Friday, January 7, 2011

Making Money Fast



In Monday’s Washington Post, Education Secretary Arne Duncan was confident that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, now known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), will be reauthorized this year, arguing that “few areas are more suited for bipartisan action than education reform.”


But Duncan should take a step back and note that there are wildly differing views on exactly how to approach the country’s largest federal education law.


It’s true that voices across the political spectrum and much of the public are dissatisfied with the NCLB status quo. But Duncan shouldn’t count on consensus about the solution just yet, especially not with a new Congress in town. A reauthorization process would provoke a major clash between two very different philosophies about the federal role in education.


As rumors of an NCLB reauthorization float around, the most important question is: What is the proper role of the federal government in education?


One view, held by Duncan and the Obama Administration, is that the federal government can and should play an increasingly large role in American schools. They may have concluded that NCLB is broken, but that doesn’t mean they think the federal role in education is fundamentally flawed.


While the Administration will likely use the language of transparency and flexibility to rally for their reauthorization plan, their current course sets a trajectory for more government involvement in local education.


From Duncan’s point of view, special interest groups such as the education unions should have a place at the bargaining table, despite the fact that they have shown little interest in or willingness to compromise on what’s best for children. Duncan also sees a role for the federal government in what children across the country learn in school and has put federal money behind national standards and tests that would shape curriculum in schools across the land. But such a move would do more to empower bureaucrats in Washington than those closest to children.


The Administration’s philosophical approach to education reform also includes more spending from Washington. This was evidenced by the nearly $100 billion the Department of Education received through the stimulus and the $10 billion public education “edujobs” bailout last year.


The second philosophy believes that in order to help American students realize their education potential, Washington needs to get out of the way and stop trying to act as the nation’s school board. And because educational authority is constitutionally reserved to the states, there is very little the federal government can do to improve local education. The federal government not only lacks the authority to manage local schools but also provides less than 10 percent of school funding, meaning Washington is ill-equipped to serve the diverse needs of 50 million school children across the country.


Restoring federalism in education means moving dollars and decision making out of Washington and putting it back in the hands of state and local leaders. Conservative leaders in Congress have suggested that this will be their approach.


In any debate over NCLB, policymakers should keep two guiding principles in mind:



  1. Washington-centric education reform has been tried for more than four decades and has failed. More money and more federal programs are not the answer to improving education. The United States spends more than $10,000 per pupil per year, and per-pupil expenditures have nearly tripled since 1970. Yet reading ability has stagnated, achievement gaps persist, and graduation rates have idled. Federal intervention has not improved America’s schools.

  2. It’s time for a fundamentally different approach to education reform, one that empowers those closest to students. Distant, unelected bureaucrats in Washington are the farthest from students, yet they create much of the red tape local schools have to deal with. Education reform should begin to restore federalism in education by allowing states to bypass federal bureaucracy and use their share of federal education funding to meet their students’ needs and to act as laboratories of reform and innovation.


There is an alternative to NCLB that would go a long way in achieving these conservative principles: the Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success (A-PLUS) plan, introduced in various iterations in recent years. Such a proposal would promote greater state and local control in education by allowing states to consolidate funding from dozens of federal education programs, bypass all the red tape, and direct resources to the most pressing education needs among their students. The A-PLUS plan also requires accountability through state-level testing and transparency about results for parents and taxpayers.


If this Administration is truly interested in using the reauthorization of NCLB to improve American education, it should back up its talk about flexibility and transparency by allowing states to opt out of burdensome federal mandates and direct money to the education priorities that make the most sense for their students. Coupled with requirements for transparency about results, such flexibility would ensure that the needs of students—not the demands of education unions, special interest groups, Washington bean-counters, and bureaucrats—will be met. Such an agenda is likely to garner broad support.











