Principles of Corporate Finance

I will join to a class of corporate finance from December. I look for it. Because I never learn it until now.

I bought a class book that it's the Principles of Corporate Finance at Amazon. Of course, it was translated Japanese. But I bought another one in English. I want to learning it in English.

Gifts from Thai friend

Sawadee kap. Sabaidee mai kap?

Last week, Thai engineer came to Japan for a business. When I go to Thailand, He takes me out for a dinner every time.

He passed me gifts. It's a glass ship, fragrant candle and candle stand. It made me very happy.

His schedule was quite tight, so I couldn't go out dinner this time.

My Last Lesson in English

Henry who is my English teacher will go back United States next month. So yesterday was my last lesson. I studied English about two years.

I think that I will keep to learning English in the future.

Thank to Henry and Anna!!

English

In the classroom discussions, I said that exit strategy of start-up ventures have continued to rise since Sarbanes-Oxley Act. I knew about it on the web. But I didn't have the fact. Usually, we must have a fact with comments at the classroom discussions.

My classmate helped me, he searched the fact from NVCA. Yes, this website is in English.

About 70% information and 80% communication use English on the web.

I think anew English of need.

Kiva

This loan is my 5th loan.

I made a loan to "Chreal An" in Khsach Kandal district, Cambodia.

I hope to help her succeed.

Noblesse oblige

Do you know noblesse oblige? I just knew this word recently. This mean is below.

the moral obligation of those of high birth, powerful social position, etc., to act with honor, kindliness, generosity, etc.

Souce: Dictionary.com

In US, it appear that rich people make a contribution.
For example, Bill Gate founded "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation(B&MGF)". And Warren Buffett made a contribution to B&MGF.

WEB2.0 Election

Barack Obama knows well enough web2.0 that he join Facebook, it's a famous story.
He was supported a lot by Facebook users.

I felt that understanding web2.0 requires not only business but also politics.

Facebook page of Barack Obama
http://www.facebook.com/barackobama

Time Management

I guess that time management is very important.

I go to work and school. My school is on the web. So moving time is nothing.
But it needs to study a lot of time.

Almost all classmate have a job and maybe they are very busy for work. But they join with a good discussion everyday on the web. Why do they join it everyday?

At first I think that they have a lot of knowledge and experience, because they are older than me.
But I was wrong. If there is good knowledge, they say high level things. We search and think new things, we do the same things.
I noticed that the different is time management.

My friend wedding

I went to wedding. I met him at high school. He'd been always smartly dressed. So, this wedding was very nice atmosphere restaurant.

When we were students, I went to trip with him and other friend to Las Vegas, Hawaii and whatnot.
It was good memories.

Congratulations

Hello Muka and Rie-san,
Congratulations on your wedding! I'm very happy for you!

After this I will go to your wedding. See you later.

Ultra Mobile PC

I bought a Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) , the model was Acer ASPIRE ONE. Now, I can join on Web anytime, anywhere.

My school is on the Web. So, I always want to be ready for taking classes. Because, I often go on business trips, but every week I need to make reports.


Now I'm bringing my UMPC to Starbucks. I had a good time.

Sequoia Capital

Do you know Sequoia Capital? It is famous venture capital in Silicon Valley.
They invested following company:
Apple, Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Oracle, PayPal, YouTube etc.
These are massive company now.

There is a "ELEMENTS OF SUSTAINABLE COMPANIES" in Sequoia Capital's HP.

ELEMENTS OF SUSTAINABLE COMPANIES
Start-ups with these characteristics often foretells the success of a business and the likelihood of it becoming an enduring company with a sustainable business plan. We like to partner with companies that have:
CLARITY OF PURPOSE
Summarize the company's business on the back of a business card.
LARGE MARKETS
Address existing markets poised for rapid growth or change. A market on the path to a $1B potential allows for error and time for real margins to develop.
RICH CUSTOMERS
Target customers who will move fast and pay a premium for a unique offering.
FOCUS
Customers will only buy a simple product with a singular value proposition.
PAIN KILLERS
Pick the one thing that is of burning importance to the customer then delight them with a compelling solution.
THINK DIFFERENTLY
Constantly challenge conventional wisdom. Take the contrarian route. Create novel solutions. Outwit the competition.
TEAM DNA
A company’s DNA is set in the first 90 days. All team members are the smartest or most clever in their domain. "A" level founders attract an "A" level team.
AGILITY
Stealth and speed will usually help beat-out large companies.
FRUGALITY
Focus spending on what's critical. Spend only on the priorities and maximize profitability.
INFERNO
Start with only a little money. It forces discipline and focus. A huge market with customers yearning for a product developed by great engineers requires very little firepower.

Source: Sequoia Capital

The slide folow seems that they said to their investing company. It said that resentry economy.

Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn

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Meltdown in global market

On October, meltdown in global market. Japan's market is same.

My asset go down more than 30%. I do not panic, because I was learning about market this year. So I know to have a risk in market. And this money don't just need my life. I guess that market returns. But I don't know when it will go back, maybe after 5 years, 10 years, 20 years...

A magazine said that this finacial cricis is once a century. I hope that it uptrends our economy once a century too.

This article was written down Kenichi Omae who he is the author of "The Borderless World," "The Invisible Continent" and "The Next Global Stage" about U.S financial bailout plan.
"What is needed to make the U.S. financial bailout plan a success"

Past a week, joined a business course

Past a week, I joined a business course.

The course is very difficult for me. I'm not surprised. If it is easy, I do not join it. Right? I do not know a lot of technical word. I check it up one by one. I've learned it about 2-3 hours and weekend about 8 hour.

When I finish this course, I will grow up.

Moreover I am enjoying to learn now.

My friend Wedding

I went to a wedding for my high school and university friend. He was my basketball team mate at high school.
So, I could met a lot of team mates after a long time. I enjoyed my time.

This picture was taken at wedding. There is a hart-shaped cloud. He was a lucky man.
Dishes was very good.

Entrance ceremony

I attended my entrance ceremony at graduate school. It made me very happy.

My classmates have good careers. I did not have it. So, I am glad to learn with them and I'm thinking I want to exchange knowledge and experience with everyone. So I decided to study very hard during two years. And then I want to make a social contribution.

DREAM.6

I went to DREAM.6 last week. Once again, my brother passed me tickets, because he went to Switzerland for business.

This time, my co-worker who fondness of combat sports almost bought a ticket... So, I asked a friend from university days to come with me.

Bought there at Seven-Eleven in Thai

I drank a Red-Bull every day...
It was good.

Movies theater on the aricraft

When I go to Bangkok, movies is one of my fun on an aircraft.

It take about 6 hours from Japan to Bangkok one way. I usually watch 2 or 3 movies round trip. There was one of the movies not release in Japan.

This time, I watched 3 movies.
IRON MAN


SEX and the CITY


Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

We are smarter than me

I read the book "We are smarter than me".(Japanese name=クラウドソーシング)

This book was wrote about crowdsourcing. And It made me surprise, this book was writing for crowdsourcing. So, there are more than 4000 authors!!
How did authors write the book? It site is "we are smarter than me".

You know Wikipedia. It's one of most famous crowdsourcing. This book introduce good actual example with each theme. For example, theme of product development list P&G.

If you are interesting crowdsoursing, you should read this book. But it was released 2007, perhaps you read it.