GOOGLE is going public with IPO

[Razorguns]

exactly!

if you can't buy an IPO early at it's *low* rate -- don't buy at all. Otherwise you can join the millions of schmucks who buy high, make the company MILLIONS (remember -- the whole puropse of an IPO is to raise MAXIMUM cash possible), watch it go up/down 3-5 dollars for next 3 years, then one day lose it all.

kinda like all those dummy's who lost billions with the dot-com scams.

 

[georgie24]

billions will be made...wealth will transfer hands

 

[Code]

Exactly the brand of hype that inflated our economy in the 90's.

The one thing that will change is the 20/80 conceot at google, which is the culture that kept it on top of the search industry all this time.

Having a new set of owners (shareholders) changes everything and people will leave.

Right now, NO ONE gets options at google so there won't be janitors driving porsche cars.

Google's strike price will very likely be above the price a day-trader would buy up. It's not going to be like yahoo, at ALL.

billions will be made...wealth will transfer hands

 

[Razorguns]

it's not that hard to create a search engine. I hope investors realize this.

i was gonna create machosearch.com. Just like google, except everytime you go -- you see a pic of a hot cutie in the top right corner. All the guys would go to it. I'd make trillions!! Investors pm me.

 

[Code]

Actually it isn't as easy as you'd think.

I mean unless you're so well versed in Bayesian inference that it's easy for you. In fact, I don't know anyone who hasn't studied information theory (not to be confused with the oft obtained with information management) who could create a useful search engine.

Search isn't just making some bot that crawls and caches.

it's not that hard to create a search engine. I hope investors realize this.

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[Razorguns]

there were at least 20 search engines 2 years ago, before google killed them all.

but the new trend is to have search engines and have front-end sites wrapped around it. Meaning a "machosearch.com" could be a business entity that gets "powered" by google.

Microsoft could blow google away, cuz google really doesn't do much besides a toolbar and allow you to serach. Ebay is different, cuz people have accounts, links to paypal, items stored there, history stored there, familiar interface, business software linking to their api, etc. Google can make billions, but i see another big crash and loss coming for those dodos.

now if ebay goes public. there's a holding value of a stock.

 

[bran987]

now if ebay goes public. there's a holding value of a stock.

LMAO, best post of the day bro

 

[Dial_tone]

You can forget making any real money thru a discount broker on this one. You need to be a customer of one of the firms underwriting the deal. All the underwriters will be on the cover of the prospectus. The companies in bold print will have more shares to go around. Since this is a virtual shoe-in to go up only the biggest clients will get any shares on the IPO itself....translation: you better have well upwards of $100K with one of those firms already. An office mgr may give an individual broker 50,000 shares to offer his clients. He ain't givin 'em to somebody who's only done $500 in commissions in 5 years. You're SOL. A Charley Schwab or Ameritrade account will get you post IPO shares that somebody else is already selling. I used to be a broker...i've seen this one close up.

 

[bran987]

You can forget making any real money thru a discount broker on this one. You need to be a customer of one of the firms underwriting the deal. All the underwriters will be on the cover of the prospectus. The companies in bold print will have more shares to go around. Since this is a virtual shoe-in to go up only the biggest clients will get any shares on the IPO itself....translation: you better have well upwards of $100K with one of those firms already. An office mgr may give an individual broker 50,000 shares to offer his clients. He ain't givin 'em to somebody who's only done $500 in commissions in 5 years. You're SOL. A Charley Schwab or Ameritrade account will get you post IPO shares that somebody else is already selling. I used to be a broker...i've seen this one close up.

Yep we called DLJ to get in on an IPO couple years ago and they won't let you do it with anything less than a 250k acct. open and even then you don't get the good ones

 

[Razorguns]

Yep. The sheep that start buying after the shares go on the market, are doing nothing more than making money for the big guys who already got their stock at the initial moment.

It's in their interest to glamorize this IPO as much as they can in the press before the big day, so as soon as the bell sounds -- their profits go off the roof.

Dot-coms weren't really losers. Their investors made HUGE profits cuz they IPO'd firms at shares where THEY got in early at $5/share -- it went to market, popped up to $80/share. They sold and pocketed the profits. They could care less that the sheep lost billions 2 years later when they found out the dot-com folks were just playing doom and eating pizza all day. Investors could've cared less if the dot-coms were actually *doing* anything. The Dot-Com IPO is where the money was.