We don't have enough public market acquirers to sustain the start-up ecosystem.
That was the real back story that explains why Google failed to close a deal to buy
Groupon. Groupon wanted to
sell to Google for $6 billion. Of course they did, that is a huge amount of money – real cold hard cash – for a 2 year old
venture. Do you really think they turned that down for the vague possibility of
making more from an IPO in the distant future? Yes we all hear the stories of
visionary entrepreneurs who are such bold risk-takers and some of that is true but
most entrepreneurs don’t love risk, they love eliminating risk on the way to
building a venture.  The real story is that Groupon only backed off due to worries that the deal
would fall into AntiTrust
hurdles.



If we only have a handful of acquiring companies (basically today it is Google,
Amazon and Microsoft, now that eBay and Yahoo are wounded), the AntiTrust hurdle becomes more real. Even
if there is no AntiTrust
issue, Google, Amazon and Microsoft simply cannot buy all those venture-backed
companies.



So we need Groupon to go public and use their public
currency to buy other ventures working on local advertising/ecommerce. That will be
good news for lots of ventures. And a Groupon IPO success
will spur on other ventures that are getting ready for IPO.



I don’t know if Groupon really have the solid
financials to go public. We won’t know until they issue their prospectus to the
SEC. Until then we only have rumor and speculation. But if I were a betting man, I
would bet on Groupon being able to go public before
Twitter. And, this will be more controversial, before Facebook. But that as they say is another story. I am not trying here
to compile an actual list of ventures that could IPO in 2011. This is more about the
general environment for IPOs.



This has been what Steve Blank calls the “lost
decade” for tech IPOs. So why do I think that 2011 will be the year this
changes? There are 5 reasons:




  1. Private
    markets are under SEC scrutiny. This takes away the easy option of getting
    liquidity without either selling or going public. If you have more than 500
    shareholders you have to make your financials public, it is the law.


  2. There is a
    backlog of great companies that have the financial strength to IPO. The IPO market
    has been pretty well closed for a couple of years (some notable exceptions prove the
    rule). So the companies that have the potential to IPO have had more time to grow and
    get their act together.


  3. Investors
    are hungry for growth outside emerging markets. GDP in America and Europe seems to
    have a ceiling at 3% and the Chindia and BRIC stories of
    emerging markets growing at 8-10% has created too much capital flowing to those
    markets (generating fears of a bubble). So investors want companies in the developed
    markets that can grow at really fast pace (at least 30%, ideally 60% plus) from a
    base of at least $100m revenue for a long time to come. That has to come primarily
    from tech/media ventures.


  4. The
    macroeconomic picture is improving. Yes, there are always worries and another
    crash is always possible, but "markets always climb a wall of worry" and the general
    trends seem positive. But cycles don't last forever, so the people making these
    decisions (Boards and their Investment Bankers) will look at 2011 as a good window of
    opportunity.


  5. The bean
    counters have figured out how to live with Sarbox. For a long time, Sarbanes Oxley ("Sarbox") regulatory overhead has been seen as a reason why you cannot
    run a public company. Baloney, as they say in Brooklyn. It is a simple bit of
    operational overhead, a rounding error for a great company.



IPO is still the golden ticket. Real entrepreneurs want to IPO. Getting acquired
is a great way to build capital, but it is not the dream of the really driven,
talented entrepreneurs. There are logical reasons for this. The valuation at IPO is
usually (not always, plenty of exceptions to this rule) higher than you can get from
an M&A exit. And more importantly for the
entrepreneur, it is actually often easier to manage public market investors than a
bunch of VC with different agendas. But logical reasons be damned, an IPO is simply
the big badge of honor for the entrepreneur and the investors who back him/her.



It is not clear what we will call the decade that starts in a few days time
– the “teens” maybe – but it will possibly be one where we
get a sustainable IPO market for tech ventures. By “sustainable” I mean
that it cannot be a return to the Dot Com bubble years. Only great companies with
really solid financials will get through the IPO gate. And the valuations will have
to remain grounded in reality (short sellers will ensure that is the case).



Here’s hoping. Happy New Year folks.













