SVB's collapse is a tale of ambition, management mistakes, and focusing on innovation over the mundane work of managing risk and ensuring financial prudence
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How tech founders and investors use the Qualified Small Business Stock tax break, a 1990s-era provision for SMBs, to minimize taxes on their investment profits
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WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019
WeWork parent The We Company is about to achieve … Stephen Gandel / CBS News : WeWork IPO filing shows it's losing nearly $5,200 per customer Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat : WeWork IPO filing hypes tran...
Sources: Pinterest is planning an IPO that could come at a $12B+ valuation as soon as April 2019; the company is on track for $700M+ revenue in 2018, up 50% YoY
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Video streaming stationary bike maker Peloton raises $550M led by TCV, sources say at a $4.15B valuation, ahead of expected IPO in 2019
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Dealogic: US tech IPOs, excluding Spotify's listing, raised ~$12.2B in 28 deals in the first half of 2018, nearly double the volume from the same period in 2017
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Sources: Dell's SecureWorks seeking to launch IPO this month, begin roadshow the week of April 11
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Behind the comeback of Frank Quattrone, who founded tech-oriented Qatalyst Partners investment bank in 2008, and has advised on 85+ deals worth at least $158B
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Twitter spikes more than 8% and then falls in response to a fake story about takeover offer, from a site designed to look like Bloomberg
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