Could big year mean IPO for Aprimo?: Analyst expects software firm to go public in near future, but company execs aren’t ready to discuss possibility
Last year was a good one for fast-growing local marketing software-maker Aprimo Inc. And this year could be even better. “It’s not the beginning of the end; it’s the end of the beginning,” said Aprimo investor Mark Koulogeorge, managing general partner of the Chicago-based venture capital firm MK Capital. “This is the second or third inning of a very long ballgame.” In 2006, Aprimo quietly grew from about 220 to 300 employees and moved into a new headquarters just east…