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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Making Money Tips

Thanks God we are done with celebrating and can start working! Here’s one essential checklist for you to start:


1. Acknowledge Your Biggest Fans


Do you have fans that re-tweet your posts, email your articles to friends, and send new business your way? What have you done for them? Have you at least taken the time to thank them?


You should always monitor your brand, your website link and your own name (I use SocialMention). Every time someone says something nice about you, you should thank them. If you can do something else in return, by all means do.


2. Understand the Golden Rule of Blogging


Most blogs don’t appeal to the audience they’re writing for. The writing may be good, but the topics aren’t. Let’s say you sell furniture. Your blog shouldn’t be about your specials, the new employee you hired or about your vacation to Hawaii. Your blog should be about furniture.


Always ask yourself this question: who am I writing for? What kind of content do they want? It doesn’t matter if you don’t offer all the services you write about. For example, I own an Internet marketing agency and my audience is business owners. But, I don’t only write about online marketing; I write about topics that are of interest to business owners, such as lowering costs, motivating employees and off-line marketing.


Find out what your audience wants and give it to them.


3. Use Decoy Offers


Have you ever wondered why some stores sell an item for $100 and in the price tags says “Was $200″? It makes the current price look a lot better. Some people might think $100 is a lot of money for that item, but hey, it was $200, so you’re getting a great deal, right? Well, believe it or not, it works. This is because everything is either a great deal or an awful deal based on what you compare it with.


Psychologists call this “the principle of contrast.”  How can you use this to your benefit? My favorite way is to present two or more offers. One will be your current offer and then you’ll add some decoy offers. The decoy offers will be really bad deals, but they’ll make your main offer look great. For example, you can sell one can of your product at $19 and three cans at $25 with free shipping and feature this last offer as the weekly special. Try it; it works like a charm and there’s nothing unethical about it. You’ll keep your main offer and all you’re doing is making it look better by adding some not-so-attractive offers.



4. Write Your Marketing Copy First and Develop Your Product Around It


I’ve found this tactic to be extremely effective. Instead of creating a product and then writing the marketing message, I like writing the copy first because by trying to sell it with words, I get a much better understanding of what the audience really wants and I can give them that product or service.


5. People Buy from People, Not Companies


Your customers might have known your company first, but they bought from you because they liked you or the salesperson they dealt with. This is especially true in B2B. The takeaway here is: do a good job explaining how your company can help your clients but do an even better job connecting with your prospects at a personal level.




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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

budgeting personal finances

The theory is simple: "If you don't have the money, don't charge it. Try to leave your credit card at home and only use it to pay bills," advises April Lewis, director of education for Consolidated Credit Counseling Services. Then immediately pay off your credit-card balance. As for old credit-card debt, sit down and commit to paper a plan for paying them off. Go for a quick hit, like paying off the smallest balance first, or decide to take on the highest rate card first. Get the job done.

Here's a second tip: Be proactive about managing your credit. Call up your lender and ask it to lower your interest rate. Usually, lenders will lower callers' rates by 2% to 3%, says Scott Gamm, founder of HelpSaveMyDollars.com. Also check your credit report. You can check your credit for free at annualcreditreport.com, for example. If you see mistakes, contact the credit agencies and get those mistakes corrected. If errors are dragging down your score, eliminating them can boost it to where it belongs and make you eligible for better rates.

2. Think automation

Free online banking tools can make it easier to manage your finances with less work. To help grow your savings, for example, you can schedule regular transfers from your checking account. Manisha Thakor, author of Get Financially Naked: How to Talk Money With Your Honey, suggests setting up the transfer of a set amount of money into your savings account every pay day.

Also automate recurring bill payments so you never miss a due date or pay a late fee, which sends money down the drain. Even without late fees, timely payments are key: 35% of your credit score is based on your ability to make payments on time. If you sign up for automatic payments, however, make sure to check your monthly bills for errors. One other caveat: "Make sure you have enough cushion in your checking account to avoid any overdrafts" before setting up auto-payments, money coach Lora Sasiela says.

