Prestige office space that gives the right impression – 100 m2 plus use of meeting rooms – $48000 Time taken in meetings to talk about minutiae (15 hours a week for 40 min. for 40 weeks at $60 an hour gross) $36000.
Tag: business
Diane Greene
Sadly, being open and playing nice has often been a recipe for losing against Microsoft. Even within VMware, some people observe that the co-operative approach often boils down to waffling. Others worry that VMware has not yet decided what game it is playing. Ms Greene’s plans for VMware do not sound terribly ambitious. In a nutshell, the company wants to turn virtual machines into “containers” for software and data. Firms can assign quality-of-service and security requirements to these software containers, and have them run wherever they want, be it on their premises or out in a computing “cloud”.
shark jumping moment for ms greene: write up in the economist, ousted a week later
Pixar
We all have access to the same curriculum. In class, people from every level sit right next to our directors and the president of the company.
2013-03-22: this is pretty fascinating. so much hugging.
Carrotmob
What’s so important about Carrotmob is the coordination, because it reduces an inefficiency in other, uncoordinated socially-conscious shopping: “mobbing” lets a business know exactly why the gods of good fortune have smiled upon it. Let a business know which proactive green steps to take, then reward their progressive actions with business–and lots of it.
i pretend to work
the companion poster to no meetings.
Crippled Windows
Microsoft plans to offer PC makers steep discounts on Windows XP Home Edition to encourage them to use that OS instead of Linux on ultra low-cost PCs. To be eligible, however, the PC vendors that make ULPCs must limit screen sizes and hard drives, and they cannot offer touch-screen PCs.
byebye windows margins
GM Introduces New Layoffs
Calling it the automotive company’s “toughest and longest-lasting” line of cutbacks to date, General Motors proudly unveiled its new 2008 model layoffs on Monday, bringing months of rumor and speculation to an end. Introducing the all-new, all-American GM layoffs
Most Innovative Companies
what a farce. GM at 18? haha
Bank Consolidation
Expect consolidation to start now. The real winners on Wall Street will be the ones with huge stockpiles of capital who listen to the market, and who are fleet of foot enough to smell out and deploy their capital creating instruments that global growth companies need, rather than false profits from eating their own sausage. The Big 5?: Goldman CitiSachs, House of Morgan, Bear of America, Fortress Lehman Lynch and Blackstone Suisse.
how about finally getting rid of all those useless and costly branches?
Um, Whoops.
We had a teensy eensy weensy little billing error last night… my first clue something was up when I saw this morning’s daily billing report (so far): $7.5M. It turns out due to my excessively fat fingers, nearly every one of our customers has been seriously over-billed in the last 12 hours.
should you joke or not when you screw up big time? the jury is out in the comments
Gregor J. Rothfuss 