Entries from January 2006 ↓

“If not for a donation to launch its charitable foundation and stock compensation expenses, Google said it would have earned $1.54 per share. That missed the average estimate of $1.76 per share among 31 analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial.”

And the stock fell 15.5 percent today, losing $20 billion in “shareholder wealth.” Too bad Google’s “do no evil” mantra (charitable foundation donation) and it’s talented people (stock compensation) lost $20 billion in “shareholder wealth.”

There would be no “shareholder wealth” without the people of Google. And, the people are the ones who gave money to charity and got the stock compensation. The real value in investing in Google has nothing to do with stock price or shareholder wealth. Stock price is only a result of the people. Now that’s valuation.

“If you are closely directed by someone else, you just don’t pick up as much.” - Greg Warnock on entrepreneurship.

LoveSac Shawn Nelson speaks about something he calls economic pressure in this FundingUniverse podcast. Remember the conference I talked about earlier? This sounds just like it.

I’ll bet I spent two to three hours last night trying to fix a log in glitch in wordpress. The only solution was to upgrade to 2.0, and I don’t like 2.0 so much.

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.”

- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

hmmmm . . . this really hits the heart of the conference I attended.

I have been gone from the office since Thursday. I just got back from Las Vegas, but I wasn’t there the entire time. On Friday I went to a day-long conference that I believe has changed my outlook on the things that I will blog about. It wasn’t a blogging conference. It wasn’t even really a work-related conference. But, it was something that changed me over the weekend. Well, change is a process, but I think it definitely sprouted some thinking.

What conference was it? I’ll tell you later. For now, I need to see if it had a “change effect.”

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Yes, DJake, I meant “change effect.” And, no matter how much writing I do, I still mess that one up.

If you do a search for terms that people look up, Utah Valley Public Relations isn’t one that gets a ton of looks. But sometimes it doesn’t matter if it is exact because folks will likely get variations of this because of the word “Utah” being in the phrase.

If you found my site, welcome. If you are interested in learning more about public relations in Utah, feel free to read my blog as I make frequent commentary on the subject.

Ever heard of ambergris? Neither have I, but apparently if fetches $25 to $30 per gram. What is it? Some kind of mass that sperm whales belch up. A couple in Australia found a lump of it that weighs 32 pounds. That’s roughly $300,000 worth of whale barf.