Sentences with phrase «like ipo»

Even if you do purchase the shares, they're not actually worth anything until some sort of exit event, like an IPO or acquisition — and the unfortunate reality is that a large percentage of startups fail, rendering the shares worth nothing.

The name alone sounds like IPO — if it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it's a duck.»

It's a bit like an IPO (initial public offering) when a company launches on the stockmarket.

It's a lot like an IPO (initial public offering) but for cryptocurrencies.

It's sort of like an IPO, except for early stage blockchain projects.

Sports like IPO (schutzhund), PSA, and Mondioring are a great way to do protection work with your dog and also compete.

Being a value investor I am sure you will agree that it is quite challenging to make decision based in one volume (like IPO prospectus) and no past performance to make rationale decision.

Maybe you've been hearing terms like IPO and secondary market and you're wondering if it's too late to ask: How exactly does the stock market work?

«For investors that means an exit more like an IPO.»

It's sort of like an IPO, except for early stage blockchain projects.

Etsy is one of the biggest players in the NYC tech scene and, despite what its CEO says, it feels like an IPO could be just around the corner.

Index additions would happen at things like IPOs and spinoffs, and deletions at things like takeovers — both of which are natural liquidity events.

Unfortunately named to sound like IPOs, initial coin offerings are sales of digital tokens that represent either a stake in a common enterprise (similar to equity) or a right to use the company's service (similar to Canadian Tire money or redeemable points).

Like IPOs, ICOs can be extremely lucrative for investors.

An ICO is a bit like the IPOs that come along when a company wants to offer ownership shares to the public.

Not exact matches

(«Without offerings like this one to BlackRock, the only way to get employees liquidity is to IPO,» noted TechCrunch.

Maha Ibrahim, Canaan Partners general partner, discusses why venture capitalists like her are cringing at the performance of tech IPOs this year.

But with the latest job listings, and the company's move toward Sarbanes - Oxley compliance, it sure looks like Sonos is setting itself up for an impending IPO.

The music - streaming company is expected to forgo IPO traditions like a underwriters and a lock - up period.

«This is like a mini IPO or maybe a private IPO.

A Sonos spokesperson declined to comment on the job listings, telling Variety: «We like where our business is and an IPO is something all tech companies think about.»

As money is less abundant and investors reassess risk, giant IPOs like we've seen with Facebook and Twitter could be a thing of the past.

The music - streaming company is expected to forgo IPO traditions like underwriters and a lock - up period when it lists on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker name SPOT.

SoulCycle, after all, filed for its IPO back in July, and has many of the qualities that investors like: It's profitable, it's growing, its customers are sufficiently fanatical, and it's got plenty of room to expand.

When the IPO market takes a hit like it has, it takes a substantial length of time to recover, usually a couple of years.

Given the PR, it looks like investors are going to be waiting just a little longer for Uber's IPO.

Technicians like Meier and Davis — who would otherwise be making an hourly wage working for roofers or contractors — get stock options in a company that Musk says is headed for an IPO and a nationwide expansion.

Mulesoft, the first enterprise technology IPO of 2017, is already looking like a big winner, popping around 50 % above its $ 17 debut price to about $ 25.50 a share in its first few hours of trading.

Pandey said Nutanix did not want to have an IPO like Facebook's (fb), in which the social networking company's public debut flopped (although not everyone agrees).

This year is looking more promising, with high - profile IPOs from the likes of Shopify, Cara Operations, and Stingray Digital.

And more recent tech IPOs like Google and Netflix have led to considerably less but still very good returns.

His salary will drop to $ 1 after Snap's IPO, just like Zuckerberg, Equilar said based on corporate regulatory filings.

Like everything the company did, this IPO was set up to make everyone, except the average investor, rich.

The AP has all the vitals on the IPO; the SEC filing is here; and, if you really want to feel like a banker, the roadshow deck is here.

Wall Street's thirst for a buzzy IPO like Snap is palpable.

As IPO - phobic as many startups may be, once a company gets to be the size of Uber or Airbnb, going public starts to look like the only viable exit strategy, according to the report.

Citing a person «familiar with the matter,» the Wall Street Journal reported that Square has held discussions with banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley about a possible IPO.

The social gaming company based in San Francisco, known for its popular games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, will file for its IPO with the SEC as early as this week, or next week at the latest.

The IPO has raised questions among investors about whether Snap will end up a tech leader like Facebook, or troubled like Twitter.

Seeking to avoid a fiasco like the one that occurred during Facebook's launch on the Nasdaq last year, the NYSE ran three trial IPOs this past weekend to see how its systems would react to the huge trading volume Twitter's debut may inspire.

Arista raised $ 226 million in its 2014 IPO and maintains customers like Morgan Stanley and Microsoft.

SecondMarket made a name for itself as a destination for trading shares of private companies like Facebook and Zynga before their IPOs.

«It's more like showing people, «Hey, this is becoming real, that your stock options will materialize,»» Widrich says, «instead of you joining and saying 10 years from now if we ever IPO, you get some of that stock.»

That's comparable with other online - travel companies like TripAdvisor (TRIP), which is up 95 % this year, and recent web IPOs like Facebook (FB), up 102 %, and LinkedIn (LNKD), up 99 %.

Some failed IPOs, like Kriss's, are victims of bad timing.

The listing will likely take place in September, when the reforms are in place, and Xiaomi would like to be the first company to list under the new IPO rules, according to a source.

This may sound like bad news for those late stage VCs, but it has become common for them to add protective features like «ratchets» that effectively adjust their ownership to compensate for a «down - round» IPO.

One explanation for critics» bewilderment when it comes to small businesses like these is some companies» ability to pull off their IPOs despite a total lack of earnings.

Over the past 10 years startups like Dropbox, Mint (sold to Intuit for $ 170m), Yammer (sold to Microsoft for $ 1.2 b), Fitbit (went public in June 2015), PowerSet (sold to Microsoft for $ 100m), Clicker (sold to CNET for $ 100m), Trello (sold to Atlassian for $ 425m), TrueCar (raised $ 70m in its 2014 IPO), and Cafe X (raised $ 5m) have presented at our event — but 97 % of the people at the event were not allowed to invest in them.

But then again, why sell now when it seems like with the upcoming IPOs of AirBnB, Uber, DropBox, Prosper etc, there will literally be 10,000 new millionaires looking to buy a place in SF?