US: Google forges ahead with IPO

Grok Headline matches for US: Google forges ahead with IPO

* Google forges ahead with IPO

* Google forges ahead with IPO 08/15/2004 06:02 AM
Taipeitimes.com - Sun Aug 15, 08:53 am GMT

Google forges ahead with IPO

Google forges ahead with IPO 08/15/2004 02:39 AM
Taipei Times Online Aug 15 2004 5:52AM GMT

Golf: Woods forges ahead

Golf: Woods forges ahead 05/07/2004 09:52 PM
Tiger Woods takes a two-shot lead at the half-way stage of the Wachovia Championship.

As Dean forges ahead, his temperament
gets closer look

As Dean forges ahead, his temperament
gets closer look 11/13/2003 10:09 AM
Temperament .. USA Today

usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2003-11-11-dean-tem perament-usat_x.htm
track this site | 6 links

S&P assesses Google ahead of IPO

S&P assesses Google ahead of IPO 06/08/2004 05:49 AM
Bday.co.za - Tue Jun 8, 05:47 am GMT

SEC quiet on Google go-ahead

SEC quiet on Google go-ahead 08/18/2004 03:08 AM
Boston Globe Aug 18 2004 7:50AM GMT

Google Pushes Ahead With IPO

Google Pushes Ahead With IPO 08/13/2004 09:16 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Aug 13 2004 1:27PM GMT

Google IPO moves ahead

Google IPO moves ahead 08/16/2004 12:52 AM
Xinhua News Agency Aug 16 2004 4:31AM GMT

Google sale ahead

Google sale ahead 09/02/2004 04:18 AM
USA Today Sep 2 2004 8:30AM GMT

Google IPO Moves Ahead Despite Interview
(AP)

Google IPO Moves Ahead Despite Interview
(AP) 08/13/2004 03:50 PM
AP - Google Inc. forged ahead with its IPO auction Friday, even as the online search engine leader acknowledged a newly published magazine interview with its founders contained misleading information.

Google Plows Ahead With Shrunken IPO

Google Plows Ahead With Shrunken IPO 08/19/2004 12:35 AM
dmnews.com Aug 19 2004 5:13AM GMT

SEC leaves Google waiting on IPO go
ahead

SEC leaves Google waiting on IPO go
ahead 08/17/2004 09:11 PM
The New Zealand Herald Aug 18 2004 1:40AM GMT

Google moves ahead with float

Google moves ahead with float 08/15/2004 06:53 PM
Australian IT Aug 15 2004 11:06PM GMT

Google IPO Moves Ahead Despite Interview

Google IPO Moves Ahead Despite Interview 08/13/2004 07:38 PM
AP via Daily Press Aug 13 2004 11:14PM GMT

How To Stay One Step Ahead of the Google
Dance

How To Stay One Step Ahead of the Google
Dance 07/08/2004 11:45 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 9 2004 3:49AM GMT

Update 3: Google IPO Moves Ahead Despite
Interview

Update 3: Google IPO Moves Ahead Despite
Interview 08/14/2004 09:00 PM
Forbes Aug 15 2004 1:52AM GMT

Wall Street rallies ahead of Google IPO

Wall Street rallies ahead of Google IPO 08/18/2004 04:57 PM
MSNBC Aug 18 2004 8:14PM GMT

GEICO Gets Go-Ahead On Google, Overture
Suit

GEICO Gets Go-Ahead On Google, Overture
Suit 09/03/2004 05:48 PM
ClickZ Today Sep 3 2004 9:22PM GMT

Update 11: Google IPO Moves Ahead
Despite Interview

Update 11: Google IPO Moves Ahead
Despite Interview 08/13/2004 09:18 PM
Forbes Aug 14 2004 1:22AM GMT

Update 1: Google IPO Moves Ahead Despite
Interview

Update 1: Google IPO Moves Ahead Despite
Interview 08/16/2004 06:56 AM
Forbes Aug 16 2004 10:59AM GMT

Google shares down ahead of first lockup
expiry

Google shares down ahead of first lockup
expiry 09/01/2004 08:37 PM
Reuters Sep 2 2004 0:13AM GMT

Update 2: Google IPO Moves Ahead Despite
Interview

Update 2: Google IPO Moves Ahead Despite
Interview 08/14/2004 09:00 PM
Forbes Aug 15 2004 1:38AM GMT

Google shares dip ahead of first lockup
expiry

Google shares dip ahead of first lockup
expiry 09/02/2004 10:27 AM
Cyber India Online Sep 2 2004 2:33PM GMT

Google opens share auction Friday ahead
of IPO (AFP)

Google opens share auction Friday ahead
of IPO (AFP) 08/13/2004 03:58 AM
AFP - Google Inc's much awaited but delayed share auction will start ahead of the launch of the world's most consulted Internet portal giant on the Nasdaq stock exchange next week.

