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...company turned its first profit in 2004, and went public on the Nasdaq the following year, raising more than $100 million in the process. It was by far the most successful Internet IPO since the dotcom bubble burst in 2000. One of its earliest investors, in fact, was Google - before the company entered the China market in 2006. It paid $5 million for a 2.6% stake in Baidu in 2004. But Google sold its stake in Baidu for about $60 million two years later, and entered the search business in China on its own. It was game...
...billion debt does not include $3.2 billion in notes or preferred stock that GM also owes to employees' health care trusts, or VEBAs, in the U.S. and Canada. GM expects to repay the notes to U.S. and Canadian VEBAs with money from the eventual sale of new stock - an IPO that will be successful only if GM returns to sustainable profitability...
...Donnell and George Clooney. As well as, oh, about 2 billion children. Sales at the Colorado-based company climbed from a meager $24,000 in 2002 to more than $847 million in 2007. When Crocs went public in February 2006, it raised $208 million - the largest shoe-firm IPO in market history...
...IPO activity is also on the upswing. "Since July 4, we have been mandated on five technology IPOs and are competing for two more," says John Moriarty, a managing director and head of technology investment banking at Robert W. Baird & Co. "A year ago, there were none." (See the best inventions...
...also higher for new IPOs. "Back in the '90s, people were able to go out with just a business plan, raise money in an IPO and then spin the company off to somebody without ever even renting office space," says Marc Pado, U.S. market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald. Those quick-buck days are long gone as venture capitalists and others are now prepared to hang on to an investment for up to eight years...