Silicon Valley Vaporization: Are Startups Burning Too Much Cash? SOMA, the Flatiron district, Palo Alto, and London Shoreditch. They’re some of the hottest addresses in the business world. Rents for commercial space there have skyrocketed, thanks to one thing: astronomical tech company valuations. For those of us who remember 1999/2000, what goes up can go…
Getting Paid to Quit: Why some employers pay up to $25,000 to get employees to quit The bad seed. The weak link. The well poisoner. Every office has one: the person who should have never been hired. Now some companies are fighting back against these morale-killing mismatches by adopting radical new programs that get bad…
The Incubator Boom: How Much Do They Actually Help? Accelerator launch party, San Francisco, 2014 Startup culture is white hot in America right now. Valuations are high, the IPO market is finally back, and the cost of starting a business is at historical lows, especially for many tech companies. It’s no wonder that nine in…
The Gherkin Skyscraper – A Financial History The Gherkin: A shiny missile able to blow up a balance sheet In statistics, pictures of risk often take the shape of elegant bell curves. But in real estate, a better visualization of risk might be the elegant missile-like shape of the London skyscraper nicknamed the Gherkin, which…
Despite Progress, Women Are Still Under-Represented in Management-Level Finance Jobs Women in the financial services sector have by definition mastered working with numbers, but a survey of the latest statistics on the sector shows that there is one number women in financial services just can’t seem to conquer: 32%. Whichever category of finance management we…
Thinking About Minimum Wage Increases in a Globalized Economy There isn’t a country on earth whose citizens don’t want to increase their standard of living. For many, that could mean a bigger house or enough money to retire by 65; for others, it could mean simply clean water or long-term housing. The process of determining…
GAAP versus Non-GAAP: Which is Closer to Reality? In the United States, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) set the standard for how public companies report earnings. However, for many investors and other observers, this strict set of rules aren’t always the best measurement of performance, especially in newer industries like technology. Many companies are now…
Trademark Cancellation by the US Government Highlights a Business Risk for Companies with Trademarks Redskins CEO Dan Snyder (Image Credit: Wikimedia / CC 2.0) The June 18 decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark and Trial Appeal Board (USPTO) to cancel the registrations of six trademarks owned by the Washington Redskins football team has thrown…
Is China Mt. Everest of the world economy? Don’t go just because it’s there. Expanding into the Chinese market has been a focus for many businesses in recent years. In some industries it’s the largest market in the world and in others it may be soon. It has a growing middle class and an appetite…
Accounting issues for expatriate employees The US dollar has fallen more than 5% in the past year against the Euro and the British pound. Source: Bloomberg The cost of living for U.S. expatriates, U.S. employees based overseas, continues to rise, as a new survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) demonstrates. Rising cost of living in foreign…
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