Categorie: IPO / Secondary Offering
Submitted about 1 year ago by
Felicia
, Small Investor
at Self Employed
CampusU - IPO, Expected on 10 Dec 2007 Interesting - but be on your toes The moment I read the word "online communities", I can see trailer load of dollars, particularly after Microsoft's adventure. CampusU offers an online community devoted to college student market, at least for the time being. I am interested in investing in this one. Here is why 360Youth and Jupiter Research conducted independent research and concluded college student spend $200 billion every year shopping. Out of this, $4 billion is spent online. With so many credit cards on offer for students, this does not surprise me. 87 percent of the college students use credit cards, declares Online Advertising Habits Survey. I always wonder when these survey results are published what number constitutes the percentage, so this time i checked another statistics. There are 115,000 schools, 53.5 million students and 3.5 million faculty and staff in the k-12 market. 5,700 educational institutions, more than 17.3 million college students and 1.5 million faculty and staff belong to the higher education market. To be fair 87 percent covers a lot of students. If i dissolve the age considerations of the students, then adults who are returning to school, both full-time and part-time add the numbers. For long online communities have always focused on the student ...
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Submitted about 1 year ago by
Felicia
, Small Investor
at Self Employed
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