Word: hambrecht
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marketplace. Now Sun is crowding Digital Equipment, a company 25 years its senior and more than six times its size. This year, as Sun approaches $2 billion in annual sales, even IBM can no longer ignore its rise. Says Robert Herwick, who follows the industry for the investment firm Hambrecht & Quist: "Clearly, Sun is the answer to a question...
...indicted to see you all here tonight," quipped Pat McBaine, an executive vice president of Hambrecht & Quist, the San Francisco investment firm. His pun had a certain appropriateness. By way of a theme party, McBaine's company had invited some 600 members of the financial community to share in the unique feeling of being an illegal insider trader. Or almost. The guests were transported by boat to Alcatraz, the inactive island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. There, while 25 actors dressed as convicts and jail guards capered around them, the temporary inmates supped on roast quail with lime sauce...
...losing about $4 million a week. Even so, the decision to sell off some of the company's assets was not made voluntarily by People Founder and Chairman Donald Burr. The move was forced on Burr by the remaining board members. The insurgents were led by Venture Capitalist William Hambrecht of San Francisco, whose firm raised $23.5 million in the early development of People, and by Charles Phillips, a managing director of Morgan Stanley, People's investment banker. Said an airline-industry expert: "The board has clipped Burr's wings and is now running the show...
...profits vanish and companies struggle, the venture-capital firms that helped fuel Silicon Valley's early growth have become stingier. Investment bankers who steer young companies toward the stock market are also cutting back. San Francisco's Hambrecht & Quist recently announced layoffs for 5% of its work force. After arranging initial public offerings for 66 companies, worth $2.2 billion in 1983, Hambrecht & Quist has managed only eight sales worth $96 million so far this year...
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