“What Happened?”
Discuss the leadership and financial mistakes that the players in the Facebook IPO made. (e.g., the price of the stock, the valuation of the company, Zuckerberg’s decisions, the purchase of Instagram among others.)
While you may read and use as many of your own sources, you must cite at least 3 of the articles provided in writing your 3-5 page essay.
The titles of the articles are:
1. Facebook Hits Historic IPO
2. Facebook Poised To lead Biggest US IPO Ever
3. Eager For Facebook’s IPO
4. Mark Zuckerberg
5. How Facebook is Redefining Privacy
6. In The World of Facebook
7. Facebook’s Potential Unlimited
8. Goldman Invests in Facebook
9. Will Zynga Become the Google of Games?
10. Facebook Targets Huge IPO
11. The Face of Facebook
12. IPOs 2012: Friending Facebook
The links to each respective article are as following:
1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204879004577110780078310366.html
2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-28/facebook-poised-to-lead-biggest-u-s-internet-ipo-year-since-99.html
3. http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/238385/eager-facebooks-ipo-take-look-whats-happening-groupon-and-zynga-shares
4. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183,00.html
5. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1990798,00.html
6. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/25/in-the-world-of-facebook/
7. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12180845
