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April 20 — Don’t take last week’s two initial public offerings to mean it’s 1999 again.
It has been 10 months since two IPOs have happened in one week. Rosetta Stone Inc., a language-instruction software company, and Bridgepoint Education Inc., which offers college courses over the Internet, both went public last week.
The trouble [...]

By Patrick Rial and Kotaro Tsunetomi
　　April 6 — Japanese funds that buy stakes in start-up companies are struggling to survive amid the worst market for initial offerings in 17 years, Kazuhiko Tokita, chairman of the Japan Venture Capital Association, said.
　　Only 49 companies went public last year, the fewest since 1992, depriving venture firms of the [...]