...Case 9 Question 1 How did Sedo’s market value develop from 2000 to 2006? With more than 1.4 million member account from around the world, and trading domains in more than 20 languages, Sedo stands alone as the world’s only global domain marketplace. Sedo’s marketplace connect buyers and seller making it simple for individual and companies to acquire the domain names they need for their success and online presence. Sedo’s domain market places is the most active in the industry and offer the world’s largest selection of premium domains with more than 15 million available for sale. Sedo offer the entire tool needed to buy, sell, and monetize domains including domain appraisals, brokerage services, promotion and Sedo’s popular domain parking program. Members use Sedo’s parking program to earn revenue on more than 3.2 million domains while promoting those domains for sales. In early 2000, the young entrepreneurs decide to invest more of their time and money into the business. They booked banners advertisements on website and cultivated relationship with the press. This occurred at the height of “internet hype”, leading to an overwhelming response from the media and the Internet community. The contacts they gained during this time were invaluable: potential business partners, investor and future competitors. One of the Sedo’s competitors is Ulrich Essmann. He already acquire sizeable customer base that Sedo lack, after see the potential, he decide to join the Sedo venture. The...
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...Massa I mongoli comprendevano l'importanza di concentrare il proprio potere offensivo nel tempo e nello spazio. Dimostravano grande abilità, ad esempio, concentrando il tiro delle frecce contro un unico bersaglio da più lati e individuando l'avversario contro il quale fare massa. E' soprattutto al di fuori del campo di battaglia che però i mongoli comprendevano l'importanza di concentrare le masse in modo coordinato: sistematicamente marciavano separati per combattere uniti, secoli prima di Napoleone. obiettivo Le loro armate, infatti, seguivano un preciso piano delle operazioni sincronizzando le azioni dei vari scaglioni in modo cronometrico, nonostante fossero lontani anche centinaia di chilometri. In questo complesso processo non perdevano mai di vista l'obiettivo delle operazioni, sempre costituito dalla parte principale dell'esercito nemico, contro la quale, poi, concentravano fulmineamente e imprevedibilmente le forze. Their army in fact followed a precise operational plan synchronizing with a perfect timing all the different divisions, although they were distant from each other hundreds of kilometers. In this complex process they never lost the objective of their operations, the main body of the enemy’s army towards which they eventually concentrated quickly and unpredictably their forces. Offensiva Le armate mongole perseguivano sempre con decisione l'obiettivo di acquisire l'iniziativa tattica e strategica, che raramente concedevano all'avversario. Questi era...
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...Do ageless brands really exist? Or it’s just a myth and ultimately it’s the time which has the last say and the brand dies an obliterated death? Of course, some brands do vanish with time but there are others which are too reluctant to step down the decline phase of their life cycle. These brands beat the odds and sometimes surprise even the company expectations. With the ageless brands there exists only one theory, that is, it will continuously have a subconscious on the minds of the people across generations. A product which succeeds in doing so is not going to die anytime soon. These products never cease to surprise us. A brand doesn’t need to be Boeing or Airbus to last for decades. As simple a product as Cherry Blossom shoe polish has done it too. Launched in 1906, this product finds a shelf space in almost every household in India. The only competitor of cherry, one can think of is the Kiwi shoe polish, which is again 100+ years old. Obviously, the question will arise, how and why? Some products get lost in the sands of time while others continue to thrive for decades? Delivering performance over the years and never letting hold of customers go away through continuous relationships with the customers is the key. Thums up is a product which is as stubborn as it can get. Originally, manufactured by Parle in India, this product was a threat to coca cola and hence, coca cola chose to buy Thums up with a sole purpose of killing it. However, Coca-Cola didn’t kill the brand after...
