investment

what is the best way to visualize technical investment for the business

we have a number of functional deliverable planned for 2010 but we also have a technology agenda (architectural refactorings, consolidation, upgrade a platform). any suggestions on the best way to include these in a roadmap to help the business understand why they are important. one option is just saying trust us as this is the right t...

Estimating a budget for an advanced prototype

Hello we have an investor that is willing to invest in an extensive prototype. The problem is that he said that he is willing to invest only what sounds like a 'reasonalbe budget'. This is a high tech startup and we've reached a 300,000$ budget for half a year of development including employees and taxes and equipment rental and an accou...

Store python classes as pickles in GAE?

Hi, I am porting a Python investing application to Google App Engine. Every market that you can trade in is a plugin: for example the stocks trading and FOREX trading are all plugins. The application stores the portfolio (which is a Portfolio class instance containing the active investments (class instances) and history) as a pickle. H...

How to compute compounded interest rate ?

I have the following scenario where i invest variable amount of principal every month, Investment Month $300 Jan $200 Feb $100 Mar and i get a return of, Returns Month $1000 Apr How do i calculate the nominal annual interest rate if the amount is compounded monthly? ...

Investment figures for the Java platform

Are there any market research figures available calculating aggregate investment (worldwide, by region, by country) in the Java platform? This could include software (application servers, IDEs, profiling tools), hardware (Sun servers, bytecode executing processors), personnel (training, books), language development (Java, Clojure, Scala,...

Y Combinator's most successful investment?

Curios to know, which of Y Combinators investments has financially been the most successful. Seems like everyone points our Reddit.com, but from what I gathered - the site wasn't really sold for all that much money. ...