Business
NVidia Stock: Over 11x in 4 years!
Jesse Chan | October 25th, 2007 | 2 Comments
On August 9, 2004, NVidia stock opened at $3.23 per share (split-adjusted). Today, even with a large, one-day price drop, NVidia stock opened at $36.85. That’s over 11.4 times in a little over 4 years! To put that in perspective, it has been a better stock than Google in the same time […]
Apple’s Stock 28x in 4.5 years!
Jesse Chan | October 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments
On April 17, 2003, Apple’s split-adjusted stock price opened at $6.60 a share. Today, October 23, 2007, Apple stock opened at $188.56. That’s over 28 times your initial investment in just a 4.5 years! Incredible. In fact, Apple just passed IBM and Intel in market capitalization! Who would have […]
Google at $1000/share
Jesse Chan | October 8th, 2007 | 7 Comments
In August of 2004, during the Google IPO, I predicted that Google would surpass Microsoft in market capitalization in 5 years. At that time Google stock was $85/share giving it a market capitalization of $26 Billion, while Microsoft had a market capitalization north of $300 Billion. Since that time, Microsoft’s stock has actually taken […]
Don’t Start a Business Without a Strategy!
Bimin Chan | October 8th, 2007 | No Comments
Strategy is an integrated and coordinated set of commitment and actions designed to utilize core competencies and achieve a competitive advantage. When a company has a strategy, it will perform different activities from its competitors, or perform similar activities in different ways. The strategy of a company is to develop products or deliver services which […]
Possibilities for Reverse Product Placement
Jesse Chan | October 5th, 2007 | No Comments
Reverse Product Placement is where a fictional product, such as in a movie or video game, becomes a real-world product. There is an amazing amount of wealth, left untapped, in many fictional brands. Smart marketing executives are discovering that they can generate additional revenue by capitalizing on products that were made famous in […]
Best Product Placements in Movies
Jesse Chan | October 5th, 2007 | 2 Comments
Movies are a powerful medium. They have powerful influence, and can sway decision-making. Advertisers know this fact and have been marketing their products in movies for quite some time. This is known as product placement. A great product in a bad movie can end up being a flop, but a product that […]
I Thought the Customer was Always Right
Jesse Chan | October 3rd, 2007 | 4 Comments
“The customer is always right.”
A bit of a rant . . . This morning I was sent through the run-around with Washington Mutual (WaMu) Bank. I had converted one of my accounts to another type of account about a year ago, in-person, when I went to one of their local banking sites. […]
The Jamba Juice Opportunity
Jesse Chan | October 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment
Jamba Juice has gone on a strange route to trade their stock on Wall Street. Instead of a direct IPO, they announced a merger with Services Acquisition Corp. Normally, I don’t like mergers, and this was no exception. It has taken some time for Jamba Juice to readjust and regain efficiency. […]
Key Economic Indicators
Bimin Chan | September 27th, 2007 | No Comments
An economic indicator is an economic statistic. Economic indicators measure how well the economy is doing and how well it will be doing in the future. Government agencies, including Federal Reserve Board and several economic institutes, release data of economic indicators monthly or quarterly. These various indicators depicts an overall picture […]
All Name Brands Have Common Denominators
Bimin Chan | September 25th, 2007 | No Comments
Each name brand has its own secrets of success. They may be innovation, prestige, price, leadership, trust, simplicity, evolution, licensing, luck, advertising, authenticity, revolution, aesthetic, emotion, cost, difference, targeting, consistency, speed, ubiquity, experience, advertising, promotion and so on. No matter what the secrets of success are, names brands have common denominators. A […]