Hopefully, You're Not A Short Term Investor In Tech IPOs

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		Tech Entertainment Wall Street Markets Strategy Sports Lifestyle Politics Europe Video Latest Friday, December 30, 2011 Hopefully, You're Not A Short Term Investor In Tech IPOs From Demand Media to LinkedIn to Pandora to Groupon, and then Zynga and Jive, 2011 was the year private companies finally started breaking into the public markets. It's all set up for next year when Facebook finally IPOs. That should be one of the biggest, most interesting events of the year. But before we jump into 2012's IPO market, we're taking a look at how investors treated this year's IPOs. As you can see, buying into a tech IPO on the open market was a losing move. (Of course, buying into any stock and hoping to win the investing game is a losing move.) Will these crappy short term stock performances affect the next wave of IPOs? We doubt it. Each company is different. And Facebook is the big one everyone has been excited about. Read » Also On SAI Today: FAB: Here's How We Pivoted From A Failing Gay Social Network Into A High End Flash Sales Site With VCs Beating Down Our Doors To Give Us Money Verizon Gives Up On Awful Decision To Charge You $2 For Paying Your Bill Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The Internet In China The Google +1 Is More Popular For Retailers Than The Facebook Like Button Advertisement CHART OF THE DAY: Apple's Bumpy Year CHART OF THE DAY: After Losing Its Star Writers, Engadget's Traffic Has Gone Up CHART OF THE DAY: Apple And Google Get A Record Breaking Christmas Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.jobhuntportal11@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the SAI RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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