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Forget the freakish growth spurts of Amazon.com and Ebay -? the weirdest Internet stock of the moment is Broadcast.com. Even as a newborn the stock showed promise, setting a record for the biggest single-day gain of an IPO when it went public last July. When some of the froth settled back then, the CEO confidently said that he wanted the people who bought at the top on the first day to feel that they'd made a great investment. Boy, did they. MORE...
...biggest problem with most prospectuses is that most people don't read them, and those who do discount the "risk factors" as the overprotective drivel of some lawyer. How else to explain soaring Internet IPOs despite pages spelling out potentially fatal risks? Addressing this issue in his 1996 IPO of Berkshire Hathaway B shares, Warren Buffett in bold letters urged all to read the material and "ignore anyone telling you that these statements are boiler plate or unimportant." That's a start. But be ready to check further...
...made an elegant jet-black computer for the university market, but not much money, and buying Pixar, which eventually produced such computer-animated film masterpieces as Toy Story and A Bug's Life. In 1995, just after Toy Story's release, Jobs took Pixar public in an exquisitely timed IPO that made him, for the first time, a billionaire...
...Hughes' grown children work in her business, which is itself embarking on an IPO aimed at young investors. Hughes has taken her message of entrepreneurship outside the family, offering seminars at schools and encouraging local children to buy into her business at $1 a share. "The most financial education most of these kids will ever get anywhere else is a half-hour field trip to the stock exchange in 12th grade," Hughes says. "I'm trying to help them understand that even a small investment is better than nothing...
...IPO price for stock in the Internet company theglobe.com...