Rattle wrote: ] The Washington area tech community has been waiting for ] Blackboard -- listed by Inc. magazine last year as the ] nation's sixth-fastest-growing business -- to go public. ] Speculation about a Blackboard IPO is Washington's version of ] the Google IPO watch. ] ] When CEO Michael Chasen thought about the other young people ] he knew who started companies when he did, he paused. Most of ] them aren't running companies anymore, he said. "I might be ] the only one." ] ] I've been told that their original IPO plans were screwed up ] last year by the bad Interz0ne publicity. RE: Blackboard Looks Likely To Go Public |