With the recent Facebook IPO‚ many analysts and Wall Street experts are wondering‚ Is Facebook going to be a relevant Social Media company over the next 5-10 years? Facebook is a free service to its users that allows its customers to keep in touch with friends and family and makes money through advertising. (Lewis‚ 2010) But if 44% of its users never click on those ads‚ will advertisers continue to spend a portion of its marketing budget on Facebook advertising? (Reisinger‚ 2012) Facebook is the
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on the topic of the celebrity phenomenon. Celebrities impact everyone’s lives‚ whether through influence‚ role model or just because their faces are seen on television‚ magazines‚ billboards and so on. There are a few things in life that occur through sheer coincidence‚ particularly on such a massive scale. The issue however‚ is whether or not the celebrity phenomenon has any value to society. I take the view‚ and use supporting evidence‚ that the celebrity phenomenon is nothing more than a creation
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Explain the aggregate supply in the short run. In the short-run‚ the aggregate supply curve is upward sloping. There are two main reasons why the quantity supplied increases as the price rises: 1. In the short-run‚ the nominal wage rate is fixed. As a result‚ an increasing price indicates higher profits that justify the expansion of output. 2. An alternate model explains that the AS curve increases because some nominal input prices are fixed in the short-run and as output rises‚ more production
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FI516 IPO Paper Identify the company and its industry. Pandora Media‚ Inc. is an internet streaming radio service used by more than 80 million listeners. Pandora‚ which has a catalog of 800‚000 songs from more than 80‚000 artists‚ has roughly half the market for Internet radio in 2010‚ according to a study published in November by Ando Media. Though the service is wildly popular‚ it has yet to make a profit. The Internet radio station generates playlists based on a user ’s favorite artist or
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Case (1)：The Blackstone Group’s IPO 1. What are the built-in tensions with a public private equity firm? How does Blackstone’s structure attempt to reconcile them? 2. If you were an LP in Blackstone‚ how would you view the structure Blackstone has put in place to go public? 3. Would you rather be a unitholder in Blackstone or an LP? 4. As a potential employee‚ how you evaluate the Blackstone compensation package against a commensurate offer from a similar large-scale private equity firm that
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Maroubra and Kogarah are two suburbs of Sydney. They are two of best well-known suburbs of Sydney. Maroubra is a beach suburb‚ which is 10 km south-east of the CBD whereas Kogarah‚ which is a residential suburb‚ is 14 km south of the CBD. They have differences and similarities in many way. This report will compare and contrast aspect of people‚ housing and services of two suburbs. There are some differences in people. Maroubra’s population is larger than Kogarah with 26‚000 people and Kogarah just
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IPO Process Stock offered to public Approval by SEBI Draft Offer document filed with SEBI Negotiate the deal Investment Bankers (Underwriters) Company
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United Parcel Service’s IPO Question 1: What are the key success factors and risks for UPS given its business strategy? In the package-delivery industry timely‚ accurate and competitively priced services are the key success factors. With over 13 million packages delivered each business day‚ UPS had drastically invested in technology‚ which had played an important role on its growth. UPS’s well developed computer systems had ensured to UPS customers an excellent service which fulfils its customer
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JetBlue IPO WACC The estimation of cost of capital for JetBlue proved to be a difficult process. Considering the company has an unfavorable capital structure‚ due to the fact that they are acquiring a large number of aircrafts‚ simply taking the weights of debt and equity are not acceptable. In order to accurately judge the discount rate the multiples method is necessary. The comparison was to a leading low-fare airline company‚ Southwest. Another critical point is that taking the book
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The Society for Financial Studies IPO Market Timing Author(s): Aydoğan Alti Source: The Review of Financial Studies‚ Vol. 18‚ No. 3 (Autumn‚ 2005)‚ pp. 1105-1138 Published by: Oxford University Press. Sponsor: The Society for Financial Studies. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598087 Accessed: 10/04/2010 08:09 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms
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