Over the past few years, much of the news has revolved around the economic crisis in the United States. I have opened newspaper after newspaper only to find the words “debt” and “budget” streaming across the headlines more mornings than I would have thought possible. One can conclude one of two things from these frequently reoccurring words. Either journalists are having an incredibly troublesome time finding synonyms for them, or debt and budgeting are two serious issues facing both individual Americans and our overarching political establishment.


I would venture to say most would agree that it is the latter. Debt is a financial reality for countless Americans, as well as the United States government; however, this discussion will not revolve so much around the government but the American people.


Debt could be easily be compared to a common illness that seems innocent enough—until you find yourself unable to get out of bed because it has rendered you helpless. Debt starts out a bit like that. It seems harmless enough until you receive the credit card bill at the end of the month.


Far too many individuals in the United States not only spend recklessly but spend far beyond their means. Just think about it. A grande cappuccino from Starbucks costs somewhere between $3 and $4, possibly more if you prefer soy milk or extra flavors. Now I am well aware that drinks such as these are delicious treats. With every Chai Tea Latte I consume, I feel an instant peace ensue throughout my body. That may be due to my caffeine addiction, but whatever the case may be, it would undoubtedly be more cost-effective to purchase a pound of coffee beans and brew the caffeinated beverages myself.


That is only the beginning. Consider the number of new vehicles you see driving along the highway each morning, some worth well over $50,000. That in itself could fund almost my entire college education.



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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Making Money Guide



The examples may not seem that relevant when thinking about technology and how it functions for an organization. But they do show how technology often intersects with the world for some amazing results.



In many ways, the discovery of that intersection can be transforming for an organization. It adds importance to the enterprise. With this thematic framework, emphasis can be put on developing an enterprise that adapts quickly to market conditions and fits with the organization's overall goals.



For example, 3D printing is first on the JWT list. Mack says 3D printers will come into mainstream use, allowing people to create everything from jewelry to lamps to homes.





In a blog post, Union Square Venture's Fred Wilson writes that the best success comes when you see the intersection with technology, the Internet, money, politics and other aspects of life. It's not purely about one thing.



3D printing is representative of services that use technology to change the means of production without the need to invest in expensive manufacturing equipment. The organizations banking on the advent of 3D printers include Shapeways, Hewlett-Packard and Google. All these companies made strategic decisions about how they structured its enterprise environments to provide 3D printing capabilities.



Google may be the best example of all. Its enterprise is designed to provide this type of innovation. Hewlett-Packard has leveraged its printing and networking strengths. And Shapeways, which has a Union Square investment, is a startup that is using the cloud to provide its 3D printing services.



The challenge for the enterprise is how it becomes a catalyst to act on opportunities before they becomes big trends. That may mean faster adoption of mobile technologies for its own workforce or shifting the way it thinks about developing products.



Mobile as the Everything Hub



Mack says mobile is the everything hub. Mobile is critical in our lives. The list is full of examples that demonstrate how organizations will be affected by this mega trend. For example, tap-to-pay is number 88 on the list.





Making the six spot on the list is Geoloqi, a startup based here in Portland, OR. The company is a study in how mobile technologies are changing how we view a world that is becoming more fluid than hard-wired. Geoloqi allows people to use their smart phones to do automatic check-ins. It allows people to set set automatic reminders and notifications--sent to themselves or friends-- for specific locations. People can leave "geonotes," at specific locations that someone in the future may view. It allows you to automatically notify people of your proximity.



Geoloqi demonstrates how smartphones help people adjust to a world where geospatial environments have any number of data layers. You can access these data layers with services that require nothing but the ability to send or receive a notification. You don't need to push a button to let someone know you'll be at a location soon. A service like Geoloqi will notify your colleague automatically. This is not being lost on the enterprise. There are a number of companies now offering geolocation services for enterprise environments.



