Report: Hulu Prepping To File For $2 Billion IPO

I'm uninterested in Hulu as a business, but if this means the IPO window is open (thus allowing people to exit financially while retaining founders in management roles and in control), I'm elated.

Re: Report: Hulu Prepping To File For $2 Billion IPO

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Post by risotto » Fri, Oct 08, 2010, 4:56 PM UTC

AndrewJ wrote: post #2

I'm considering buying in. Anyone else?

I don't really know how it works to get into an IPO, but I'm very interested too.

Netflix and Hulu represent the (slow but certain) change of video broadcasting.

Re: Report: Hulu Prepping To File For $2 Billion IPO

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Post by chrisa » Fri, Oct 08, 2010, 5:07 PM UTC

stcredzero wrote: post #3

I'm curious what an index consisting of stock whose IPO was mentioned on the front page of HN would look like?

There have been many IPOs announced here which aren't trading yet (or the IPO fell through), but here's a list of currently trading stocks which had an IPO mention here (I've probably missed some):

Tesla, Green Dot, Orbitz, NetSuite, Alibaba.com, OpenTable, Rackspace, COMSCORE, LogMeIn, Qlik Technologies, Blinkx, SolarWinds

Re: Report: Hulu Prepping To File For $2 Billion IPO

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Post by Groxx » Fri, Oct 08, 2010, 5:14 PM UTC

AndrewJ wrote: post #2

I'm considering buying in. Anyone else?

I don't know... I want Hulu to succeed, but I really don't think they stand much of a chance unless their Plus service improves. Netflix is annihilating them on that front.

Not that I very much doubt it will improve. Just that it should've done so sooner rather than later.

Re: Report: Hulu Prepping To File For $2 Billion IPO

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Post by jasonlbaptiste » Fri, Oct 08, 2010, 5:24 PM UTC

AndrewJ wrote: post #2

I'm considering buying in. Anyone else?

Too many dependencies upon the cable companies, which impact the product. Wouldn't put my money in right now or ever, until I feel comfortable that this isn't an issue.

Re: Report: Hulu Prepping To File For $2 Billion IPO

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Post by TrevorJ » Fri, Oct 08, 2010, 5:29 PM UTC

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #8

AndrewJ wrote: post #2

I'm considering buying in. Anyone else?

Too many dependencies upon the cable companies, which impact the product. Wouldn't put my money in right now or ever, until I feel comfortable that this isn't an issue.

Very good point. This doesn't mean it is a bad investment, but there are enough factors outside of Hulu's control to make this anything but a sure bet. Digital on-demand distribution is going to be the future, but the real question is, will Hulu be the one to pull this off. That isn't clear at all at this point.

Re: Report: Hulu Prepping To File For $2 Billion IPO

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Post by hugh3 » Fri, Oct 08, 2010, 5:30 PM UTC

AndrewJ wrote: post #2

I'm considering buying in. Anyone else?

I don't know. For me it seems like hulu has got significantly less useful over the last year, with the TV networks increasingly pulling their content off hulu and sticking it on their own sites. What are hulu's assets, aside from an apparently-shrinking number of licenses to stream content with a very small number of ads that nobody watches?