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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

Facebook’s gross margin of 76% on its 2017 revenues of $46.5 You can contrast this to Twitter’s and Yelp’s 2017 revenues of $2.4 Therefore the most important aim for digital companies is to achieve market leadership, create network effects , and command a “winner-take-all” profit structure. billion and $0.8

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Hiring Data Scientists from Outside the U.S.: A Primer on Visas

Harvard Business

Many companies look to hire overseas to help ease the domestic talent shortfall (in fact, one in three data scientists are born outside the U.S. ) Here’s what we found: F-1 Visa “Optional Practical Training” Who’s eligible? so understanding the ins and outs of visas is rapidly becoming a business necessity.

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