Cutting prices by 20% and yet maintain your margin

News source at:
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/108119/the-accidental-hero.html?mod=career-selfemployment
Business finance flow in a very simple manner, it starts from the top (gross revenue) to bottom (profit).
Now between that two point, there’s cost, cutting numbers from the revenue until they reach profit.
Equation wise, R – C = P (totally simplified)
So, one would suspect that a significant in reduction in revenue would cause [...]

US$ 47.5 billion software development

Excerpt
Microsoft almost bought Yahoo for US$ 47.5 billion, yet they could just spend US$ 10 billion for building a Yahoo rival. It seem the decision maker is more interested in producing mega-mergers than actual value calculation and creation.

A summary of “Michael Porter: What is Strategy”

In his work, “What is Strategy”, Michael Porter propose a strong differentiation between Operational Effectiveness and Strategy.
Since, I plan to develop 2 articles based on this work, I feel the need to put a summary here so as to provide a background for the articles.
This article contains a summary of Porter’s work, with a lot [...]

“Jadi sementara ini saya pake kompetitor anda dulu yah”, “iya pak betul”

True story
Me: Halo, “F*rst M*d**?”
Call center: “Yes”
Me: “i’ve been trying to subscribe to your service, but my house is not in your coverage area”
CC: “Have you check”
Me: “Yes i did”
CC: “Have you registered in our website?”
Me: “Yes i did, 2 times, 3 months ago and just now, i haven’t been contacted at all”
CC: “Just wait [...]

Hedge your cashflow with a side business – part 1 – What do we need to start one

By Sendy – 21 October 2008

So, you have a job, that gives you a income stream, and regardless of your satisfaction with the amount of the income (most probably you’re not satisfied), it’s important to recognize a more damning fact, that it’s just one source of income.
Now, this represents a risk, if you only have [...]