There’s been a lot of hand wringing over the dearth of technology IPOs lately, which got me to thinking about two broad categories of companies I see here in Southern California: companies that are built to be sold, and companies that are built to grow. It seem to me that one hidden strength we have [...]
I’ve been rather amused to read a number of job posts today from startup companies that describe themselves as “pre-IPO” in trying to attract employees. Given the news today that there were no IPOs in Q2 of this year, it appears that in reality most of the technology startup world is in a permanent “pre-IPO” [...]
EETimes is reporting today that Westlake Village-based Inphi is eyeing both acquisitions, and an IPO in 2009 on the Nasdaq. Inphi develops high speed semiconductors for the communications market. Inphi is venture backed by Cadence Design Systems, Dali-Hook Partners, Flextronics, Mayfield, Tallwood Venture Capital, and Walden International.
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
