General Electric

If you want to understand part of the story behind of the fall of General Electric, I recommend to read this article. It contains some details about the evolution of the actions done on this giant. Yes, it’s very large article, but it’s worthy time. http://fortune.com/2018/11/26/nelson-peltz-ge-pg-stock/

Wardley Map, economic exercise

This picture below was published by Simon Wardley in Twitter and clearly reflects how maps can contribute to do economic analysis of the situations you have in a given scenario. I have done some similar exercise with a plain table in excel with 2 columns with the scenario AS-IS and TO-BE, but this graphical representation … Read more

AT&T Vs VZ

Analyzing basic data from these 2 companies I did these 2 pictures that enable me to understand a little bit better their behavior. The key is to me the long term debt, where the acquisition of Timer Warner by AT&T is making the fundamentals to be eroded. AT&T Verizon:  

Product Requirements Document (PRD)

Some notes about the PRD document. Classic outline: Introduction Purpose Background & Goals Near-term objectives Long-term objectives Stakeholders (RACI format) User profile (definition comes in MRD, a market analysis or any other source) Requirements Features Functional requirements Non-functional requirements Legal / compliance requirements UX Flow & Design Notes System & Environment KPIs Assumptions Constrains Dependencies … Read more

Los 10 Mandamientos de la Gestión de Inversiones de Mohnish Pabrai

En este podcast de Value Investing FM escuché este programa que habla de 10 https://www.ivoox.com/58-los-10-mandamientos-gestion-de-audios-mp3_rf_32416204_1.html El fondo cobra si se consigue beneficio. El programa de retribución del fondo debería tener un fijo muy bajo y No tengas un equipo de inversión (1 único gestor rodeado de muchos analistas). Acepta que te vas a equivocar al … Read more

Indicadores de empresa no cuantitativos

Escuchando un podcast de Value Investing FM, encontré este en el que repasaban varios aspectos que son importantes en las empresas y que no son KPIs cuantitativos que aparecen en cualquier web de turno. Son los no cuantitativos, y que van basicamente alrededor de la cultura y el equipo directivo. CEO y equipo directivo. Estrategia … Read more

21 lecciones para el siglo XXI

Le regalé este libro mi padre estas navidades y cuando lo ojeé me gustó bastante así que me hice con el en formato digital. Me ha gustado mucho por la perspectiva con la que analiza las cosas especialmente interesantes los primeros capítulos. Yo lo recomiendo a todo el mundo, creo que es bastante didáctico en … Read more

AWS Lambda, hello world

I found some hours to dedicate to create my first Lambda function on AWS. I read a lot about it, but I had not opportunity to practice. I followed the easy way, which means I did the use case proposed by AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/getting-started-create-function.html Conclusions: You have to understand very well how to manage the different … Read more

S&P chart

I love this type of visual charts that represent the numbers in a different way. This one from the analysis point of view is not useful, at least to me, but it’s a nice perspective to see how it goes. https://www.finviz.com/map.ashx Today, we have almost all green: