33 Stories To Learn About Ipo

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1. SEMRush IPO Puts Digital Marketing in the Spotlight

As of last month, SEMRush, a (SaaS) company that specializes in aiding businesses with online visibility management and content marketing, has gone public.

2. Private Equity Technology in 2020

Review of the decade

3. The Crazy Rise of Crazy Eddie: How an Electronics Store in the 80s Tricked Investors

Eddie Antar is one of the most remarkable people who has fooled investors. With his "Crazy Eddie" stores, he has earned more than $60 million. But got in prison

4. On Wild IPOs; Tech Addiction; & Airbnb's Policies Post-Shooting — #StuffIReadThisMorning

5. Bird-Watching and Stargazing: Could Elon Musk’s Purchase of Twitter Impact Starlink’s IPO prospects?

Is it possible that Musk’s commitment to revamping Twitter could interrupt Starlink’s path to launch an IPO in the future amid investor concern for his decision

6. Is WeWork WeWTF? I Beg to Differ...

7. SaaS IPOs and a Zoominfo S1 mini teardown

By some estimates, investing in the IPOs of the 75 or so SaaS companies would have netted you 5x in less than 5 years. That’s the kind of math that makes even the world’s best investors drool, and considering the target for most private market investors is 3x, and that do in any liquid security, it makes this all the more interesting.

8. Applying Complexity Theory to Valuation

The last of three articles on corporate valuations and capital structures.

9. The Malice Towards Robin $HOOD

Every traditional media outlet and its compatriots, the ones who get paid to voice the traditional media opinion are bashing Robinhood. Why?

10. Breaking Down Barriers to IPO Investment: How Can The General Public Get Involved in IPOs?

Let’s take a step back and look at why initial public holdings are tricky for investors to access, especially for retail investors.

11. Evaluating the Performance of SaaS Companies During COVID

Following companies has a huge advantage – you can actually see every company’s performance by tracking its stocks. As the below table depicts, a few companies like Shopify, RingCentral, Twilio and Docusign have had tremendous growth in the past 6 months. Why – because in one way or another they enable people with ease of access to either office or ecommerce. Let’s look at the highlights of each company’s performance.

12. Confessions of a Robinhood User

Highlights from the Robinhood S-1, and a personal journey of "growing up" with Robinhood

13. A Platform for the People: Robinhood Opens its IPO up to Retail Investors

There’s no doubt that the pandemic has helped to put Robinhood in a position where the trading platform can launch a potentially huge IPO for investors.

14. Is Upwork The Next Wework?

What do Upwork and Wework have in common?

15. Ant Financial: Controversies around the Biggest IPO in History

At a share price of 68.8 Chinese yuan, the Ant Financial IPO was expected to raise $34 billion in its public offering at the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges -- which would value it at over $300 billion.

16. WeWork IPO Fiasco Proves Public Investors Have More Valuation Risk Than VCs

"If you invested in WeWork at a $47 billion valuation, you’re getting fleeced!"

17. Why Crypto Companies Are Eyeing an IPO—From an Ex-Goldman Sachs Investor

Why are more Crypto Companies Eyeing an IPO: Q&A with an ex-Goldman Sachs Investor who has a background in cryptocurrency and other related industry fields.

18. Four Years From ‘Zero to IPO’ : A Chat About Pivots And Productivity

I remote chat this afternoon with Joost Boer, a Dutch entrepreneur, company builder and product strategist who has extensive international experience gained through living in 5 different countries in Asia-Pacific over the past decade. He describes himself as having a beginner's mindset, happiest when creating something, a voracious reader. He is currently based in the Netherlands.

19. Robinhood: Virality + Gamification + FOMO + Simplicity = Billion Dollar IPO

Robinhood is leading the modernization of investments because it offers everyone an equal opportunity to participate in the financial markets.

20. Alibaba’s “Homecoming” IPO in Hong Kong

Image: Sam Tsang

21. Is Upwork The Sick Man Upon the Silicon Bosphorus? [Looking At Numbers]

Financial reports are lengthy, confusing, and boring. I promise that I will keep it simple, brief, and straight to the point. I will let Upwork’s numbers do all the talking.

22. Making Sense of the Difference Between IPO, ICO, IEO, and STO?

The advent of blockchain technology gave life not only to a new profitable financial asset, but also a new business model of funding startups. An increasing number of new companies are trying to use cryptocurrency to finance their projects. Unlike an IPO, which is a traditional and widely accepted form of external financing, STO, IEO, and ICO allow companies to start fundraising at a much earlier stage of development and the latter two avoid strict regulatory control. Already today, as a result of ICO, more than 1000 cryptocurrencies appeared on the market, and their number continues to grow. The practice of ICO has become so widespread that, in the opinion of many experts, it began to resemble the events of the dotcom boom of the late 90s and could lead to the same destructive consequences.

23. Upwork Second Quarter 2019 Financial Report: Titanic Orchestra At Their Finest

What's the best way to analyze a public company's financial report for the second quarter? Well, I think you should keep it simple.

24. The Book of Five Rings, Miso Robotics, and Men in Tights

11/10/2019

25. How Does Pandemic Impact Company Valuation

With the pandemic induced havoc, how is that the stock market is not down more? And what effect will the economic downturn have on the valuation of startups?

26. Starlink’s Rapid Growth Points to a Tantalizing 2022 IPO

It appeared that Starlink’s subscriber growth was slowing down, paving the way for potential problems when the company’s eventual IPO landed.

27. The Future of SoftBank: The Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs

SoftBank's results have improved dramatically, with a total net profit of about $29.9 billion between April and September 2020 (up 371 percent year-over-year)

28. What Happened To Upwork’s First Birthday Party?

Wait! Something isn’t right here.

29. Freshworks' Journey to India’s First SaaS IPO: A Deep-Dive

Freshworks' Journey to India’s First SaaS IPO

30. How Snowflake Grew Into a $70 Billion Dollar Company

How Snowflake Became a $70 Billion Company with the Largest Software IPO in History

31. Going public: A Growth Story!

Now that summer is officially coming to an end, thought it was worth doing a post-mortem on the barrage of S1s that happened over the past month. Looks like the entire analyst community came out swinging this month, and I don't think I have ever read this many founder/ company/ strategy/ technology histories and deep dives. A few takeaways, just reflecting on the froth!

32. Why does Market Cap Matter for Public SaaS Companies?

In this article, we will discuss the concept of market cap in detail and how it relates to SaaS companies as well as why understanding why it's important.

33. OnlyFans’ Truth Laid Bare: The Marriage of Sex, Money, Tech and Power

Sex, money, tech and power. OnlyFans, a social media platform created to share explicit content against tips, finds a way to merge all four.

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