for other forms of online advertising, the guidelines should make new forms of video advertising […] Read more »
We’ve all seen web 2.0 services with teething pains, but here’s one with a high-profile stumble right out of the gate: HP’s Upline file storage and sharing service, announced just a couple of weeks ago (our coverage), has suspended operations. According to an email sent by […] Read more »
Sometimes it takes an IPO to draw the spotlight to a promising idea. That may be the case with Codexis, a chemical company located in the heart of Silicon Valley with an interesting approach to synthetic biology. Codexis, which filed on Monday a prospectus with the […] Read more »
The web continues to quake with aftershocks of “Safari-gate”: the Apple Software Update that installs Safari 3.1 for Windows by default. I tend to side with the folks that claim this practice isn’t the most forthcoming, but there are numerous examples of other companies doing the […] Read more »
If you’re an independent developer who’s decided to go solo, or even one who’s working with just a few other people, there’s one critical decision you need to make early in your company’s history: should you concentrate on products or services? That is, is it better […] Read more »
Computerworld covered it earlier, but I see an official press release from BenQ on their MID. Nothing too detailed other than some bits about the user interface and general capabilities that we already knew about. Apparently however, the desktop icons will flip sideways as you drag […] Read more »
NetSuite went public Thursday in a Dutch auction, meaning its shares were priced through an auction of would-be buyers, not by a handful of investment bankers, as is the process in a traditional IPOs. (NYSE: N) Bankers tend to under price IPOs by a few bucks […] Read more »
Tired of the same old ethanol and solar-panel stocks? The word in some quarters, including a recent appraisal from Investors Business Daily, is that an up-and-coming trend is…fluorescent light bulbs. Snicker if you must, but that notion is receiving some validation this week on Wall Street […] Read more »
Kevin and I are traveling today to Albuquerque so we can attend the service for Marc Orchant tomorrow morning. It’s a sad trek but the upside is we will get to see each other for a couple of days unexpectedly. We meet up in Dallas and […] Read more »
China plus biodiesel. Rarely has such delectable chocolate been caught inside such irresistible peanut butter. Or at least such may be the feeling of investors hungry for an IPO. You can forgive them the craving, having savored this summer’s meaty morsels as VMWare — up 212 […] Read more »
(Updated) Portland-based Jive Software, an enterprise collaboration software company we have covered in the past is dreaming of an IPO, perhaps as early next year, CMO Sam Lawrence tells John Cook. The 90-person, six-year-old company is hoping to close out 2007 with revenues of about $17 […] Read more »
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