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. Blackboard Looks Likely To Go Public | 
