RocketSpace-Mistakes @ Acq

So you've been building a company for the past 18 months and you just got an email from Zuck to acquire you....now what??  Now its time for you join us on Wednesday, June 20th as we host Donald Keller from Orrick as he discusses common mistakes made during acquistions.  A hearty breakfast of bacon and eggs will served..so come hungry!  In this discussion the following will be discussed in depth: 

• Make sure that founders shares are held in the form of stock rather than options.
• Make sure that IP ownership is well documented.
• To maximize price, a company should leave itself with alternatives to the buyer they are targeting.
• Avoid selling the company in an asset sale for an amount that triggers tax at the corporate level.
• Avoid selling the company for private company shares in a transaction that is taxable.
• When negotiating price, make sure you understand all of the adjustments to the price—like escrows, legal fees, balance sheet adjustments and special indemnities.

220 sq ft- ($6 vs. $4.20 per-sq foot price) Micro-apartments

Micro-apartments next for S.F.?

Carolyn Said

Updated 11:18 p.m., Friday, July 13, 2012

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  An illustrated interior of a proposed small apartment.

   / SFone-person households along with rising rents and an acute housing shortage.

The new minimum would be 150 square feet plus kitchen, bathroom and closet - 220 square feet in total, about the size of a one-car garage. The current minimum with all rooms included is 290 square feet.

- is 41 percent of San Franciscans live alone. There are a lot of people who don't need -units address escalating rents, saying that the compact dwellings are cheaper simply because they're smaller.

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The ultra-efficient efficiencies will go for $1,300 to $1,500 a month, he said. Per city regulations, 15 percent of the units will be allocated as below market rate for low-income residents; he thinks those would rent for around $900 a month.

The current average rent for a San Francisco studio apartment is $2,075 a month, according to real estate service RealFacts. Those studios average 493 square feet, making the per-square foot price $4.21. Kennedy's proposed units, at 220 square feet, would rent for $5.91 to $6.82 per foot - a big premium.

Prototype 'smart unit'

Kennedy built a 160-square-foot prototype "smart unit" in a Berkeley warehouse. As compact and functional as a ship's cabin, the main living/sleeping/eating/cooking room feels larger than its 10-by-11-foot dimensions, in part because of a coved 9-foot-4-inch ceiling and a bay window.

MBA- Parallel rankings

abbreviations are used in the column headings: USN - U.S. News & World Report, BW - Bloomberg Businessweek, Ec - The Economist, FT - Financial Times, AE -América Economía, CNN - CNN Expansion, and BI - Business Insider.

Business School	University	Location	USN 2013[19]	BW 2010[20]	Forbes 2011[21]	Ec 2011[22]	FT 2011[23]	AE 2011[24]	CNN 2011[25]	BI 2011[26]
Harvard Business School	Harvard University	Boston, Massachusetts	1	2	1	5	3	1	1	1
Stanford Graduate School of Business	Stanford University	Stanford, California	1	5	2	8	4	8	2	2
The Wharton School	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	3	3	4	15	1	3	4	3
Kellogg School of Management	Northwestern University	Evanston, Illinois	4	4	7	18	21	11	14	7
Booth School of Business	University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois	4	1	3	2	12	10	7	6
MIT Sloan School of Management	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, Massachusetts	4	10	10	11	9	6	5	4
Haas School of Business	University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, California	7	8	13	6	25	24	11	10
Columbia Business School	Columbia University	New York, New York	8	9	5	7	7	7	9	5
Tuck School of Business	Dartmouth College	Hanover, New Hampshire	9	14	6	1	18	17	11	8
Stern School of Business	New York University	New York, New York	10	18	18	12	15	12	13	15
Yale School of Management	Yale University	New Haven, Connecticut	10	21	11	26	15	14	16	12
Fuqua School of Business	Duke University	Durham, North Carolina	12	6	12	20	20	21		13
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration	University of Virginia	Charlottesville, Virginia	13	11	9	4	41	26		19
Ross School of Business	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, Michigan	14	7	14	30	24	30	28	20
UCLA Anderson School of Management	University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles, California	14	17	20	27	31	22	23	21
Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management	Cornell University	Ithaca, New York	16	13	8	25	30	39		14
McCombs School of Business	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, Texas	17	25	17	31	49	28	29	23
Tepper School of Business	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	18	15	23	16	41	29	24	18
Kenan-Flagler Business School	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, North Carolina	19	16	16	47	62	40	30	27
Olin Business School	Washington University in St. Louis	St. Louis, Missouri	20	40	47	56				36

d.school- Hasso Plattner Institute

Founded in '04-  Products launched from the Institute are the Embrace blanket, a low-cost alternative to neonatal incubators and the d.light, a solar-powered LED light now in use in some third world rural communities.^[1] The Pulse News Reader was developed in a class in 2010, and became the highest-selling application at Apple's App Store.^[1]

Be a DJ and a colorist

Per TJ, managing work-life balance is like being a DJ spinning the multiple turntables-- first, don't let them stop and then create a symphony. Avail yourself to opportunities.

Women leader: First, know where the lines are. Then, you can color outside them

i < steinbeck

It isn't a stretch to call John Steinbeck one of the country's greatest novelists, and for his stories' backdrops he rarely looked farther than his own backyard - a rural farming community and a fishing village that are better known (and better off) because of his tales. Between MontereyCounty's "Steinbeck Country" and the 10,000-mile journey with his poodle, Charley, there is no shortage of places that inspired the author, or where he inspired readers.

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1. Steinbeck House, Salinas {utriangle}

Yes, the National Steinbeck Center is the main attraction (and a required stop), but if you want a hearty soup and sandwich in the house where he was born and was raised, walk two blocks west to this restored Victorian. The nonprofit Valley Guild has been serving lunch there for decades to pay for the home's upkeep. 132 Central Ave., (831) 424-2735 (reservations recommended), steinbeckhouse.com.

2. Pike Place Market, Seattle

In 1960, Steinbeck was on the meandering trip with his poodle detailed in "Travels with Charley" and stopped in "the old part of Seattle, where the fish and crabs and shrimps lay beautifully on white beds of shaved ice and where the washed and shining vegetables were arranged in pictures." We're guessing he would still recognize it today. First Avenue and Pike Street, pikeplacemarket.org.

4. Monterey Bay Aquarium

You can talk about Cannery Row (renamed after the book) all you want, but Steinbeck wouldn't give it a second glance today compared with the headquarters of marine-life research and learning that is the centerpiece - also a monument to his best friend, Ed Ricketts. Afterward, walk south on the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail to nearby spots for tide pooling. 886 Cannery Row, (831) 648-4800, montereybayaquarium.org.

5. Humboldt Redwoods State Park

On his "Travels with Charley" trip, he spent time in what might be the state park (no one is absolutely sure), admiring the coastal redwoods he called "ambassadors from another time" - and trying to get his poodle to piddle on one (going so far as to attach a branch from another tree to the sequoia trunk). Visitor Center: State Route 254, between the towns of Weott and Myers Flat, (707) 946-2263,www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=425.

3. Fremont Peak

Hike to this highest point in the Gabilan Range, the mountains Steinbeck describes in the opening to "East of Eden." The 3,169-foot peak is the best spot for a broad view of sprawling Steinbeck Country, from the produce fields of the Salinas Valley to the shores of Monterey Bay. Fremont Peak State Park trailhead: Off of Highway 156, 11 miles south of San Juan Bautista on San Juan Canyon Road, (831) 623-4255, www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25096.

GT was the auditor

OFF THE SHELF

A Trader Who Swerved, and Crashed

By BRYAN BURROUGH

Published: June 30, 2012

THE first third of “Octopus,” Guy Lawson’s new book on the 2005 collapse of the Bayou Group hedge fund, is what you might expect: an engrossing tale of the rise of Samuel Israel III, a cocaine-snorting crook who started his firm in the basement of his Westchester County home. If the rest were simply the story of Mr. Israel’s inevitable fall, it would still be a darn good read.

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But on Page 139, “Octopus” — to be published next week by Crown — takes a startling 90-degree turn into Crazy Town. By this point, in 2004, Mr. Israel, a trader whose main talent involved front-running the stock picks of far smarter men, has secretly run Bayou into a $117 million hole. He needs a fast hundred million or two to stave off collapse.

It is then, during a trip to London, that a mysterious stranger takes Mr. Israel, and the reader, on a bizarre journey down a multibillion-dollar rabbit hole. What follows is surely one of the oddest Wall Street tales I’ve read in 30 years, and it’s what transforms “Octopus” from a good book into a special one.