Chris Nerney

Whenever I think of OneMain.com's pending IPO, I picture Oliver Wendell Douglas climbing the telephone pole outside his farm in Hooterville to dial into

There are big Internet plays, and there are modest ones. We're seeing both this month. On the grandiose side, iVillage is scheduled to go public this week

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March must be nostalgia month in the Internet IPO world, for yet another veteran of 1996's "free e-mail" movement has filed to go public. Like Juno Online

Beginning Tuesday, The Midday Report each month will review the stock and financial performance of Internet companies as they near the anniversaries of

One of the perverse pleasures of reading the S-1 filings of Internet companies planning to go public is the section called "risk factors," in which

So like, the other day I was in this chat room, and like - well, first off, there were some really kewl peeps in there - and somebody says - I think he

One started down this road more than two years ago, only to slam on the brakes before reaching its destination. The other is shiny and new, fresh from the

I was mocked last Friday, vilified, when I predicted that soon every person in America would be their own Internet IPO. And then along comes a former

Strip away all the rhetoric, and there really are only two viable market strategies for Internet-based companies: 1) target a mass audience, a la the

E-mail, it has been said, is the killer app of the Internet. And truly, it's hard to argue against that, since more Americans report using e-mail daily

I've been crunching some numbers lately, precisely factoring in the current Internet IPO registration rate with some vague assertions and unfounded