Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire with Space X IPO

Nation building via learning and being the best in business

This was unthinkable a decade ago.   

5 worlds richest men

Are these guys merely seizing opportunities, or are they corrupt.

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship

This is from Wall Street Daily authored by Louis Basense and Robert Williams

A lot has been discussed in the Unicorn paper, of public sector officials who made a killing on some investments, IPO, or shares of stocks that have been affected by the public policy that they just made.

Are they corrupt?

Is there conflict of interest

Or are they just practical to grab the opportunity to be rich in a legal way?

What do you think?

FB stock price dives down further; when is it going to end.

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship

From Newsmax Money:   the Facebook stock price even dived down further to $l8.06 or  $1.03 or (5.4%)  This is from a concern that the growth of FB will not be as fast as was envisioned and that there will be massive sell - offs once the selling restrictions expire.

From a high of $45.00 on the IPO issue, the FB stocks steadily declined from a market cap of $l04 billion;  it is down to $50 billion..   This represents a massive loss to the investors and does not help the fragile US economy

How will this development affect the US and Europe, the two biggest market in the world?

What besides the social media will be the next big thing for the electronics industry

MZ of FB being threatened by lawsuits re overpriced IPO

                                         

FB stockholders allege that MZ dumped a billion dollars of FB stock, knowing fully well that the business model could not support the $38.00 initial stock offering price. (insider trading?) A massive lawsuit is likely to ensue.



 

 The market cap of FB is now $56 billion down from the $l00.00 when it started the IPO.  The FB stocks were valued at $50 billion prior to the stock offering.   Thus the initial offering of $38 is down to $22 or roughtly a 50%  loss.  A $44.00 billion loss or $22.00 slide per share should not give the holders of the FB much sleep;  and so with MZ

Zuckerberg Allegedly Dumped Facebook Shares Before IPO, Said to Face Massive Lawsuits

FB is overhyped? Undervalued? Buyers Beware

 

Pimco's El-Erian: Investors Fell for Facebook Hype


A lot of concern came out after the IPO of Facebook after last Fridays May l8, IPO.  The price of FB which was initially at $38.00, fell ll%.  That is a lot of money lost for investors (about $11 billion, much much more than what JP Morgan lost two weeks ago on trading of derivatives.

                                     


            

Earlier post from Wall Street daily warned of possible bombing out of FB IPO.  (Many did not want to believe analysis)

Many are emphasizing that hard asset plays, energy,, solid business plan (with clear revenue cost picture are the best investment)  However, FB does not have asset, only plenty of users, lot of popularity and hype.  That is not expected to be solid revenue, and price stock at Wall St.

The joke now is whether MZ will join th board of JP Morgan.?

TV funnymen Suggest Zuckerberg should Join JP Morgan's Board

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship

The funny guy at the TV suggests that because of the losses of FB IPO subscribers, Mark Zuckerberg should join the Board of JP Morgan. (JP Morgan lost $2B on derivatives trade and hedging)  Likewise the FB IPO investors lost about l0% of their invesment.  FB price dived.

Well a lot of financial and security advisers, in my blogs note that FB was overpriced and overhyped.

 There are other stocks that are good.

Some people should have listened to avoid being scalped.

Fwd: Add This Company to Your "Watch List" Immediately

If you want to play with IPO, and should you want to exit via IPO this is the article you should read
and remember.

If you want to still risk your money with Facebook IPO being a darling, please read this article.

Know the perils of stock/equity plays.  Do not do something or invest in anything you do not know or understand
very well.

Results could be regrettable and disastrous.  An expensive tuition fee.

