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Written by Nick Osinski   
Tuesday, 01 July 2008 03:29

First, I"ll be clear that recorded history, as far as VC-backed IPOs are concerned, goes back only about 30-years. That said, June 2008 will go down as the slowest month with zero, that right, zero, IPOs backed by private equity firms. Compared to the same quarter last year, there were 101 IPOs; this quarter that number is 49 in the U.S. Of course, Wall Street is trying to read between the lines and come to some sort of conclusion about the viability of the private equity industry as a whole, which I feel is simply unjustified.

Of course, I shouldn"t be too surprised. The media is only doing what it always does: take a story and sensationalize it to grab viewers" attention and sell a few more ads. The reality is that the private equity business is a business like any another and responds to market conditions like any other. The slow-down in IPOs does not necessarily mean that there are fewer firms prepared to go public, but rather that there are few firms that VC firms are prepared to sell in this particular market. The folks behind these firms are pretty smart; they"ll exit their investments when they believe they can get the greatest return on their buck. This market, not surprisingly, does not appear to offer the kind of deals that they"re looking for. End of story.

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