Updated Enterprise Value 3/30/09

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Social Interaction

After our games on Sunday two of my room mates and I went to Friendly's. In previous trips to this restaurant the service has been extremely poor. When we were seated I smiled at the waitress, and while using her name, said hello. Throughout the greeting I asked her how she was and she responded with the typical "im okay how are you?" I said that I was hungry and asked what entree was her personal preference. I took her advice and while waiting for a friend to make up her mind I asked "don't you hate it when people take forever to order?" She laughed and said it was no problem. This is slightly dissimilar from the secret of Socrates, but I think the humor eased the silence. Later in the meal she brought out the food and she served me the wrong entree. I asked her if this were the entree that she recommended and she said there must have been a mistake in the kitchen. Instead of taking the food and correcting the mistake she gave it to our table to eat. This was a nice gesture and unnecessary because I have been in similar situations where I had to wait another twenty minutes for food. The service that night was very good and I think it was partly due to Dale Carnegie and the book How To Win Friends and Influence People.

Journalist Interaction

The reporter who I contacted a few weeks ago was Andrea Thomson. I still have yet to meet her in person because she is not often on campus. She is very busy with the news section of the paper and during spring break the campus is shut down. She recently wrote an article regarding the opportunities offered by the shriver center. There are many internships and part time jobs offered over the summer. I really liked the way the article addressed the financial struggles of students. I contacted Andrea on AIM and found out that she is writing a new piece about construction on campus. I talked about her article and told her that the career fair on campus is how I acquired my summer internship. We had another positive conversation and then she had to go to a dentist appointment. I have not heard from her recently but I feel our conversations are going well.

Secret of Socrates

This week I used the secret of Socrates in an interaction with my boyfriend Ryan. We played five softball games this weekend and I was pretty tired. On Saturday we played two games at 12pm and 2pm. We were outside in 40 degree weather for about seven hours (we warm up for about 2 hours before games.) Needless to say I was tired, hungry and slightly irritated. Ryan wanted to go out for a nice dinner following the game. I on the other hand wanted to just relax and have a quiet night. I asked him questions like: Don't you want to just relax? Do you really feel like getting all dressed up? Wouldn't the time it takes to get ready prolong eating for another couple hours, aren't you hungry now? It turned out that Ryan decided to make me a nice pasta dinner. I was very pleased that he converted to my way of thinking.

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Revised Enterprise Value Calculations

The Enterprise Value of Apple on the IPO date: $1,192,737,304
Current Enterprise Value: $75,774,205,496.90
888,325,973 outstanding shares x $85.30
(According to the 10-Q report filed by Apple on January 23, 2009 and Yahoo Finance)
The comparative percentage is an increase of 6352%

The Enterprise Value of Microsoft on the IPO date: $52,500,000
Current Enterprise Value: $135,847,800,699.44
8,890,562,873 outstanding shares x $15.28
(According to the Second Quarter 10-Q report filed by Microsoft on January 20, 2009 and Yahoo Finance)
The comparative percentage is an increase of 258757%

The enterprise value of Microsoft is 56% higher then Apple.