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by GCA10 8y ago
This model feels very mechanical in the rigid $50 million cutoff between "low exit" and "will make you money." Truth is, niche companies with small burn rates can yield nice payoffs to investors even if the exit is $20 m
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by GCA10 8y ago
Harder than it seems. AmericanExpress had outsized market share in the corporate travel market for about 30 years, even though it never struck me as a superior product to Visa-based cards. Not sure who they hypnotized to establish that edge
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by GCA10 8y ago
Naive soul here, but is it really wise to type live passwords into someone's site that ostensibly is looking for matches with its existing database? That seems awfully trusting.
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Not quite sure we can credit Bogle with creating the index fund. He certainly popularized it, though. Bill Fouse at Wells Fargo got a rather clunky version of an index fund started in 1971, based on equal weighting of all NYSE shares. It to
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by GCA10 8y ago
Thank you!
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It pains me to see high school English teachers of a certain age keep assigning "Catcher in the Rye" to their students. Those forced readings must account for a large share of the 250,000 copies sold per year. As the Tablet articl
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by GCA10 8y ago
There's an interesting psychological dynamic here that's probably relevant for other high visibility purchases, too. I'm thinking cars in particular. There's a subset of us that under-spends relative to what we could own
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Older Quora has excellent answers on NASA topics (thanks Robert Frost) and linguistics and police procedure, as well as many other niche topics. Google is right to recognize these standouts. Not sure about the rest.
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by GCA10 8y ago
Create back-up copies of any list, data, etc. that matters to you. I backed up my Mailchimp list a couple months ago with exactly this scenario in mind. It's a minor chore to do so. But it sure beats having years of data vanish.
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Most of the top-tier publications actually do make a point of hiring people with subject-specific expertise. I first noticed this when The New York Times' lead medical correspondent was identified as Lawrence K. Altman M.D., because he
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by GCA10 8y ago
We had a brave school superintendent a few years ago who tried to get our local high school started at 9 a.m. instead of the traditional much earlier start. (Classes at 8 a.m., with many extra-curricular activities like band practice and sw
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How Will Amazon Pick 50,000 People for Its New HQs?(linkedin.com)
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How Qualtrics grew from tiny to an $8B SAP offer(linkedin.com)
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Social Security keeps chugging along just fine. You can't live large on those checks, but I've got relatives in small-town Connecticut who pay all the bills that way and even save a little. Work (in appropriate doses) brings a sen
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by GCA10 8y ago
The other end of the age curve is just as interesting - and deserves more attention. People aged 65 and older are sticking around in the workforce a lot more than they used to. The author claims this is because they need $$$ to cover health
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Also in the mix is the possibility that Bloomberg's "17 sources" consist of a only a few that claim first-hand knowledge, supplemented by a larger circle of people who were briefed about it. If so, the rest of the 17 are just
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by GCA10 8y ago
So in the land of journalists, this is what we do every week. Something like this can be an effective strategy. Find a couple current employees or associates who come across as stable and thoughtful. Invite them out for coffee, dinner, a lo
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<If you're thinking about joining a startup, how do you tell if the founders are like Larry and Sergey or if they're an Elizabeth Holmes? Right, that's the worst combination: smart and full of s t. I think you have to int
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by GCA10 8y ago
I like the idea of roughing out the overall cost, but lets see if we can get the numbers a bit more precise. Looking up pay rates on Indeed, here's what Amazon currently is offering: Florence KY, warehouse fulfillment associate: $12.8
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by GCA10 8y ago
U.S. ballots also randomize the candidates' names, so that you can't scan each new list quickly by alphabet or political party to look for the person you intend to vote for. The result is that it takes more than a few seconds of
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In a Tight Job Market, Tech Cos Scramble to Rehire Former Employees(linkedin.com)
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I grew up with that kind of summer rain in Illinois, too. After about five minutes of it, yes, a lot of (sane) drivers pull over. But it comes on very suddenly, and for the first two or three minutes, traffic flows continue. If you're
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by GCA10 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification - and sorry to go full tilt at rebutting an argument you weren't making! (Though it was fun to cover the territory.) You're right that without any aesthetic sense, everything gets bleak. Are things th
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College-based humanities accepted materialism centuries ago, when they got comfortable with the idea of training future clergy that could make a living in nearby towns. Travel the back roads of the U.S., and you'll see that New England
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As long as the U.S. personal-injury legal system remains in place (with strong support from media coverage of fatal crashes), it won't be enough for self-driving systems to have lower death rates/mile in aggregate. They will need
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3 Rivers; 2 Startups; 1 Uni; Pittsburgh's Route to 0-Driver Cars(linkedin.com)
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"Reading the works of Fibonacci" sounds like the sort of narrative garnish that would charm a journalist with little knowledge of math -- but would sound contrived to anyone who's take a stat class or two. Given how well-know
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MakerGirl hires its first CEO(business.illinois.edu)
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Can we size these tax credits, please? Lots of argument in both directions without any sense of scale. If the tax credits artificially cheapen the price by 10% (i.e. 7.2 cents/kwh becomes 6.5 cents/kwh), they're not a major d
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Agreed. The headline is much bolder and more engaging than the actual article. I'll take a moment to sputter about the phrase "even plasticity." It sounds stark and assertive. But then I check the dictionary and discover that

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