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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

What's worse, Facebook's efforts to bring transactions inside the walled garden - through Facebook Storefronts - seem to be decreasingly important to large e-commerce players as they discover the high costs and low returns of doing business on the site. However, the public market investor is looking for very different opportunities.

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