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The highly popular online marketplace for crafts, Etsy, will be going public today. The deal priced at the high end of the range–$16.00. What has been interesting to watch is the tussle between Wall Street and Main Street during the course of this roadshow.
Etsy, who operates a marketplace where people around the world connect, both online and offline, to make, sell and buy unique goods, filed for IPO on Wednesday after the close. The filing does not have terms but the filing did state they were seeking up to $100 million, which most likely is a place-holder amount[…]
Fortune quotes a partner at venture capitalist Benchmark, Bill Gurley, in their February cover story: “I think you’re going to see a lot of failure in 2015.” The idea that tech start-ups can have a $1b valuation relatively easy is head scratching to some money-managers. The downfalls of repeated rounds of funding is laid out[…]