new business. >> any new business? >> will we get a pier 38 update in the near future? >> yes. >> ok. [laughter] >> i am not prognosticating on when, but yes. thank you for asking. >> any other comments on new business? >> item 12. public comment. >> is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion for adjournment. all in favor? aye. thank you.

hotel regulations are outmoded for new businesses. food and restaurant regulation does not fully accommodate the amazing food sharing in san francisco. we believe it would be a mistake to hastily applied 20th- century relations to new 21st century -- to the new 21st century economy. as the mayor said, new research and dialogue are needed. that is why the sharing economy working group and the panel today make so much sense. i want to add one more thing before we go to the panel discussion. these facts may be intellectually stimulating or inspiring, but they do not really speak honestly to my heart. this is what brought me to the sharing economy. what i was after was a new way to live in a way that i felt i could live fully. what excites me about sharing is how it changes every day like for the better. it empowers us. the economic shift in the new businesses of creating and exchanging value is creating a new cultural narrative. it is replacing an old legacy narrative that was toxic. it told us the go live comes from shopping and competi

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item 20, new business. do we have any new business? seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the regular meeting of the government audits and oversight committee. my name is supervisor farrell. i'm also joined by supervisor elsbernd. i would like to thank the members of sfgtv for the broadcast. do we have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. items at the upon today will appear on the may 22 agenda. during on the department's progress on implementation of audit recommendations by the comptroller -- controller. supervisor farrell: we have only one item on the agenda today. >> good afternoon. i am tonia lediju, director of audits. we are here to speak about our audit follow-up for the last quarter. basically, the benefits for audit work is not only in the findings reported or the recommendations, but the benefits of auditing is the implementation of the recommendations that have come out of the process. by conducting audits -- audit follow ups, it

. >> item 12, new business. >> public comment on new business? item 13, public comment? >> we do have one public comment. >> good afternoon. fellow citizens and commissioners. i am representing all the small boat operators that are on the jefferson street, part of pier 49. the subject is just one. and it has to do with the ongoing affluent -- effluent that has been coating everything on the jefferson street boca, our boats, our lines, our tourists as they come up and down the ladders, rashes that people have developed on their hands because of this pollution in the water, and the irony of it all is that fisherman's wharf is or was, should still be the third most visited tourist attraction in the world. after disney world, at the time it was 33 million. as disneyland, summer in the neighborhood of 20 million and san francisco which had 18 million visitors a year of the statistic. 50 million of those people said, i am here to go to fisherman's wharf. the fisherman part is the part i would like to address. it is the heart and soul of the reason that part of the city has bec

item 20, new business. do we have any new business? seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. >> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited people are for this playground. it is very special. >> on opening day in the brand- new helen diller playground at north park, children can be seen swinging, gliding, swinging, exploring, digging, hanging, jumping, and even making drumming sounds. this major renovation was possible with the generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco bay area philanthropist helen diller. together with the clean and safe neighborhood parks fund and the city's general fund. >> 4. 3. 2. 1. [applause] >> the playground is broken into three general areas. one for the preschool set, another for older children, and a sand area designed for kids of all ages. unlike the old playground, the new one is accessible to peop

today she is preparing to set up a new business. she is helping to develop easy to use tablet computer applications for the elderly. but she rarely had opportunities to communicate with other business people. so toyota began going to a women only co-working space. because many women who are also raising children come to the space, they feel comfortable talking about their business ideas, even when they bring their kids along. toyota took the opportunity and bounced her ideas off others. toyota made friends with a marketing specialist, who showed interest in her plan and gave her advice. >> translator: we can communicate with many people over the net. but it is difficult to trust people i get to know online. once we meet face to face, though, i can really relate to them. it would be ideal if i can create good ties with them. >> reporter: co-working spaces are helping create links among people in different lines of work by sharing those places as well as their ideas, young japanese are getting ready to start up new businesses. >>> the

new business. >> any new business? >> will we get a pier 38 update in the near future? >> yes. >> ok. [laughter] >> i am not prognosticating on when, but yes. thank you for asking. >> any other comments on new business? >> item 12. public comment. >> is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion for adjournment. all in favor? aye. thank you. there is a few of uic from the mayor's office. but get that right there. --we want to thank the advanced english academy. thank you, thank you so much. [applause] they helped with the set up and take down. we were doing it all day yesterday. we want to thank them. they're not here but we will give them around of applause. we have people who provided coffee for the volunteers. and the ambassadors have done so much to transport participants from the bayview to hear and they helped do a lot of outrage for us. thank you to the community ambassadors. you are still outside, i think. we also, i want to identify a couple of other people. i do not know of you know this. we are the founders of something -- there a

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business model have been able to convince everyone that it's a new business model and so exhibit more creativity and more latitude and the way that they account for and report on their accounting for their business in a way that could create some mumbojumbo in terms of what you're really looking at in terms of what the company is worth the kind of money they're making what their potential is but the flip side to that is the v.c. money in venture capitalism and you were your producer sent me an article very critical of v.c. saying hey this is the same evil as a private equity not i don't i just don't buy the premise of those arguments because ok for one they're saying hey something. d.c. firms were given preferential treatment in this facebook i.p.o. where they got the information that analysts and cut their estimates ok well great why would you target the preferred clients they're just preferred investors institutional investors the point is either these you know the big firms that are doing this like morgan stanley the underwriter who is giving this material information to only one s

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grown so quickly well google's done with android was they've created a new business model and most people think they're creating new tech or new o.-s. you know and they didn't you know they bought a vest and they expanded it what they did was create a new business model to use open source software to compete with that margin company such as apple nokia microsoft and outside of apple you see what happens to all the other companies. all right so reggie you know you use the term they're open source relating to google's model and this of course of a software that is basically free so contrasting that with apple apple of course has a very you know digital rights management enclosed garden or walled garden as they call it a very proprietary network so looks as though fray in this sense is going to trump the pay for software model is that a fair characterization well that would be my guess but let me correct you know the google software is not free i don't believe there's not there's no such thing as free you know somebody is paying for it somewhere the way open source works is you know upfront

business model and most people think they're creating new tech n o s you know and they didn't you know they bought and they expanded it what they did was create a new business model to use open source software to compete with a fair margin company such as apple no he ran microsoft and outside of apple you see what happens to all the other companies. all right so reggie you know you use the term they're open source relating to google's model and this of course of a software that is basically free so contrasting that with apple apple of course has a very you know digital rights management enclosed garden or walled garden as they call it a very proprietary network so looks as though fray in this sense is going to trump the pay for software model is that a fair characterization well that would be my guess but let me correct you know the google software is not free i don't believe there's not there's no such thing as free you know somebody is paying for it somewhere the way open source works is you know upfront investment it doesn't come out of pocket that you could get the call without pay

nonvoters understand the connection between healthy and new businesses and job creation. if you talk about job creation, 61% to support a two-year payroll tax exemption for any new jobs created in san francisco, and 57% support a lower payroll tax if it creates new jobs. clearly voters get it, and i think we owe those folks are round of applause -- are round of applause. as you will hear, our focus for 2012 continues to be jobs. the same is working collaborative lead to improve the economic development through good government and a commitment to the future. for 2012 the chamber has an aggressive agenda for jobs. we advocate for creating a favorable business climate and regulatory climate in which all businesses can grow and prosper. here are the priorities. reform the business tax once and for all. reduce panhandling and improving the visitor experience. advanced solutions to create jobs. to continue to attract business to send francisco, our priorities are to invest in vital projects. the central subway and a new community benefit district to improve safety and commerce

business model and most people think they're creating new tech or new o.-s. you know and they didn't you know they bought it and they expanded it what they did was create a new business model to use open source software to compete with that margin companies such as apple nokia ram microsoft and outside of apple you see what happens to all the other companies. all right so reggie if you use the term they're open source relating to google's model and this of course of a software that is basically free so contrasting that with apple apple of course has a very you know digital rights management enclosed garden or walled garden as they call it a very proprietary network so looks as though fray in this sense is going to trump the pay for software model is not a fair characterization well that would be my guess but let me correct you know the google software is not free i don't believe there's not there's no such thing as free you know somebody is paying for it somewhere the way open source works is you know upfront investment it doesn't come out of pocket as you

business model and most people think they're creating new tech or new o.-s. you know and they didn't you know they bought and they expanded it what they did was create a new business model to use open source software to compete with that margin companies such as apple nokia ram microsoft and outside of apple you see what happens to all the other companies. all right so reggie if you use the term they're open source relating to google's model and this of course of a software that is basically free so contrasting that with apple apple of course has a very you know digital rights management enclosed garden or walled garden as they call it a very proprietary network so looks as though fray in this sense is going to trump the pay for software model is that a fair characterization well that would be my guess but let me correct you know the google software is not free i don't believe there's not there's no such thing as free you know somebody is paying for it somewhere the way open source works is you know upfront investment it doesn't come out of pocket as you c

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groupon and and all these companies some of these kind of these new business models of social media or social gaming and the interesting thing that you said about that is that that means that it's kind of the new deal when it comes to accounting and what these guys can get away with can you talk a little bit about that aspect. well there's a perception that it's a totally new business models particular because it's social gaming it's not just gaming like gambling or casino casino operations and it's not just social like facebook so social gaming is a little bit different and all of the various relationships and alliances like zynga has with facebook are a little bit new but it's really not so much different that way back when you had a.o.l. or any other advertising based media company attract users sell advertising against those accounting rules have been in place for a long long time they're pretty straightforward the key is that these companies give the perception that there's something new and they come up with all kinds of creative ways with the assistance of in this case in partic

business model have been able to convince everyone that it's a new business model and so exhibit more creativity and more latitude in the way that they account for and report on their accounting for their business in a way that could create some mumbo jumbo in terms of what you're really looking at in terms of what the company is worth the kind of money they're making what their potential is but the flip side to that is the v.c. money and venture capitalism and you were your producer. sent me an article very critical of v.c. saying hey this is the same evil as a private equity not i don't i just don't buy the premise of those arguments because ok for one they're saying hey some of these v.c. firms were were given preferential treatment in this facebook i.p.o. where they got the information that analysts and cut their estimates ok well great why would you target the preferred clients they're just preferred investors institutional investors the point is either these you know the big firms that are doing this like morgan stanley the underwriter who is giving this material information to

there seem to be many signs that there are new small and micro businesses that will take their place. keep your fingers crossed and please find ways to continue to create incentives that promote new business formations in san francisco. thank you for this recognition. i am honored. thank you and congratulations to all of the honorees. [applause] [applause] president chiu: that concludes today's ceremony. i want to thank all of the honorees, your families, friends, colleagues. i do hope that this month, he will take part in many of the activities we have in san francisco. thank you again. and with that, colleagues, why don't we move to roll call for introductions? supervisor mar: i did have a couple of items. i want to ask my colleagues to adjourn the meeting in honor of a pretty amazing person who has passed away. we have a number of his family in the crowd at the conclusion of my remarks, i would like to ask everyone to join with me to end the meeting in his honor. i would l

business models or so they would have people think what she was saying is that it's given them a lot of creativity with their accounting measures which means that in her view you do have to question the integrity of what they're reporting in terms of their profits because just to give an example she said a lot of these companies start off with a lot of losses and so they use an accounting method. method to explain away these losses and they basically get to decide the management team gets to decide how to look at things and that's how these are sort of the manager these are new kind of companies they're tech companies they're not your traditional you know banks and other things that we're used to seeing traded basically get to make their own rules i mean to an extent yeah i mean to an extent like they still do report their accounting methods in the traditional way but there is no accounting method that is that is not the industry standard that everybody looks at that they were explain away things with that there's more creativity with because they are these new business models they w

business model and most people think they're creating new tech or new o.-s. you know and they didn't you know they poured over us and they expanded it what they did was create a new business model to use open source software to compete with a fair margin company such as apple and no he ran microsoft and outside of apple you see what happens to all the other companies. all right so reggie you know you used the term they're open source relating to google's model and this of course of a software that is basically free so contrasting that with apple apple of course has a very you know digital rights management enclosed garden or walled garden as they call it a very proprietary network so looks as though fray in this sense is going to trump the pay for software model is that a fair characterization well that would be my guess but let me correct you know the google software is not free i don't believe there's not there's no such thing as free you know somebody is paying for it somewhere the way open source works is you know upfront investment it doesn't come out

