Even as Facebook and Zynga shed more than half their value in the public market, Silicon Valley veteran Brad Garlinghouse sees signs of a technology bubble. The former executive at AOL and Yahoo said startup founders are raising venture capital...
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Brad Garlinghouse said startups are raising venture capital at high valuations, picking numbers for the purpose of “chest-pumping.”
Valley Veteran Brad Garlinghouse Sees Signs of Tech Bubble
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Data as of June 30, 2012.
Startup Employees Selling Shares Now Instead of Later, Study Says
A greater percentage of startup employees are choosing not to wait until after they leave the job to cash out their shares, according to SecondMarket, a popular online private-equity exchange. In the first half of the year, 59.8 percent of...
Read more »Atlassian Adds Chairman With Public Company Experience
Atlassian announced today it has added a new chairman with public company experience, a sign the maker of software development tools for businesses is considering an initial share sale. Doug Burgum, the former chief executive of Great Plains Software, a...
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Palo Alto Networks and Kayak Software are both scheduled to sell shares next week.
NYSE Awaits Busy IPO Stretch As Investors Get Over Facebook
Facebook didn’t kill the tech IPO market after all. Following the debut of ServiceNow at the end of June, Palo Alto Networks and Kayak Software are both scheduled to sell shares next week in offerings that are expected to raise...
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Doug Leone, a partner at Sequoia Capital, speaks at a conference in San Francisco last year.
Sequoia’s Leone Talks Hits, Misses and What’s Next on Sand Hill Road
Even for legendary Silicon Valley firm Sequoia Capital, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, venture investing is a guessing game. It requires traversing the globe to meet scores of entrepreneurs working on wacky projects, and placing bets on...
Read more »What Social Media Ad Agencies Say About Facebook
When General Motors Co., the third-largest advertiser in the U.S., said it would pull ads from Facebook, it sparked a discussion about the effectiveness of marketing and advertising on social media sites. Here is what a handful of companies that...
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Facebookipodayclosingprice.com aggregates tweets predicting Facebook’s closing stock price on its first day of trading.
Coder Heeds Call, Pumps Out Site Predicting Facebook’s Closing Price
When prominent investor Chris Sacca asked on Twitter for someone to “please make http://facebookipodayclosingprice.com,” James Proud answered the call. The 20-year-old registered the domain name and immediately began coding a site that aggregates tweets predicting Facebook’s closing stock price on...
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Some 71 percent of those polled by WhisperNumber.com said they wouldn’t consider Facebook’s stock as a long-term investment.
Poll: Investors Don’t See Facebook As Good Investment Post-IPO
Facebook may be one of the most anticipated IPOs, but not so with the investment public. More than 70 percent of those surveyed by WhisperNumber.com last week said they wouldn’t buy the social-networking site’s shares after its initial public offering....
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Zuckerberg’s Hoodie a ‘Mark of Immaturity,’ Analyst Says
Mark Zuckerberg is known for having arrived late for a meeting with prospective investor Sequoia Capital and giving a less-than-serious pitch while wearing pajamas. Now, as Facebook preps its initial public offering, Zuckerberg’s wardrobe has not received much of an...
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Scenes From Facebook Road Show
At the Sheraton New York Hotel on 7th Avenue in Manhattan, investors killed time on their BlackBerrys and iPads while in line for a presentation by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives (first photo). They waited to hear a...
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