Dwolb

30 ms·

271.
by Dwolb 8y ago
I’m not sure I fully understand the point. Is it that people won’t shop at a store if Visa isn’t accepted? If so, I agree that is one of many additional factors in the overall negotiations.
272.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Imagine if you ran a $1B/year business with 10% profit margins and Visa took 2% of revenues. Profit before Visa is $100M, profit after Visa is $80M. If you negotiated Visa’s fees down to 1.5%, profit after Visa would be $85M. This is
273.
by Dwolb 8y ago
There’s a lot that’s missing on the thesis that needs to be explored. 1) How repeatable is a market-network that the workflow can be standardized? 2) For repeat providers, how can you provide more value to stay than to disintermediate? Not
274.
by Dwolb 8y ago
I was really upset at this comment at first. After thinking about it some more I like that it questions fundamental assumptions about the original question namely, “What happens if the deadline slips?” If the project is late, does the compa
275.
by Dwolb 8y ago
I’d lean more towards their story being path dependent. My hunch is they had to go through lean times to be able to focus harder on customers and eventually create a product that could take the company to an IPO. If you’re not lean, managem
276.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Is it not possible to sell a company that is currently profitable, cash flow positive, and is worth less than what investors had put in?
277.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Sure but those preferences only really affect equity payouts when the company’s in distress. When selling the a non-distressed company, equity will receive cash.
278.
by Dwolb 8y ago
This an interesting article because it reframes current immigration discussions from humanitarian issues to economic ones. I'd like to see more modelling on wage depression to see why this wouldn't have a widespread negative impac
279.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Just a note with this post's structure: I'm surprised in this day and age of dealing with complex global economic systems that we'd upvote any post that starts with an absolute view "The correct solution..."
280.
Ask HN: What is your favorite newsletter that you pay for?
2 points by Dwolb 8y ago|2 comments
281.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Awesome. I love they designed the scooter to facilitate a service model right from the get-go. Personally, I'm bearish on the light electric vehicle sharing model due to skepticism on the unit economics. Skip will also be a great piec
282.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Just be because you can layout two axes on a chart together doesn't mean you should . There's enough differences between what is meant by "network effect" that it's difficult to understand why companies might be
283.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Is your argument "Amazon is a retail business and Amazon doesn't yield high profits because retail businesses have low margins"? I guess that's true but so is OP's assertion that Amazon has a reputation for reinvest
284.
by Dwolb 8y ago
I love the bus because it runs express from my Chicago neighborhood directly into the loop. I get on, play with my phone, and get off 25 minutes later. I don't have to fight traffic driving myself and I can multi-task if I choose. The
285.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Nope. There's a current mismatch between automotive hardware life cycles and consumer software life cycles. This Volvo hardware is going to be a minimum of 3 years old before it ships and will have to function for 10 years+. How good i
286.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Agreed we'd need to figure out average current salary. Any additional info we need to gather?
287.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Sure but we can derive it. We'd have to know the answer: on average how many extra years of school does $1B fund?
288.
by Dwolb 8y ago
Hm I initially agreed with everyone here that there's no way to really compare the two since I thought about this on a personal level. However my current rationalization of the title thinks about this on a societal level. If you'r
289.
by Dwolb 9y ago
Tesla need to stop calling it 'Autopilot'. The name implies drivers don't need to drive and is most likely a big reason drivers are lured into a false sense of security.
290.
by Dwolb 9y ago
The nuance here is there's better individual data collection and targeting on a massive scale than society has ever dealt with before. Never has a business been able to properly choose the correct advertisement to show an individual at
291.
by Dwolb 9y ago
You should focus on customer acquisition, nurture, retention, and upsell. Email marketing is just one tool that's used in a specific way depending on your industry, product, and customer base. Always focus on improving the product, but
292.
by Dwolb 9y ago
This is akin to a franchaise tax. I'm pretty sure the thinking of the legislators is taxing net income is too easily manipulated. Therefore by taxing a 'small' (up for debate) amount of revenues there's less gamesmanshi
293.
by Dwolb 9y ago
>There are psychological phenomena in play that make an existing, market dominant piece of software more successful and harder to displace when it's objectively harder to use when that software forms the basis for someone's job
294.
by Dwolb 9y ago
I really hope you weren't a product manager at Intuit. >Second, the fact that Quickbooks is so awkward and inconsistent to use isn't a UI problem, it's a feature. This is an important lesson in designing software that peop
295.
by Dwolb 9y ago
Personally I’d like to dig in to know which varieties have the most nutritional content. Sounds like a good opportunity for growers to begin to differentiate among themselves.
296.
by Dwolb 9y ago
This is a fantastic idea that I’d guess is one of the selling points of universities and other software foundations. Maybe they could attract more dollars to their projects by naming them after the main benefactor...
297.
by Dwolb 9y ago
Agreed here. Thinking the authors should be rolling up a better view of “health dollars spent per year”.
298.
by Dwolb 9y ago
I found this to be an extremely interesting point: >In the short term, less smoking would lead to decreased spending because of reductions in health care spending for those who had smoked. >In the long run, all of those people living
299.
by Dwolb 9y ago
This is basically a post describing micro-economics (if I have capacity I’ll continue to produce as long as my marginal revenue exceeds my marginal cost). That’s fine and I agree those are the costs of Bitcoin. I think the author is missing
300.
by Dwolb 9y ago
I did some market research back in the day and there was a lot negative opinions on even attempting to measure performance based on patient outcomes because “each case is unique”. To me there were two things at play: possibly the sample siz

More ›