Topic: IPOs

Did the Venture Capital Crunch Force Zappos-Amazon Deal? [Updated]

Amazon's purchase of online shoe retailer Zappos was surprising and interesting news all by itself, but now comes a twist: reports that this marriage made in e-commerce heaven may have been a shotgun wedding forced by Zappos' ...READ»

Googling for Courage

With their daring IPO, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are fighting the Wall Street cartel.READ»

Chatter

Googlemania!READ»

(No) Exit Ahead?

A leading venture capitalist offers a tough-love survival guide: How to keep your company afloat when the IPO market has dried up. Plus, six words you should never use when raising money.READ»

The Many Lives of a Wall Street Angel

Four years ago, a massive stroke nearly killed Bob Lessin. Now he's left his job as vice chairman of Salomon Smith Barney, poured his own money into 50 Web startups, assumed the leadership of Wit Capital, and single-handedly tried to merge the old economyREAD»

How to Go Public When You Go Public

Jerry Weissman teaches high-tech stars such as Cisco, Intuit, and Yahoo! how to talk to money. It's a lesson worth listening to.READ»

Those Were the .Com Days

Your stock price is down 80%. All of a sudden, that ".com" at the end of your company's name feels like a four-letter word. Life in the Internet economy can't get much worse, can it? Be afraid. Be very afraid.READ»

Google Ups IPO Price

Google intends to raise more money from its much sought-after IPO. The search-engine giant increases the size of its IPO by $1.1 billion on Monday and says it aims at a price range of $108 to $135 per share for 24.64 million ...READ»

Why VC Will Get Uglier

If you want to understand the future of the VC industry, says Ted Dintersmith, you first need to take a short tour of its past.READ»

Will Google Keep Growing?

In the blog Venturpreneur, Gordon Smith takes Google to task for its IPO prospectus. His major criticism: Google doesn't tell a growth story. With the acquisition of Blogger, the release of Orkut and Gmail, it seems that Google has ...READ»

What We Learned In The New Economy: A Brief History of a Brief Era

What We Learned A Brief History Profiles Vocabulary Where Are They Now? What You Learned August 9, 1995: The Big Bang Netscape, just 16 months old, goes public on the Nasdaq. Shares, first priced at $28, open at $71. ...READ»

No Longer under the Radar

Forget Peyton Manning's 365 yards and three TDs for the undefeated Colts last week. Forget Reggie Bush's 500-plus yards against Fresno State. The top performer of the week was Under Armour, the sports apparel company we profiled back ...READ»

Do Something: An IPO

CEO: Nancy LublinREAD»

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Rose-Colored Google? II

Keith Hammonds' April 2003 feature on Google's growth strategy attracted a lot of discussion among Fast Company readers, some of whom thought the company shouldn't go IPO. Now, Google has taken steps further in that direction. Early ...READ»

Is Silicon Valley Back?

Caution: This post contains no actual facts. But so far this week I've had at least four well-placed people tell me--with an uncharacteristic quiver of excitement in their voices--that Silicon Valley is back. Not on its way back. ...READ»

Shawn Baldwin from CMG with Lewis Ranieri

Shawn Baldwin from CMG in Chicago with Lew Ranieri at the 2009 Milken Global ConferenceREAD»

What Google Just Did

Last August, Seth Godin asked, "What Should Google Do?" Well, today, a better question might be, "What has Google gone and done?" Google just filed to sell shares in an IPO. So far, response from commentators has been interesting. ...READ»

Design Thursday: HP's Design Strategy for the Blackbird 002

PC Magazine called it "the most compelling gaming system" in the past three years. Wired pronounced it "a force of nature." The influential AnandTech put it on "the cutting edge of design and technology." While the newly released ...READ»

What Should Google Do? II

Back in August, FC Now contributor Seth Godin offered his free e-book "What Should Google Do?" The e-book followed an April Fast Company feature in which Keith Hammonds outlined Google's strategy for success: cutting-edge ideas, ...READ»

Why Is This Man Smiling?

You'd think startup wizard Atiq Raza would be getting hammered. He operates in trouble-plagued Silicon Valley, he launches companies in the wildly overbuilt telecom sector, and he runs -- gasp! -- a business incubator. Based on his impressive results, you may want to think again.READ»

Micro Venture Capitalists - Filling the Funding Gap

It used to be that venture capitalists either went big or went home. If the investment wasn’t $1.5 million or more, the deal just wasn’t interesting to them. Unfortunately, this often left early stage companies facing a funding ...READ»

For Startups, a Bleak Year for IPOs and Acquisitions

For entrepreneurs hoping to take their startup public, the outlook is bleak. According to the New York Times, the number of acqusitions and IPOs in the third quarter of this year dropped below even last quarter. That number: three. ...READ»

Beginner's Luck

In the Internet casino, the name of the game is IPO, and the players are looking to improve their odds. Meet five high rollers who think that their systems will help them hit the jackpot.READ»

I. Finding the Right Company for You: Team, Idea, Timing

Late in 1999, Time magazine named Jeff Bezos Person of the Year for revolutionizing global commerce. Ironically, Bezos led his commercial revolution from atop Amazon.com, a global company that has yet to turn a profit. Since that ...READ»

The Talent Market

If you think that the stock market is where the action is today, you're missing out on the hottest, most important market in the new economy.READ»