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...create, in terms of total revenues, one of the world's biggest telecommunications equipment makers, not a bad thing for Tchuruk to put on his résumé. For another, despite the pummeling it has take in the stock market, Lucent - which set a record for the biggest ipo in history when it was spun off from AT&T in 1996 - still retains some glossy assets, among them a huge U.S. sales force and customer base and the research capabilities of its highly regarded Bell Laboratories. (Although any deal involving a foreign takeover of that research facility, which does...
WICK: Exactly. Unique know-how. A few years ago, I went to see a company doing their IPO roadshow. They refused to put up their slide show because they were concerned that venture capitalists would be in the room and take their business plan and shop it. That's a great example of a company that doesn't have a whole lot of proprietary content. If everything about the company can be put into a bunch of slides, then there's not much there...
...away from an initial public offering, the folks at Netscape surprised Davis with a $5 million bill for the privilege of featuring Lycos on the Netscape start-up page (it had always been free). Lycos had only $1 million in revenues, and this Netscape larceny threatened to derail the IPO. But Davis and his team threw together a more disciplined business model, squeezed through the IPO hole and raised $40 million in a day's trading...
...December, Enron's will be the first new skyscraper in downtown Houston since 1987--to be followed by three more by 2003. Besides Enron, Calpine Corp., the nation's leading independent-power company, based in California, will move into a new 32-story high-rise. And Reliant Resources, the IPO spun off this month from its Houston parent to deal with Texas' new deregulated electricity market, has signed on for offices in a 36-story skyscraper...
...December, Enron's will be the first new skyscraper in downtown Houston since 1987--to be followed by three more by 2003. Besides Enron, Calpine Corp., the nation's leading independent-power company, based in California, will move into a new 32-story high-rise. And Reliant Resources, the IPO spun off this month from its Houston parent to deal with Texas' new deregulated electricity market, has signed on for offices in a 36-story skyscraper...