Tom Taulli Quotations

Lucas would be afraid of the Death Star that is the SEC,

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

If they can do it, they will. For companies that have American backing, it's almost a requirement that they start to list in the U.S.

From the wreckage of the bust we now have some fundamentally good companies.

Today, investors are tapping into hype. But there needs to be a viable company at the end of the day.

I think it definitely has the first-mover advantage,

I think it's lucky for some of these small companies because they may get a better pop then they would normally get.

I think the Cleveland Indians are looking at the IPO market and see that it is very hot right now.

I think this will be a volatile stock. Individual investors should be wary.

When the general market gets a cold, the IPO market gets pneumonia. It's that kind of relationship.

While they're not saying, 'Come over here, you'll make a lot of money (by) short-term trading,' ultimately it's set up to do that.

Brands are something very much of a value in the marketplace and it makes it easier to sell a deal like that.

At some point (the market) does get saturated,

There's nothing here in terms of an operational business. It's a laboratory.

The silence has been deafening. Usually, tech drowns out everything else but now the IPO market is a place where investors don't like to take a risk.

Sometimes it takes a McDonald's or a Wendy's to test the waters a little bit and see where it goes.

As a public investor, if you've seen a company do a couple of dividend recapitalizations, be on warning. You may be getting a company that's crippled with debt.

Back in 1998 and 1999, you got a domain name that sounded cool, raised a lot of money, rolled the dice and hopefully something good would come out of it.

This is something that the huge chains are going to experiment with, just to see if ... there is an appetite for these types of deals.

This is a critical IPO. If it doesn't do well it will probably put a stop to a potential nanotech IPO trend,

A lot of times with road shows, it's not what's being said, but how management says it. Will you get information that's not in the prospectus? Probably not, but you'll get a better idea of who the management is and whether you have confidence in them.

There is no way to look at it as anything but frothy, to say the least.

This is a volatile area. For long-term investors, it's never an easy place to make money.

They probably want to sell into strength. If there's enough demand to get it done, they'll want to get it done as fast as possible,

There's definitely quite a few Cleveland Indians fans out there who have been loyal for a very long time, even though the Indians weren't doing very well, ... I think that will help the offering.

It seems to me this is a big business that might do well

It'll take time for old habits to break. But the more interactions with investors, the better. It's always better to get more investors interested in your company.

They are the same type of company. They know how to market themselves and sell their product.

They want to give themselves as many options as possible for liquidity.

The IPO market is always about the here and now, ... The good news lately has been in the commodities world.

The IPO is no longer a reflex action. M&A may be a better alternative. Companies are assessing whether they should try the IPO or take the cash, where they know they'll at least get something.

If she were gone, I don't think it would be a big deal.

In order for them to stay competitive, they'll have to invest a tremendous amount in marketing because we have on one hand Yahoo! getting into it, and whenever Yahoo! gets into a market it encourages everyone else to get into it. All other search engines, in my opinion, will start to come into this space.

I don't think (the NYSE will) have any trouble raising money. The markets are anticipating this already. We've seen the seats on the exchange skyrocket.