http://www.emergingenterprisecenterblog.com/ Boston Startup Lawyers & Attorneys for Venture Capital & Financing Entrepreneurs en Copyright 2012 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:33:03 -0500 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:33:03 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Unfortunately the shear truth is that you are correct. Irrational buying of IPOs to gain from the opening price has fostered a poor metrics as to valuation. Hype and the law of "supply and demand" has aided to this situation. And as we go through the "great recession" and with investors' short memories as they yearn for the "good old days"of the bull market, history will repeat itself as the cycle will continue.

]]> http://www.emergingenterprisecenterblog.com/vc-community/ipos-and-the-venture-model/#18778 http://www.emergingenterprisecenterblog.com/vc-community/ipos-and-the-venture-model/#18778 VC Community Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:20:52 -0500 Dave Broadwin There's a recent working paper covering the IPO data from 2001-07 (post bubble) that was published by two University of New Hampshire professors that might be of interest. One of their conclusions is that VC-backed IPOs were actually significantly underpriced as compared to those that were not VC-backed during the same time period. I summarized the working paper here: http://alphatechcounsel.com/blog/2009/the-ipo-data-angel_investors-versus-venture_capitalists/

]]> http://www.emergingenterprisecenterblog.com/vc-community/ipos-and-the-venture-model/#18779 http://www.emergingenterprisecenterblog.com/vc-community/ipos-and-the-venture-model/#18779 VC Community Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:20:52 -0500 Dave Broadwin