TrialIPO is an upcoming company that will let you simulate having your Internet company go public

TrialIPO is an upcoming company that will let you simulate having your Internet company go public. There are really two ways in which TrialIPO can be used: for business owners looking to test the virtual market, and for individuals wanting to be involved from the investor’s standpoint. If you have a company and you’re thinking of taking it public, you could try it out for a two-year time period (or a time period of your choosing) and see how it goes. The individuals in the TrialIPO community get $5 million in virtual money to play around with, so if they like you’re site, they’ll invest in it and you make money. Participating individuals can also rate and review companies on TrialIPO, and see if their judgment calls could hold water.

The difficulty in launching a community such as TrialIPO is the necessity to get a large and intelligent membership base to become highly active for the social networking and trading aspects of the site. It would be most beneficial for the companies if these members were in fact real investors, and bringing in members like this is a goal for TrialIPO. Otherwise, the sample pool to work from, on the company end and the community end, doesn’t become a helpful one for statistical purposes. Similar sites include Spigit and MediaPredict.
More at:http://www.trialipo.com/
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