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		<title><![CDATA[Facebook Delays Employees' Stock Sales, Citing Economy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This would do additional harm to Facebook's pie-in-the-sky valuation numbers: it is delaying its program to allow employees to sell some of their Facebook shares, citing the tough economic times. Under the stock sale plan, announced in August, Facebook employees were allowed to sell a portion of their shares...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there is something seriously crazy going on with Chinese company valuation, and U.S. investors need to make sure they don't get swept up in the madness.    PetroChina Co. suddenly has a market valuation of $1...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Exchanges suddenly hot; Nasdaq's offer for London Stock Exchange spurs high valuations, plus talk of mergers and IPOs worldwide.(News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Gregory Crawford    Forget the energy sector. Publicly traded exchanges is the place to  be.    Investors in the London Stock Exchange PLC saw their shares climb  by more than 30% in less than a week after officials rejected an  unsolicited $4.2...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel: a country of desert, of history, of palms and kibbutz - and  of high-tech excellence. It has been described as having 6m people, 6m  political parties and 6m business start-ups. It is a country built from  its conception on enterprise and commercial savvy. It is little...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Venture-backed european companies continue trend toward IPOs, raising 118% more capital than last year; Acquisition prices and premoney valuations also are increasing, According to the European Liquidity and Valuation Report From VentureOne.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-17 November 2005-DOW JONES: Venture-backed european  companies continue trend toward IPOs, raising 118 more capital than  last year; Acquisition prices and premoney valuations also are  increasing, According to the European Liquidity and Valuation Report  From VentureOneC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:17112005  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Impact Of Fundamentals And Signaling On IPO Valuation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=316681]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Valuation of Initial Public Offerings, IPOs, occupies an important place in finance perhaps because an IPO provides public capital market participants their first opportunity to value a set of corporate assets. Valuation of IPOs is also quite relevant from an economic efficiency perspective: this is the first opportunity that managers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Determinants Of IPO Valuation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=316848]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Valuation of Initial Public Offerings, IPOs, occupies an important place in finance perhaps because it provides public capital market participants their first opportunity to value a set of corporate assets. Valuation of IPOs is also quite relevant from an economic efficiency perspective: this is the first opportunity that managers of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Role Of Corporate Governance In Initial Public Offerings]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=316753]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper analyzes the impact of corporate governance structures at the initial public offering date. The authors test hypotheses that firms with more shareholder-oriented governance structures receive higher valuations at the IPO Initial Public Offerings stage, attract more institutional ownership, and have better long-term performance. The authors believe this -...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Case Study Of IPO Valuation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=316245]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The valuation and pricing of an in Initial Public Offer IPO is always a difficult and contentious issue. Trying to gauge market sentiment and setting a price that does not spell disaster in terms of the desired objectives is a real challenge. Typically, IPOs will be valued using a variety...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[On the Decision to Go Public: Evidence from Privately-held Firms]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=67158]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[We test recent theories of when companies go public which predict that 1) more companies will go public when outside valuations are high or have increased, 2) companies prefer going public when uncertainty about their future profitability is high, and 3) firms whose controlling shareholders enjoy large private benefits of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Evidence of Information Spillovers in the Production of Investment Banking Services]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=133339]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The article provides evidence that firm attempting IPOs condition offer terms and the decision whether to carry through with an offering on the experience of their primary market contemporaries. Moreover, while initial returns and IPO volume are positively correlated in the aggregate, the correlation is negative among contemporaneous offerings subject...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Valuation of IPOs by Investment Banks and the Stock Market: Empirical Evidence]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=133340]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In this paper, pre-IPO value estimations by the lead underwriting investment bank of Belgian IPO stocks are compared to the offer price and the stock price in the first month of listing. The valuation methods used by the lead underwriter and the estimated values are often discussed in Belgian IPO-prospectuses....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chapter 14: capital formation through an initial public offering.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6083/is_200101/ai_n24209876]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[IN THE MID TO LATE 1990S, MOST FAST-TRACK GROWING companies  positioned themselves for an initial public offering IPO of their  securities as a cornerstone of their quest for rapid growth. Many of  these entrepreneurial companies succeeded in offering their securities  to the public. In retrospect, however,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Takeover rumours; EMED equates to $15 per share if ChannelHealth VC financing valuation modeled.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5243/is_200001/ai_n20094626]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-25 January 2000-IBC: Takeover rumours; EMED equates  to $15  per share if ChannelHealth VC financing valuation modeled  C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:25012000    Irvine, CA -- (Ibchannel.com) -- IBChannel.com reported today that   MEDCOM USA (Nasdaq: EMED) subsidiary Justmed.com Pre-IPO...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Net IPOs March to Stellar Valuations >BY Stephen Phillips]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quartet of promising e-commerce and internet software firms rode the resurgent net IPO investor market to stellar valuations on Wednesday and Thursday after launching initial public offerings of shares on Nasdaq. Kana Communications Inc, Egain Communications Corp, E.Piphany Inc and Broadbase Software Inc are seen as well placed to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[After Ziff, other publishers consider Web-unit IPOs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial director Tony Silber contributed to this report.  Ziff-Davis' move to cash in on sky-high valuations of Internet companies through an IPO that will track its ZDNet Internet operations has magazine-industry observers wondering whether other publishers will see the Ziff move as an opportunity for them, too.  "Buried...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Strategy and IPO market selection: implications for the entrepreneurial firm. (initial public offering)(Special Section: Valuation and Initial Public Offerings)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb177/is_199710/ai_n5785018]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of causes have commonly been identified as central to small  firm failure, including management inadequacy and poor access to  distribution channels. However, one of the principal causes of new firm  failure is the lack of financial resources (Bruno, Leidecker, and Harder  1986). Therefore, if...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 1997 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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