Amber Case and Aaron Parecki are the company founders. Case is also an anthropoligist. In an interview with us, she touched on the dynamics that are in play now with the advent of touch technologies and how transforming it will be for the way we work and live:



In the past, an interface was an interface in the same way that a book is a book - it doesn't change - the words don't change. A computer had hardware buttons. If you wanted to change the buttons, you'd have to rewire the machine. Then interfaces became liquid. And if you wanted buttons to appear and go away, or to have different functions you'd just change the code. With touch screen phones, we're dealing with liquid interfaces. They absorb the functionality of the world around them. So most things that existed in real life - most functions - can now be done on a phone.


The examples Mack gives reflect on the way organizations are adapting to shifts in the way we live and work.



How we adapt is the big question. It's not just the cloud or virtualization. It's more rooted in how these kinds of technologies intersect with any number of different aspects in the market and society.











Yahoo’s ship is sinking. To keep it afloat, they’re tossing all the dead weight — and there’s a lot — of their unprofitable websites. We even got early word of which sites and services would be dropped when a leaked image gave us insider information, directly from a presentation for Yahoo employees. However, while Yahoo feels the pain of loss as these long-time projects are abandoned, start-ups have new cause to celebrate.


As reported by Mashable, this centers around one key site seeing its final sunset: Delicious. Delicious, one of Yahoo’s more popular yet least profitable sites, is certainly not in line with the company’s overall scheme. Their plan, they stated, was a sale. But considering how easy social bookmarking sites are to replicate, and Delicious’s proven track record of making no money, that seems unlikely. Further, insiders working on the Delicious project have told us that selling the site would be made even more complex thanks to the deep integration of proprietary, Yahoo-specific technologies.


Whether they wind up selling or bailing, Delicious users caught wind of the news, and their immediate response was to abandon ship as well. These users exported their social bookmarking data, and went in droves to competing start-ups like YourVersion, Histori.us, Pinboard.in, and Springpad, all of which saw spikes in traffic after the leaked announcement of Delicious’s upcoming fate. These aren’t small figures, either. According to Jeff Janer, the CEO of Springpad, there have been “more than two million bookmarks migrated from Delicious” in the two weeks after the information leak. The winner, however, may be Pinboard.in. According to the Alexa traffic statistics, Pinboard.in saw a full 720% traffic increase in the final two weeks of December.


While the need to abandon this property may be tragic for Yahoo, competitors stand to gain immensely by acting as the fail safe for the flagging, former search engine champion.




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The examples may not seem that relevant when thinking about technology and how it functions for an organization. But they do show how technology often intersects with the world for some amazing results.



In many ways, the discovery of that intersection can be transforming for an organization. It adds importance to the enterprise. With this thematic framework, emphasis can be put on developing an enterprise that adapts quickly to market conditions and fits with the organization's overall goals.



For example, 3D printing is first on the JWT list. Mack says 3D printers will come into mainstream use, allowing people to create everything from jewelry to lamps to homes.





In a blog post, Union Square Venture's Fred Wilson writes that the best success comes when you see the intersection with technology, the Internet, money, politics and other aspects of life. It's not purely about one thing.



3D printing is representative of services that use technology to change the means of production without the need to invest in expensive manufacturing equipment. The organizations banking on the advent of 3D printers include Shapeways, Hewlett-Packard and Google. All these companies made strategic decisions about how they structured its enterprise environments to provide 3D printing capabilities.



Google may be the best example of all. Its enterprise is designed to provide this type of innovation. Hewlett-Packard has leveraged its printing and networking strengths. And Shapeways, which has a Union Square investment, is a startup that is using the cloud to provide its 3D printing services.



The challenge for the enterprise is how it becomes a catalyst to act on opportunities before they becomes big trends. That may mean faster adoption of mobile technologies for its own workforce or shifting the way it thinks about developing products.



