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Entries from August 2008

The future of the internet

August 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

As one of the open source community’s most famous persons, Tim O’Reilly, said: “to eat the future pie you have to wait for it to leave the oven”. Obviously we can’t know for sure what will happen in the future, but there are many and interesting theories and ideas out there, and it’s well worth […]

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Tags: Business

Article recommendation

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

CFO or just working in the financial sector, these articles from McKinsey & Company can be very useful. The different ones explain what tough challenges the CFO faces, from corporate investor communication to the biggest challenges during the first 100 days in the CFO chair.
I’ve read through some of them, and there are many good […]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Economy, stock markets, derivatives? What’s it really about?

August 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Recently discussing an investment in NASDAQ listed Google with my dad, I realized that this whole stock thing, capitalism and whatever names you might have, is sometimes misunderstood and definitely not an option most people would consider to look into themselves. This said, the US stock market is one of the biggest wealthbuilders in history […]

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Tags: Business · Economy · Investment

Get the values straight

August 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A correct valuation is essential for anyone to know how to put a price on a company, and if used carefully various indicators can help you show how to create more value in an organization. Basically you need to make more return on invested capital (ROIC) than the cost of the capital deployed (WACC), but […]

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Tags: Business · Economic Value Added · Investment