A first : Bitcoin IPO Results in $446,000 valuation. (Romanian) (polimedia.us)

To summarise, the closing of an Initial Public Offering style auction for one million MPOE shares resulted in an implicit valuation of USD446,000 for the company. A total of nine investors participated. A second offering of a possibly larger block to follow early April. MPOE is the only provider of option contracts on the BTC/USD pair for the bitcoin community, a service much in demand and apparently well received.