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Are Tech IPOs Passe?

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).

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