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...Search For 'Kaching!' Investors drooled over Google's plans for an initial public offering early next year, probably valuing the online search engine at more than $15 billion. Reports suggest the IPO could be conducted through an online stock auction...
...when he was still running Hard Rock Cafe, Earl launched Planet Hollywood with the help of celebrity partners, including Bruce Willis and Sly Stallone, who got paid in stock to go to openings and attract free publicity. Star power helped propel the firm to a dotcom-style IPO in 1996 with what even Earl describes as "insane multiples." On paper, Planet was worth some $3.4 billion at its apex--and Earl more than $1 billion. But its stock, which peaked at $32, was delisted just before Planet's first bankruptcy in 1999. The chain, based in Orlando, Fla., had barreled...
Merril Lynch offered magnetic poetry kits featuring terms such as “savvy,” “IPO,” and “profit...
Music retailing has traditionally been a fragmented industry of mom-and-pop stores. Guitar Center, however, is following the lead of retail giants like Wal-Mart. After raising $101 million in a 1997 IPO, Albertson and his co-CEO, Larry Thomas (himself a frustrated rock guitarist), went on an expansion run that included opening new stores at the rate of one or two a month and acquiring, in 1999, the Musician's Friend catalog for $48 million. In 2001 the company purchased a 19-store chain catering to schoolkids and beginners called American Music, and last year it opened...
...debut in 1991. Before long, surfing was something you did indoors while basking in electroluminescent light. The Web changed the way we did everything--shop, date, invest, check the weather, get porn--and gave us control over the flow of information while compromising our privacy. For a time, an IPO craze minted millionaires--and brought us a very funny sock puppet...