SEEKING FREELANCER - I am looking for a freelance developer that has experience with ruby on rails, heroku and the twitter api. This is likely to be a 1 or 2 week project. Please get in touch (world . mover @ gmail . com)
Thanks for the suggestion - it sounds interesting, but will people be embarrassed to be on it? Also there is the chicken and egg problem with dating sites which will be difficult to overcome
If there are (or will be) investors willing to invest at the initial IPO price, how can you say that price is going to be 'artificially high'?
The IPO investors, themselves will be buying in the hope of making a gain, if their analysis/forecasts/judgement is wrong - it won't be Goldman that screwed them, it will be failure of their own judgement. And also their own willingness to join to 'bubble' to make a gain.
Also, if Goldman are the underwriters of the IPO, and they fail to sell the shares at the 'artificially high' price, they will have to take on the shares themselves. If such a high profile IPO is not fully subscribed, it won't reflect well on Goldman, so setting an artificially high price, is not in their interest, but setting a marketable price is.