| The modus operandi for Web 2.0 sites to date has been to grow the site big enough to have it snapped up by a bigger fish. Unlike the "Web 1.0" move which was to go public as fast as you could without being purchased, Web 2.0 sites seem to be treading water while waiting for [...] |
Posts Tagged with ‘ipo’
Why There’s Been No IPO for Web 2.0
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on April 19, 2007
Vonage…with no strings attached?
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on February 22, 2007
| Vonage, the leading VoIP-only telecommunications provider in the US, hasn’t looked well since the investor-led mutiny following the company’s disastrous IPO days. Headlines ran rampantly across the business sections of newspapers, news magazines, tech publications, and telecom industry papers about Vonage’s unwillingness to let shareholders go, even while a class action lawsuit loomed over its [...] |
XING, The First Web 2.0 IPO
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on November 14, 2006
| Recently, one of Profy’s contributors, bel3bel, wrote up a review of OpenBC. Monday morning, Om Malik, one of the most respected names in tech journalism today, uncovered a piece of news that I thought would add something extra to the original post here at Profy: The first ever IPO from a Web 2.0 company will [...] |
