GoogleGoogle GOOGLE’S MISSION IS TO ORGANIZE THE WORLD'S INFORMATION AND MAKE IT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE AND USEFUL. PRESENTED BY MEG STOCKWELL AND ERIK DECOURSEY

How much do you use Google, and how do you use it?

Fact There are more than two million Google searches per second.

Fact Google has photographed more than five million miles of road for its Street View maps.

Fact Google has acquired 24 companies this year alone - that is about three companies a month. Nest co-founders Matt Rogers and Tony Fadell with Google CEO Larry Page

Fact OVER SIX BILLION HOURS OF VIDEO ARE WATCHED EACH MONTH ON YOUTUBE — THAT'S ALMOST AN HOUR FOR EVERY PERSON ON EARTH.

Fact Google translates 80 different languages.

What do they sell? They sell advertising, not search results. In a world where everything seems to be for sale, why can't advertisers buy better position in our search results?

Where do they sell it? Google does nearly of its business over the internet. Their data centers are located worldwide, including: United States Chile Ireland Singapore The biggest exception to this internet-only business is Motorola Mobility--a phone manufacturer acquired in 2011, primarily as a move to strengthen the Google patent portfolio against lawsuits by Apple and Microsoft.

Who do they sell to? Everyone

The founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford for the first time Larry and Sergey begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year—eventually taking up too much bandwidth Google.com is registered as a domain on September 15. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.

August of 1998 Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn't exist yet—a company called Google Inc., making him an Angel Investor. September 4 th of 1998 Google implements the business plan and files for incorporation in California. They become a corporation with corporation bylaws. Larry and Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage on Santa Margarita Ave., Menlo Park, Calif. Larry and Sergey hire their first employee. Craig Silverstein is a fellow CS grad student at Stanford who works at Google for 10+ years before joining education startup Khan Academy. August 18 th of 2004 Company goes public offering of 19,605,052 shares of class A common stock. How they got started?

S.W.O.T Pt. 1 Strengths: Corporate culture Locations Management Size Broad-spectrum internet presence Weaknesses: Corporate culture Size

S.W.O.T. Pt 2 Opportunities: Market share Name recognition Patent portfolio Subsidiaries Threats: Lawsuits Apple dominance Microsoft Antitrust investigations Rising manufacturers

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Glossary 1 1.Corporation – A form of business ownership in which the business in considered a legal entity that is separated and distant from its owners. 2.Articles of incorporation – The document filed with a state government to establish the existence of a new corporation. 3.Corporate bylaws – The basic rules governing how a corporation is organized and how it conducts it business. 4.Stockholders – an owner of a corporation. 5.Board of Directors – The individuals who are elected by stockholders of a corporation to represent their interests. 6.Acquisition – A corporate restructuring in which one firm buys anther. 7.Conglomerate merger – A combination of two firms that are in unrelated industries.

Glossary 2 1.Entrepreneurs – People who risk their time, money, and other resources, to start and merge a business. 2.Internal locus of control – A deep-seated sense that the individual is personally responsible for what happens in his or her life. 3.External locus of control - A deep-seated sense that the individual is personally responsible for what happens in his or her life. 4.Angel Investors - Individuals who invest in start-up companies with high growth potential in exchange for a share of ownership. 5.Venture Capital firm – Companies that invest in start-up businesses with high growth potential in exchange for a share of ownership. 6.Business Plan – A formal document that describes a business objectives and details strategies and timelines for achieving those objectives.

Glossary 3 1.C Corporation: The most common type of corporation, which is a legal business entity that offers limited liability to all of its owners, who are called stockholders. 2.Infrastructure: A country’s (or company’s) physical facilities that support economic activity. 3.Foreign Outsourcing: Contracting with foreign suppliers to produce products usually at a fraction of the cost of domestic production. 4.Exporting: Selling products in foreign nations that have been produced or grown domestically.