May 24, 2012—Given the whole fiasco with Facebook's (FB) IPO last week (Felix Salmon over at Reuters has a great recap of the many problems here), you'd think that might diminish the hopes of smaller, or at least ...

May 18, 2012—You may have heard (or, perhaps read) about a company called Facebook (FB), which is going public today. For weeks now, there's been a steady drumbeat of stories, and an even steadier drumbeat of filings. The most recent S-1, with the ...

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September 27, 2011—As if it were a young, tech-savvy Scarlett O'Hara, Groupon, Inc. sashayed onto Wall Street and captured the attention of many suitors. And, just as tongues wagged about Scarlett in her day, there have been plenty ...

December 15, 2010—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 ...

December 10, 2010—Footnoted's Red Flag Alerts, including this alert about United Online, Inc. are available exclusively to Footnoted *PRO subscribers. To subscribe, click here.

June 17, 2010—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 ...

October 21, 2009—Sorry -- the economics major in me came out in the headline. But it's the first thing that I thought about after skimming the S-1 that Freedom Group filed earlier today. You can read news reports of the filing ...

December 24, 2008—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 ...

June 10, 2008—Yesterday, Solera (SLH) filed this 8K which despite being only 1 paragraph, was chock full of new perks for the company's top executives: The benefits approved by the Committee include increased supplemental life and long-term disability insurance, annual physical exams, company automobile benefit, country club ...