It's a bad idea to use the price-per-plate as a measure for how much you should spend on the wedding gift, says Jessica Silvester, a deputy editor and wedding expert with New York magazine. You wouldn't give your best friend a less expensive gift just because she was having a more casual affair..
An initial public offering (IPO) refers to the first time a company publicly sells shares of its stock on the open market. It is also known as  going public ..
Companies of all sorts often need to raise capital for investment and expansion, to buy out existing private shareholders, or to redeem debt. One way to do this is to take the company public, through what has become known as an IPO, an initial public offering. IPO Definition. An IPO involves the issue of new shares or the sale of existing shares by current holders, sometimes both. Purchasers of most of these shares at flotation will be investment institutions, such as pension funds and insurance firms. However most share offers are also open to small investors.