IPO

  • Here comes the ethanol bubble

    That dot-com boom feeling all over again: The renewable energy gold rush.
    By Andrew Leonard April 19, 2006

  • Silicon Valley is the best place ever in the whole world

    Inspired by Google, the high-tech capital's boosters have decided that it's boring to be pessimistic.
    By Farhad Manjoo May 27, 2004

  • Why Google shouldn't go public

    Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page believe they can thwart the greed of shortsighted Wall Street, but there's always a price to pay.
    By Lawrence M. Fisher May 6, 2004

  • Pols and CEOs gorge at the IPO feast

    It's time to impose new rules on the rich man's Shangri-la.
    By Arianna Huffington September 13, 2002

  • Dumb, dumber and theglobe.com

    A memoir by whiz kid turned dot-com refugee Stephan Paternot is as silly as the company he founded.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 22, 2001

  • Dottie Downturn's trauma

    Nostalgia for the glory years, or post-dot-com downturn disorder? Whatever the case, Salon's new-economy etiquette arbiter clearly needs help.
    By Dottie Downturn September 21, 2000

  • Vibrators on the stock exchange

    Sex-toy firm has high hopes for Australian IPO.
    By Jack Boulware May 18, 2000

  • Failing is fun!

    Did your start-up go bankrupt? Are you out of a job? A new Web site will help you network with other dot-com failures.
    By Andy Dehnart May 9, 2000

  • After the fall

    Executives at Women.com, VA Linux, Productopia and others forge a path into post-market correction Silicon Valley.
    By Janelle Brown, Damien Cave and Andrew Leonard April 28, 2000

  • The insta-business plan re-strategizer!

    The market is skittish and IPOs are being postponed: Time to rejigger your B-plan! Our foolproof guide shows you the way.
    By Scott Kirsner April 14, 2000

  • Can't buy Linux love

    The stumbles of a Kleiner Perkins-funded Linux start-up prove that money isn't everything in the world of free software.
    By Andrew Leonard April 11, 2000

  • Can Linux billionaires carry the free-software torch?

    As dot-com mania sends shares in open-source companies soaring, the movement searches its soul.
    By Andrew Leonard December 23, 1999

  • All tech, all the time

    Going e-postal and other tales of the technological revolution. Plus: Blood-spurting penises and mushrooming: adventure sport for the elite?
    By Jenn Shreve December 17, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Would Jimmy Swaggart's God forbid sex? Plus: Merger rumors behind hot VA Linux IPO; reducing Russia to vodka-swilling stereotype.
    Letters to the Editor December 17, 1999

  • Dissecting the VA Linux IPO

    Its stock soared 698 percent on opening day -- but does that mean investors really believe it's got a gilded future?
    By Mark Gimein December 10, 1999

  • Dot-com dogs

    With Net-stock fever showing no signs of cooling, mediocre IPOs are growing as plentiful as fleas on a stray hound.
    By Mark Gimein December 9, 1999

  • Jim Clark

    In Silicon Valley -- where newness is next to godliness -- the smart money still bets on capitalism's most successful conceptual artist.
    By Larry Kanter November 24, 1999

  • The Hollywoodization of venture capital

    The business of funding tech companies has gone gaga for brand names and boffo deals. "Visionaries," though, may be out of luck.
    By Mark Gimein October 15, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    You think the media's money fixation is new? Plus: Remembering George C. Scott; what does Salon have against organized religion?
    Letters to the Editor October 11, 1999

  • Media money fixation

    Another day, another IPO, another media lament on how today's Silicon Valley is all about greed, greed, greed.
    By Janelle Brown October 4, 1999

  • Linux at the bat

    Red Hat's Marc Ewing steps up to the plate against Microsoft in the billion-dollar free-software ballgame.
    By Andrew Leonard October 4, 1999

  • Memo to an insta-millionaire

    Congratulations! As Webvan's new CEO you're a winner at stock-option Monopoly: Just pass "Go" and collect millions!
    By Mark Gimein September 27, 1999

  • Pat McGovern's "Technology Publishing for Dummies"

    How did IDG's chairman build a $2.35 billion business?
    By Chris Sandlund September 24, 1999

  • Slashdot goes quiet

    Can one muzzle the "News for Nerds" site? Probably not -- but its parent company has entered the quiet period, preparing for an IPO.
    By Andrew Leonard September 17, 1999

  • Jupiter shoots for the moon

    The market research firm has always said the Net would be big. Now it's big enough to launch Jupiter on a bid to go public.
    By Janelle Brown September 2, 1999
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