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item 20, new business. do we have any new business? seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. >> let's call the meeting to order. >> [roll call] item to -- approval of minutes for the april 4, 2012 meeting. >> so moved. it all in favor. >> item 3, public comment on executive session. no one here. item number four, executive session. so moved. >> conference with legal counsel and real property negotiator. >> i move that we disclose the commission unanimously approved the settlement of the existing litigation matter described in four4a on the terms described ie settlement agreement filed secretary the commission. >> second. >> all in favor? reconvene in open session. >> please be advised the use of cellphone, pagers, and at similar sound producing devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advise the chair may remove anyone from the move -- from the room responsible for using similar sound producing devices. be advised and member of the public has three minutes to make permanent public comments on each agenda item unless the port co

or opened new businesses in hong kong. narrator: david ho's construction company now looks back on its past achievements. ho left a sagging residential real estate market to start an internet company. links with asia, while strong, are changing throughout the city and the region. ley: part of the story, of course, where a lot of the raw materials is thefrom british columbia whie are exported. narrator: and even though the u.s. economy slumped its low interest rates have helped vault the u.s. back to its traditional role as b.c.'s largest trading partner. the major issue here is the lumber industry and u.s. house building, so that the b.c. lumber industry follows very closely the cycles of american home building. narrator: in vancouver itself, there is less new construction, and the older houses are bought by a new asian demographic. in the last couple of years, we've hacontinuing a veryisigni, of the business immigrants and, and that movement is perhaps reflectemore by tse properties we see. we're in vancouver's east side

now as of late i'm a putin gets busy in his new role as president some of the public are on the streets of central moscow showing their discontent with his return to office activists have been holding marchers against putin as an organization with some protests turning into overnight camps want to take a greece reports from the scene of one of the opposition gatherings. they're still raving the elements that moscow whether alone has the offer to see them gathered just behind me at present now there cooled upon the behest of alexei no boney poles opposition activists but he did that in the early tuesday morning to eating raw seal his followers to this and in central moscow they did so somewhere else in quito originally and that was in the early hours of tuesday warning that they were staging somewhat of a sit in it seemed quite peaceful at times of people singing and overstretching quite a peaceful demonstration of the keeley they didn't want to actually be saving anything political that's because this is an unsigned demonstration that will likely lead to arrest though actually coming ba

it's a new business. you bring in a union wage, you cut us off at the knees. [shouting in background] right then and there i decided, "that if i heard the word union one more time, i'd go ahead and fire every one of those ingrates, starting with that instigator, jerry krause." union, huh? over my dead body. we'll close this place down first. [shouting in background] [narrator] >> at that point, valve resources incorporated faced a situation for which it was totally unprepared. and so they consulted an attorney to find out whether there were any legal guidelines for unionization and, if so, what those guidelines might be. >> congress passed the national labor relations act, also known as the wagner act, initially, as a response to concerns that employees were being punished or terminated in their attempts to create unions. and, along with the taft-- hartley act, the labor management relations act, these two laws served to establish the procedures whereby unions could be established without employer intervention. the initial process for organizing a union requir

i -- i wanted cnn to be "the new york times" of the news business, not the -- not "the daily news." i wanted it to be "the new york times." and i thought that for the long term, that would be the best position to be in, even if the ratings weren't the greatest. if you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position in the news business to hold. >> i mean that is still true. there's no question. i've been here 16, 17 months now. when there's a big story -- when i first got here, there were an avalanche of huge stories. when that happens, it is very gratifying that the cnn ratings soar. the issue, i think, everyone wrestles with is what happens as we've had recently when there's a lengthy period of not much news. >> well, there's always -- the world's a big place, and i'm out of the country a good bit traveling internationally, and i've watched cnn international all over the -- all over the world. i probably see it as much as or more than cnn domestic. and i think they're doing an excellent job but

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new business, request for future agenda items. seeing none, this will be my pleasure to conclude the tuesday, may 22 meeting of the entertainment commission for the city and county of san francisco. thank you all in the audience for coming.

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is there a whole new world that opens up and new businesses that will take advantage of facebook? >> well, i think it's happening anyway. i think the ipo will give facebook more resources in order to remain viable and grow even fast never terms of its capable its. but one of the things that i think is going to happen is the connection between the customer and the vendor is getting so tight on facebook, that you are going to start seeing more of what we call cocreation. that the companies with their product, they're not just going to be throwing things at us and saying buy t they're going to be asking us what should they make and people are very eager to tell them. and by the way, companies have to be very authentic and honest in order to succeed in this environment which is a very big challenge for a lot of companies. >> susie: when you wrote your book, you spent a lot of time with mark zuckerberg, the founder of facebook. what is your sense of what his thinking is now. what is the next new direction for this company? what does he want? >> well, his goals really haven't changed. h