{"id":3137,"date":"2006-05-31T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2017-12-20T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:39:10","slug":"stop-bubble-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/31\/stop-bubble-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop: Bubble Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest sign that a bubblegeddon might be upon our markets: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/74F99A315869108F8625717B00046D92?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">The Segway IPO<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And Segway Inc. President and Chief Executive James Norrod, hoping to parlay the growth into a payday for the original investors in the scooter, has made grooming the company for an initial public offering in the next few years a top priority.<\/p>\n<p><b>Gauging Segway&#8217;s prospects in an IPO is difficult, as the company will not reveal its yearly revenue or whether it is profitable.<\/b> Norrod will only say that &#8220;tens of thousands&#8221; of Segways have been sold around the world, and that the company&#8217;s revenue has been growing by at least 50 percent over each of the last few years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to adjust the portfolio away from equities and back into guns and liquor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest sign that a bubblegeddon might be upon our markets: The Segway IPO: And Segway Inc. President and Chief Executive James Norrod, hoping to parlay the growth into a payday for the original investors in the scooter, has made grooming the company for an initial public offering in the next few years a top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18733,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/18733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}