Erin Burnett discusses the upcoming IPO of GM with Bill Hambrecht and Jay Ritter and contemplates whether the US taxpayer, who provided the money for the automaker's bail-out, will be able to participate alongside Wall Street's big money. Professor Ritter points to WR Hambrecht + Co's Dutch Auction IPO method as a fair and proven approach to including Main Street in the IPO process. Bill discusses the benefits of OpenIPO and how the process could still be applied to the upcoming IPO.

We founded WR Hambrecht + Co in January 1998 to level the playing field for investors and our corporate clients. Based on our experience taking companies public, we knew that there had to be a better way to do initial public offerings.

• find an efficient way to determine the true market demand for the shares
• be able to allocate the shares to investors who really want to own the stock
• treat all investors, including individuals, equally

Our OpenIPO^® and our other auction products accomplish all three objectives and allow offerings to be priced and allocated transparently and fairly. Issuers are able to see every bid, and every investor knows that his bid is treated equally.

We believe in transparency and true price discovery and the best of the disruptive companies have agreed… Morningstar, Interactive Brokers, Clean Energy, NetSuite, Google.

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