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Initial Public Overpricing: Should We Bank on the Social Media Bubble?

My Dad (Doug David/”The Doug”) wanted me to work in a field that he didn’t know anything about.  Now The Doug knows about stuff: he knows the news, knows the literature, knows the nature, knows the media, knows the finance... that kind of stuff. The Doug knew social media was being heralded as a game changer.  He knew about the argument of its role in revolutionsknew it was controversial; and knew that a decent amount of people used it.  All good stuff, but he wanted to know if it had the juice to be sustainable.  When I took the job at NMS last year, he wanted to know: what kind of confidence did the market have in the social media industry?  

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