FeedPosted Jan 31st 2010 10:10AM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Next Big Thing, Initial Public Offerings
The widely anticipated IPO for Tesla Motors is finally here. Based in Silicon Valley, the company designs and manufactures high-performance, fully electric cars. The investors include the co-founders of Google (GOOG), Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and the founder is Elon Musk, who helped create PayPal.
The company's first car, which came on the market in 2008, is the Tesla Roadster. It can go from zero to 60 MHP in 3.9 seconds -- without any tailpipe emissions. On a single charge, the car can also go 236 miles. However, the price tag comes to a hefty $109,000.
Continue reading Tesla Revs Up for an IPO
Posted Jan 18th 2010 12:30PM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Amazon.com (AMZN), Private Equity, salesforce.com inc (CRM), Initial Public Offerings
A new book, The Prince of Silicon Valley
, chronicles the dealmaking of the IPO king of the 1990s: Frank Quattrone. He made a fortune as he helped more than 100 tech companies go public, which included marquee names like Cisco (CSCO), Netscape and Amazon.com (AMZN).
But those days seem quaint. In fact, the tech IPO market has been a backwater for the past decade, even though there have been some big deals -- like the offerings of Google (GOOG) and Salesforce.com (CRM).
Continue reading Are Tech IPOs Passe?
Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:30PM by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Internet, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), eBay (EBAY), Private Equity, Goldman Sachs Group (GS), McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP), Media World, Initial Public Offerings, Technology, Visa Inc. (V)
Continue reading Social IPO? Hype Accumulates for 2010 Offerings
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