All is not dire in sunny California
Dateline: Menlo Park “The whole tech sector, flush for years with confidence and talk of disruption, suddenly has an air of desperation about it.” Time Magazine, Nov. 12/15 Is that a cliff, just ahead?...
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SurveyMonkey deal demonstrates power of late stage private markets
News Report: SurveyMonkey Valued at US$2 billion as Some Investors Sell Shares Once upon a time, the only way a tech company could raise $250 million was via an Initial Public Offering. Then along...
What would the great Hugh Brown say about bank share performance charts today?
BNN’s Catherine Murray asked a question yesterday about the stock market being rigged against retail investors. The driver was a WSJ op-ed piece written by Charles Schwab, who was protesting the leg-up that institutional...
Freescale IPO won't skate us back onside just yet
We are approaching five years since the US$17.6 billion LBO of Freescale Semiconductor in September 2006. Plenty has happened in the intervening period, and the climate for investing has been difficult. And yet, even...
Facebook valuation rises 49.6% in two months
According to a bid on SharesPost, someone will buy 10,000 shares of Facebook at $33.00 per share, implying a US$74.8 billion valuation on the social media entity. Sellers are demanding between $31.00 and $39.00,...
What will become of channel checks?
News about the latest insider trading investigation always comes as a surprise, and it appears as though the FBI is in the process of scaring the entire U.S. hedge fund industry out of their...
Google closing in on next Canadian acquisition target
In the wake of Google’s (GOOG:Q) acquisition of Bumptop (see prior post “Google acquires BumpTop” May 1-10) earlier this year, as well as its commitment to the Waterloo region, it should come as no...
Quick uptick on Skype?
An IPO? So soon after the initial acquisition? To think we might already be in the green on Skype (see prior post “Skype deal: is it a tech or infrastructure deal?” Sept 2-09). Canadians...
WSJ: U.S. "Lending Falls at Epic Pace"
Sound familiar? It appears that U.S. commercial banks have followed the same Canadian trend that we’ve been tracking on our blog over the past 12+ months (see prior post “Is the credit crunch ending?”...
Can Harvard's uncalled capital commitments consume the fund?
Here’s a quiz. You have $26 billion in assets. Most of them are liquid, but certainly not all. You’ve got 13% in private equity, 25% in “real assets”, a chunk of hedge funds, and...
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