But also to those who clean and organize the whole thing.

In the private sector, when you squeeze that kind of additional value out of a fixed cost investment, it's called a billion dollar company.

This rainfall cycle, this rainfall factory, effectively feeds an agricultural economy of the order of 240 billion dollars worth in Latin America.

System integrators, not only supporting, servicing, and integrating your products but potentially tens of others.

It is the tax for a society built on dependency.

A spilled Latte Macchiato is not a Latte Macchiato.

If an amount of money is taxed like this

LOLcats is communal value.

And as we go up this curve, we're seeing higher value added at each step.

And this value, this is called a well in general, whenever you're valuing anything, it's called a valuation.

And it has no VAT.

The consumer is demanding it.

It involves limited raw materials.

And we feel that over the next five years, if Ethiopia can capture even 40 percent, just 40 percent, of the domestic market, and add just 25 percent value to that market, the value of the market doubles.

It will make longer lasting products.

Anyway, this is, I think, just the big picture investment adds value to society.

Web Telesales, almost no value added. Retail maybe adds a little support.

It's worth 5 million.

Principal industry farming.

And we'll talk a little bit more about assets and enterprise value, and there's a little bit of a nuance there, but essentially the company itself.

Amazon makes a great business because in fact they could do 1 day delivery or they could do 2 day Premier Service.

This idea that you can actually create, if not gold, then at least added value by mixing traditional ingredients, like normal apartments and normal parking, and in this case actually offer people the chance that they don't have to choose between a life with a garden or a life in the city.

It's indigenous to China and the Far East, but given that the prevalence of malaria is here in Africa,

They developed

In general, there are three types of taxes value added tax (VAT)

Now what's our mantra of this day and age I wonder?

Hopefully we added value.

We need everyone at the table.

So each portion of this channel is adding higher and higher value.

Now what's interesting is this higher value added comes with a cost.

Ushahidi, by contrast, is civic value.

Here's another example from technology agriculture.

And as you can see, that's three quarters of the food that we're eating for the most part processed foods and fast foods.

Agriculture.

This dollar would be 1.11 to the third.

And the marketing complexity, would simply just say toner for you printer.

If however, you bought some wool from the shepherd and charged a premium for converting it into a hat, you weren't actually creating value, you were exploiting the shepherd.

And of course the pre money valuation is just you just take the pre money valuation plus the amount of cash they're giving us.

However, what we do have now is a much more variegated media ecosystem in which to kind of create this kind of value, and it's much fairer.

ECX, moreover, can become a trading platform for a pan African market in agricultural commodities.

I don't have the same value as we have on selling collectively.

So it's a very different scenario depending on what our pre money valuation is.

I came in to become the head of Open Government, to take the values and the practices of transparency, participation and collaboration, and instill them into the way that we work, to open up government, to work with people.

But if you're just a regular blogger, and all you're doing is here's a quote from one site, and you're adding some value.

Aren't the dietmen unreasonable?