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by __ 19y ago
Yes, Taleb and Spitznagel. I don't know if that fund is still around. I couldn't find much information on it.
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The economics of female circumcision(portfolio.com)
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by __ 19y ago
From "Money, Money, Money" by Philip Greenspun ( http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/money ): It is 1986. You buy yourself an IBM PC. You are using MS/DOS and say "This sucks. It isn't even as good as operating systems from 1960." You'r
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by __ 19y ago
Empirica Capital does (or did) something similar. Their strategy is based on the belief that securities are overvalued because investors underestimate the effects of rare catastrophes. So Empirica slowly bleeds away their investment capit
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by __ 19y ago
What a cancer. On the plus side, this might put some pressure on developers to make the XO's OS really good. But, of course, OS choice is unlikely to be based on technological quality.
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by __ 19y ago
Yes, I think the book explained that the team mainly recruited Asians, half-Asians, and Greeks to take advantage of the pit bosses' racial prejudices. The protagonist, for example, is supposed to be of Anglo/Chinese descent. This reminds m
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by __ 19y ago
The book read so much like an action movie that I thought they wouldn't have to change it much to make a movie out of it. I was wrong.
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Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC(money.cnn.com)
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by __ 19y ago
"People start companies because they want to have control and impact and work on interesting things and have more ownership." That's true. If these are the founders' main goals, they'll be less averse to raising the acquisition price or wo
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by __ 19y ago
It seems if several startups merged into one, it wouldn't be an attractive acquisition. An acquirer might only want one subcompany, but has to buy the whole thing at a greatly increased price. Acquirers like the a-la-carte aspect of start
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Linden open-sourcing Second Life "backend" (Mitch Kapor gets his wish?)(blogs.zdnet.com)
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Google invests $1 million in Israeli-Chinese firm(ynetnews.com)
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by __ 19y ago
A strong tea, like Irish breakfast or lapsang souchong.
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Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine(kurzweilai.net)
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Fixing Venture Capital(joelonsoftware.com)
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Why software sucks(scottberkun.com)
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