Previously tested in beta with Frozen Planet and Secret Fortune airings, these apps let Antiques Roadshow viewers compete against others -- whether in the same room or across the country -- as they try to guess the value of items displayed on the show.
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If the team can't market the media rights, prospective bidders will have to guess at their value and may not be inclined to bid as high.
It does not help that financial products are now so complex that it is very hard to make even an educated guess about the real value of a bank.
It's about exploring and learning and going to various places in our solar system, and I guess you can't place a value on that.
My guess is that the NCAA would raise the face value of tickets as well, but that increase would not be enough to offset the lost ticket revenue associated with selling nearly 50, 000 fewer tickets.
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Estimating the value of a sports sponsorship certainly involves some guess work, and there's the growing chance Citi could become so vilified that a large public reminder of the bank will hurt, not help, marketing.
For the only possible route to profit is by guessing (you might have very good information, might even be correct, but it is still a guess) on what people of the future believe the value of gold is.
So figuring out the value is always going to be a bit of a guess, and so on.
Professors Laurence Capron from INSEAD and Jung-Chin Shen from York University managed to obtain data on a large number of private deals and, guess what, in contrast to the public deals they examined, these did create some value!
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Guess? went public at 17 times 1995 earnings and a ridiculously high 25 times tangible book value.
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