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With Twitter valued at $10B, investors speculate IPO is near

1 2078

36 days ago Heather Somerville 13 Comments

With Twitter valued at $10B, investors speculate IPO is near

A quick math lesson from Twitter:

140 -- characters in a tweet
200 million -- daily active tweeters
500 million -- tweets sent per day
500 million -- Twitter accounts
Here's the big one -- $10 billion -- Twitter's estimated value, according to a May Read More →

Twitter making money: here a chirp, there a chirp

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62 days ago Levi Sumagaysay 1 Comment

Twitter making money: here a chirp, there a chirp

Twitter turned 7 last month, and many think it is set to go public within the next year. CEO Dick Costolo has publicly stuck to his guns that the San Francisco company doesn't necessarily need to go IPO. Read More →

Quoted: on Silicon Valley IPOs’ hot streak

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88 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Quoted: on Silicon Valley IPOs’ hot streak

"If the IPO window opens, you jump through it ASAP." — Sam Hamadeh, founder and CEO of PrivCo, which follows the IPO market, on the recent rush to the public markets by Silicon Valley companies such as Silver Spring Read More →

Twitter turns 7: What about #IPO and #freespeech?

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89 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Twitter turns 7: What about #IPO and #freespeech?

It's been seven years since the introduction of tweets and hashtags and writing in 140-character bursts and "following" people online. We're talking Twitter, which has over this time been called everything from a waste of time to a revolutionary tool. Read More →

What does the Nasdaq/SharesPost deal mean to YOU?

1 2078

102 days ago Peter Delevett 1 Comment

What does the Nasdaq/SharesPost deal mean to YOU?

In the wake of Nasdaq’s surprise announcement this week that it was acquiring SharesPost’s exchange for private-company stock and re-branding it the Nasdaq Private Exchange, I asked a number of folks what kind of ripple effects the Read More →

John Thompson still digging the challenge

1 2078

102 days ago Peter Delevett No Comments

John Thompson still digging the challenge

I got a ton of pitches after Forbes came out with its recent list of Most Promising Companies. But when the CEO of the third-ranked outfit on the list reached out, I took a meeting. During the Read More →

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