We will give a new proof of the existence of non-compact homothetic solitons of the inverse mean curvature flow (cf. [DLW]) in R n × R, n ≥ 2, of the form (r, y(r)) or (r(y), y) where r = |x|, x ∈ R n , is the radially symmetric coordinate and y ∈ R. More precisely for any 1 n < λ < 1 n−1 and µ < 0, we will give a new proof of the existence of a unique solution r(y) ∈ C 2 (µ, ∞) ∩ C([µ, ∞)) of the equation r yy (y) 1+r y (y) 2 = n−1 r(y) − 1+r y (y) 2 λ(r(y)−yr y (y)) , r(y) > 0, in (µ, ∞) which satisfies r(µ) = 0 and r y (µ) = lim yցµ r y (y) = +∞. We also prove that there exist constants y 2 > y 1 > 0 such that r y (y) > 0 for any µ < y < y 1 , r y (y 1 ) = 0, r y (y) < 0 for any y > y 1 , r yy (y) < 0 for any µ < y < y 2 , r yy (y 2 ) = 0 and r yy (y) > 0 for any y > y 2 . Moreover lim y→+∞ r(y) = 0 and lim y→+∞ yr y (y) = 0.