Wall Street stocks soar ahead of Google
IPO

Wall Street stocks soar ahead of Google
IPO 08/18/2004 06:44 PM
Xinhua News Agency Aug 18 2004 11:22PM GMT

Google opens auction Friday ahead of IPO
next week

Google opens auction Friday ahead of IPO
next week 08/12/2004 10:28 PM
Turkish Press Aug 13 2004 2:44AM GMT

Google scheduled to launch share auction
ahead of IPO

Google scheduled to launch share auction
ahead of IPO 08/14/2004 02:46 AM
eTaiwanNews.com Aug 14 2004 6:19AM GMT

IBM forges alliance against EMC

IBM forges alliance against EMC 04/07/2005 05:24 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 7 2005 9:23AM GMT

Google founders' interview may raise
regulatory concerns ahead of IPO

Google founders' interview may raise
regulatory concerns ahead of IPO 08/13/2004 09:16 AM
National Post Aug 13 2004 1:32PM GMT

To Silicon Valley, a Google offering
signals better days ahead

To Silicon Valley, a Google offering
signals better days ahead 04/26/2004 11:34 AM
IHT Apr 26 2004 3:33PM GMT

BT forges Vodafone mobile tie-up

BT forges Vodafone mobile tie-up 05/18/2004 09:09 AM
Britain's telecoms ginat teams up with mobile phone rival Vodafone to offer a seamless joint-calls service.

Gateway Forges Partnership With SuSE

Gateway Forges Partnership With SuSE 11/17/2003 03:05 PM

Cognos Forges Closer Links

Cognos Forges Closer Links 02/18/2004 09:24 PM
With enterprises always on the lookout for simpler, more consolidated applications, Cognos Inc. has forged closer links between its financial management applications and the planning and budgeting software it acquired from Adaytum Inc. last year.

IBM Forges Deal To Secure Enterprise IM

IBM Forges Deal To Secure Enterprise IM 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Instant messaging first caught on with chatty Internet users, but the enterprise has begun embracing this technology to boost productivity and reduce communication costs. In the latest development in this space, IBM has partnered with IMlogic to manage employees' use of IM within the IBM Lotus Sametime real-time collaboration software.

Sharon forges on after Gaza vote

Sharon forges on after Gaza vote 06/07/2004 04:04 AM
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon struggles to hold his coalition together, despite getting for a revised Gaza pull-out plan.

Unwired forges wholesale supply deal

Unwired forges wholesale supply deal 05/25/2004 03:37 AM
ZDNet Australia May 25 2004 8:12AM GMT

Google founders' Playboy interview may
raise regulatory concerns ahead of stock
offering

Google founders' Playboy interview may
raise regulatory concerns ahead of stock
offering 08/15/2004 06:02 AM
Naplesnews.com - Sun Aug 15, 12:22 am GMT

Start-up Forges Open Source BPEL Group

Start-up Forges Open Source BPEL Group 07/12/2004 10:45 AM
Active Endpoints frees up its BPEL run-time environment in the process.

Don't Get Ahead of Yourself

Don't Get Ahead of Yourself 03/14/2005 06:07 PM

Here are two things that cut so many good ideas off at the knees. These two factors are the two biggest things that stop good ideas from getting implemented and make programmers pause when they should forge ahead.

1. The Urge to Generalize
Say you come up with an idea for a little transaction management system — a tracking app that follows a sales transaction from inception to closure. It works well for your company, but — you think — if I unleash this on the world, then it has to be able to handle other things, right?

I have to abstract the simple "Transaction Name" field away to be able to handle "Buyers" and "Sellers" in case someone wants to use it for third party brokerage, right? And what exactly constitutes a transaction? I need to have an object oriented "Attributes" sub-system to be able to handle any information they want to store, right? Etc. Etc.

Pretty quickly, you've decided that it's just too much work to do all this stuff you just made up and imposed on yourself, so forget it.

I think programmers equate "The software doesn't handle that" with "I can't make it do that because I suck." We never want to say no or have to admit that our software wasn't designed to do everything. If our image editing program can't also balance our checkbook, then we have somehow failed and it's not worth releasing.

(In terms of content management, I've talked about the The Urge to Generalize here. For some reason, I discussed it in positive terms...)

2. The Fear of Expansion
So you get past the first hurdle with your little transaction management system, and you're coding happily away. But then your mind starts to look down the road....

You think, well, I should put something in here so the user can indicate that an invoice was sent for payment. I mean, people don't want to do double-entry, right? But then why can't this system just generate the invoice....and track receipt of the payment...and display aggregate customer sales figures...etc.

Before you know it you (1) have mentally evolved your simple app into an accounting system, and (2) scared the crap out of yourself because there are apps like Peachtree and Quickbooks that do this better, and (3) thrown in the towel.

Why do we look at every app as always getting bigger? I appreciate ambition, but the problem with this is at the end of every development road is a bigger app that you're going to run into and encroach at some point. Why can't we stop three-quarters of the way down this road and just be happy with that? Do one thing and do it well. (Josh Clark has been very good at this, judging from the comments on this entry.)

These two things have killed millions of good ideas before they even got out of the starting gate. As programmers, we think too much, sometimes. Your app (1) doesn't need to handle every possible scenario, (2) encompass every aspect of functionaity, and (3) continue evolving into a successfully bigger and bigger app.

If this little essay makes sense to you, read this one from Joel Spolsky. Same concept from a little different angle:

These are the people I call Architecture Astronauts. It's very hard to get them to write code or design programs, because they won't stop thinking about Architecture. They're astronauts because they are above the oxygen level, I don't know how they're breathing. They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don't contribute to the bottom line.

The Functionality Astronauts are just as dangeous as the Architecture Astronauts.

Grok Description matches for US: Google forges ahead with IPO
GrokA matches for US: Google forges ahead with IPO

US: Google forges ahead with IPO

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: