Materiál na 20.3.08

   COURSEBOOK,  p. 95; READING

   

   1. What is NASDAQ?

   2. What is IPO?

   3. How did Bill Gates and Steve Jobs play the game of going public?

   4. What is racket?

   5. How does IPO performed by Brin and Page differ from a standard one?

   6. Do investment firms like Morgan Stanley play any role in the IPO performed by Brin and
   Page?

   7. Why  did such famous risk-takers such as Gates and Jobs tolerate this WS shakedown/racket?

   8. What does it mean to cut sb in (on sth)?

   9. When did things start to go wrong for this investment houses cartel?

   10. Why didn´t this idea of the auction approach take off immediately?

   11. What does it mean hypermathematical?

   12. Why can Page and Brin afford to bypass big Wall Street names?

   13. Explain the following words:

   to pioneer=

   an ally =

   outthink =

   outflank=

   to bypass =

   14. What twin principles is Google based on?