Some of the important characteristics of society are as follows: A comprehensive understanding of society requires a thorough analysis of its characteristics. But the term society could be understood both from a narrower and broader sense. In a narrower sense society refers to a group of people but in a broader sense it refers to the whole human society. However, society has the following characteristics: A society must have population. Without a group of people no society could be formed. Of course society refers not to a group of people but to a system of social relationships.
Flashback to Appleâs 1980 IPO. When Steve Jobs took Apple public in 1980, his company lagged behind Tandy Corp. in sales of personal computers, and Massachusetts regulators deemed the IPO âtoo riskyâ for state residents. We know how this story ends.
Initial public offering. IPO redirects here. For other uses, see IPO (disambiguation). Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company usually are sold to institutional investors that in turn, sell to the general public, on a securities exchange, for the first time.