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As of last month, SEMRush, a (SaaS) company that specializes in aiding businesses with online visibility management and content marketing, has gone public.

Eddie Antar is one of the most remarkable people who has fooled investors. With his "Crazy Eddie" stores, he has earned more than $60 million. But got in prison

Review of the decade

What's the best way to analyze a public company's financial report for the second quarter? Well, I think you should keep it simple.

By some estimates, investing in the IPOs of the 75 or so SaaS companies would have netted you 5x in less than 5 years. That’s the kind of math that makes even the world’s best investors drool, and considering the target for most private market investors is 3x, and that do in any liquid security, it makes this all the more interesting.

Highlights from the Robinhood S-1, and a personal journey of "growing up" with Robinhood

Every traditional media outlet and its compatriots, the ones who get paid to voice the traditional media opinion are bashing Robinhood. Why?

There’s no doubt that the pandemic has helped to put Robinhood in a position where the trading platform can launch a potentially huge IPO for investors.

Following companies has a huge advantage – you can actually see every company’s performance by tracking its stocks. As the below table depicts, a few companies like Shopify, RingCentral, Twilio and Docusign have had tremendous growth in the past 6 months. Why – because in one way or another they enable people with ease of access to either office or ecommerce. Let’s look at the highlights of each company’s performance.

It appeared that Starlink’s subscriber growth was slowing down, paving the way for potential problems when the company’s eventual IPO landed. 

Let’s take a step back and look at why initial public holdings are tricky for investors to access, especially for retail investors.

I remote chat this afternoon with Joost Boer, a Dutch entrepreneur, company builder and product strategist who has extensive international experience gained through living in 5 different countries in Asia-Pacific over the past decade. He describes himself as having a beginner's mindset, happiest when creating something, a voracious reader. He is currently based in the Netherlands.  

Is it possible that Musk’s commitment to revamping Twitter could interrupt Starlink’s path to launch an IPO in the future amid investor concern for his decision

The last of three articles on corporate valuations and capital structures.

How Snowflake Became a $70 Billion Company with the Largest Software IPO in History

With the pandemic induced havoc, how is that the stock market is not down more? And what effect will the economic downturn have on the valuation of startups?

What do Upwork and Wework have in common?

Why are more Crypto Companies Eyeing an IPO: Q&A with an ex-Goldman Sachs Investor who has a background in cryptocurrency and other related industry fields.

"If you invested in WeWork at a $47 billion valuation, you’re getting fleeced!"

SoftBank's results have improved dramatically, with a total net profit of about $29.9 billion between April and September 2020 (up 371 percent year-over-year)

Wait! Something isn’t right here. 

Financial reports are lengthy, confusing, and boring. I promise that I will keep it simple, brief, and straight to the point. I will let Upwork’s numbers do all the talking.

In this article, we will discuss the concept of market cap in detail and how it relates to SaaS companies as well as why understanding why it's important. 

Now that summer is officially coming to an end, thought it was worth doing a post-mortem on the barrage of S1s that happened over the past month. Looks like the entire analyst community came out swinging this month, and I don't think I have ever read this many founder/ company/ strategy/ technology histories and deep dives. A few takeaways, just reflecting on the froth!

Freshworks' Journey to India’s First SaaS IPO

At a share price of 68.8 Chinese yuan, the Ant Financial IPO was expected to raise $34 billion in its public offering at the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges -- which would value it at over $300 billion.

11/10/2019

The advent of blockchain technology gave life not only to a new profitable financial asset, but also a new business model of funding startups. An increasing number of new companies are trying to use cryptocurrency to finance their projects. Unlike an IPO, which is a traditional and widely accepted form of external financing, STO, IEO, and ICO allow companies to start fundraising at a much earlier stage of development and the latter two avoid strict regulatory control. Already today, as a result of ICO, more than 1000 cryptocurrencies appeared on the market, and their number continues to grow. The practice of ICO has become so widespread that, in the opinion of many experts, it began to resemble the events of the dotcom boom of the late 90s and could lead to the same destructive consequences.

Robinhood is leading the modernization of investments because it offers everyone an equal opportunity to participate in the financial markets. 

Sex, money, tech and power. OnlyFans, a social media platform created to share explicit content against tips, finds a way to merge all four.