Mobile as the Everything Hub



Mack says mobile is the everything hub. Mobile is critical in our lives. The list is full of examples that demonstrate how organizations will be affected by this mega trend. For example, tap-to-pay is number 88 on the list.





Making the six spot on the list is Geoloqi, a startup based here in Portland, OR. The company is a study in how mobile technologies are changing how we view a world that is becoming more fluid than hard-wired. Geoloqi allows people to use their smart phones to do automatic check-ins. It allows people to set set automatic reminders and notifications--sent to themselves or friends-- for specific locations. People can leave "geonotes," at specific locations that someone in the future may view. It allows you to automatically notify people of your proximity.



Geoloqi demonstrates how smartphones help people adjust to a world where geospatial environments have any number of data layers. You can access these data layers with services that require nothing but the ability to send or receive a notification. You don't need to push a button to let someone know you'll be at a location soon. A service like Geoloqi will notify your colleague automatically. This is not being lost on the enterprise. There are a number of companies now offering geolocation services for enterprise environments.



Amber Case and Aaron Parecki are the company founders. Case is also an anthropoligist. In an interview with us, she touched on the dynamics that are in play now with the advent of touch technologies and how transforming it will be for the way we work and live:



In the past, an interface was an interface in the same way that a book is a book - it doesn't change - the words don't change. A computer had hardware buttons. If you wanted to change the buttons, you'd have to rewire the machine. Then interfaces became liquid. And if you wanted buttons to appear and go away, or to have different functions you'd just change the code. With touch screen phones, we're dealing with liquid interfaces. They absorb the functionality of the world around them. So most things that existed in real life - most functions - can now be done on a phone.


The examples Mack gives reflect on the way organizations are adapting to shifts in the way we live and work.



How we adapt is the big question. It's not just the cloud or virtualization. It's more rooted in how these kinds of technologies intersect with any number of different aspects in the market and society.











Yahoo’s ship is sinking. To keep it afloat, they’re tossing all the dead weight — and there’s a lot — of their unprofitable websites. We even got early word of which sites and services would be dropped when a leaked image gave us insider information, directly from a presentation for Yahoo employees. However, while Yahoo feels the pain of loss as these long-time projects are abandoned, start-ups have new cause to celebrate.


As reported by Mashable, this centers around one key site seeing its final sunset: Delicious. Delicious, one of Yahoo’s more popular yet least profitable sites, is certainly not in line with the company’s overall scheme. Their plan, they stated, was a sale. But considering how easy social bookmarking sites are to replicate, and Delicious’s proven track record of making no money, that seems unlikely. Further, insiders working on the Delicious project have told us that selling the site would be made even more complex thanks to the deep integration of proprietary, Yahoo-specific technologies.


Whether they wind up selling or bailing, Delicious users caught wind of the news, and their immediate response was to abandon ship as well. These users exported their social bookmarking data, and went in droves to competing start-ups like YourVersion, Histori.us, Pinboard.in, and Springpad, all of which saw spikes in traffic after the leaked announcement of Delicious’s upcoming fate. These aren’t small figures, either. According to Jeff Janer, the CEO of Springpad, there have been “more than two million bookmarks migrated from Delicious” in the two weeks after the information leak. The winner, however, may be Pinboard.in. According to the Alexa traffic statistics, Pinboard.in saw a full 720% traffic increase in the final two weeks of December.


While the need to abandon this property may be tragic for Yahoo, competitors stand to gain immensely by acting as the fail safe for the flagging, former search engine champion.




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Hello, and welcome to my guide to making money on the Grand Exchange, I am going to tell you about the three main methods on merchanting, one which is sure to work, but may take a little time, and another which can make you millions fast, but involves a high level of risk. So, without further ado. . .

Method 1

The first method involves very little risk at all, but it may take a while to start making big profits, however, it is good for those who wish to build their profits without having to do much work. First, head to the Runescape Grand Exchange site ( http://itemdb-rs.runescape.com/frontpage.ws ) and go to the '100 Most Traded Items' list, this will ensure you will find an item with quite a high desirability, therefore meaning you get a quicker sale. Click on an item, we'll go with fire runes, seeing as it's top on the list.

