Archive for the 'IPO$' Category

Once upon a time, Classmates.com was a promising start-up. But then Facebook opened its doors to everyone and, perhaps more importantly, it was free. We won’t rehash that whole sorry tale here, but we were reminded of it recently when we saw that United Online (UNTD), which owns the site, had inked a new employment [...]

Taking a private company public involves tremendous financial and human resources, as well as a lot of time.  It’s common to see several versions of a registration statement before the company finally sells its stock to the public, and that is certainly true for Tesla Motors, Inc., which has now filed five amendments to the registration [...]

A few years ago, friends of mine were going through a rough patch in their marriage because she was spending too much time on a site called Adult Friend Finder (no link included for firewall reasons) — something that the husband only found out about after hiring a private detective. I was fascinated with the [...]