WSJ: Facebook gonna to IPO at $100 billion for early 2012?

2011 is the year that many internet companies went to public, some people say it will be another web bubble, like the early of year 2000, but most people agree that now is different than those days. Now angel investment, venture capital companies care about every detail of the new company, they will check their financial statement, their revenue goal, investment strategies etc., not like those days if you have good idea, the basic facility the investment bank will give you huge money and wait the company wasted it. So here there are some big IPO news in 2011.

First wave started from LinkedIn, it becomes the world largest professional social network company since 2010, and it has very good record because it got profit in first nine months of 2010, and it is very unique, it provides the way to let people become more social and link with other professional people in their career, basically it's free, but most people are willing to pay the premium fee to let them search no matter career or job more easily, it indeed, a truly innovation from the internet world.

Next is the famous game FarmVille creator Zynga, it all start from Facebook, and FarmVille got a huge success, last year Zynga made about 91 million profit, and in 2011 first quarter it already made $11.8 million profit, so far so good, isn't it? Zynga say it has 60 million users playing their games on different platforms everyday, and CEO of Zynga Mark Pincus said "It's just the beginning, and we need to maintain the good relationship with Facebook, that's important."

Next big thing is Groupon, it raised $700 million after increasing the size of its IPO, and it becomes the largest IPO since Google in 2004, the most famous function it provides is "Daily Deal" and it spreads very fast those two years, but some people criticize that business model is not so staple, and it's very easy to be imitated by other competitors, such as LivingSocial, it provides even more innovative idea than Groupon, so for the long-term we still need to wait and see.

Now the biggest, largest, 800-pound Gorilla, Facebook, will go to IPO next year? A lot of analysts predict that, and a lot of investors eager to get one of their private stock, because Facebook has largest users in the world, this is huge market, so undoubtedly it will cause Wallstreet a huge impact and phenomenon in 2012.