The fact that it's a startup complicates things. Startups can fail at any time, and one day you may wake up and find yourself on the street.
Isn't also true that you may get pinkslip from your multi-national employer one day when you come to work due to "corporate restructuring"? I'd rather have a more marketable skill when I am "on the street".
Have you actually looked at their financial statements? They have close to $4B in their bank! Cash can be used to either acquire other companies or repurchase stock to reduce the number of outstanding shares.
And their shareholder's equity has gone from $2.9B in 2004 to $9.4B. That's a three-fold increase!
Google's stock price a year ago was at ~$200. Shouldn't it be worth more than $600 then?
How can your senior management be supportive yet at the same time fails to mobilize the IT department to help get your job done? Am I missing something here? Maybe the senior management hasn't been supportive enough? Or is the IT department even more "powerful" than senior management? (I hope not...)
From a competitive strategy standpoint, what's the alternative for google? Just sit and watch Microsoft make friends with AOL and cannibalize 10% of their revenue?
Don't be evil? To who? To the shareholders? Users? Partners?
I'm not sure what your company's internal accounting system looks like, but from what you've describe, it seems to be treating your department as a cost center and all the IT expenses as general overhead.
Have you thought about using an accounting system such that you the other departments get charged a certain rate per managed node / number of call / qualified software package?
There are two advantages: 1) Department heads will now be more conscious of the cost and will think twice before asking you to setup 20 computers. This creates disincentives for managers to abuse your department's resources; 2) You manage the profit and loss of the IS department and therefore should have more freedom to hire more people as long as your department is showing black, not red.
I can absolutely relate to that - and I don't think this is funny at all. If I had to choose, I'd rather be asked "Sir, do you play video games?" than being yelled at for calling "wrong department" and then put on hold for 30 minutes only to be yelled at again.
Why not start the meeting at 7am in the US? That translates to 5:30pm over in Bangalore. It may be a little early for you but definitely manageable if it's only once or twice a week.
Regarding the "delayed" response, even if the other party is local, how often do you get the response right away?
But the generated document is only as good as the comment itself, isn't it? Correct me if I am wrong, I don't think any of the tools that you mentioned can generate any intelligent comment. What good is the comment "The openSocket method throws a SocketException"?
Maybe not... One way to value a firm is discounted cash flow (DCF). $750 per customer may seem unreasonable given they are only charging $14.95 per month. But note that it's $750 for the entire lifetime of the firm. In estimating the total value of the firm, you have to take into account the FUTURE free cash flow (FCF) discounted by the cost of capital (WACC). I'm not going to do the actual calculation here and will leave that to fellow/.ers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow
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7000 lives could have been saved EVERY YEAR if not for the poor penmanship by doctors: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1578074,00.html
IMO, her gold is just as good as Paul Hamm's. If the Americans would a set good moral example to the world, maybe the Chinese will follow.
Guys, chill out. Read the title...it's just a "prototype"!
Ok, so how about when Compaq reverse engineered the IBM BIOS in the 80s? Would you call that capitalism?
Let me see...high paid, excellent benefits, no credit card debt...can't possibly be U.S. worker!
So what if I set up a GMail account which automatically forwards everything to my AOL account? Is AOL going to send Google the bill then?
Have you actually looked at their financial statements? They have close to $4B in their bank! Cash can be used to either acquire other companies or repurchase stock to reduce the number of outstanding shares. And their shareholder's equity has gone from $2.9B in 2004 to $9.4B. That's a three-fold increase! Google's stock price a year ago was at ~$200. Shouldn't it be worth more than $600 then?
How can your senior management be supportive yet at the same time fails to mobilize the IT department to help get your job done? Am I missing something here? Maybe the senior management hasn't been supportive enough? Or is the IT department even more "powerful" than senior management? (I hope not...)
Let me guess...those who stopped complaining must have been identified as being more "self-absorbed" than those who kept complaining.
From a competitive strategy standpoint, what's the alternative for google? Just sit and watch Microsoft make friends with AOL and cannibalize 10% of their revenue? Don't be evil? To who? To the shareholders? Users? Partners?
I'm not sure what your company's internal accounting system looks like, but from what you've describe, it seems to be treating your department as a cost center and all the IT expenses as general overhead. Have you thought about using an accounting system such that you the other departments get charged a certain rate per managed node / number of call / qualified software package? There are two advantages: 1) Department heads will now be more conscious of the cost and will think twice before asking you to setup 20 computers. This creates disincentives for managers to abuse your department's resources; 2) You manage the profit and loss of the IS department and therefore should have more freedom to hire more people as long as your department is showing black, not red.
It's probably not the standard itself that is vulnerable. It's the IMPLEMENTATION of the standard.
Ah...that explains why I heard baby crying in the background last time I called.
I can absolutely relate to that - and I don't think this is funny at all. If I had to choose, I'd rather be asked "Sir, do you play video games?" than being yelled at for calling "wrong department" and then put on hold for 30 minutes only to be yelled at again.
Why not start the meeting at 7am in the US? That translates to 5:30pm over in Bangalore. It may be a little early for you but definitely manageable if it's only once or twice a week. Regarding the "delayed" response, even if the other party is local, how often do you get the response right away?
But the generated document is only as good as the comment itself, isn't it? Correct me if I am wrong, I don't think any of the tools that you mentioned can generate any intelligent comment. What good is the comment "The openSocket method throws a SocketException"?
http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/10 /many_more_skill.html
(Gary Becker, 1992 Nobel laureate)
That's when investment bankers comes in as the underwriter. In return, they earn fees and allocation of shares at lower price.
Maybe not... /.ers.
One way to value a firm is discounted cash flow (DCF). $750 per customer may seem unreasonable given they are only charging $14.95 per month. But note that it's $750 for the entire lifetime of the firm. In estimating the total value of the firm, you have to take into account the FUTURE free cash flow (FCF) discounted by the cost of capital (WACC).
I'm not going to do the actual calculation here and will leave that to fellow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow