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I wish it were that simple but I find your analysis highly flawed. The early employees, founders and investors risked a big chunk of their resources and hence played a huge part in…

Argentina is not particularly a glowing example of an entity with such a long investment horizon given how frequently they've defaulted on their debt.

Quick Service Restaurant industry one of the most competitive. The reason why they were able to increase productivity and product quality might be because when you focus on a few c…

It is basically due to their ownership in Alibaba.

First, the appointment of Condoleezza Rice to their board and now accessing and uploading folder information without explicit permissions! I'm going to stop using Dropbox now.

Maybe the only thing common between Instagram and Oculus is the investor (Andreessen) and the acquirer (FB)..oh and that Mark Andreessen was a board member during both the acquisit…

Adam Smith would disagree.

I think (and a lot of other would agree with me on this) that the Xbox division within Microsoft is the most customer-centric of any company in the entire world. The people at Xbox…

That's probably one of the reasons why Amazon has been undercutting almost everyone time & time again. With their razon thin margins they have nowhere to go but up. Even when they …

"Management teams of well-run companies spend very little time thinking about the formal financial statements." Not true at all. Well run companies do spend a lot of time in prepar…

Actually it's Designed by Apple in California. But I agree with you I liked it better when it was subtle.

With this decision, I have now come to believe that Google is not the company that it used to be in the past. The user-friendly company with a quirky personality. Somewhere in the …

Perhaps he's the only CEO right now that has audacious plans for the future, just like Steve! RIP Steve

I study in one of the largest universities in India. It is also fairly reputed within the country as well as outside. During my 2nd year of engineering we had to complete a program…

If you come from a poor financial background, wouldn't it be good financial (and common) sense to accept the scholarship? And as hashpipe rightly said, by turning down your reserva…

Luck is very real. Luck not as in winning a lottery but the place you're born, the kind of people in your family who support you in your endeavors, the talented people you get to s…

Within the same industry there are people like Dan Porter and Notch. Both are at the top of their game. With one major difference.. One bad mouths a former employee because he refu…

FatCow isn't different. I've promoted their hosting services and they've consistently refused to pay me around $1K. The only reason I've not brought their actions to light is that …