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- A share is not a betting slip, it is a slice of a company.
A share certifies a stake in a public company's capital: a vote at the annual meeting, a claim on the declared dividend …
- Freemium: a few payers fund millions of free users.
In the freemium model the basic version is free and extras cost money. Only a small percentage of users ever pay …
- How VAT passes through five firms yet bites only once.
Each stage adds VAT to its selling price and deducts the VAT it paid as input tax. Only the difference goes to the tax …
- How a 500-year-old technique catches its own errors.
In double-entry bookkeeping every transaction hits at least two accounts: once as a debit, once as a credit. The two …
- How the money of a bankrupt company gets divided.
First, assets that never belonged to the firm are separated out. Then secured creditors take from their collateral. …
- How to avoid going broke at year-end as a freelancer.
What lands in your account isn't yours. VAT merely passes through you; after business costs, what's left is profit. …
- How to find the unit at which a product starts earning.
Subtract only the variable cost per unit from your selling price – that is the contribution margin. Divide fixed costs …
- One percent more shop demand becomes a factory crisis.
When a retailer orders slightly more, the wholesaler adds a safety buffer, the manufacturer adds one too, and so does …
- One phone is worthless. Two are a connection. Billions are a monopoly.
With network effects, a product gets more valuable the more people use it. Messengers, social networks and payment …
- Since 2022 you can look up who runs a German company for free.
Since 1 August 2022, records from the German commercial, cooperative, partnership and association registers can be …
- The printer is cheap. The ink costs more than champagne.
In the razor-and-blades model, the base device is sold cheaply or below cost and the money comes from consumables …
- Those three letters tell you whose money is at risk.
A German GmbH needs 25,000 euros of share capital, of which at least 12,500 must be paid in at registration. In return …
- Why a car plant gets built without a warehouse.
From the 1950s Toyota perfected just-in-time: parts arrive only hours before installation. Stock costs space and …
- Why card payments cost you nothing but cost the merchant plenty.
Platforms serve two groups that need each other: buyers and merchants, passengers and drivers, readers and advertisers. …
- Why every company suddenly wants you to subscribe.
A one-off sale brings money once; a subscription brings it every month with no new purchase decision. Investors love it …
- Why the millionth unit costs almost nothing and the first a fortune.
A chip factory costs several billion euros whether it makes a thousand chips or a billion. Economies of scale: fixed …
- You don't stay because it's good. You stay because leaving hurts.
Switching costs are everything a change of provider costs you: re-uploading photos, moving contacts, relearning an …
- Your insurer has an insurer too.
Reinsurers take on parts of the risks carried by primary insurers. That cushions huge events like storms or …