WHY DO FIRMS GO PUBLIC? Forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance James C. Brau‚ PhD‚ CFA Professor of Finance Editor‚ Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance July 1‚ 2010 Department of Finance Marriott School Brigham Young University 640 Tanner Building Provo‚ Utah 84602 Phone: 801.318.7919 Fax: 801.422.0741 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1649008 WHY DO FIRMS GO PUBLIC? Six months after he founded Netscape‚ Clark agitated for the company
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pressure we now put on ourselves to acquire the next big thing. Yes times have changed now‚ and so have we. We no longer cherish the simpler things in life and have instead replaced them with the finer things. To most people in our society today‚ happiness isn ’t defined by the people we love and the times we share with them‚ but rather the cars that we drive and the new iPod Touch that we bought. And as we ’ve changed over the years‚ so have our feelings about what makes us happy‚ and that ’s perfectly
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A system is a group of organs that work together and provide an organism with an advantage for survival. It is the most complex organization in your body and the final level of the progression from cells to tissues to organs and then systems. Systems work alone and with other systems to allow your body to maintain homeostasis. Homeostasis is a stable internal environment that allows you (and your cells) to survive. While every one of your systems is needed to survive‚ your nervous system is the
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Epicures and Stoics were trying to reach and achieve happiness in many different ways. In today’s world‚ many people are trying to reach and achieve happiness via many ways that depend on the personal perspective of people. I am going to discuss about how to find the true happiness and about how people describe their inner conditions in many special ways. Although some people describe the word happiness according to their personal perspective‚ true happiness does not depend on things that are around because
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In Thomas’ "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night‚" he depicts the inevitability of death through repetition and diction. Furthermore‚ he portrays the stages of man’s life in his comparison to "good men‚ "wild men‚" and grave men." Finally‚ Thomas’ medium of poetic expression presents itself in the villanelle. 	The villanelle’s persona speaks in this poem as the son of a dying father. Line sixteen states "And you‚ my father‚ " and this proves the
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The oldest part of a clam’s shell is called the umbo and is located at the hinge of the clam. The rings on a clam’s shell indicated how old the clam is. Its part of the mantle‚ where the water is directed from. The hinge holds the two shells together. The muscles that open and hold the clam are called hinge ligaments and adductor muscles. The function of the tooth-like projections at the dorsal edge of the clams valves is to help the two valves completely close.
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Mitchum 1 Mary Mitchum Mrs. India Richardson Composition and Rhetoric 26 February 2013 Couples that Play Together‚ Stay Together What is the definition of “couple?” The dictionary describes it as “Two individuals of the same sort considered together.” Is that necessarily true? Just ask the openly experienced singer/songwriter Taylor Swift; not all relationships are the same. Having a relationship status has almost become a must-have‚ so people take what they can be comfortable with. This results
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long as time the place where missing socks go has been a mystery. Do they run away? Do they they all go to the same place? Or do they simply just disappear? This question I feel does not have one simple answer. The answer lies in your own mind. I feel that they simple get separated then go looking for there match and that is how they all go missing. They go missing because they are simply looking for there match. The next question is how does that first sock go missing? Well‚ when you throw one sock
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About Sharing Happiness We can only share happiness with others when we ourselves know how to be happy and are happy. If we are not happy (it means we don’t know how to be happy)‚ then how can we share happiness with others and ask others to be happy‚ when we don’t have happiness in ourselves? We can share our joy and happiness with all beings without any discrimination of human beings or non-human beings‚ good beings or bad beings‚ happy beings or unhappy beings‚ wise beings or ignorant beings
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Kaina Santana Professor Kevin Coogan 28 July 2014 Alone Together Today social media has become one of the most important parts of people’s lives. The word social in its name can be considered deceiving. Has social networking really made us more social? Or has it made us alone together? Social networking sites such as Facebook‚ Instagram and twitter are all used as getaways‚ whether it be at a party‚ a business meeting or even at home. Social networking can be used as a way to keep in contact
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