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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Average Silicon Valley Tech Salary Passes $100,000

Average annual salaries for Silicon Valley technology workers surpassed the $100,000 mark last year, according to a new survey, pushed higher by the strength of the region’s latest boom.