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Netscape Initial Public Offering

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In August 1995 the web browser company Netscape Communications went public in an offering whose share price more than doubled on the first day of trading, despite the company not yet being profitable. The offering is widely credited by business historians as the event that helped ignite the broader internet investment boom of the late 1990s.

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