...web-based business * Customer base of over 6000 * Answers over 100 tech support e-mails per day, while remembering to do homework at night * $40,000 per year salary * Weina Scott, a senior in high school runs a website called Switchpod * Users can share video and audio as downloadable podcasts. * Podcasts are multimedia digital files made available on the Internet for downloading to a portable media player, computer, etc. * Switchpod was founded by Weina and her 16 year old friend Jake Fischer * They met on a message board dedicated to website hosting * They soon agreed to create Switchpod and before they knew it they were receiving 300,000 visitors a month * Their success caught the eye of the owner of Wizzard Software, Chris Spencer * Chris chose Switchpod to help push his text-speech software * Not long after that he bought the company for $200,000 in stock options from Jake and Wiena * Jake and Weina are now the CEOs of Switchpod and both make $40,000 a year salaries * Chris stated that he “would love to have a ton more workers like them” * Both the teens have learned a lot from the buyout * How to be more of a manager type * How to overcome technical hurdles * Understand the need for more credibility/It’s now a public company Next slide Consultant Recommendations * They are successful for the following reasons * Their age –They were able to see a need in their age group and created something to fill...
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...A Look at a Career as Controller in the Corporate Finance Industry Having worked in the Financial Industry for 11 years I feel like it would be natural for me to seek a job such as Controller at a Financial Institution or in the Finance Industry. In order to determine the requirements for such a position I searched a sample job description: Responsible for direct supervision of all accounting and financial functions. Primary responsibilities include supervision of the monthly close process, monthly, quarterly and annual billings to clients for services provided, billing reimbursements from clients, collection of accounts receivable, supervising accounts payable, payroll, monthly reporting for the owner, monthly preparation of a reforecast, annual preparation of a budget, assist in the preparation of quarterly tax projections and annual tax return preparation and all treasury administration. The Corporate Controller will also be part of a team that creates and implements policies and procedures to identify, resolve and document accounting issues in addition to creating procedures to make the close and reporting processes more efficient and accurate. (www.accountingjobstoday.com) “Budgeting is a key function of controllers and their staff, including the counting of spending and revenues” (www.about.com). As it would suggest, a Controller controls access to corporate funds. Controllers typically report to the chief financial officer (CFO) of an organization. It’s typically...
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...know the DTech system that well 5. John promoting staff lay-offs as a result of the new system - (not exactley a great motivator) 6. IT consultant quiting and nobody to run the current system. ( due to being overloaded and acting as an assistant to DTech consultatnts) 7. Lack of time on John's part to devote to the new project that he is spearheading. 8. Poor / prolonged implementation process diverting attention away from day to day operations 9. System should have been installed earlier and before rapid product expansion 10. Fragmented implementation teams on both DTech and Schmidco (A) and consultants --How these problems came about--- No one wanted the conversion they wanted to live with the old system. There were a bunch of wizzards and the longer they wait to imlement the more resitence they will have. Their rapid growth much like Google's has caused them to stray from their mission The company relies on reccommendations from their system becuase no one understands the system enough to challenge it. The lack of support and training from DTech and the Implementations team Network not secure or reliable ---How could they have been avoided--- Project manager should have an IT background or have...
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... he realized that having someone on a mic interacting with the crowd is just as important as the music behind it. He then decided to call on his good friend Coke La Rock to be the official MC of Clive’s parties. One of Coke La Rock’s first rhymes was “ There’s not a man that can’t be thrown, not a horse that can’t be rode, a bull that can’t be stopped, there’s no disco that I Coke La Rock can’t rock”. It made him the very first rapper in Hip Hop and birthed a new genre of music we know today as Rap . (Mize History of Rap) After the outbreak of hip hop began, local DJs and MCs began to showcase their talents at social events, gatherings, and especially parties. Some of the most famous DJs from that time where DJ Afrika Bambaattaa, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and Grandmaster Flash. Rap began to evolve everywhere and would slowly but surely become the huge powerhouse it is today. Although rap was becoming a big hit in Bronx, it did not gain popularity across the nation until songs like “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang and “Rapture” by Blondie made it onto Billboard's Top 40. These songs were considered the first rap songs. Rap music then started to become apart of pop culture. Artists like Run DMC, Whodini, and Marley Marl made major impacts on the music industry. Rap then became a cultural phenomenon. Although rap music gave off a fun and funky vibe, rappers started to use rap music as an outlet to confront serious issues that was going on within their communities. It wasn’t...
