Re: Great Infographic: Famous IPOs: Where are they now?
Noreen Seebacher
5/31/2012 9:42:42 AM
You can't rule out all social media investment based on FB.
If you had invested in Bankrate, Zynga, Zillow, LinkedIn and Jive Software, for instance, your first six month returns would have exceeded the Nasdaq by nearly 50%.
Now if you add a bunch of others to those winners--including Angie's List, Demand Media, Friendfinder, Groupon, HomeAway, and Pandora, your same six month returns would have been 2.2% lower than the Nasdaq average. You can play with the numbers yourself here.
Re: Great Infographic: Famous IPOs: Where are they now?
Noreen Seebacher
5/31/2012 9:26:16 AM
Greed,
FB insiders and bankers priced the stock too high -- they squeezed out every penny for themselves and didn't leave any potential gain for anyone else.
Re: Great Infographic: Famous IPOs: Where are they now?
chapAnjou
5/31/2012 9:07:37 AM
Here's a question: what do you all think went wrong with Facebook's IPO?
Re: Great Infographic: Famous IPOs: Where are they now?
chapAnjou
5/31/2012 9:06:40 AM
@phil, yeah I expected the FB IPO to not go so well, but I never anticipated the horror show that it's turned into...
Re: Great Infographic: Famous IPOs: Where are they now?
philtheinvestor
5/31/2012 8:37:01 AM
Technically, based on how the FB stock is tanking, some people STILL do not believe social networking is a 'real' thing.
Re: Great Infographic: Famous IPOs: Where are they now?
chapAnjou
5/22/2012 2:23:29 PM
@Scott, yeah I was thinking the same thing about the two points you brought up. They seemed to choose some obscure companies haha. Just looking at the thing as a mini-timeline, I found it interesting (especially about theglobe.com)
Re: Great Infographic: Famous IPOs: Where are they now?
Scott Raynovich
5/22/2012 2:18:21 PM
that graphic is very hard to follow.
Also they appear to have randomly cherry-picked IPOs they want to demo for whatever reason.
What about uber-successful IPOs like Google? Priceline.com?
Re: Great Infographic: Famous IPOs: Where are they now?
chapAnjou
5/22/2012 2:09:45 PM
Very fascinating post, phil. I completely forgot about theglobe.com! Very interesting to see how social networking wasn't really considered a real thing back then and now, there's barely anyone who isn't hooked into some social networking site.
Great Infographic: Famous IPOs: Where are they now?
philtheinvestor
5/19/2012 4:37:53 PM
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