Remember all that hype about how no one wanted to list in New York any more?
We might have to revisit some of those numbers, since IPO fever seems to have
hit the US markets. Michelle Leder notes that eight different
companies filed
to go public in just one day yesterday, including giants Och-Ziff Capital
and Netsuite.
Meanwhile, a software company called BladeLogic announced today that it’s going
to raise $45 million as it lists on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol BLOG.
Somewhere in Soho, Nick Denton sheds a tear, and reminds himself
that he never really wanted to go public anyway.
Update: Paul
Kedrosky has tracked down more facts. Eight IPO filings in one day is the
greatest since May 12, 2006, when there were ten. The all-time high is eleven,
from one day in March 2000.