madox commented on The layoff lie

"@aa: Someone else told me to STFU, so um, I guess I will STFU. :("

madox commented on The layoff lie

"@aa: Wow, I am so impressed that you were able to paraphrase Wikipedia and Investopedia for such a succinct definition of NPV and IRR analysis. As for what you call the "risk/reward" aspect towards NPV/IRR, please do provide me with links to the literature that demonstrate various company views towards NPV/IRR as a "risk/reward." The last time I checked, if the NPV of a project is negative, then a company will not invest in that particular project."

madox commented on Hulu's surprising lesson

"I am probably one of the few people that are not susceptible to advertising as a whole (probably because of several marketing classes that I took)."

madox commented on madox

"@prsiii: Uhh...Err… Hrm..."

madox commented on Global economic collapse actually Larry and Sergey's fault

"Google could have held a key-role in demonstrating what a company needs to do during a serious economic downturn; instead Google decided to throw a piss-poor rave. I seriously hope that Google shareholders took note of what their money was spent on: Absolutely horrible music and an ugly chick allowed entry into the "Goog-Club" to vlog about the fund-waste-fest."

madox commented on The layoff lie

"@Owen Thomas: Owen, not all public companies have a time-horizon of three months."

madox commented on thekevin

"@eze: I heard this quote from someone that quotes quoatations."

madox commented on The layoff lie

"@aa: Uh yeah, you went to what business school?"

madox commented on Wall Street Journal discovers Twitter

"Owen, I'll take a different approach to the "premium service" concept: People that use Twitter now, or have heard of Twitter, expect it to be free."

madox commented on Barry Diller blames investors for IAC stock price

"Not that I actually care too much about Barry, but InterActiveCorp does have some issues that need to be answered: 1) It has a huge amount of "goodwill" on its asset side of the balance sheet, meaning that probably paid way too much too acquire other companies. 2) Net income is negative, but that could just be a way to dodge paying taxes. 3) Lastly, and most importantly, one would need to run a discounted cash flow analysis to see if investors thought is was over valued."