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...THE POLISH SURPRISE As the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 unfolded, countries across Europe were hit hard. A notable exception was Poland, whose economy grew by 1.5 percent during 2009, while every other economy in the European Union contracted. In 2010 and 2011, Poland achieved a growth rate of 3.9 and 3.8 percent, respectively, which were among the best in the EU. How did Poland achieve this? In 1989, Poland elected its first democratic government after more than four decades of Communist rule. Since then, like many other eastern European countries, Poland has embraced market-based economic policies, opened its markets to international trade and foreign investment, and privatized many state-owned businesses. In 2004, the country joined the European Union, giving it easy access to the large consumer markets of western Europe. All this helped transform Poland into a major exporter. Exports account for about 40 percent of gross domestic product (in contrast, they account for around 12 percent in the United States). As a consequence, between 1989 and 2010, Poland recorded the highest sustained growth in the region. Real GDP doubled over this period, compared to a 70 percent increase in neighbouring Slovakia and 45 percent in the Czech Republic. Poland's government has also been fiscally conservative, keeping public debt in check, not allowing it to expand during the recession as many other countries did. This led to investor confidence in the country. Consequently, there was...
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...Ekonomicznych in Nowy Sącz, Poland Abstract Poglish is a dialect that results from combining language elements from Polish and English. It is most commonly heard among people whose first language is Polish, but encounter the need to use English for practical situations in an English-speaking country, or to describe things using English words in Poland because there is no easily translatable equivalent term in Polish. The Poglish examples in this presentation will include those personally experienced by the author when listening to Polish immigrants in Chicago, some accounts of this dialect currently used by Polish immigrants in England, and the incorporation of English words or modifications of English words into the Polish lexicon in Poland. The implications of the use of Poglish on Polish immigrant traditions and the culture of presentday Poland are discussed. Introduction “Poglish”, also called “Polglish” or “Ponglish”, combines the words “Polish” and “English” to indicate a mixing of Polish- and English-language elements within a single speech production. It often occurs where native Polish speakers living in an English-speaking country swap certain Polish words or phrases for English ones, or add Polish pre- and suffixes, decline or otherwise modify English words to fit in with the rest of the (Polish) sentence.i Sometimes the combining of Polish and English elements occurs in a single word, such as a “drinkować” (drink) with “frendy” (friends). But don’t drink...
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...Carole Satymurti’s “I Shall Paint my Nails Red” is a wonderful poem which I found myself closely relating to. I feel that in this poem she reflects many sides of a woman’s life. It may be understood to have two separate messages, the direct and the hidden message. Satymurti does this through showing both the complexity of a woman’s life, and the simplicity that also exists within. At first glance, “I Shall Paint My Nails Red” gives a more obvious and direct amusing message in which she states different reasons why she would paint her nails red. Each line puts the reader in a different situation which may even be applied to our own daily lives. Satymurti does this by using every day examples and using them to suggest often absurd reasons for her to paint her nails red, adding a bit of comedy throughout the poem. Underlying each idea, however, Satymurti implies a deeper message about women and the many roles that they play in society, and the way that they view themselves. The first idea Satymurti suggests in the poem is, “Because a bit of colour is public service”. Here, she is implying that in painting her nails red she is in fact doing others a favor. This line makes me think of a woman loading her groceries onto the cash register before paying, showing off her bright red nails and provoking a smile on the cashiers face. She seems to believe that anywhere she were to go with these red nails, the world would see them and appreciate them. Underlying this main idea however...
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...points that Poland able to avoid the worst effects of the economic crisis that gripped most of Europe during 2009-2009. Firstly, Poland has a stable economic policy. Poland government keeps the public debt in check and they don’t allow it to expand during the recession. Because of the main sources of economic crisis come from debt, stable economic policy can maintain the basic economic activity as Poland government does not need to pay a huge of debt. Polish debt-GDP ratio is about 23% in 2007 only. It’s lower than other countries. (Reference1) Secondly, free market and free trade policy helps a lot in maintaining polish economy. Free market attracts many investors to invest in Poland. This table shows that The FDI stock of Poland is about 53 billion which are higher than other countries. (Refrence2) The last factor is Poland has a stability and development plan. It aims at strengthening the polish economy during the world financial crisis and it amount up to 91.3 billion zloty in activities to stimulate investment in the polish economy. The first goal of Poland’s stability and development plan is prevent overheated economy. Poland was designed to curb inflation and ease Poland’s entry into the European Union in the early 2000s by using tight MPC. The inflation rate of Poland is lower than 5% after tight MPC policy. (Reference3) The second goal of Poland’s stability and development plan is maintaining the stability of the financial system. Poland government guarantees for deposits...
