[darksaga]

Saying because you want to go public, your company is legit is a pretty weak argument to me.

There have been plenty of "shady" companies who've gone public. The one that comes to mind most recently is Weedmaps:

http://bit.ly/ILSmST

[aw3c2]

Above obfuscated link is spam to some social news website.

Actual link is http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/12/popular-marijuana-compan...

[irunbackwards]

How is WM shady? These are not moral issues, they are economic/social issues. (In my humble opinion, anyway.)