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That works out to about 33% of the deal flow - well above the 10-year average of 23.4%, based on Renaissance Capital data. Like so few IPOs, though, Exponential Interactive (Proposed Ticker: EXPN) possesses all the hallmarks of a hot IPO, which is precisely why we're adding it to our "Hot IPO Watch List." Advertising Enters the Digital Age Per the company's S-1 filing, Exponential provides "an end-to-end solution that enables brand advertisers to learn about their optimal consumer audience, reach and engage that audience with emotive advertising and analyze and refine their marketing campaigns." Translation: It's a digital advertising company. And its proprietary "eX Advertising Intelligence Platform" helps blue-chip companies reach customers digitally. A need clearly exists for such services. Case in point: Of the $449 billion spent globally each year on advertising, only $64 billion (or roughly 15%) comes from digital advertising, according to ZenithOptimedia. And yet, consumers are abandoning traditional print in favor of digital media at an accelerating rate. And since advertising always follows eyeballs, it's only a matter of time before brand advertisers ramp up their digital media advertising. Exponential is the obvious choice, as it's already partnered with 1,900 advertisers, including 88 of Advertising Age's 100 Largest Global Marketers. As far as its investment merits go, Exponential stacks up favorably against all of our IPO criteria: ~ Age: The older and more established a company is when it goes public, the better the stock tends to perform. And founded in 1998, Exponential has been around long enough to demonstrate viability. That's not something you could say about most IPOs during the dot-com collapse. The average IPO back then hit the public market at just four to five years of age. ~ Revenue: In another sign of its maturity, Exponential boasts almost $170 million in sales. Research from University of Florida professor, Jay Ritter, shows that companies with more than $50 million in sales before they go public perform best, rising by an average of 38.8% over three years. That compares to only a 5% rise for companies with less than $50 million in sales at the time of their IPO. ~ Verifiable Growth Opportunity: An IPO is an investment in the future growth of a company. And Exponential boasts ample growth opportunities, penetrating less than 1% of a market worth $64 billion. What's more, the company's established strong sales momentum. Since 2009, revenue increased an average of 35.2%. ~ Profitability: As I've said countless times before, share prices ultimately follow earnings. And the performance of IPOs during the dot-com era proves my point perfectly. Roughly 70% to 80% of companies that went public during that period were unprofitable. And go figure... roughly the same amount of companies crashed and burned in the aftermarket. On the other hand, Exponential has been profitable on an annual basis since 2002. Increasingly so, I might add. Since 2009, net income increased an average of 51.2%. Only If the Price is Right The last criterion to consider, of course, is valuation. But we'll have to wait until Exponential finalizes its IPO plans before we can determine whether the price is right. For now, add the company to your "Hot IPO Watch List" for 2012. And stay tuned for future updates. Ahead of the tape, Louis Basenese What Your Broker Doesn't Want You to Know The Wall Street elite aren't going to be happy... because we're revealing every detail on the "secret" investment they don't want you to know about. Even better, we've come up with a way for you to exploit profits to the max. This might seem a bit mysterious - or secretive - but in a minute, everything will be crystal clear. To discover how this simple and proven wealth-building strategy could make you a small fortune month after month, check this out. Is "The Age of Gold" Upon Us? Last Wednesday was looking like hell for gold bugs... but then came the reversal. Is Venture Capital Investing An Overhyped Money Pit? Have you missed out on venture capital investing? The returns may not be what you think... Friday Briefing: Microsoft is Going Social A conveniently concise rundown of some of the week's hottest technology stories. 1. The One Bank Stock to Buy Now 2. Natural Gas: The Ultimate Contrarian Play for 2012 3. A Scary Development for First-Quarter Earnings 4. Uranium Price Forecast is Up... Here's the Stock to Buy Now 5. Two Burning Questions About Facebook's IPO JPMorgan Stocks Sink Under Weight of Investment Blunder

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Fwd: Facebook's IPO? Buy This Stock Instead

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If you play stocks and do not mind the risk, these are the recommendation from Wall Street.  You see its all
about the basics.  Strong balance sheet and p and l performance.

Avoid trending and going with the herd.  Not that FB is famous and popular will it mean that will be  a good stock
to own.  It just bought a company that does not make money yet (Instagram) for $ 1 billion.  We trust that buy
will do good for FB

