{"id":15591,"date":"2012-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120313-03n"},"modified":"2012-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T22:00:00","slug":"does-biotech-history-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/does-biotech-history-repeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Biotech History Repeat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>According to Mark Twain, &#8220;History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme\u201d. Little did he know that one day that would hold true for something called &#8220;Biotech\u201d. Indeed, there seems to be a lot of rhyming going on with Biotech IPOs today with recent history.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20120313-03\/IPO-windows.jpg\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"IPO-windows.jpg\"\/>When we compare the accumulated number of IPOs in the last IPO window (2003-2007) with the current window (2009-now), we see an amazing overlay. Not identical, but not too far from it. As of March 2012, we have 34 IPOs. That compares to 33 back in March 2006:<\/p>\n<p>If this continues through 2012, we will add 12 more IPOs over the next three quarters, for a grand total of 46 IPOs since 2009. Then in 2013, we would need to see 20 more to reach the final 2007 goal of 66 IPOs.<\/p>\n<p>After that, let\u2019s hope Twain\u2019s observations no longer hold true, and we don\u2019t repeat 2008.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>According to Mark Twain, &#8220;History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme&rdquo;. Little did he know that one day that would hold true for<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-15591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15591"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}