| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
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The basics -- The three principal ingredients of a business -- Seed capital and related matters for startups -- Early stage institutional capital -- Mid-stage private capital -- Later-stage financing and investment bankers -- Late-stage financings and private placements -- Paths to liquidity for private companies -- Considerations for selling a private company -- The process for selling a company -- Initial public offerings: selecting underwriters -- Initial public offerings: transaction process and structural considerations -- Initial public offerings: valuation and marketing -- Initial public offerings: pricing, trading, and other thoughts -- Public investors and life as a young public company -- Follow-on offerings and liquidity for insiders -- Acquiring businesses: targeting opportunities to fuel growth -- Acquiring businesses: valuations, fairness opinions and the approval process -- Business difficulties and stock drops -- Financing considerations for a maturing business -- When things slow down: creating shareholder value and related topics |
| Summary |
How does Wall Street, that great bastion of American Capitalism, really work? This book provides the multifaceted answer to that question clearly, concisely, and on a practical level for anyone seeking to better understand the inner workings of the capital markets. Tracing the dealings of a fictional company from inception to maturity, The Wall Street Primer provides the reader with practical insights on Wall Street and its functions and operations. Written for professionals new to the industry, investors, job seekers, students, brokers and traders, and entrepreneurs and business executives, t |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Securities industry -- United States.
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Stock exchanges -- United States.
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Investments -- United States
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Stocks -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Investments & Securities -- General.
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Investments
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Securities industry
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Stock exchanges
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Stocks
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Börse
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Wertpapiermarkt
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Investmentbank
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Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaft
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Börse -- New York.
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| SUBJECT |
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85144918
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New York (State) -- New York -- Wall Street
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United States
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Wallstreet New York, NY
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780313365164 |
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0313365164 |
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9780313365157 |
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0313365156 |
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1282421212 |
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9781282421219 |
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9786612421211 |
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6612421215 |
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