The dot-com IPO market has matured a lot since Netscape gave birth to it 15 years ago. But it has been virtually nonexistent since the spring of 2000 when the Web bubble burst, sending an estimated US$6-trillion worth of shareholder wealth into oblivion.
Now the gloom is lifting and the likes of Skype, Hulu and other Web 2.0 giants could spawn a rebirth, giving investors a new chance to get wealthy off the Web.
“The risks have shifted today,” says Greg Goldfarb, principal with Summit Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in growth equity investments. “In the 1999 era, the risks were really related to blowup risk.”
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Author: Jameson Berkow
