IPO Mania - Can lithium help?
IPO Mania - Can lithium help?
Posted Jan 17, 2008 6:32 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338)In reply to: IPO Mania - Can lithium help? by njs
Parent article: Ten-year timeline, part 2: the bubble days
I guess I should also add, in interest of full disclosure and to revive this thread's nice reminiscing tone, that the only way the bubble affected *me* was the ~$30k windfall I got for having a SourceForge.net account. (VA was having trouble finding enough developers to take the pre-IPO stock it had reserved for them, so it started just offering it to everyone who'd registered a username at the then-relatively-new SF). I was 18, and *just* grudgingly admitting that I needed to find my first job... I lived for two years on that money :-). So, if you know anyone who spent >$100 for a share of LNUX, you can tell them that *some* of that cash went to a good cause. At least by some standards...
