{"id":164,"date":"2015-01-23T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:13:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:13:26","slug":"ipoboutique-brief-box-ipo-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/ipoboutique-brief-box-ipo-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"IPOBoutique Brief: Box IPO Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/cgi\/info\/BoxInc-BOX-info.php\" target=\"_blank\">Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX)<\/a> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/ipo-pricing-1-22-2015-box-prices-deal-above-range\/\">priced its IPO<\/a><\/strong> $1 above the $11-$13 range at $14. The deal was 12.5 million shares and raised $175 million for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Box was the subject of a lot of media speculation this week. Box was valued at $2.4 billion during its last round of funding yet is IPO&#8217;ing for considerably less than that valuation.<\/p>\n<p>It got people wondering <!--more-->on twitter if there is a bubble in the way VC&#8217;s are funding start-ups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Boxtweet.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Boxtweet-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"Boxtweet\" width=\"397\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Boxtweet-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Boxtweet-600x253.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Boxtweet.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting article came out from Fortune Magazine stating that<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/ipoboutique-brief-1-22-2015-failure-is-coming\/\"> &#8220;companies will fail&#8221; <\/a><\/strong>noting that there are a handful of start-ups with $1 billion valuations.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC host Jim Cramer endorsed $BOX saying that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/ipoboutique-brief-1-21-2015-the-box-debate\/\">everyone should call their broker <\/a><\/strong>and buy the company.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers were kept in the loop all week about the demand for &#8216;BOX&#8217; and when the books were closing. There are 11 deals on the schedule for next week. If you would like IPOBoutique&#8217;s comprehensive research, ratings and daily advisories&#8230;now would be the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/Subscribe.html\">perfect time to subscribe<\/a><\/strong>. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/cgi\/ipo-track-record-summary-report.php\">track record<\/a><\/strong> speaks for itself and plans are available on a monthly or annual basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX) priced its IPO $1 above the $11-$13 range at $14. The deal was 12.5 million shares and raised $175 million for the company. Box was the subject of a lot of media speculation this week. Box was valued at $2.4 billion during its last round of funding yet is[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"zakra_general_container_width":0,"zakra_general_content_width":0,"zakra_general_sidebar_width":0,"zakra_sticky_header":"customizer","zakra_header_main_area":true,"zakra_site_logo_width":0,"zakra_header_top_enabled":"customizer","zakra_header_top_style":"customizer","zakra_primary_menu_item_style":"customizer","zakra_page_header_text_color":"","zakra_page_header_layout":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg":"","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_image":0,"zakra_page_title_bg_repeat":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_position":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_size":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_attachment":"customizer","zakra_breadcrumbs_enabled":"customizer","zakra_breadcrumbs_text_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_link_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_link_hover_color":"","zakra_page_title_bg_image":0,"zakra_footer_widgets_enabled":"customizer","zakra_footer_column_layout_1_style":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg":"","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_repeat":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_position":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_size":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_attachment":"customizer","zakra_footer_bar_enabled":"customizer","zakra_footer_bar_style":"customizer","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipo","tag-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}