Chris Nerney

Last Friday I wrote that Internet manque GreenMountain.com had delayed its planned IPO from last week to this week because investors have begun spotting and punishing phony ‘Net companies. The headline on the column was “Dot.Frauds On The Run”. It should have read “Dot.Frauds In Full Retreat,” for GreenMountain.com on Tuesday postponed its IPO, saying […]

All three Internet companies that began trading Tuesday can claim some kind of edge to attract investors. One sells software in the hot e-commerce space. Another is first-mover in a market – online loan processing – that promises to be a lucrative niche. The third is an infrastructure/bandwidth play, a sector that has emerged as […]

Yet another milestone has been reached in this precedent-shattering year for Internet IPOs. The crop of public offerings unleashed Friday enabled June to set a new monthly record with 29 ‘Net IPOs, topping the 26 that hit the street in May. With three trading days left, we should see at least 30 Internet IPOs this […]

The game could be up for those non-Internet companies dressed in cyber-clothing. Dazed and panicky investors may not have fully appreciated the beneficial effects of the recent Internet stocks slump, but it’s now clear that the newly skeptical atmosphere has had one immediate and positive impact: Bogus Internet companies are being exposed and punished. And […]

Where did that one come from? Sure, Ariba was tabbed by many analysts as one of the hot Internet IPOs this week. But in a market where more Internet IPOs have fizzled than flown, no one could have predicted that shares of the business-to-business e-commerce software vendor would end their first day of trading on […]

If you’re an investor who hates to see a promising opportunity botched, or if you’re simply an Internet user who values a good search engine, you should hope reports are true that CMGI may buy AltaVista from Compaq. CMGI, an Internet holding company and venture capital firm, reportedly is mulling the purchase of AltaVista and […]

The latest common wisdom among Internet stock analysts is that infrastructure companies hold greater promise for investors than content players. That theory may be tested in microcosm Tuesday with expected IPOs from one Web router vendor and two start-ups that offer online content. The infrastructure play comes from Ramp Networks, which early Tuesday priced 4 […]

Last Friday I wrote that five Internet companies had priced shares for public trading that day. It turns out that before the market closed, a sixth ‘Net company – AppNet Systems – also launched an IPO. That half-dozen public offerings by Internet-related companies on Friday thus breaks the record of five set May 26. These […]

Just when it looked like the recent Internet stocks and IPO aftermarket slump might be slowing down the rush to go public, five ‘Net companies priced shares Thursday for trading as early as Friday. Two of those five upped their proposed pricing range at the 11th hour. Internet services provider Viant priced its 3 million […]

A year ago this month three Internet companies with vastly different business models went public. Today shares of all three are trading well above their respective first-day closing price, with one company in particular emerging as a favorite among investors and analysts. In order of IPO date, here’s a look at how each member of […]

Maybe someday everybody will shop for new homes and office space on the Internet. Maybe even sooner, enough people will do it so that some companies offering virtual tours of real estate properties will consistently make a profit. But that time is not now, and it’s hard to say when it will arrive. When it […]

There may be no marquee Internet companies going public this week, but the range and breadth of economic models being explored by ‘Net entrepreneurs is on full display among this week’s group of expected IPOs. The nine Internet companies tentatively slated to debut on Wall Street include a provider of e-commerce enabling services, a Tier […]