Initial Public Offerings(IPO) what do you know about the inside process?

Hi guys!

I was rather desperately googling info about IPO's inner processes (how prices where changed before and after IPO) and in first time in my googling experinece I haven't found what I was searching for, bit weird, may be I was asking the wrong questions...

So may be let me dscribe what I was thinking was a good idea, and then I hope there will be question will rise by itself...

There are large companies like facebook, twitter, groupon, linkedin (you know where this topic is leading right?)...
We buy before the IPO and then magick happens - public who was waiting for initial offering buys our stocks and rises the price (isn't it the main idea of IPOs itself to rise capitalization?)

So far I know that $1.000.000 for acreditation is not essential, you could start from $100.000 with mutual funds (bad for me becasue I don't have such sum). Furthermore I heard that on oficial IPO share sites you can place MR. Monopoly avatar and information and that would be OK to get acreditation.

Please comment what do you think or know or feel about this backstage!

Go to Wiki' and search I,P,O

Also search venture capitalist.

Then search Facebook.

Perhaps you could buy shares in Microsoft as they own shares in facebook....problem is.... I would assume it is a a small proportion of Microsoft's net worth ..so would rise little.

You could approach Adam D'Angelo and buy his shares....trouble is that would take real money....if he hasn't allready sold them.2008 is a long time ago.

No idea what you are on about with the Mr Monopoly avatar thing.

Pre IPO shares are widely traded on sharespost.com and on secondmarket.com
So far you can get information.
But you won't find real numbers (thay do not get you into members zone until you are accredited), charts, or even approximate price of shares for defined date. Maximum what you can get is lowest price for current date.

By mentioning Mr. Monopoly I mean that it is possible (presumably) to get acreditation and you will be alowed to take part in actual trades which btw is kinda costly.
$2500 for transaction to buy
$2500 for transaction to sell
$1500 bank charge for buy
$1500 bank charge for sell
Total = $8000

The price for the amusement is to high (for middle class even for USA or Europe) and that's why no one is leaving any info in the internet- people who have min $1.000.000 on account (accredited) are not so frequently reading forums or using open interenet

So any millionaire who have any information about how to become one with such tool like IPO?

Just wanted to share info regarding my IPO investigation, maybe some one will find it usefull

for last 6 month I have been watching the prices on sharespot for facebook/twitter/zynga
twitter and zynga gone publicand unfortunatly I missed the price which was before the IPO (1-2 days before). They lock price history right after the company became public, so it is not possible to analize. Right now I asked my friend to check the price from time to time in case I will miss it again.
From what I see there can be posibility to earn by buying the stocks right before (1-2 days) IPO.

but this is just my opinion, I could be wrong regarding posibility, but if it is correct information and prices for "pre IPO stocks" really are cheaper then for the major poblic then it could be gold mine.

Any thoughts?