As you can see, the line on the chart is perfectly straight, this is exactly what we're looking for, and since this item is so high on the most traded list, it is perfect for us. However, it's low price doesn't leave us with much space to make a profit. This item is great for beginners wanting to build their money, but eventually you'll want to move onto something with a bigger profit, so we will continue.

As we go back to the Most Traded Item's list, just search around until you find a good item, for instance, I have found coal here, the line on the chart is pretty straight, so the price isn't very likely to suddenly drop or go higher, and there is quite a good profit margin, so we'll go with coal.

Head over to the Grand Exchange, north of Varrock west bank and buy some coal, you'll want to buy it for lower than the market price in order to make a decent profit, however, the lower the price, the longer it'll take for you to buy the item, so you have to find the balance.

Once you bought as much coal (or whatever item you are buying) as you want, it's time to sell. As a general rule, I sell for the market price, as it takes too long if I sell any higher than that, but do experiment around with this and find whats right for you.

You should always test any item you plan to use this method one, by buying just a small amount and then seeing how long it takes to sell, this will help you avoid major money loss.

That's basically it for method 1, you can use this method for a long time and it will still be profitable, experiment with different items, as some will be alot better than others.

Method 2

This method involves quite alot of risk and you will also need quite a bit of money to make good profits. It is also helpful to be able to predict the market. This method is about buying items when the price drops, and selling the item when the price goes up. For instance, the price of Santa Hats usually goes up around Christmas, so if a player bought a Santa a couple of months before, for a lower price, they could make quite a large profit, as shown on the picture below, if a player bought a Santa on the 7th July, then sold it on the 23rd, they could make around 3M profit. However, if they waited longer, they could make even more.

(Sorry but I couldn't get the picture to upload, so here's a link to it, sorry - http://tinyurl.com/Santa-Hat-Chart )

When the price starts of an item starts to go down, you should start thinking about selling your item, before the price plummets. The trick of this method is to always keep an eye on the graphs, or you could easily lose millions.

This method is quite high risk, but the payoffs are brilliant.

Method 3

Another way of making money from the Grand Exchange is by buying raw materials and then selling the finished item. This is takes quite a while but is good as it gives both quite a good profit and good experience in whatever skill you are training.
For instance, I could buy coal for 192gp each and iron for 98gp each. Now, to make a steel bar it takes two coal and one iron, so this is 482gp per steel bar. I can sell these steel bars for 643gp each, so that is a 161gp profit per bar. If I made 1000 steel bars, I would make 161k and earn 17.5k experience in smithing.

I hope that my guide has helped you make money on the Exchange, but you must remember to experiment with different items in order to find the right things for you, some items take longer to sell, but make a bigger profit, others are quick to sell, but don't yield much of a profit.

Any questions, PM me ingame, my RuneScape name is 'Deadbird33.'

Good luck.


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The examples may not seem that relevant when thinking about technology and how it functions for an organization. But they do show how technology often intersects with the world for some amazing results.



In many ways, the discovery of that intersection can be transforming for an organization. It adds importance to the enterprise. With this thematic framework, emphasis can be put on developing an enterprise that adapts quickly to market conditions and fits with the organization's overall goals.



For example, 3D printing is first on the JWT list. Mack says 3D printers will come into mainstream use, allowing people to create everything from jewelry to lamps to homes.





In a blog post, Union Square Venture's Fred Wilson writes that the best success comes when you see the intersection with technology, the Internet, money, politics and other aspects of life. It's not purely about one thing.



3D printing is representative of services that use technology to change the means of production without the need to invest in expensive manufacturing equipment. The organizations banking on the advent of 3D printers include Shapeways, Hewlett-Packard and Google. All these companies made strategic decisions about how they structured its enterprise environments to provide 3D printing capabilities.



