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"Real estate mapper Zillow has just become the latest Internet company to put an IPO into the pipeline. The company filed a statement with the SEC that will let it sell more than $50 million of stock. \nThe Seattle-based company, which maintains interactive maps of house prices, did not reveal how many shares it would sell or what price it would sell them at. But its S-1 form indicates it generated $30.5 million in revenue in 2010, a 75% growth over the previous year. Zillow isn't profitable yet, but it is closing the gap. In 2009, the startup had a net loss of about $21.2 million. In 2010, it lost $6.7 million. \nZillow is only the latest tech company to file for an IPO. Demand Media filed in August 2010, LinkedIn filed in January 2011 (it finished 2010 with $243 million in revenue), and Pandora filed in February. \nGoliath revenue generators Facebook and Groupon are expected to join the public market soon. \nLike Zillow, neither Demand Media nor Pandora were profitable when they filed. But they were closer to hitting the black in proportion to their overall revenue. Pandora filed with a net loss of $300,000, and Demand Media filed with an net loss of $6 million. \nZillow's relative size and lack of profitability is not necessarily an indicator of its chance at success. Zipcar filed its IPO with similar revenue and net losses to Zillow last June. Its shares rose 56% last Thursday when it went public.\nThere is a heated debate over whether or not the next tech bubble is upon us \u2014 and this round of IPOs, whenever it happens, could provide the answer."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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