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...While Lucien was cleaning for the surprise party, he was spraying an aerosol can everywhere and on everything, Arnold says,” Lucien, if you don't stop spraying, we’re all gonna catch asthma and die” (Griffin 58). Lucien replies with, “I be making it smell clean” (Griffin 58). Impatiently Arnold explains to him,” Lucien, this is furniture polish. You don't use this to freshen the air. This is for polishing furniture” (Griffen 58). This quote shows the readers that Lucien was trying to make the house smell good for the party but instead of using air freshener he used furniture polish wish is kinda...
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...In 1939 after Germany invaded Poland without declaration of war , France, Australia and New Zealand decided to declare war on Germany. This was considered to be the start of World War Two. Hitler invaded Poland without declaration of war because he claimed it was for self-defense since Polish men attacked a German radio station . Hitler then sent troops to Poland as a response to Poland’s first attack. However Britain and France were not convinced and quickly declared war on Germany , initiating World War Two. Once the war declarations were known, other countries started to take part as well. Some would be with Germany and others would be against. The countries such as Italy and Japan that would be with or on Germany’s side were called the...
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...Hitler’s Aggressive Foreign policy One of Hitler’s aim aims was to reverse the treaty of Versailles and regain the territory loss in 1919. He also wanted to create a Germany in which all German people lived. These aims found support from the German people who disliked the treaty of Versailles and did not necessarily accept the terms of the Locarno Pact. In 1933 Germany was in a weak position By the treaty of 1919 her armed forces had been severally limited. Germany also faced “little Entente” of France Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia. Also France and Poland were allies. Hitler withdrew from the disarmament conferences at the Hague in 1933/1934. When France refused to accept a British proposal for a general reduction in armaments. In 1934 Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nations. In January 1934 Germany signed a 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland. This was designed to upset the relationship between France and Poland, to counter this France signed a non-aggression pact with Russia. In 1934 Hitler Began to increase the size of Germany’s armed Forces, by the beginning of 1935 the German army totalled 234,000 and it had an air force of 2000 planes. The First Austrian Crisis In 1932 Engelbert Dollfuss became chancellor of Austria. In march 1933 he suspended government and banned rival political party’s. He developed a close relationship with Mussolini. In July 1934 Austrian Nazis killed Dollfuss. Any possibility of German interventention...
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...Essay and e-mail - Reunion A. An essay analyzing the short story This essay is going to be an analysis and interpretation of the short story ‘’Reunion’’ by John Cheever. It will begin with a summary of the short story. Afterwards the plot, the conflict and the setting will be analyzed. Then I’ll move on to the characterization, the possible surprise ending and the theme and message. Finally I will draw parallels between the short story ‘’Reunion’’ and the essay ‘’Living With Strangers’’ by Siri Hustvedt. ‘’Reunion’’ is a short story about a boy called Charlie and his last interaction with his father. Charlie was travelling by train from his grandmother’s to a cottage his mother had rented. He would be in New York for about an hour and thirty minutes while waiting for the new train and therefore he wanted to meet his father. He hadn’t seen his father for three years and Charlie was exited to see the man he looked up to again. Because of the lack of time, they couldn’t go and see the father’s club, so they had to find a restaurant in the area. They went to four restaurants and they get more or less thrown out of all four. The father in this short story was either really drunk or/and very arrogant. In all occasions he talked down to waiters or behaved bad in one way or the other. In spite of his bad behavior they managed to get a ‘’Beefeater Gibson’’ at one place. It all ended with the father going up to a newsstand, again with a bad attitude, which was the final straw for Charlie...
