{"id":29119,"date":"2012-05-22T07:53:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29119"},"modified":"2012-05-22T07:53:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:53:17","slug":"did-hedge-funds-steal-the-facebook-ipo-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2012\/did-hedge-funds-steal-the-facebook-ipo-pop.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Hedge Funds Steal The Facebook IPO Pop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Facebook\u2018s 10% decline today has turned the initial public offering of the century into the bust of the century, but consider this: A decade ago, the company probably would have gone public much earlier, say in May 2009 when\u00a0Digital Sky Technologies pumped $200 million into Facebook at a $10 billion valuation.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u00a0reported earlier this year, companies are taking longer to go public for a variety of reasons, including all the laws and regulations designed to protect investors from the next dot-com bubble. That\u2019s created a huge opportunity for hedge funds and private-equity firms to step in and supply the capital companies need to grow from the venture-capital stage to public company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danielfisher\/2012\/05\/21\/did-hedge-funds-steal-the-facebook-ipo-pop\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Facebook\u2018s 10% decline today has turned the initial public offering of the century into the bust of the century, but consider this: A decade ago, the company probably would have gone public much earlier, say in May 2009 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29120,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119\/revisions\/29120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}