Accoona Who? Search Firm Files To Go Public
from the searching-for-investors dept
Hoping to capitalize on investor love for Google, search engine Accoona recently filed with the SEC to go public. However, John Battelle did some digging through the company's S-1 filing and finds that this one looks pretty fishy. The company has gotten no traction in its core search business, so in order to goose revenues, the company has bought out a number of money-losing e-commerce firms that have nothing to do with its main business. Other red flags stick out as well, such as the company's assertion that it's got interesting things going on in China, an attempt to associate itself with another hot area. Finally, the company will go public through a Google-like Dutch auction, in a blatant move to build up more hype. Obviously, the IPO window has widened in the past year, as more tech companies have been able to go public. But investors seemed to have kept their wits about them, and it seems highly unlikely that an also-ran search firm that few people have ever heard of will capture the public's imagination.
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Oh, Yeah. This IPO is a scam ! Mike, right, more often then not !
;)
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Price
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Nice search
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YOU MUST TRY IT !
I my search query was : "fuck"
Top results :
1. Google
www.google.com/
2. WordPress › Blog Tool and Weblog Platform
wordpress.org/
(third result actually is somewhat relevant)
3.NetNanny - Keeping your kids safe on the Internet
www.netnanny.com/
(WTF ?!!? Yale ?!)
4. Yale University
www.yale.edu/
6.EFF: Blue Ribbon Campaign
Here at EFF, we continue to fight for the right to free speech.
www.eff.org
7.DefendAmerica - U.S. Defense Dept. War on Terror:
www.defendamerica.mil/
What an Awesome search engine it is. Can't wait for the IPO.
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Productive(?) Searches
Neato!
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Who?
Oh, jesus... this blows chimp. =|
And their logo sucks!!! =D
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DUH !
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LOL
All this, and a year ago they were claiming to have had 120 million dollars in excess capital. Where'd it go? Why hasn't it been used to hire talent that would propel the business forward? The talent they did have, is gone now, due to complacency and boredom. It seems as thought it was engineered to be a money-pit. An exercise in capital-venture money laundering. One fruitless pursuit after another, and little to show for it other than blatant corpspeak.
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LOL indeed
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