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They're buying into all the hype, just to make sure they don't miss out. Even if the company jacked up its pricing range on Tuesday to $34 to $38 a share from the previous range of $28 to $35. And even if the fundamentals don't exactly stack up, which I noted here, here, here, here, here and here. To borrow Mr. T's catchphrase, "I pity the fool." But I'm not going to waste any more breath on warnings about Facebook's IPO. Instead, I'm going to offer up an alternative - a way to benefit from the Facebook IPO hype without all the risk. Here's how... The Smartest "Because of Facebook" Investment In previous columns, I've railed against social gaming company, Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA), because it relies almost entirely on Facebook to generate revenue. (In the last quarter, Facebook accounted for 92% of Zynga's sales.) But what if we could find a company that generated a modest amount of revenue from Facebook, and therefore was levered to the social networking giant's growth? Well, then we'd have the perfect "because of Facebook" investment. And that's where Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) comes in... Founded in 2005, Fusion-io is a data decentralization pioneer. Its software and hardware solutions allow customers to efficiently get data to where it needs to be processed and analyzed. I'll spare you all of the technical mumbo jumbo. All you need to know is that the company's products bring just-in-time manufacturing - where the raw materials are located right next to the factory to ensure availability when demand hits - to the data center. Only in this case, instead of putting raw materials close to the factory to be processed, we're talking about putting critical data closer to servers to be processed. The end result? Dramatic increases in performance and efficiency. For instance, Fusion-io's products helped one internet company process almost 10 times more queries over a specific period of time. They helped a digital media sharing company improve customer access speeds by roughly 66%. And they helped an IT security service company reduce its data center energy consumption by more than 40%. The last example highlights another key benefit of Fusion-io's products. As a consequence of processing data faster and more efficiently, Fusion-io's products also help cut down on the number of servers required and, in turn, the amount of energy required to run a data center. Faster performance and lower operating expenses? Talk about a win-win product. It's no wonder the company already boasts a blue-chip client list, including Apple, Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and - you guessed it - Facebook. In fiscal 2010, Facebook accounted for 10% of Fusion-io's sales. By fiscal 2011 that percentage jumped to 36%. So it stands to reason that the more Facebook grows, the more data it's going to create and, in turn, the more it's going to rely on products from Fusion-io. In other words, Fusion-io represents an indirect way to profit from Facebook's IPO. Rest assured, though, the investment case for Fusion-io extends beyond Facebook. A Timely Acquisition Candidate, Too As I've told you before, IDC predicts that the amount of data businesses handle is going to increase 44-fold by 2020. Not to mention, consumers are increasingly demanding real-time access to data. So unlike Facebook, Fusion-io delivers a worthwhile - and increasingly necessary - service. That explains why so many blue-chip companies are already customers. But there's no reason that any one of them can't become an owner, too. You see, despite solid growth, Fusion-io's stock is down 45% from its November 2011 high, making it a more affordable takeover target. And there's definitely an urge to merge in the sector. EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) recently paid $430 million to acquire Israeli startup, XtremIO, which is a flash memory storage company similar to Fusion-io. And rumor has it Dell recently offered to buy Fusion-io for $33 per share, but was denied. If the rumors about a spurned takeover offer are true, management must believe Fusion-io's growth prospects warrant a higher multiple. I'd agree. And there's no denying that Fusion-io's major customers could easily afford to pay more to buy the $1.9 billion market-cap company. Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, which all represent strategic fits, are sitting on cash balances of $14.8 billion, $12.3 billion and $8.1 billion, respectively. Bottom line: We can live without Facebook. But companies, including Facebook, increasingly cannot live without data decentralization services offered by Fusion-io. So if you're dead set on investing in the most overhyped IPO in history, consider doing so in a roundabout manner. Buy Fusion-io instead. It's certain to benefit because of Facebook, but also from its own strong growth and takeover appeal, too. Ahead of the tape, Louis Basenese If you want to retire early... You may be able to turbo-charge your retirement savings with an unusual investment. It has nothing to do with risky options or currencies, yet it could make you richer, faster than you imagined possible. Click here for details... Are These David Einhorn's Newest Targets? Whenever Einhorn targets a stock to sell short, I listen. And this time is no exception. Here's why... Batteries Not Included: Powering Electronics Through Your Eyes A new discovery from Stanford University shows how our eyes could become mini power generators. How JPMorgan's "London Whale" Lost $2 Billion Here's the method behind the trading madness that slammed JPMorgan for a $2 billion loss... 1. The One Bank Stock to Buy Now 2. Natural Gas: The Ultimate Contrarian Play for 2012 3. A Scary Development for First-Quarter Earnings 4. 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