Brushfire

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Proper Cake Cutting Algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Brushfire 8y ago|1 comments
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by Brushfire 8y ago
Yeah, this is insanity. It's not common. Its still the 1% of startups, at best.
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by Brushfire 8y ago
Surely you aren't serious. Feudalism required working for the landowners near where you lived. In our society you can change jobs, start your own business, move, do freelance work, or not work at all if you so choose. I agree there are
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by Brushfire 8y ago
This will just lead to more private companies that average Joe doesn't get to benefit from. Creating rules for private companies would take a refactor of our entire legal system.
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by Brushfire 8y ago
They started to do this but then paused all verifications because bots were getting verified.
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by Brushfire 8y ago
Almost certainly the next big vertical stop for Facebook. It's what I would do.
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by Brushfire 8y ago
Sure. But are any of those businesses really doing well these days? For the longest time facebook told businesses that advertised heavily on their platform that they had no intention of getting deep into verticals, that instead those busi
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by Brushfire 8y ago
This is a big deal. And not just because it will obviously cause big problems for existing dating sites, but instead because the longer-term prospects of this strategy are the beginning of an amazon-like vertical strategy for facebook. Inst
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by Brushfire 8y ago
They probably are now.
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by Brushfire 9y ago
Getting out of that business.
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by Brushfire 9y ago
While I appreciate the nature of these questions, many of them exclude network-driven consumer businesses. You know, those like Tinder, Facebook, Twitter, Medium, Yelp, FourSquare... If you're spending time with a consumer company like
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by Brushfire 9y ago
I'm curious if they are also logging the zip code entered via keypad. I can't remember the last time I used a pump without zip code validation.
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by Brushfire 10y ago
(Hey Leo) I agree, this is hard to do. Because most investors triangulate on 15-25% per round, and use the amount of money you expect to raise as a way to back into a valuation. As a founder, the best way to do this in a seed round would be
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by Brushfire 10y ago
Not exactly. Google orders and displays advertisements based on expected value (to Google). Then the winner of the slot pays the lowest market-winning price. Overly simplistic example: eBay bids $1 max and Amazon bids $2 max. People searchi
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Faithless Electors(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Brushfire 10y ago|0 comments
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by Brushfire 10y ago
I used Sprig in San Fran a bunch when I lived there. I moved back to Chicago about the same time Sprig expanded there, which I thought was convenient. But the quality here was never the same as it was in SF. It left a ton to be desired, all
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Sprig restructures and suspends operations in Chicago(blog.sprig.com)
3 points by Brushfire 10y ago|1 comments
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by Brushfire 10y ago
Note to entrepreneurs: this is a really, really bad term if you see it early on in a companies life. It allows nasty investors to put a gun to the head of the company to either bankrupt the company or (in reality) force a crazy negotiation
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by Brushfire 10y ago
1. Talk to your attorney, yes. 2. Probably: fire this guy. This isnt someone you want at your company. When you fire him, you wont announce to the rest of the company why. And you can have a conversation with the victim employee to let them
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by Brushfire 11y ago
I agree it shouldn't be priced in that way, but it should be compared in that way. Leaving relative prices out of the equation is unfair / biased. Of course xfinity has more services, but it's cost per increment of speed is d
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by Brushfire 11y ago
Too bad they don't have "X Dollars per Mbps" - because that's what really matters. Google fiber is what, $70 for 1000Mbps? The fastest XFinity package in Chicago (that I can see) is $79.99 with commitment for 75Mbps.
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by Brushfire 11y ago
This is great. Next up: I'd love to see true Debit card transactions (i.e. With Pin) at Debit prices (perhaps 10-30c regardless of transaction size). That could really enable a ton of smaller items to be sold to a very large audience.
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by Brushfire 11y ago
Full Abstract: Entrepreneurs face high uncertainty, and often make costly investments in new business ideas without knowing the expected payoff. This paper empirically examines whether ex-ante assessment of earlystage startup ideas can pred
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by Brushfire 11y ago
I'm not sure. I'd rather have a memorable name with a sub-par TLD, than I would have a confusing / hard to remember name with a .com. Obviously, the ideal is memorable + .com, but most of those will cost 50-100k+, which is no
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by Brushfire 11y ago
The beauty of modern capitalism is that it is more about incentives, not performance. Incentives drive swings between consolidation and fragmentation, because individuals believe they can profit from being different from the status quo.
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by Brushfire 11y ago
The single best way for these farmers, any farmers, to refute any / all concerns like this is to set up publicly-viewable, always on video feeds of their entire farm operations. Problem solved; assuming there isnt actually bad behavior
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by Brushfire 11y ago
The left-hand, right-hand issue isnt really a thing. You can change the orientation of the display and bands such that it works for both left and right hands. The only difference is whether the crown is on the top right or bottom left, but
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by Brushfire 11y ago
Private companies do not have to follow or care about GAAP. They should, but there is no "legality" here.
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by Brushfire 11y ago
The "slack-killer" feature is nice, but I don't think this move does anything to Slack's business. In other words, its just clickbait / PR nonsense. Why do journalists feel the need to artificially position articles
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by Brushfire 11y ago
There are a limited number of great, breakout startups, and they can only really utilize so much capital. Reallocating your pension fund doesn't magically create more amazing startups.

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