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 ..
Should Spotify list directly, it probably would do so at a valuation of about $13 billion, one of the people who had been briefed said. It's really hard to know what this means. In an IPO, the IPO price (pre-pop) is the official valuation you go public at.