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...The functional specificy of the eye-contact The eye contact is widely used in communication, because it is the best way of the clarifying emotions among other non-verbal means of communication. In this chapter is covered the functional part of eye contact as a non verbal part of communication.The material of our research serve 773 fragments of English text which contain the description of the communicative situation where eye-contact is used. Eye contact as a mean of expressing emotions The eye contact includes many meanings, with which communicants send a lot of information to each other. In a broad sennse emotion is any human’s relatively brief conscious experience of the impact of internal and external stimuli associated with pleasure or displeasure of the various needs of the body. Modern psychology offers various typologies of emotions. In this study will be used the classification of basic emotions by russian psychologist and researcher K.E. Izard. Emotion is called fundamental when it has its own mechanism of an origin and expression of special means of mime and pantomime. It is believed that these emotions are innate. K.E. Izard distinguishes these fundamental emotions [18, p.27]: - interest-excitement - a positive emotion that motivates learning, development of skills and abilities, activates the learning process, stimulating curiosity - joy - pleasure - a positive emotional arousal that occurs when there is a full satisfaction of some urgent needs - grief...
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...GBA 7211 Introduction to Finance I Individual Graded Assignment a. Find the FV of $1,000 invested to earn 10% annually 5 years from now. Answer this question by using a math formula and also by using the Excel function wizard. Inputs: Formula: Wizard (FV): PV = I/YR = N = FV = PV(1+I)^N = 1000 10% 5 $ 1,610.51 $1,610.51 Note: When you use the wizard and fill in the menu items, the result is the formula you see on the formula line if you click on cell E12. Put the pointer on E12 and then click the function wizard (fx) to see the completed menu. Also, it is generally easiest to fill in the wizard menus by clicking on one of the menu slots to activate the cursor and then clicking on the cell where the item is given. Then, hit the tab key to move down to the next menu slot to continue filling out the dialog box. Experiment by changing the input values to see how quickly the output values change. b. Now create a table that shows the FV at 0%, 5%, and 20% for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years. Then create a graph with years on the horizontal axis and FV on the vertical axis to display your results. Begin by typing in the row and column labels as shown below. We could fill in the table by inserting formulas in all the cells, but a better way is to use an Excel data table Note that the Row Input Cell is D9 and the Column Input Cell is D10, and we set Cell B32 equal to Cell E11. Then, we selected (highlighted) the range B32:E38, then clicked Data, Table...
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...Bloodlines of Illuminati by: Fritz Springmeier, 1995 Introduction: I am pleased & honored to present this book to those in the world who love the truth. This is a book for lovers of the Truth. This is a book for those who are already familiar with my past writings. An Illuminati Grand Master once said that the world is a stage and we are all actors. Of course this was not an original thought, but it certainly is a way of describing the Illuminati view of how the world works. The people of the world are an audience to which the Illuminati entertain with propaganda. Just one of the thousands of recent examples of this type of acting done for the public was President Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union address. The speech was designed to push all of the warm fuzzy buttons of his listening audience that he could. All the green lights for acceptance were systematically pushed by the President’s speech with the help of a controlled congressional audience. The truth on the other hand doesn’t always tickle the ear and warm the ego of its listeners. The light of truth in this book will be too bright for some people who will want to return to the safe comfort of their darkness. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I deal with real facts, not theory. Some of the people I write about, I have met. Some of the people I expose are alive and very dangerous. The darkness has never liked the light. Yet, many of the secrets of the Illuminati are locked up tightly simply because secrecy is a way...
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