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...every accident is followed by time-consuming and expensive lawsuits. The polish are handicapped in this matter by the fact that very few people come forward as witnesses. They are either afraid of getting involved or simply indifferent. Let me tell you about the time my friend Nick and I witnessed a road accident and got involved. We were on our way one evening to the beach and for this purpose we had to walk down through crowded market. It was winter and foggy weather. Suddenly we heard the squeal of brakes and saw a car, clearly out of control, skidding on the road. The young man who was driving the vehicle was struggling with the steering wheel but the car was moving sideways towards market. We saw the car smash straight into a cyclist who was coming from the market and flung against a lamppost. He fell unconscious on the pavement and was bleeding profusely from a gash above the forehead. Nick ran in search of a policeman and to phone for an ambulance while I tried to render some first-aid to the bleeding man. Meanwhile a large crowd had collected round the victim of the accident and the car. The driver was pulled out and the public began to beat him up. Fortunately for him Nick returned with a policeman who rescued him from the mob and took charge of the situation. Soon more policemen and an ambulance turned up. Now the police inspector began to look around for witnesses. To out surprise, all the people claimed not to have seen what had happened and many of the...
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..."In 1817, Jefferson's old friend, the Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko, died in Switzerland. The Polish nobleman, who had arrived from Europe in 1776 to aid the Americans, left a substantial fortune to Jefferson. Kosciuszko bequeathed funds to free Jefferson's slaves and purchase land and farming equipment for them to begin a life on their own. In the spring of 1819, Jefferson pondered what to do with the legacy. Kosciuszko had made him executor of the will, so Jefferson had a legal duty, as well as a personal obligation to his deceased friend, to carry out the terms of the document. "The terms came as no surprise to Jefferson. He had helped Kosciuszko draft the will, which states, 'I hereby authorize my friend, Thomas Jefferson, to employ the whole [bequest] in purchasing Negroes from his own or any others and giving them liberty in my name.' Kosciuszko's estate was nearly $20,000, the equivalent today of roughly $280,000. But Jefferson refused the gift, even though it would have reduced the debt hanging over Monticello, while also relieving him, in part at least, of what he himself had described in 1814 as the 'moral reproach' of slavery. "If Jefferson had accepted the legacy, as much as half of it would have gone not to Jefferson but, in effect, to his slaves -- to the purchase price for land, livestock, equipment and transportation to establish them in a place such as Illinois or Ohio. Moreover, the slaves most suited for immediate emancipation -- smiths, coopers...
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...SALES DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE Why GetResponse? We’re a successful Polish company that has been supplying software to companies all over the world since 1998. Our product is used globally by more than 350 thousand customers — and counting. We have offices in the USA, Canada, and Europe, and our headquarters are based in Gdansk, Poland. Currently, we have more than 250 employees and would like to expand our team by adding one more creative, energetic member for the position of Sales Development Representative. Main responsibilities: * actively building a GetResponse sales pipeline on global markets (US, EU, Asia & Pacific), through identifying potential clients and by gaining information about them * generating SQOs (Sales Qualified Opportunities) thru LinkedIn, industry websites, cold calling, cold emailing, etc. * qualification of incoming leads * daily work with the CRM system in order to optimize sales funnel * direct responsibility for lead generation for an assigned market * regular reporting of current tasks and their status * consulting in relation to current best practices in email marketing What do we expect: If you are someone who is communicative, you have no problem talking on the phone, and you are great at convincing people to buy into your vision, this job is for you. Our requirements are as follows: * basic experience in sales * fluent English * researching skills * great knowledge and ability in surfing the...
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...Extended Essay Group 3: History To what extent did breaking code JN-25 and code ULTRA give aid to the Allies in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres of World War Two? Word Count: 3746 Abstract: This extended essay has the subject of Code Breaking Intelligence. When studying the Second World War, the phrase ‘code breaking’ is not highlighted as a significant factor, so this investigation is to assess the contribution of code intelligence in the Second World War. The main question being: To what extent did breaking code JN-25 and code ULTRA give aid to the Allies in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres of World War Two? The scope of this investigation is confined to two specific codes called the JN-25 and Ultra. This is due to the abundance of codes and ciphers used during WWII. It is also limited to where, either the Pacific or Atlantic theatres, these two codes were most effectively applied to aid the Allies. Information was attained from secondary sources to create a bank of relative information to the research question. The conclusion that can be drawn from this investigation is that code intelligence did significantly aid the Allies in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres. With the assistance of JN-25 the Americans halted the Japanese in the Pacific theatre, stopping its expansionist and aggressive behaviour. Similarly, the British and the Americans, with the help of code Ultra, achieved an offensive against Germany and Hitler, plus shortening the war by two to four...
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