Market capitalization = Number of shares X Price of 1 share

The investment community uses this figure to determining a company’s size, as opposed to sales or total asset figures.

An example, Apple (AAPL) has a 932.15 million shares and the current price of each share is $424.33. Thus, Apple’s market capitalization is $ 395.53 billion.

a:link { color: red; } 

Here’s what you need to do:

a:link { -webkit-text-fill-color: red; }

a. Presentation skills

Loved the lecture on how to be an effective presenter. Thanks to Stephen Friedman for really pointing out how to get people to listen to you. Presentation is a form of story telling and people remember stories better than they do facts. People like themselves more than they like you. And people like to talk more than they like to listen to you talk. How then can we really deliver our message across to the people? I’m still experimenting with this. I’ll continue to experiment with these tips in student group meetings.

b. Case Analysis

Several frameworks were presented by Yvan Baker. I would say that my current problem-solving process is some small subset of the one presented by Yvan but it was still very useful that he outlined all the steps in great detail.

1. Gather information and identify the problem
2. Decompose the problem and prioritize
3. Hypothesize
4. Recommend
5. Outline Implementation

c. Framing and reframing, and gaining alternative perspectives

Though it seems common knowledge to open our minds to different perspectives, again it’s always really useful to have it all spelt out in black and white for you. And I think these are great techniques that I can definitely apply for my websites.

It’s time for me to start applying all these lessons learnt to my software business. I can’t really decide what I want to focus on yet but I have some idea on what would be the easiest one for now. Keys to success? Start simple and keep it simple. And listen to your customers to see them guide you through the way.

I’ve been keeping track of all the features of my half-completed projects in a simple textfile – basically a list of how it all works and what the software needs to do. But it’s tough. It’s also pretty disorganized. I’m not sure how great a README file will improve things but I am willing to try. At the very least, forcing myself to think about other people reading my code will get me focused on customers right?

Without further delay, introducing Takoyaki — a simple link manager. Ever since Delicious was sold, things just started to get wonky and cluttered. I had been using a plain old Google Docs to save my links but I thought it might be a simple enough to build a link manager on my own. I decided to use Java in Google App Engine for no real purpose other than to learn it. Haven’t really tested it yet so don’t take my word for it just yet! It should save links for you under your Google Account. I’m hoping to add more features in future releases.

set guifont=Menlo\ Regular:h14″

Put the above command in your .vimrc and your eyes will thank you for the bigger font!