This week's news on Facebook IPO.
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facebook ipo
16 MayVentureBeat
Facebook’s IPO is being heralded in rather vague terms as the biggest tech IPO in history. But this initial public offering actually does break a few records, and not just in the tech sector.
This week, Facebook’s IPO will be the largest venture-backed IPO of all time, and not in the subjective Kanye West sense. If, as expected, the company’s valuation creeps toward $104 billion, it would be four times larger than Google’s 2004 IPO.
Facebook will also have earned the distinction of raising the most venture capital of any venture-backed company in the U.S. — a grand total of $2.2 billion from some of the biggest names in venture capital around the world. This is almost double the amount raised by the second-place company in this category, Clearwire, a wireless broadband service provider that raised $1.2 billion. It’s also exactly double the amount Twitter has raised to date, $1.1 billion.
Also, Facebook breaks the record for most companies acquired pre-IPO. To date, Facebook has bought 13 other startups, only two more than Twitter, which is the second-most acquisitive company that is still privately held.
“Facebook’s IPO could be the first of many pay days for venture investors,” said Dow Jones VentureSource global research director Jessica Canning in a release today.
“With the company seeking to raise up to $15 billion through its exit and some of that capital likely to be spent on acquisitions, Facebook’s IPO could also be a boon for investors in companies that would pair well with the social media giant. We’ve already seen this with a few targeted mobile acquisitions recently and will likely see more as the social space continues to evolve.”
Some of the mobile acquisitions were part of Facebook’s recent shopping spree that signed, sealed, and delivered startups Instagram, TagTile, Glancee, and Lightbox into the Facebook fold all within the past few weeks.
“Facebook created a path through the venture capital landscape that no one has seen before, said Dow Jones VentureWire editor Zoran Basichin a statement today.
“It created a frenzy of trading in private-market shares, drew non-traditional players into its venture rounds, and established a template for blockbuster success that every start-up and every investor dreams of.”
Still, Basichin continued, don’t expect any other companies to continue down the same path anytime soon — including the much smaller and younger Twitter. “It’s a template that no one else is likely to reproduce,” the editor said.
“In about every way you can think of, Facebook is unique.”
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The Facebook IPO Timeline
16 MayMashable!
If the Facebook IPO were a real person, we certainly wouldn’t blame it for posting braggy status updates. This infographic, created by our friends at mbaonline.com, imagines the road leading up to the decade’s most-anticipated initial public offering, as if it were documented on its own Facebook Timeline.
As a Facebook user, give yourself a pat on the back for helping the company make it this far. You are one of 900 million, and you spend an average of 20 minutes per day surfing the network. That means Facebook’s usership logs 16,000 years of combined time on the platform per day.
SEE ALSO: Facebook Users: 13 Ways the IPO Could Affect You Over time as a Facebook user, you’ve become worth an average of $100 to the company. Not too shabby, considering Instagram and Twitter users amount to only $30 and $70 each, respectively.
And once you realize that the price per Facebook share will cost about the same as an all-you-can-eat buffet for two at Sizzler ($28-$35), you might consider celebrating your hand in Facebook’s unprecedented success.
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How to Play the Facebook IPO
16 MayForbes.com - Technology News
As I explained last week on TheStreet, many of Facebook's (FB) risks make it an incredibly attractive long-term investment. -
How to Play the Facebook IPO
16 MayForbes.com - News
As I explained last week on TheStreet, many of Facebook?s (FB) risks make it an incredibly attractive long-term investment. As a mere mortal, however, I realize I cannot simply subscribe to the company?s IPO and get shares at the offer price. Instead, I have to duke it out with my fellow common folk as FB ... -
Reasons Not To Buy the Facebook IPO
16 MayForbes.com - News
It?s entirely possible to create a list of reasons why you and I should be trying to buy stock in the Facebook IPO. There might well be a price pop given the interest in the issue. The company looks as if it might well become part of the basic infrastructure of the modern world. It?s ... -
Facebook IPO is no safe haven
15 MayCNNMoney.com
Facebook isn't exactly picking the best time to go public. But it looks like it probably won't matter. -
In Facebook IPO, Frenzy, Skepticism
15 MayWSJ.com - Markets
Facebook's coming IPO has set off a frenzy of anticipation among investors desperate to get their hands on the stock. The social network raised its price range to $34 to $38 a share, resulting in a target valuation of up to $104 billion. -
Facebook IPO Week: The Basics
13 MayPCM Breaking News
Confused about all the goings-on in Facebook and finance land? We've prepared a helpful FAQ for Facebook's IPO week. -
Nasdaq Braces for Facebook IPO
12 MayWSJ.com - Technology
Facebook executives met with potential investors in California, while the Nasdaq conducted a test of its IPO auction systems ahead of the social network's landmark debut in the coming week. -
facebook IPO
11 MayVentureBeat
We already knew Facebook was huge, but did you realize it has as many monthly active users are there are people in Europe? The company is headed toward an IPO, but where does it stack up against the tech titans that came before it?
The company has been on its roadshow since earlier this week, talking to bankers about potentially investing in the company’s available shares. Facebook is expected to be valued at $10 billion when it makes its stock market debut, making it one of the biggest IPOs in U.S. history. With total revenue for 2011 sitting at $3.7 billion, it is almost a mouse in Google’s $37.9 billion 2011 revenue shadow.
Conversation around the IPO has also been deceiving. Here in Silicon Valley, it seems to be the only thing anyone’s talking about when Facebook comes into the conversation. But of the 66 million people mentioning Facebook on the Internet, less than one percent of those conversations have to do with the impending IPO.
Check out more on how Facebook stacks up in this infographic:
Zuckerberg image via Crunchies2009/Flickr
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