The quality of the iPod/iPhone’s speakers is great, but why? Is it because Apple is good at predicting what the consumer wants? Or is it the big amount of resources they posses to build the best consumer-oriented technology? The answer: It is a mix of everything including Steve Jobs’ impediments and pet peeves. During an interview with Michael Dhuey, a former Apple engineer and one of the founders of the Cisco… Read More →
Luckily, the job that you have right now has very little to do with the job or business you will have in the future that will turn you into a millionaire, a billionaire, or whatever your heart desires. Many of us are so unhappy because of the boring and stupid jobs we currently have, no matter the salary. We feel like there is no future in what we are doing and we… Read More →
Have you ever wondered why the big fashion company Kenneth Cole is named ‘Kenneth Cole Productions’ and not ‘Kenneth Cole Incorporated’? Fashion companies are not production companies; they differ in a lot of ways and belong to different industries. So why would a company that currently operates 5 separate clothing and accessories lines and 1 shoes-only line would make such a huge mistake when incorporating their brand? Well, it is not… Read More →
Google is known for investing in very expensive and futuristic projects. Some are for the better of humanity and others are just plain cool. For example, Google invested $40 million on windmills, $1 million in Shweeb (a human powered monorail), $86 million on low-income housing tax credit, fiber optics for a super fast internet, $500 million in Clearwire, $3.9 million in 23andMe, $30 million in Google Lunar X Prize, etc… Besides… Read More →
Apple stock surpassed $410 a share yesterday (09/19/11), bringing their market cap to $380 billion. That $380,000,000,000 is worth more than each of the following things: 1. All 32 Eurozone Banks 2. The Entire Economy of Singapore 3. All of the Illegal Drugs in the World 4. Total U.S. Corporate Income Tax for 2011 5. The GDP of Denmark 6. The Great Wall of China (priced at $0.52 a brick)… Read More →
Recently I paid a little less than $20 to see a movie in 3D and I thought that was overpriced. Then I read about a person who paid $70,000 to take a tour inside Facebook’s headquarters. Many people don’t even make that amount of money in a year. Charitybuzz auctioned off a tour of Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters, and someone bought it for $70,000. Within the first week, there were… Read More →
We, humans, have a misconception that great public speakers are born with the talent or virtue. But like everything else, we are far from the truth. Great speakers are made, not born. Take for example Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google. When he worked for Sun Microsystems in 1988 he took speaking lessons to address problems we all have when speaking in public: “I have no sense of time, I… Read More →
Everybody knows how humble Donald Trump is. He is so humble that in honor of his first speaking trip to Sydney, Australia on September 19th, he is inviting only his finest friends to an exclusive party he is calling the ‘Platinum Privilege’. In addition, in order to attend the party each participant has to pay $10,000. Luckily, the cost of a framed picture with Donald Trump as a souvenir is… Read More →
Today, Google is a behemoth on the Internet. They are everywhere and knows everything about the world and about you. But back in the year 2000 Google was not as big or as known as today. In fact, Google actually needed some marketing to promote its service, but not just any ordinary marketing. In order to take Google to the masses, in 2000 Google co-founder Sergey Brin participated in the… Read More →
Who has more money to spend than the richest country in the world? Apple does. Yes, Apple as in the the makers of the iPad and iPhones. According to the latest daily statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government currently (7/30/2011) has an operating cash balance of $54 billion. The United States only has $54 billion of cash left in the bank! That is down from $100+ billion only a week ago. Meanwhile, Apple’s last earnings report showed… Read More →