BobbyH

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by BobbyH 16y ago
neilc, I personally agree with your intuition, but Daniel Kahneman's point seems to be that, on average, you would be as happy making $60k as you would be making $1 million a year. This concurs with a lot of other research that suggests tha
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by BobbyH 16y ago
My actual MasterCard # starts with 5424.
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by BobbyH 16y ago
F13 is the PrintScreen (PrtScn) button. I think the original poster is cryptically pointing out a hotkey combination that prints the active window into your clipboard (instead of the entire screen). However, this can be done using the sim
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How to Read a Term Sheet(inc.com)
9 points by BobbyH 17y ago|0 comments
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by BobbyH 17y ago
He wrote about his site's architecture here: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/duck-duck-go-arc... He also answered some questions on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=525048
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by BobbyH 17y ago
I read the Wikipedia article and there's an awesome section called "Waking Dead". I did some googling and found another holy-crap Youtube video, embedded here: http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/derren_brown_waking_dead.ph... Here is a desc
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by BobbyH 17y ago
pg and others have repeatedly said that persistence is a vital trait for a successful founder to have: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html . My own experience is that persistence is extremely important. If I were to give you (I mean, you
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by BobbyH 17y ago
"Double planet" is an informal term used to describe a planet with a moon that may be large enough to be considered a planet in its own right; one definition requires that the objects orbit a centre of gravity that is above their surfaces.
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by BobbyH 17y ago
This is very cool! I think it would also be cool for bloggers to link to an analysis of a site using a GET link, e.g. http://typealyzer.com/?url=www.techcrunch.com . This might also lead to viral growth (if desired).
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by BobbyH 17y ago
In case they file a UDRP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain_Name_Dispute_Res... ) complaint, make sure that your contact info is correct on your whois ( http://www.whois.net/whois/Sitezoogle.com ). I know somebody who lost a UDRP
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by BobbyH 17y ago
dschobel, when you short a stock, YOU are responsible for paying the dividend to the person you borrowed it from, c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_%28finance%29 That's why investors can't make an infinite amount of money by shortin
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by BobbyH 17y ago
There is a huge reason why tech firms don’t pay dividends: their employees have stock options. Unfortunately, although dividends paid to shareholders lower the share price, the strike price on employee options is not adjusted for the lower
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by BobbyH 17y ago
It's awesome that he mentioned SUMPRODUCT, which is a function that anybody who uses Excel for startups should master. It allows you to do things like calculate the amount of sales in a region, which is enormously useful to analyze data and
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Re: 2), I think he means "use a geolocation IP database to pre-populate the city/state that the visitor is in", similar to how yelp uses geolocation to point you to the right local yelp.
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A Venture Capitalist Begins a Fund of Funds(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by BobbyH 17y ago|0 comments
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by BobbyH 17y ago
It looks like the Acorn site is still up here? http://acorncomputers.co.uk/about.htm This domain was taken over by Acorn Computers, as described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers_%282006%29#Doma...
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Point by point explanation: * 3Com stock is up 35% (at $5.69) in after-hour trading because HP is offering a premium to the current stock price to acquire it. A call option to buy the stock for the fixed price of $5 (until it expired next F
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by BobbyH 17y ago
It seems like Cisco basically forced HP to compete with its high-margin network gear business, since Cisco moved into HP's server territory earlier this year ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/technology/companies/20cis... ). It looks like
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Your post and Steve's response made me realize that Steve's book was basically a minimal viable product. Now that his buggy MVP has proved the market, he should follow up with an improved v2.0! :-)
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by BobbyH 17y ago
An SBA loan must be personally guaranteed by the borrower, so I don't really see a difference between an SBA loan and running up credit cards, except for the interest rate. Personally, I would try to suffer through the Valley of Death. Here
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Here's a link describing the sort of "convertible note" that gtm mentioned: http://www.entrepreneur.com/money/financing/startupfinancing...
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Fred makes some great points here, but can venture capital truly be "slow capital"? It's my understanding that venture capital funds (the pools of money raised by VC firms) typically have a fixed lifetime of 7-10 years ( http://en.wikipedia
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Yes, you can use calculus/derivatives to value many financial derivatives. However, you can also use calculus to model how much water is in a bathtub that drains a different amount of water depending on how much water is in the bathtub. My
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Your take sounds plausible, but there are several conceptual inaccuracies: 1. Financial derivatives have no relationship to derivatives in calculus. (The two concepts are just coincidental namesakes.) A financial derivative is called a "der
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by BobbyH 17y ago
To clarify, I was assuming that the 100k (or whatever number) is salary that is not taken by the technical cofounder who posted the question. However, if the technical cofounder takes a full salary, there would be no need to factor that in.
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Here's an example of how the math works: * You decide upon a $5 MM pre-money valuation for the company, and you agree that you both get half of this * He invests $1 MM, which makes the post-money valuation 5+1 = $6 MM * Let's say you will b
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"Redecorating Isn’t Always Pretty" - a designer works with a frustrating client(nytimes.com)
1 points by BobbyH 17y ago|0 comments
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by BobbyH 17y ago
In his book, I believe that Tim says that it's not illegal if you don't store a user's credit card information when selling a product that isn't fully-baked. But I agree that it is a bit shady...
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by BobbyH 17y ago
Jeff clearly knows what autism is, as he demonstrated in a previous post written about autism and Asperger's here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000490.html His use of "borderline autism" in his Xanadu post may be inaccurate,
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by BobbyH 17y ago
CNET used to do something sneaky whereby they used domain.com.com on many of their domains to inflate their unique visitor counts. That way, when somebody typed http://mistake.com.com , they'd be counted as a unique visitor to the com.com

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