Tag Archives: ipo

This time around: More sensible IPOs

By Ben Kepes

As well all know, the dot-com burst was all about crazy valuations and IPOs of web businesses with no business models behind them. Ma and Pa investors got burnt and a decade on the viability of IPOs in general are still being affected. So it was cool to see that

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IPO – Why would you?

By Ben Kepes

Over on RWW, Bernard posted about the recent VC round for LinkedIn that gave it a $1bill valuation and some serious cash to play with. In his post, Bernard commented on the dearth of IPOs happening currently and asked what the issue was. Bernard asks; Why has the public market

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Gut feel investing 101…

By Ben Kepes

Last year three IPOs happened in a short space of time in New Zealand. They were all small(ish) businesses but from varied sectors. In short space Xero, Burger Fuel and Diligent Board Services listed. Despite the pre listing analysis of all three businesses, I relied on a simpler method –

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