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by GCA10 7y ago
Lots of savvy insights, but I'd question Rachleff's position that the angel community took on a "sucker's bet" when it became the main source of early funding for software startups that hadn't yet established p
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Right sentiment; here's an editing tweak that lets you make the point more precisely: SOX compliance is arduous but it only exists (and is as strict as it is) because some company built a $60 billion market cap in 2000 with financial-
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Grumbling Aside, Developers Stick with Apple's App Store(linkedin.com)
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Slack's Julia Grace on emojis, fun and focused teams(linkedin.com)
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In aggregate, people's desire to be noticed is vastly larger than their desire for privacy. The latest case -- going beyond anything I can parody -- is this first-person NYTimes tell-all about a married couple being overheard in the mi
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When online teaching becomes a window into child abuse(edsurge.com)
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From the sample hands, it looks as if it's a cash game with stacks equal to 200BB. Plenty of room to play real poker.
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Hi Noam: I'm intrigued that you trained/tested the bot against strategies that were skewed to raise a lot, fold a lot and check a lot, as well as something resembling GTO. Were there any kinds of table situations where the bot had
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by GCA10 7y ago
Just to be cranky, shouldn't we eliminate all the permutations that use the same number three times? (i.e. 11-11-11)? My knowledge of combination locks doesn't extend much beyond goofing with Master locks in high school, but the m
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The smart hedge funds' edge is pervasive but small. And there are a lot of dumb hedge funds! (Also a lot of scheming hedge funds that are fee maximizers, not investment-return maximizers.) The upshot is that for a year in which market
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by GCA10 7y ago
The linguists of Quora had a similar discussion a while back about the putative similarities between Hebrew and Navajo. Basic conclusion: if you accept loose pairings (shoe/boot) you can find "inexplicable" coincidences anywh
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This is a really accurate account of what it's like to go solo on a book project. It can be brutal. I'm surprised and a little sad there isn't a full discussion of how to line up friends and admired colleagues to make the jou
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Slack's creation might fit this formula, too. What started out as an in-game chat function in the ultra-competitive gaming world turned out to be a dazzling workplace communication tool.
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This gets tricky. Yes, some loss-making businesses never turn profitable. But others do (i.e. Amazon). And when it comes to real-estate companies, the rather goofy U.S. tax rules mean that even quite robust companies will engineer huge depr
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by GCA10 7y ago
So IWG plc, which has a British stock-market listing and does business mostly as Regus, had 2018 revenue of £2.5 billion and a current market cap of about £3 billion. It thus trades at about 1.2x annual revenue. WeWork's multiple is wa
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There's always a shorter way to get key elements into a headline. How about: To Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot
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I'm not quite sure what's "brutal" about Aldi's practices. They are thrifty. But that's different.
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Safeway's use of data is comically bad. Since 2010 or so, I've been signed up for their Just4U special discounts, based on what they know about my shopping habits, as a California dad. Recently they offered me a bonus coupon for P
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Google makes a lot of genuinely useful products and services. We've all got to wrestle with the privacy tradeoffs of "free" maps, "free" email, "free" Android, etc. But at least the satisfaction of using w
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Before we get too deep in arguing about supposed favoritism by Google, let's back up and look at the types of search terms that were entered in this study. Just about all of them relate to the sorts of Washington-focused headline news
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It is fluffy marketing. But bear in mind that when you're offering a B-minus experience to drivers in terms of pay, hours and quality of life, it takes a lot of fluffy marketing to minimize driver churn or corrosive behavior.
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I'm sampling the world of commission-based connectors in a deliberately wide-ranging way. We could also include Hollywood agents (often 10%; sometimes 15% or even 20%). Or Eventbrite, where the base formula of 3.5% +$1.79 translates in
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by GCA10 7y ago
Uber has a huge community operations team that's in charge of making sure that its drivers stay productive and at least semi-at-peace with the way the system works (and evolves!) There's a lot more human-to-human work needed in th
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by GCA10 7y ago
Right now, Uber keeps 22 cents on each dollar paid by passengers, as its fee for creating the app, keeping it working, etc. That's cheap relative to the iTunes store, which keeps 30%. It's preposterous compared to the 3% that real
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It's great to see Marcus's 3.8: "Deep learning presumes a largely stable world, in ways that may be problematic." Most interesting problems in the world don't mirror Go's orderly rules. Players don't alwa
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I like this list a lot more than Sam Altman's How to be Successful. Sam does have some excellent pointers about everything from compounding your impact to having an exploring mindset. But his list feels as if it's written mostly f
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42% of LinkedIn's Top US Companies Are in Internet/Software(linkedin.com)
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Ikea's annual revenue is about 38 billion Euros. That would rank it about #200 on the Fortune 500 global list, in terms of revenue. By Fortune's tally, at least, all of the top 10 are either state-controlled energy companies, auto
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by GCA10 8y ago
If I'm reading this correctly, the Fed and its member banks had $49 billion of net income through the first nine months of 2018, before remittances to the U.S. Treasury. https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/2
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by GCA10 8y ago
So this is where it gets frustrating. When I'm heading to a new city for business meetings (which happens often) Google is great about auto-magically surfacing restaurant names close to where I will be. It's much faster and easier

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