Word: quist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...significant dent on the East Coast, and his harshest critics may be on Wall Street. While sales have held steady, Media Arts' stock price dropped more than 60% since the beginning of the year over concerns that interest may have peaked. Says Shawn Milne, an analyst at Hambrecht & Quist: "This thing came raging out of the gate, and they're not crushing numbers anymore, so there's always the worry that it's just Beanie Babies again...
...have this business to himself. The two online brokers, E*TRADE and e.Schwab, have each announced similar initiatives that are, unlike Wit, tied to specific underwriters. E*TRADE will offer IPOs managed by McCaffery's Robertson Stephens; e.Schwab will work with Hambrecht & Quist. E*TRADE's Cotsakos envisions the same tiny 100-share minimum as Wit, while e.Schwab's minimum, a snooty $100,000, writes off the Little Guys that Wit hopes to empower...
...sense, Case has spent his whole life preparing to build and run a multibillion-dollar business. His childhood on the island of Oahu was sprinkled with the fiscal adventures of a boy to the cash register born. With his older brother Dan (now 40 and CEO of Hambrecht & Quist, an investment firm that specializes in technology), Case started his first business before he had fully mastered a bicycle. The venture was a variation on a classic model: converting backyard lemons to lemonade. Next the brothers started Case Enterprises, which peddled everything from seeds to watches. Case Enterprises stumbled...
...Some people refer to [IPOs] as a game," Doerr says. "But the notion that an entrepreneur can have a big idea and gain financial independence for his family is at the very heart of the American system of fair play." Echoing that sentiment is Dan Case, chairman of Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco venture-capital and investment-banking firm that helped manage the public offerings of Netscape and Pixar Animation last year. Says Case, who is the brother of America Online chairman Steve Case, another IPO millionaire: "IPOs are the fuel that entrepreneurs' job engines...
...Minnesota it's more like a divorce. With polls showing him favored by Republican voters 3 to 1 over Quist, Carlson will challenge the Republican nominee in a primary battle this September. If the Quist forces prevail, he warns, voters will flee to the Democrats. "The Republican legislative caucus will be able to meet in a phone booth." Or maybe the new triumphs of the religious right will be a wake-up call for the rest of the party...