Comments on: Dry times in venture-land: IPOs drop to zero in Q2

By: edhardy622

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By: chaves.ca: Stock Market: Lessons Learned (Summary)

chaves.ca: Stock Market: Lessons Learned (Summary) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:34:21 +0000

[...] there were zero IPOs in the last quarter: this happened in the quarter ending in June/July 2008 (Antony Ha, Matt Richtel, Joe [...]

By: Dearth of IPO’s « NZ Angels

Dearth of IPO’s « NZ Angels — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:03:47 +0000

[...] not so sure … Venturebeat recently reported that there were ZERO (sorry about that pun, it couldn’t be avoided for [...]

By: Web-hosting company Rackspace holds IPO » VentureBeat

Web-hosting company Rackspace holds IPO » VentureBeat — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:20:41 +0000

[...] any IPO at all is encouraging after a quarter without a single venture-backed IPO. Trading opened at $10 per share, rose to $11.58 and is currently at around [...]

By: Mobile 2.0: Rummble, Zipiko and Dial2do shine, but venture captialists express caution » VentureBeat

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:27:24 +0000

[...] as an Investment: Tony Fish confronted the panel with the decline in IPOs and asked them about the reasons. He subsequently dug deeper and asked why there were no notable [...]

By: Dry times in venture-land: IPOs drop to zero in Q2 | businessuu

Dry times in venture-land: IPOs drop to zero in Q2 | businessuu — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:32:24 +0000

[...] total of 87 IPOs last year, while 2008 is a wee bit behind, with only five IPOs in its first half. [Read original] Tags: Drop To Zero, First Quarter, High Times, Ipo News, Ipos, National Venture Capital [...]

By: VC Watcher

VC Watcher — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:30:13 +0000

It's pretty obvious what's going on. In a weak financial climate, there's more scrutiny on fundamentals in an IPO. As a private company, you can spin up and lie all you want. As soon as you do your filings, you're under a big financial microscope. Where's the customers? What's the revenue stream? What about patents and IPR? Let's face it, when you lie long enough you start believing your own lies, and the disdain of fundamentals has been an addiction for funds here in SV. Watch them hold their breath, put more money into vapid companies, and wait out the downturn – assuming, of course, it's just a short downturn and not a longer-term trend. But don't expect them to react sensibly and focus on substance, even if it kills the M&A scene, in the pursuit of a home run IPO fantasy. They don't want to be VCs because it's too risky. They just want to be IVBs, but you can't get 10x this way. Any way you look at it you lose.

By: 这是一个寒冷的IPO时代——No VC IPOs Q2 08 | Startup|创业成长

这是一个寒冷的IPO时代——No VC IPOs Q2 08 | Startup|创业成长 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:20:54 +0000

[...] Q2 goose egg for VC-backed IPOs has every pundit and prognosticator coming out of the woodwork to weigh in on what’s “really” going [...]

By: ARevisitWarranted

ARevisitWarranted — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:36:24 +0000

A year or so ago VentureBeat (then SiliconBeat) covered a few venture firms that were already on the death-bed: Crescendo, Worldview, Vantage, Vanguard. Not surprisingly, some of those firms (esp Worldview, Crescendo) claimed they still had companies that were poised to go public and prove they were right after all. Examples of companies touted then were Force 10 Networks, OnStor, Azul, 3ParData (all Worldview). 3Par went (or was pushed to go) public and guess where it's stock is now? Force10 and OnStor and others gobbled up a lot more money but haven't gone public and in this climate, are unlikely to go public any time soon. So what lies in their future? It'd be interesting to have Matt and his team meet up again with the Spreng, Orsak and Wei “champion investors” and ask what they have to say now after years of gobbling up LP money.

By: Don Jones - VentureDeal

Don Jones - VentureDeal — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:24:49 +0000

In my opinion, this is the continuing fallout from the extreme dot com boom/bust cycle of 1999 – 2003. The investment world (and regulatory system) has never really recovered from its skepticism about new, “IPO-ready” technology companies as a whole, regardless of individual success stories, so when other factors (credit crisis, economic uncertainty) increase the risk premium, the memory of being burned and scarred by tech companies is still vivid, and investors flee to quality, or sit on their hands.