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...past, when other countries had problems, we trucked in 50 rock stars to sing about it. It's time to start thinking about ourselves. I'm imagining something like We Are the Economy. I hear Bono belting out, "There's an IPO after every storm/ a VC ready to lend a hand/ Just hold on, baby/ Hold on to your Janus Global Tech Fund, man." Also, it might be nice to join hands across the country wearing the same T shirt. It will let other countries know we're serious and organized, if a little fruity...
...that the stock market crashed. Well, it hasn’t exactly crashed, but it’s certainly taken a downturn, especially in the high-flying tech sector that was supposed to continue flooding us with wealth for several more decades. Dreams of instant millions from a lucky IPO were once accepted as career plans for starry-eyed college sophomores; no more. Today, the chance to throw in society’s lot with the day-traders no longer appears so quite so tantalizing...
...Silicon Valley. At Sina's no-frills headquarters in Beijing, set in a former primary school, employees openly talk of what's next. "I'm nervous," says one Web writer, as she sits in front of a whiteboard filled with scribbled translations of the English words for superstar, IPO and Red Herring. Sina's top lieutenants are committed to globalization?the company distinguishes itself with websites aimed at overseas Chinese worldwide. But these days, they take slim comfort in the idea that China has done so well in establishing local brand names that the multinationals can't just bulldoze them...
...really blame analysts for what happened with VA Linux Systems? The software company filed to go public at $12 a share in 1999. Before any analyst had a chance to publish a word, demand enabled underwriter Credit Suisse First Boston to raise the IPO to $30. Maybe it should have stuck to the initial price, which in theory anyway was based on some valuation model. But it scarcely mattered...
...every Starbucks, there are numerous bagel chains and brew pubs that went public, expanded too fast and fizzled. And stockholders could get indigestion next month when company insiders become free to dump 7.4 million shares that they have held since last year's ipo into a market that currently trades just 5.75 million Krispy Kreme shares. When insiders announced a previous sale in January, the stock fell 11%. But unless Krispy Kreme announces a plan to sell e-doughnuts, it stands to humble the tech stocks for the rest of the year...