AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
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AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
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Re: AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
#2Who cares? Seriously... Adult Friend Finder? Don't even give me some crap excuse about how it's relevant because they're a startup. These guys have been in business, ripping people off since '96. Someone submitted an RFC for an avian IP network earlier today and now this. It's way too early to be posting April fools stuff.
vaksel, you really need to stop submitting everything that pops up in the TechCrunch RSS feed. I'm starting to wonder if you're some kind of sock puppet for them. It's already bad enough that we have to see any of their articles here at all. Their so-called reporting is so bad I don't even know where to begin. At least have the decency to filter out the obvious garbage like this.
Re: AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
#3Who cares? Seriously... Adult Friend Finder? Don't even give me some crap excuse about how it's relevant because they're a startup. These guys have been in business, ripping people off since '96. Someone submitted an RFC for an avian IP network earlier today and now this. It's way too early to be posting April fools stuff. vaksel, you really need to stop submitting everything that pops up in the TechCrunch RSS feed.…
having something so crappy go for an IPO is news enough for me
Re: AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
#4this is good news, i think. not that AFF, is a great business, but simply adding to the IPO count will help others do the same.
i am still of the opinion that a majority of the funds in the hedge markets had cash conserved during the down turn. if this goes well, then it will show that there is money out there.
on another note, in down times, entertainment seems to do better and this might be the only time that an adult website could grab the attention of investors.
Re: AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
#5Who cares? Seriously... Adult Friend Finder? Don't even give me some crap excuse about how it's relevant because they're a startup. These guys have been in business, ripping people off since '96. Someone submitted an RFC for an avian IP network earlier today and now this. It's way too early to be posting April fools stuff. vaksel, you really need to stop submitting everything that pops up in the TechCrunch RSS feed.…
agree their ads annoy me heaps
Re: AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
#6Who cares? Seriously... Adult Friend Finder? Don't even give me some crap excuse about how it's relevant because they're a startup. These guys have been in business, ripping people off since '96. Someone submitted an RFC for an avian IP network earlier today and now this. It's way too early to be posting April fools stuff. vaksel, you really need to stop submitting everything that pops up in the TechCrunch RSS feed.…
having something so crappy go for an IPO is news enough for me
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...
Re: AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
#7Who cares? Seriously... Adult Friend Finder? Don't even give me some crap excuse about how it's relevant because they're a startup. These guys have been in business, ripping people off since '96. Someone submitted an RFC for an avian IP network earlier today and now this. It's way too early to be posting April fools stuff. vaksel, you really need to stop submitting everything that pops up in the TechCrunch RSS feed.…
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.
Re: AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
having something so crappy go for an IPO is news enough for me
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, entrepreneur…
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Re: AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
#9Reading the S1 that they filed, they (obviously) are trying to offset the debt they have through liquidation of their common stock. I can sum up the report as "we are making lots of money, have fairly significant debt, we need to move our shares now". AFF seems to be profitable and I see no reason why they shouldn't go public. While they are generating pretty impressive revenues they can also function as an umbrella in which adult oriented startups can fold into. Possibly providing further value to their shareholders. This is actually a pretty unique IPO , especially in the web sector.
I also think it will be entertaining to see AdultFriendFinder ring the NYSE bell.
Re: AdultFriendFinder has filed for an IPO
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
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: