The experiment was later reproduced by Stephen J.Ceci and Antonio Roazzi. See “The effects of context on cognition: postcards from Brazil” Stephen J. Ceci and Antonio Roazzi, in “Mind Context” Sternberg R. J. and Wagner K. eds. (1994), page 78
Very good point that I had not thought about. This is the challenge of business schools, they are teaching out of context. It may be a reason why so many MBA fail at been an entrepreneur.
It may be a reason why so many MBA fail at been an entrepreneur.
I suspect it's right there in the title: "Master of Business Administration". MBA's are master administrators for businesses, which is not the same thing as an entrepreneur.
The easiest way of covering the basics of EU privacy law is to register in one of the countries of the EU. If you are registered in one you are covered by all. This is far simpler then going down the safe harbour route. The UK is quite simple to register with. http://www.ico.gov.uk/
You can export the data to the USA as long as 1) the receiver is registered with one of the Data Protection Agencies in Europe or 2) as signed the model contract or 3) has signed up to the safe harbour. It is well worth looking through http://ec.europa.eu/justice/policies/privacy/docs/internatio...
ISO defines usability as "the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.
So your right with the number of clicks, but you also have to make sure that the user can complete the task (effectiveness), and that they are happy (satisfaction). From our own research the three; effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction are very highly correlated together.
Well Copper designed the first prototype of Visual Basic. I think that explains lots. When you combine Zed's argument that "Nope, because the tools they've given you are again controlled by some corporation with a certain design ideal. If it's Microsoft then the things you have to work with are Microsoft looking and feeling. "
How many unusable software products came about because of Visual Basic? I can rant and rant about Copper.
There are some success stories like http://softtribe.com from Ghana. This story gives some of the http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/it/the-african-hacker background. The opportunity that SoftTribe went for was unique. In Africa every country has different pay roll taxes, and it is too expensive for the likes of the multi nationals to keep up with each country, SoftTribe fills this niche.
I worked with them for a year. I was the only non African. There where challenges like fending off kind hearted westerners who had less skills then the Ghanains and wanted to come over and be boss. Competing against NGO for staff (Western NGO's have the highest salaries).
Bob Geldof? Boomtown Rats to Deckchair.com
In the late 90s, when Bob encountered problems booking a family holiday over the Internet for his children and his French actress girlfriend Jeanne Marine, Geldof founded online travel agent Deckchair.com.
See: http://www.personallyspeaking.co.uk/sir_bob_geldof__147.html
As roel_v 3 said no other country in Europe can stop you trading in another country. You must pay tax on where the business is located. Where Irish companies are often used is to hold IP, a trading company then pays a royalty to the IP company. Where the business is located, for tax reasons is independent of registration. You need to get some professional advice on domicile of the business.
Irish companies are also useful in that they are quite easy to set up and maintain. The usefulness of them compared to the UK is that Ireland is within the Euro.
Separate corporate structure from where you base yourself. For example to start a limited company in Ireland with accountant fee's etc is about €300. Capital Requirement is €1. And that company can base itself anywhere in Europe. One of the advantages of the Single Market.
I've heard varying things about this from people in Italy. I'm not sure it's entirely ok to live and work in country A for a company that is located elsewhere, but I'm neither a lawyer nor an accountant.
It very much ok to have a company registered in one country and work for it in another . This is the whole idea of the Treaty of Rome, which is the treaty that forms the EU. Some famous examples are like Air Berlin which is a UK PLC. Where things can get a bit complex is the tax situation. You need to pay tax where the business is, which can be different from where it is registered.
