SUNNYVALE, Calif. (TheStreet) -- A decade ago, Selina Lo helped guide networking-equipment maker Alteon Web Systems through an initial public offering that raised $76 million. Now, as she prepares for an IPO at Ruckus Wireless, she is reminded of how easy things were during the dot-com days.
"The Alteon days were the Champagne days," says Lo, chief executive officer of Ruckus, a venture-backed WiFi-technology company started in 2004 in Sunnyvale, Calif. "Back then, if you knew how to spell the word 'spell,' you could take a company public." (You could sell it, too. Less than a year after the 1999 IPO, Alteon was acquired by Nortel(NRTLQ Quote) for $7.8 billion.) That was then. "Now we're back to the basics," Lo says.![]() |
| Ruckus Wireless CEO Selina Lo is preparing to take her company public. |
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