Showing posts with label twitter ipo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter ipo. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Can Companies Win By Investing in Emerging Markets?

Over the past year, there has been quite a bit of commentary about the lack of value in emerging markets. Criticisms that apply across industries -- from P&G to Facebook -- argue that companies that are banking their growth on their "next billion" consumers are entering a not-so-lucrative space.  Before the Twitter IPO last month, many argued that there was little value in 77% of the company's users living outside the United States.