Dave Sather’s Money Matters The first weekend in May was spent in Omaha with my Texas Lutheran University students. We made the trek to listen to Warren Buffett and partner Charlie Munger at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. The trip allowed us to rub elbows with well known value investors Whitney Tilson, Mohnish Pabrai and Mario Gabelli. Berkshire director Bill Gates was there and for some unknown reason, Bono, from the rock band U2 was sitting on the front [...]
Extending the TAG program could have benefits to the economy at large and should be considered as a policy change.
You owe it to yourself and to your business to be very focused and deliberate in how you price your products and services. Your approach to pricing could be the difference between the success or failure of your business. And let’s not lose sight of one of your most important priorities in business – to be profitable and generate positive cash flow. That’s what pricing is all about. Setting the price of each product or [...]
Dave Sather’s Money Matters For quite some time now, the calls have come in from people asking us if we’re going to buy shares of Facebook at their initial public offering next month. Whether a fan of the social networking site or not, this is an investment decision that should be fully evaluated from a business perspective. For us, there are two issues that quickly come to mind. The first is that in buying shares [...]
Microsoft OneNote is a powerful organizational tool that deserves serious consideration from everyone in business, school and at home. OneNote is designed to enhance productivity with its strong integration with the other standard Microsoft products such as Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Information is stored in a concept similar to the three-ring binders. Within each notebook, you have sections (like tabs in a notebook) with pages within each section where your information is stored. You can [...]