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Comment by vaksel | Hacker News Reader

having something so crappy go for an IPO is news enough for me

Having anything go for an IPO is interesting news, at the moment.

interesting but not in the way you intend. once people watch a "sure thing" like aff flounder from its first trading day, it will indeed be a bullet-proof confirmation that this is a nuclear-winter economy...not like you need aff to confirm that. look at the previous big "sure thing" ipo, private equity group blackstone:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=BX&t=2y&l=on&z=m...

I definitely meant "interesting" in the broader sense.

I don't even know how to respond to that. What are you trying to say? That this should be some kind of inspiration to readers here? There's hope that one's startup can eventually go public if AFF can do it?

A twelve-year-old casual sex meetup site is successful enough that they're going to start selling stock to the public. Stop the presses! Sex sells!

I really don't see what this has to do with hackers, entrepreneurs or HN.

I also find it somewhat ironic that you-- only a month ago-- submitted a poll asking users if they felt HN should be invitation-only in order to improve the quality of submissions.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373789

"Seems like the site is growing by leaps and bounds...and slowly losing the quality we've all grown to rely on."

Sheesh...

This is absolutely relevant to entrepreneurs and HN. This is a real web business with real revenue really going public.

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