2017 IPO Prospects: Carvana Wants to List, but Will It Follow Beepi to the Scrapyard?

According to the report on used car dealers in the US published by IBISWorld earlier this year, the used car industry is estimated to grow 2.9% annually through the period 2012 through 2017 to $116 billion in revenues. The market has traditionally been dominated by physical dealership stores, but has, as of late, seen several online

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The Recent Presidio IPO Fails to Create Interest

Many expected the Snap IPO earlier this year to help drive more tech Unicorns into the public markets. Some have followed suit and listed, but to rather unimpressive results. One such company is IT solutions provider Presidio.

Foursquare on the way to Profitability

A BIA/Kelsey report published in 2015 estimates the location-targeted mobile ad revenues in the US to grow from $6.8 billion in 2015 to $18.2 billion in 2019. The researcher believes that location-based advertising has been a primary driver of mobile advertising growth. After struggling for a while, geolocation services provider Foursquare has finally figured out a

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2017 IPO Prospects: Cloudera Files for IPO

There has been a flurry of IPO activity over the last few weeks with more than seven companies joining the IPO pipeline. Among them is Billion Dollar Unicorn player Cloudera. 

Billion Dollar Unicorns: In Uptake, Groupon Founder Shows He Has Learnt His Lesson

A recent Zion Market Research report estimates the global predictive analytics market to be worth $10.95 billion by the year 2022, growing at 21% annually over the next five-year-period from $3.49 billion in 2016. There aren’t many companies from the Midwest that have made it to the Billion Dollar Unicorn club. Chicago’s Uptake is one such rare company that

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Actifio Focuses on Profitability, not IPO

Traditional forms of data protection involved identifying newer and more innovative ways to copy data so that users can access it in case they lose their core data source. Over the past few years though, a new form of data protection has evolved that is helping in the management of the copies of these data

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2017 IPO Prospects: Instacart Getting Ready to Deliver on the Stock Exchange

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course. According to a recent report by Food Marketing Institute and Nielsen, the online grocery shopping market is expected to grow five-fold over the next decade. American consumers will spend more than $100 billion on food-at-home items by 2025 compared with $20.5 billion in 2016. The number

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Airbnb is in no Rush to IPO

Earlier this month, Snap became among the first few Billion Dollar Unicorns to go public this year. Many anticipated that its successful IPO will prompt some of the other bigger Unicorns, like Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb to test out public waters as well. However, the companies are still cautious. Recently, San Francisco-based Airbnb announced plans that it

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