Business buzzwords

An entrepreneur for over 35 years mentioned to me that it's a common misconception that it takes ..... of money to create a business; in his experience, many of the successful businesses out there have been started by people with little or no money at all.

There's a name for people who are able to identify the customer-grabbing, revenue-generating power in their particular job and maximize it at every possible opportunity - they're called ......

In an article published in the Journal of Petroleum Technology titled 'Competitive bidding in high risk situations', by Capen, Clapp and Campbell of the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) in 1971, the authors coined the term 'winner's .....'.

Bill Nguyen is the subject of a story in The WSJ about how entrepreneurs are cautiously spending venture capital, especially compared to the last crop of Internet entrepreneurs in the 90s; the story includes some of the monthly ..... rates at Silicon Valley companies - about $160,000 a month at Meebo, $200,000 at LaLa and $500,000 at Sharpcast.

John A. Thain, who took the New York Stock Exchange (NYX ) public earlier this year, is racing to keep the Big ..... competitive.

I personally favour, as long as it is open, what is called the '.....', all the cards on the table, everybody in the whole world knows what you are auctioning; the market will adjust immediately at that point and people will pay the price of it.

In the first quarter of fiscal 2007, Adobe achieved revenue of $649.4 million and earnings per share were $0.30; the consensus estimates were for $655 million in revenue and $0.29 in eps, which means that for the quarter Adobe missed on the ..... line but more than made it up by controlling expenses.

This book highlights advanced technologies that might help you make decisions on when to buy or sell stocks, track their ups and downs, and analyze your portfolio, while you're at it; but don't forget, though they might give a bit of techie buzz to investing, there are limits to what ..... science can do to help investors.

Firms are throwing millions of dollars at university IP portfolios without regard to what is actually in the portfolio - are we seeing another ..... investment strategy that will take us to another nanotech bubble bursting because they are ill-informed and believe nanotech is still so far off for ROI that only IP is available?

Known as 'the Oracle of Omaha', ..... is Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and arguably the greatest investor of all time; his wealth fluctuates with the performance of the market, but for the last few years he has been reported to be worth over $30 billion, making him the second richest man in the world.