The IPOs Desk
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Unicorn IPOs continue to disappoint investors
Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, business schools, and university scientists and engineers have long believed that disruption are common and that startups are the reason for these disruptions.
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Behind tech layoffs lay systemic cash flow negative companies
Since the pandemic started, there’s been approximately 61,260 tech layoffs [1]. Close to 30% of the layoffs came from public tech companies, 85% of those companies are unprofitable.
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Finally, the big dogs are coming to the public stock market
High valuations + big losses = uncertainty over how investors will react.
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Will 2018 be the rebound in tech IPOs that has been promised for years?
Thanks in good part to successful listings of digital household names such as Spotify as well as IPOs like Dropbox, Sonos, and Xiaomi, the IPO pipeline is now primed as liquidly as it's been in recent memory.
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Sonos' IPO: A first day pop, but can it fight off Apple, Amazon et al and win for the long term?
Sonos' strength lies in the managers guiding it -- but don't discount the possibility it could become the next TiVo.
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Xiaomi's IPO takes a humbling blow, and that's not good for Chinese IPOs
What happens to Xiaomi's stock performance in coming weeks could end up influencing the reception that Didi, Ant and others get should they push forward with their own IPOs.
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A bunch of cloud companies you've never heard of are reviving the tech IPO market
You may or may not have heard of Zuora, but it's emerging as the poster child for the 2018 tech IPO market.
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Spotify's direct offering is cheaper and simpler than an IPO, but brings new risks for investors
Could leave the stock volatile – often Wall Street-speak for “falling” - right out the gate.