The window of opportunity for Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) is almost closed according to a report released by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) in conjunction with Thomson Reuters. The report points out that the Q3 2011 was the weakest since the end of 2009. Read More »
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Real estate listing site Zillow received a warm welcome from public market investors after its IPO Wednesday morning. Zillow’s stock hit the market at $57 per share, more than double its $20 IPO price. But the stock proved volatile within a few hours of trading. Read More »
Zillow, the real estate search website, has priced its initial public offering at $20 per share. The stock will begin trading under the single-letter ticker symbol “Z” on the Nasdaq exchange on Wednesday morning. Zillow will raise a total of about $75 million in the IPO. Read More »
No surprise, it has been iPad week on the web. Here are views from a former IBM ThinkPad executive & Zillow CEO Rich Barton. Apple is now the #3 largest company. Enjoy a video dissecting iPad magazine apps and also read about what makes a great… Read More »
Zillow, a real estate listing service which recently said that it was nearing profitability now is dreaming of going public, probably in 2011. Zillow, despite the woes of the real industry, had a pretty decent year in 2009, with sales rising 65 percent. Read More »
If you’re a startup that’s building its business using Google’s services, be warned, because the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant is a fair-weather friend. Take real estate listings companies like Trulia and RedFin, which both use Google Maps as part of their offerings. They got a rude… Read More »
Shutdown: Mygazines, a web site that allowed folks to share digital copies of magazines, has shut down. It was sued by magazine publishers and later settled. It was a bad idea to begin with, no surprise it is gone. (Folio) Shutdown: Skyrider, a P2P software company,… Read More »
FanSnap, a Palo Alto-based vertical search engine for live event tickets will launch in beta tomorrow. The company is funded by General Atlantic Partners and has raised undisclosed millions. Read More »
A new report out from Forrester takes a chart-filled look at cloud computing, offering the analyst firm’s own definition of the cloud and attempting to dispel three myths they have noticed. Since we at GigaOM buy pretty heavily into two of these so-called myths —… Read More »
Our growing ability to use the Internet as a giant database, apply that information in a creative way to build interesting mash-up applications, and then apply them to markets — stock, real estate or fantasy — is an area that holds a lot of fascination for… Read More »
We hear often that speed is a virtue in the startup trade. Mike Cassidy thinks speed is the highest virtue, in fact. (Check out his presentation, Speeding Up All Parts of a Startup, which we found via Venture Hacks earlier this week.) As luck… Read More »
