While it’s perfectly fine to be a small IT company, every Silicon Valley start-up dreams of having its own stock market launch. Look at Facebook. It was created in a basement by a group of students in 2004. This year, Facebook’s Initial Public Offering might raise the company $13 billion, putting its overall value between $77 billion and $96 billion.

It seems a lot, but being valued at around $100 billion is quite ordinary for large Tech companies.

Money makes the world go round

A stock exchange is a form of exchange which provides services for brokers and traders to trade stocks, bonds, and other securities.  To be able to trade a security on a certain stock exchange, it must be listed there. So you can see how important IPO can be for a company.

But being listed is just the start of a long journey, that could take the value of the company sky-high, or promptly run it into the ground. Selling stocks fills company’s coffers, and buying stocks can make individual investors rich. So how much do you know about Tech stocks and shares?

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