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IPO: Idiotic Public Offering

Scott Reeves  Sep 04, 2008 11:00 am
IPO: Idiotic Public Offering
 
A brief history of premature capitalization.
 

 
 
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Mr Bacan
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09-04-2008, 12:15 pm

A funny article.
By the way, I know of two people at companies like this who got very rich. And in both cases it was in a strange way.
They were at similar companies, and were founders. When they realized that the business mod
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Arthur Yellin
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09-04-2008, 1:15 pm
THE MENTAL mIDGETS WHO BASH hlth AND WEBMD ARE TOTAL MORONS, OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE. wYGOD HAS MORE BUSINESS ACUMEN IN HIS TOENAIL THAN THE AUTHORS HAVE IN THEIR CONEHEADS. LOOK AT HIS HISTORY, REPLY TO IT. THE STREET HAS NO CLUE TO WHAT HE IS DOING. IF
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Michael Gat
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09-04-2008, 8:00 pm
That with a little thought most of those biz plans could have been brought into a focus that didn't claim to dominate the world, but which could be quite profitable.

Delivering cat litter by UPS doesn't make much sense, but d
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T R
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09-05-2008, 2:15 am
As a stock holder of eBay I wish I had never heard of eBay. Three years ago I invested a good chunk of my money in eBay thinking this was a great company! Three years later I am down 41% as of today!

eBay may be the talk of the town but
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