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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 broadcastin

• jeromec 16y ago
  I'm no expert, but it's simple. You just follow the company until the day their stock is available on the market, and buy. An interesting IPO was Google's. Usually, Wall St. banks get first shot at buying stock initially before it's available to the wider public. Google thumbed their nose at Wall St. and allowed anyone to buy their stock directly in a kind of dutch auction. The banks were furious at this insubordination and thought this would surely hurt Google's chance to have a successful IPO. Of course, their stock has done quite well. It was first available around $85 I believe, and it's now over $500 (it previously hit over $700). I wouldn't count on Hulu taking this route though. ;) I would, however, caution any investment foray into the stock market with my standard advice: never put in more than you are comfortable losing entirely.
  • joshu 16y ago
    That's not correct. That's buying on the secondary markets. To get into the IPO you have to have an account and an allocation from a brokerage that is participating in the initial distribution.