Google may be the best example of all. Its enterprise is designed to provide this type of innovation. Hewlett-Packard has leveraged its printing and networking strengths. And Shapeways, which has a Union Square investment, is a startup that is using the cloud to provide its 3D printing services.



The challenge for the enterprise is how it becomes a catalyst to act on opportunities before they becomes big trends. That may mean faster adoption of mobile technologies for its own workforce or shifting the way it thinks about developing products.



Mobile as the Everything Hub



Mack says mobile is the everything hub. Mobile is critical in our lives. The list is full of examples that demonstrate how organizations will be affected by this mega trend. For example, tap-to-pay is number 88 on the list.





Making the six spot on the list is Geoloqi, a startup based here in Portland, OR. The company is a study in how mobile technologies are changing how we view a world that is becoming more fluid than hard-wired. Geoloqi allows people to use their smart phones to do automatic check-ins. It allows people to set set automatic reminders and notifications--sent to themselves or friends-- for specific locations. People can leave "geonotes," at specific locations that someone in the future may view. It allows you to automatically notify people of your proximity.



Geoloqi demonstrates how smartphones help people adjust to a world where geospatial environments have any number of data layers. You can access these data layers with services that require nothing but the ability to send or receive a notification. You don't need to push a button to let someone know you'll be at a location soon. A service like Geoloqi will notify your colleague automatically. This is not being lost on the enterprise. There are a number of companies now offering geolocation services for enterprise environments.



Amber Case and Aaron Parecki are the company founders. Case is also an anthropoligist. In an interview with us, she touched on the dynamics that are in play now with the advent of touch technologies and how transforming it will be for the way we work and live:



In the past, an interface was an interface in the same way that a book is a book - it doesn't change - the words don't change. A computer had hardware buttons. If you wanted to change the buttons, you'd have to rewire the machine. Then interfaces became liquid. And if you wanted buttons to appear and go away, or to have different functions you'd just change the code. With touch screen phones, we're dealing with liquid interfaces. They absorb the functionality of the world around them. So most things that existed in real life - most functions - can now be done on a phone.


The examples Mack gives reflect on the way organizations are adapting to shifts in the way we live and work.



How we adapt is the big question. It's not just the cloud or virtualization. It's more rooted in how these kinds of technologies intersect with any number of different aspects in the market and society.











Yahoo’s ship is sinking. To keep it afloat, they’re tossing all the dead weight — and there’s a lot — of their unprofitable websites. We even got early word of which sites and services would be dropped when a leaked image gave us insider information, directly from a presentation for Yahoo employees. However, while Yahoo feels the pain of loss as these long-time projects are abandoned, start-ups have new cause to celebrate.


As reported by Mashable, this centers around one key site seeing its final sunset: Delicious. Delicious, one of Yahoo’s more popular yet least profitable sites, is certainly not in line with the company’s overall scheme. Their plan, they stated, was a sale. But considering how easy social bookmarking sites are to replicate, and Delicious’s proven track record of making no money, that seems unlikely. Further, insiders working on the Delicious project have told us that selling the site would be made even more complex thanks to the deep integration of proprietary, Yahoo-specific technologies.


Whether they wind up selling or bailing, Delicious users caught wind of the news, and their immediate response was to abandon ship as well. These users exported their social bookmarking data, and went in droves to competing start-ups like YourVersion, Histori.us, Pinboard.in, and Springpad, all of which saw spikes in traffic after the leaked announcement of Delicious’s upcoming fate. These aren’t small figures, either. According to Jeff Janer, the CEO of Springpad, there have been “more than two million bookmarks migrated from Delicious” in the two weeks after the information leak. The winner, however, may be Pinboard.in. According to the Alexa traffic statistics, Pinboard.in saw a full 720% traffic increase in the final two weeks of December.


While the need to abandon this property may be tragic for Yahoo, competitors stand to gain immensely by acting as the fail safe for the flagging, former search engine champion.




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