Trulia, the San Francisco-based real estate search company, has added two new executives with public company experience as it moves toward an initial public offering of its own. Trulia has named former PayPal exec Sean Aggarwal as its first-ever CFO, and Scott Darling as general counsel. Read More »
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Real estate listing site Zillow received a warm welcome from public market investors after its IPO Wednesday morning. Zillow’s stock hit the market at $57 per share, more than double its $20 IPO price. But the stock proved volatile within a few hours of trading. Read More »
Zillow, the real estate search website, has priced its initial public offering at $20 per share. The stock will begin trading under the single-letter ticker symbol “Z” on the Nasdaq exchange on Wednesday morning. Zillow will raise a total of about $75 million in the IPO. Read More »
Second Life is either peaking or busy crossing the chasm, depending on who you believe. IMVU stealthed its way to tons of users. Club Penguin found its windfall by figuring out how to reach children safely. Blizzard had revenues of $1.1 billion… Read More »
iTaggit founder, David Altounian wrote on his blog recently of a question that many startup entrepreneurs have to address. It’s on the topic of geography and whether it matters, especially when it comes to funding. Or, as David puts it: Can emerging tech ever… Read More »
Editor’s Note: We have a nice post from Gabor Cselle today, on a topic I’ve been chasing for a while — real estate. Gabor is the VP of Engineering at the Y-Combinator startup, Xobni. (Xobni optimizes your email. We’ve written about the company a… Read More »