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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and to create the best business model. Nevertheless‚ we think that as an IPO company‚ Blackstone must fully disclose its financial statements and it is also the must-pay and tradeoff to lower the costs of capital. This is also the problem that Blackstone couldn ’t wholly resolve from purely adjusting the financial structure. 2. Risk of employees resigning triggered from the change of compensation package Before going IPO‚ underwriters raised the concerns from unitholders: ‘though it will bring
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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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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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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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it’s full course ” - George Soros raising over $210 million in share capital. Final share price was $14 per share – 2 Dec 2010 successfully raised US$75 million at a placing price of 115 pence per share – 23 July 2013 could be the LARGEST U.S. IPO in history “ We’re not investing in football ‚ we’re investing in entertainment” - Jack Ma WHY did both Tony and Jack Ma invested in sports ? THE ROME EMPIRE WASN’T BUILT IN A DAY *slides contents and images displayed are for case
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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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Introduction In the present age‚ businesses have to intensive analysis themselves to improve shortcomings and get higher profit; SWOT analysis is a good way to choose. This essay will introduce the definition of SWOT analysis and the background of why people use it frequently. After that‚ there will be few examples to proof the opinions of SWOT analysis will help enterprises a lot on proving of their management and strategic planning. The merits and shortcoming when using this process will also
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Administration Professor Concepcion March 17‚ 2015 SWOT Analysis A SWOT analysis is a tool to identify the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats involved in a business. Strengths mean characteristics of a business in advantage over others‚ while weaknesses are disadvantages relative to others. Opportunities mean elements that a business can exploit for its development‚ while threats are trouble will be face to. SWOT is to carry out the environment analysis and separate information into internal
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Assignment Course title: Strategic Management Topic: SWOT analysis of Excusive event management and catering. Submitted To‚ MD.Rakibul Hasan Lecturer of Prime University Dhanmondi Annex Dhanmondi Submitted By‚ Md.Hasnaine Akanda MBA‚ 33th Batch ID: 132020130 Definition of ’SWOT Analysis’ A tool that identifies the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats of an organization. Specifically‚ SWOT is a basic‚ straightforward model that assesses what an
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