Facebook finally filed to go public last week.
It took the company 8 years, 850 million users, and $1 billion in annual profits before it was finally ready to pull the trigger.
With such a long buildup, there was bound to be a bit of a letdown when it finally happened.
Never fear. Here are 11 more companies we expect to go public in the next couple of years. None of them will approach the kind of frenzy that Facebook generated -- well, maybe one will -- but they're all going to be interesting in their own right.
Take a look...
Glam Media is a billion-dollar company and one of the top Web properties.
Glam's network of Web sites and advertising properties for women attracts more than 200 million unique users around the world every month, and is in the top 10 most visited Web properites in the U.S. It is rumored to be going public in late 2012.
Box.net is in land grab mode, but if it turns the corner into profits it could be a hot enterprise IPO.
Last we heard, the company was losing about $20 million a year on revenues between $25 and $40 million, but was growing its userbase at a rate of about 1 million per month.
If it can continue to grow and cut its burn rate, it might be ready for a public offering in 2013 -- which will help investors get back some of the more than $160 million they've put into the company.
Workday will probably be the next big enterprise IPO.
CEO Aneel Bhusri told Bloomberg last year that the company might go public in late 2012, and a report in December added fuel to the fire. Workday had estimated bookings of $300 million in 2011 -- that's double what it had in 2010.
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