Google's S-1
 

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da...073639/ds1.htm

Google's S-1 and my 15,001 :Graucho

:glugglug Cheers . . .

That's like putting a cracker in front of one of Sally Struther's kids on the save the children commercial.


I can't have any till after the fact so stop teasing me ya rich bastard!

thats very interesting

The Risk Factors Disclosure is pretty funny.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da...htm#toc16167_4

according to CNNFn it's going to be hard for the average joe to get in on any of the intitial offering. Large brokeage and Venture Capitol companies will buy up the majority.

CNBC's James Cramer from TheStreet.com said today he thinks its going to blow out the roof and go to a $70Bil valuation.

If that happens founders Sergey Brin & Larry Page will each go over $10 Billion on paper from a 6 year old company. They each have about 15%.

Interesting also they're doing the IPO on Class A Common and are keeping control of Class B which have 10 times the voting power.

doh! There are way more risks involved than I initially thought of....

Is the IPO date set yet? couldn't find that info anywhere...

No date. But they are doing the auction like they said. Its a 5 step process to get shares.

They're trying to minimalize the speculators and give average investors a real chance to get in.

I really can't see this happening the way they planned it. It's too much of a prize for institutional investors not to try and grab more shares than allowed. They will be playing dirty I'm sure.

takes money to make money huh

"We have not undertaken any efforts to qualify this offering for offers to individual investors in any jurisdiction outside the U.S. Therefore, individual investors located outside the U.S. should not expect to be eligible to participate in this offering. "

:Graucho

I really didn't think google made this much revenue, and more than doubled in a year. (in thousands)
2002 2003
$ 347,848 $ 961,874

real nice.

good idea

Well that sucks for us Canadians.

They met an investor. They gave their pitch. He pulled out a checkbook and wrote them $100,000 on the spot without an agreement just on a handshake. They didn't cash the check for several weeks because they hadn't even legally setup the company nor did they have a checking account.

If that's not true boot strap entrepreneuring, I don't know what is.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

WWE also went that direction to avoid shareholders who know nothing of the business sticking their nose in. Smart move for google

My mouth is watering on this one.... :Graucho :Graucho

does anyone actually listen to that idiot?

the price will be inflated, but 70 bil is way too high and would result in just a stupid P/E ratio. there would be a ton of selling pressure at half that .

As I said I'll buy Google only if the price is right, otherwise I will wait

KRL,
get ahold of me dude..

icq 9242684
we spoke before about investing in my project Pandora's Box.
It's 95% complete and I need to talk to you about the possibility of getting some new funding with you or anyone you know.
thanks,
Adam

Tell me about it. I was invited to participate in the VA Linux IPO in 2000, and couldn't because I was in Canada... Lost out on $50k or so that day.

Google is still one of the only companies owned and operated by everyday people. They still go to their local computer store to get their servers and various parts when they go down. You'd think that by now they'd go to one company... Naw... What ever is on sell. You can put the savings into paying the people what they are worth. Wonder if they will have a mass defection or if their loyalty will be repayed.

:thumbsup