RockyMcNuts

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   by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

   and their wives too lol
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   Will Bill Gates return to try to save Microsoft?(blogs.computerworld.com)

   1 points by RockyMcNuts 16y ago|2 comments
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   by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

   I'm not sure who is more of a professional, the web developer who gives the client their requested BLINK tags and Comic Sans, or the one who tries to dissuade the client and avoids work from similar clients.
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   by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

   In real estate, it's "location, location, location". In VC it's "team, market, product". In most cases people are happy to give you their reason why they think it's not such a great investment. You might want to go back to people's reasons
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   by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

   You have to view it as a thought experiment - only individual freedom matters -> libertarianism only equality matters -> communism only arbitrary values and efficient pursuit of them matter -> fascism behind every form of govern
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   by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

   Philosophy The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, by Will Durant. Written in the 30s, it covers some philosophers who would not be considered influential today, and doesn't do justice to the 20
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   by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

   The events described in the Big Short are a national disgrace. Wall Street was engaged in a fraudulent conspiracy in which the buyer, the seller, the guaranty company, and the rating agency would willingly suspend disbelief so the buyer cou
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   by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

   The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner - http://www.amazon.com/Worldly-Philosophers-Lives-Economic-Th...
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   by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

   If you invest in a kleptocracy, capital gains tax is the least of your worries. If you don't kowtow to the right people, murky authorities seize your business on trumped up tax charges, and anyone who fights dies mysteriously in jail. http
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    by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

    I would probably start with the Turtle Rules - an ultra simple system that was used successfully in the olden days, as a good overview of the elements of a successful system. http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/files/turtlerules.pdf Po
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    by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

    First, note my parenthetical comment. Second, your answer is to a different question - what is a reasonable theoretical valuation for a minority shareholder based on various potential outcomes? Not: at what price could I sell 100% of the as
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    by RockyMcNuts 16y ago

    Sometimes a short answer is the simplicity on the other side of deep understanding. Do you value an ounce of gold based on the hours that went into mining and refining it, or a Picasso based on the quantity of paint that went into it? It's