Lyft is on track to go public later this week, after the company's IPO road show generated strong demand for its shares.This raises the question of what General Motors (NYSE: GM) should do with its stake in Lyft after the ride-hailing company's...
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Yeti Holdings (NYSE: YETI) went from dog of the IPO Class of 2018 to market darling this year. Shares of the high-priced cooler maker had plunged by as much as 25% from their October IPO price by the end of last year, while they've doubled in value...
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As I’m sure everyone reading this knows, female-founded businesses receive just over 2 percent of venture capital on an annual basis. Most of those checks are written to early-stage startups. It’s extremely difficult for female founders...
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Digital scrapbook Pinterest has filed for an initial public offering of stock, joining what should be a busy IPO season for tech stocks. Pinterest is a big site for so-called influencers, who use it to tout fashion, interior design, and travel tips,...
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Zoom, the $1 billion video conferencing startup, publicly filed for an IPO on Friday.
The company didn't price its upcoming IPO, but indicated in the filing that it will list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "ZM."
The company is...
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Pinterest is not happy with Facebook.
The forgotten middle child of the social media family filed for an IPO on March 22, and in doing so the San Francisco-based company made a very public argument that its future is bright. That is, if...
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Tech companies these days tend not to be profitable.
“We have a history of net losses and we may not be able to achieve or maintain profitability in the future,” or some variation, has almost become boilerplate text in their filings to...
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You've always been able to buy yourself a new pair of Levi's jeans, but the last time you were able to buy Levi's (NYSE: LEVI) shares, Reagan was still in the White House and Madonna's "Crazy for You" was riding high on the Billboard charts. On March
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Uber and Lyft are racing toward their IPOs, with Lyft likely going public in the coming weeks and Uber likely not too far behind. And as these companies get ready to sell their shares in the public market, it's worth taking a closer look at what...
It’s going to take innovation and marketing to grow the clothing category.
Back in the nineteenth century, Levi Strauss & Co. started by innovating pants for gold miners, basically inventing the blue jean—166 years later, the...
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It wasn't all that long ago when you had to hail a taxi to get around in a city. And if you needed a ride to the airport, your only options were to take a cab, drive yourself and pay to leave your car in the airport lot, or try to convince a friend...
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Lyft is racing towards an initial public offering (IPO) that could launch as soon as next week.
Ahead of the IPO, the company nabbed its first buy rating from a Wall Street analyst.
Tom White of D.A. Davidson gave the company a $75 price...
Insta360, one of the pioneers in making 360-degree cameras, just raised $30 million in a Series C+ funding round from Chinese investors, including Everest Venture Capital, MG Holdings and Huajin Capital.
The Shenzhen-based camera maker declined to...
The S-1 paperwork for Lyft's anticipated multibillion IPO is now open to the public.
It lists who the major shareholders are.
These are the people that will cash in big time should the stock sale go well.
The S-1 paperwork for Lyft's anticipated...
Peloton is supposed to be one of the hottest IPOs to watch from the IPO Class of 2019. After seeing some stops and starts in the IPO market, Peloton’s IPO may have run into yet another...
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Monster Energy: is there no trademark opposition they can't lose? The drink company, which might be more well known at this point for its trademark bullying than its beverages, has been handed loss after loss after loss after loss in trademark...
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Monster Energy: is there no trademark opposition they can't lose? The drink company, which might be more well known at this point for its trademark bullying than its beverages, has been handed loss after loss after loss after loss in trademark...
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Ride-hailing start-up Lyft is now in the final stretch of its initial public offering (IPO). The company announced on March 18 that it has launched its roadshow in preparation for its public debut. In an updated S-1 registration statement filed with...
In my What Is Going To Happen In 2019 post, I wrote:
I expect we will see IPOs from big names like Uber/Lyft/Slack, although I also expect those deals will get priced well below the lofty expectations they have in mind right now. Some of that...