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...Street, of course, is never content to buy just Cisco. Too boring, and it doesn't generate enough excitement, let alone commission. These days brokers pitch us the next Cisco nearly every session. The IPO market, as hot as I have ever seen it, is pumped full of next Ciscos, as company after company goes public with a Cisco flavor. Some of these new issues seem to jump solely because they list Cisco as a competitor in the prospectus! Brocade, which makes fiber-channel switches--something that has the look and feel of Cisco--jumped from...
...also-also-ran, that other alternative operating system besides Linux. In the past year the press has fawned over Apple and Linux as they boldly challenged the hegemony of Microsoft's Windows, while Be waited quietly in the wings. Now, with its parent company making an IPO this week, it's time for Be to make its grand entrance. So what is Be? Why is Intel spending millions on it? And why should Bill Gates be afraid...
...with desks, T-1 lines and terminals. During the pre-initial public offering phase of a start-up, precious capital must be allocated to marketing and sales rather than rent and salaries, which contribute only to the burn rate--the monthly running expenses of an Internet company ticking toward ipo or implosion. For new-media employees, the workday is 16 hours, the workweek seven days. "Cyberspace is rife with sweatshops," says Andrew Ross, director of the American Studies program at New York University. "The problem is, very few people realize it. The glamour of the technology industry carries a powerful...
...cast and crew in the engine rooms of these Internet dreadnoughts setting sail for IPO land, the reality is that many of them will never see stock-option millions. Some can't sustain the grueling hours. Still others won't stay at the company for the four years it takes the typical options package to vest--i.e., for the shares to become sellable. "The options are what lead people onward," says Patrick Neeman, director of development at the website Buyingedge.com "But these people waiting for the big IPO are just waiting forever. The only people who get wealthy...
Rocket ships, shooting stars and race horses have been brought into service this past spring as metaphors for IPOs from web sites such as TheStreet.com and iVillage that tripled or quadrupled on their first day of trading. But when the highbrow site Salon when public yesterday the image was a flat flounder. Key was Salon's pioneering participation in a Net experiment that uses a Dutch auction to set the IPO price before trading. The Dutch format helped kill any big first-day run-up but it also cut out the Wall Street middlemen. Early shareholders may have missed...