Early stage is also about ensuring that the levers are understood and that the thinking about the right things to measure and what to action are appropriate in understanding the business. Less about the numbers, more about the variables.. why are you measuring this, why arent you measuring that? What actions will you take to try to get to this number? This would give the investor a better sense of how the founder thinks.
I don't use uber, or any other taxi app. Depends a lot on where you live and whether public taxis and public transport infrastructure is well developed. I can imagine this would be a nightmare in the USA, it was when I lived there pre-Uber days, waiting for a bus could take 45 mins. Out here in Asia, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong etc, there really isn't a big need for Uber, sure it's useful, but plenty of alternatives that are just as convenient.
When I was living in Japan, i once lost my wallet on a bicycle ride. It must have fallen out of my pocket somewhere on the route i was taking.
I didn't notice it was missing until I got home, got my keys out to open the door and realised the wallet was missing. I went back out on the bike and retraced my route but couldnt see the wallet annoyed that I would have to cancel cards, get a new ID card.
After I got home again, i was procrastinating about cancelling the cards for about 30mins and then decided to crack on. After I picked up the phone to start, the front door bell rang, I opened the door and there were 2 ladies with my wallet, they handed me my wallet, asked me to check everything was there and then apologized for taking so long to return my wallet.
Apparently they found my wallet, went to an address I had left in there, but I had recently moved apartments, so they went to the Koban, Police officer told them my address based off my ID card and then they came to my address.
Since this is based off tests does it stipulate whether there is a diffrence in reading, listening and writing comprehension vs ability to speak? There are many countries where written English is exceptional, but when it comes to conversation, it's lacking.
Actually, it's a trade off. How much freedom vs how much control. A prime example is government regulators, they are there to 'protect ' consumers vs pure freedom of capital ventures.
Pure unadulterated freedom never exists because one persons freedom can trample on another persons, e.g the freedom to be racist
No, it's not the focus of the world. The US with its upcoming elections and trade wars take up a fair bit of international news.
Brexit and the political crises in the UK is another leading contender for front page news.
In the media I read, Hong Kong is only a small section of the front page, bit not the dominant news item, largely because it has been going on for so long that its beginning to have media fatigue.
Whilst article is accurate in terms of the US tax situation for Apple, it doesn;t really explain how it keeps it's foreign tax payments to ~$2B off ~$40B in revenue.
That's where some people are disgruntled about companies such as Apple paying their fair share.
So if company Y created a genetic variant of a vegetable in Country X, and if this vegetable is shipped and sold in supermarkets around the world, the profit made from sales of that vegetable should only be charged in Country X, and not in the country that made the sale to the end consumer?
To be straight here, yes that's pretty much how it's supposed to work. There would have to be sales, logistics and back office functions in the consuming country and those operations would be taxable. There would like to also be general sales tax in the consuming country but these would apply to all sales, not just the sales of "foreign" goods.
Countries have tried heavily taxing revenues of "foreign" imports - they're called tarrifs or import duties - and generally the result has been to make everyone poorer.
But it's a populist meme at the moment - both on the left and on the right - Trump's misguided/dangerous trade policies for example - that international trade is impoverishing or a zero-sum game.
There isn't 1 type of protester. They are spread over a spectrum, from those who are totally peaceful, to the extreme end who are advocating violence against they "system".
They also don;t have all the same demands, although they are generally in agreement of the 5 demands, however because this is a "leader-less" protest, it is hard to say which of those demands are of higher priority than others, i suspect the different factions of protests will have higher priority over certain ones.. e.g. front line protesters would probably value exoneration higher than the peaceful protesters.
But generally speaking, they come from all walks of life... There are now beginning to be more vocal anti-protest groups as well. So it's becoming increasingly a battle for public opinion. Whilst the front-line protesters have general public support, they will feel they have a mandate to continue what they are doing so propaganda machines from both sides are in full effect to try to win over public opinion.
