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...worked so hard in my life," said one older, more seasoned veteran. "I've been here for one year, but I wish it had been two." Engineers were sporting wide grins as they bounced off the walls and funneled into an 11:30 company-wide meeting where the public stock offering was to be officially announced and celebrated. Some were surely calculating their potential windfalls as they scampered down the hall, while others seemed apprehensive about the road ahead. My colleague and I were all but lost in the tumult until we emerged from building 41 and began scribbling notes...
...founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are doing everything they can to retain control of the company that they launched when they were getting their PhDs at Stanford, in 1997. They will still own about a third of the corporation and there will be two tiers of stock so that not all votes are created equal. That said, their engineer-centric company will be under extraordinary pressure to grow at a pace that can warrant its sky-high valuation, and any missteps, such as its recent release of G-mail, which rankled privacy zealots, will probably...
...whether Google's IPO can on its own spark innovation or even inflate another bubble, anything is possible - that's probably the biggest moral of the dotcom story. But things have changed in the short period since the downturn. For one thing, companies are now accounting for stock options as expenses. Consequently, more and more corporations are abandoning a method of compensation that effectively let talented workers place big bets with their careers. Without stock options, we might not see the same level of frenzied startup activity prevalent during the late 1990s. The other big difference is that many...
Stores from CVS to Aveda, which have traditionally catered to women’s primping patterns, are beginning to stock their shelves with fresh new men’s products to quench the thirst of appearance conscious males, whose numbers have been rising ever since the term metrosexual was coined...
...your last wine-and-cheese affair was heavy on the wine and not so much on the cheese, the River Street location of the Whole Foods Market is the place to go. Their stock of top-notch cheeses won the Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston award in the cheese category. It’s easy to see why: with tall fridges of softer goat’s milk cheeses against the walls, semi-cooled nests of sheep’s milk cheeses along the aisles and the harder cow’s milk cheeses displayed...