I think the point being made is that you find out after and there's a lack of upfront information. Personally I'm a huge fan of the map, time stamps, and oddly enough, the rounding down
Regarding the profitability piece, they closed their mopub acquisition this week - something i believe will make or break the future of TWTR reopvenue... I believe the money is on that piece to perform or the company is dead in the water.
IIRC it's actually financing with a balloon payment (with no risk since they're not the lenders), with an option for buyback. That liability of buying back should be somewhere in the books, either accrued or entered in full.
Hmm I don't see any mention of equity here but only profit. If you're able to cover the cost of mortgage + HOA/property tax + expenses of running the place then the equity is the profit. Assuming the price of the place is the same in, say, 10 years. Then you've built up 10 years worth of equity buy having someone else pay your mortgage...
Of course if this place was bought cash, you could have done the same thing in reverse. Take that money and loan it to an individual to buy a house. The only difference is there's no extra profit to be made but also no added risk of not finding clients, repairs, etc. (unless someone wrecks the place and it becomes worthless)
So my guess is they want to do something similar to fancy.com but probably on a more massive scale? What do you spend $200M on in less than 10 months with max 150 employees?
I'm curious to know what happens after they halt trading. What's the outcome for those with outstanding shares? I would assume either the spread would get ridiculously wide or the sell orders never be fulfilled?
"The absolute cheapest benefit you can offer an employee is their title, and if they have a rational reason for wanting a better title, why on earth would you refuse to give up some title to get a good candidate on board?"
If your role doesn't match your title, you may be in big trouble when/if your company gets acquired. Also it might seem like the cheapest in one sense but as the company grows you'll find yourself in an awkward situation when a manager makes more than a VP you just hired. It's a sensitive subject that should be approached more carefully than you'd expect.
Apologies ahead of time for the lower quality streaming for those watching, we have multiple cameras and sources that we can't put into Google Hangout but we will have an edited post-production video ready later this week!
Anyone have a repo of the old gifs that were most common? I'm thinking of things like the under construction stickman or the rotating wordart welcome sign.
I am a little sad that security of web browsers has gotten better. I remember offering people free cup holders by opening up their disk trays :-)
I hope no one forgets we often value companies (in an overly simplified way) by a multiple of their revenue. Of course other things are taken into consideration but had they kept their discount as a marketing expense they could have gotten away with it in going on to next steps like a potential IPO. What the article highlights is that the wrong variables were taken into account when calculating margin, and this could happen very easily/could be debated both ways.
The thing I'm curious about is their balance sheet. If someone buys from a site like plum district a gift certificate for $40 that they paid $20 for, California residents are entitled to at least $20 of goods for an unlimited time... What a nightmare!
It says chapters at the top of the page but I can't find any table of contents. I want to skip between chapters without going through each page, am I missing something or just a missing feature?
The thing with PaaS vs EC2 is that you're hiring a whole 24/7 Ops team and have a whole layer of software on top of the infrastructure you would have used to ease scalability, failover, load balancing, etc. All these things go into keeping your application live. Sure it's not a nightmare to figure out how to setup your own mongo on a VPS, but as you grow and need that high availability and uptime, your sleep will decrease dramatically (nightly alerts at 2, 3, and 4am? Yeah they hurt..) or need to hire sysadmin(s) to take care of that for you, you realize the difference in monthly cost versus the $100k+ engineers becomes much, much sweeter.
http://blog.docker.com/2014/12/initial-thoughts-on-the-rocke...