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Pace Picks Up on Tech IPOs
A year after Facebook Inc.’s botched initial public offering, Silicon Valley’s IPO pipeline is starting to fill up again.Voices
New Money Ventures to Silicon Valley
Even as some venture-capital firms have become skittish after the disappointing initial public offerings of Facebook, Groupon Inc. and Zynga Inc., a number of hedge funds, private-equity firms and other asset-management firms are pouring money into closely held startups.Voices
Start-Ups Adjust to Web’s Down Cycle
Prominent venture capitalist John Doerr coined the phrase “SoLoMo” in 2010 to describe how three technology trends — social, local and mobile — were fueling a new Internet boom.Voices
Revenge of the Nerds, the Sequel: Silicon Valley Wallflowers Now Hot
Even as Facebook, Groupon and social-games maker Zynga Inc. struggle in the public market, tech companies with names like Splunk Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. that make harder-to-understand products for businesses are snagging attention with stellar IPOs and strong growth.Voices
Forget the Web, Start-Ups Get Real
A long-shunned Silicon Valley technology sector — consumer-electronics start-ups — is showing some surprising signs of life.Voices
Prominent Investors Miss Web IPO Payoff
For venture capitalists and other prominent investors in young companies, an initial public offering is supposed to be the big payoff for years of patience. It’s not working out that way for some backers of newly public Internet companies.Voices
Investment Values Web Retailer Fanatics at $1.5 Billion
Despite concerns over how Facebook Inc.’s disappointing initial public offering may hurt start-up funding, venture capitalists are continuing to vote with their checkbooks.Voices
After Facebook, the Next Wave of Tech IPOs
Silicon Valley’s initial public offering machine is shifting to a new sweet spot: enterprise technology companies.Voices
Pinterest’s Rite of Web Passage — Huge Traffic, No Revenue
If you haven’t heard of Pinterest, you likely will soon. Traffic to the website — which lets users create online scrapbooks to share images of projects or coveted products — has grown tenfold over the past six months.Voices