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Perhaps the biggest reason that Visa's IPO price soared from $44 to $60 a share by noon on its first day of trading is simply that the company has massive growth potential, especially internationally. Visa Europe will remain a separate company for now, but "in the developing world, we are just scraping the surface," says Clifford Tan, an economist and visiting scholar at the Stanford Center For international Development. Visa's U.S. revenue grew a healthy 23% in fiscal year 2007, but its international revenue soared 57% over 2006. And as formerly cash-based economies in South Korea, China...
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...spinning discs, either. More mature music fans might still pay up for a CD; some 2 million people outside North America bought last fall's Long Road out of Eden, for instance, the first studio album from the Eagles in decades. But supermarket muscle has driven down the retail price of compact discs. The only U.S. store selling that Eagles CD was Wal-Mart, for the bargain price of $11.88. The average price of a CD in Europe dropped by 4% between 2003 and 2006, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. One way to maintain price levels is to offer deluxe products that...
...know would have done absolutely incredible things. And I'll think about them every day for the rest of my life. In fact, I had one friend who was killed a month before he was supposed to go home to get married. How do you put a price tag on that level of sacrifice? How do you quantify that? You can't. So that begs the question, do you have to continue to sacrifice because of that? Does that require everyone else to continue to sacrifice to meet that commitment, or does that make...