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by _lex 9y ago
> it's possible that she's the only woman on the panel because she thinks this way Note I said "it's possible". I did that because I can't prove it. I don't think anybody can prove either possibility. &
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by _lex 9y ago
I think it's worth considering that we're seeing some survivorship bias here - it's possible that she's the only woman on the panel because she thinks this way. In other words, it's possible that other women who w
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by _lex 10y ago
I particularly like the discussion of LOIs in https://stripe.com/atlas/guide#transactions-and-agreements . Should be very useful to new companies, and is rarely discussed.
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by _lex 10y ago
This should have been a series of posts, compiled into a guide. It should be easy to cut this up into digestible pieces, but it's sort of a massive throw up right now. (edit) Ah - now i see- it is a guide. But it's a single page l
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by _lex 10y ago
It sounds like there's a space for a company that simply validates these issues and supports opensource software, for customers like DOD. I'd expect that such a company could charge each customer quite a bit, and that each custome
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by _lex 10y ago
This analysis is very low quality. Engineers move to the bay area not for salaries, but for equity and RSUs. It's not unusual to make your salary again in RSUs, which are usually not that risky. Equity is a mixed ball, however. But the
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by _lex 10y ago
Blacks are disproportionally policed, leading to higher likelyhoods of being accused of a crime. Blacks are convicted more often than white people arrested for the same crime. When black people are convicted of a crime, they are more likely
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by _lex 10y ago
This is pretty bad article because it focuses on # of funded startups, not # of attempted startups. What if 99.999% of startups attempted were attempted by solo founders? It would make you expect that the # of funded startups should also t
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by _lex 10y ago
OAuth is, like much of authentication and authorization that has been well marketed, very technically flawed. It makes a big show of not trusting the recipient application with credentials, but anyone who's actually interested in steal
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by _lex 10y ago
Yeah, this is exactly what my dev teams need right now. I reached out to you just now with my @agco email address on your "schedule a demo" button. Some advice - MAU is not connected to value delivered. [edit] How much is premium
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by _lex 11y ago
Well, that is the end of Theranos. They should just return what money is left to their investors at this point. This explains why they could never get the tech right...
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by _lex 11y ago
Yeah, something that most people don't know is that extrinsic motivation dissolves intrinsic motivation. see http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/10/how-rewards-can-backfire-an... This means that fitbit will leave y
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by _lex 11y ago
I'd hope he's passionate about his business. I think you may have thought that I meant passion project as in "small, unimportant thing he's passionate about". I meant "thing he's passionate about". I
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by _lex 11y ago
Seems like a particularly poor article. The title is an unsubstantiated claim based on the author's passion project, rather than any sort of real analysis. Ok, so banks do loss-leaders and cross sell. SO does your supermarket, payroll
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by _lex 11y ago
When companies complain of shortages, they generally mean "shortage at the price I would like to pay". The talent is there, they just need to be willing to pay the _true_ market clearing price, and to advertise as such. Having tro
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by _lex 11y ago
It only seems that way because as a company you're amortizing the investment in education over 2 years, when as an individual the employee can amortize that investment over the effective life of the technology or how long he thinks the
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by _lex 11y ago
There are strong economic disincentives to training employees in transferable skills: the second you do, their market value increases, which means that if you don't pay them more, they will be recruited by other companies willing to do
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by _lex 11y ago
Two interesting things: 1) this predicts difficulty in controlling contractors and getting them to stick to schedules. It explains why taxis suck, homejoy struggled, and showcases that uber circumvented the entire issue of driver reliabilit
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by _lex 11y ago
This is incomplete, but very, very good economic analysis. In the end his points are simple: 0. Employees are willing to trade "freedom" for job stability and increased average returns. Contracters will more easily defect for spor
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by _lex 11y ago
One of the most basic rules of doing extraordinarily well in business - Commoditize your complements. Google's hope here is to drive the cost of android developers down, while driving the number of android devs up.
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by _lex 11y ago
He may not keep it, but he can control it, and it will make him significantly more powerful.
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by _lex 11y ago
Exactly true, however he's donating STOCK not money. So he's avoiding the taxation on the stock gains that he would have seen, which could easily have been upwards of 50%. Then, yes, he can be employed by and can expense costs to
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by _lex 11y ago
Depending on how he does this and the basis of the equity, this move may be an amazing tax shield, worth WAY more than it seems. {edit} - I actually think this is exactly the strategy being applied by him and his team of tax strategists - H
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by _lex 11y ago
I gotta say, this is a great move for founders + companies: Commoditizing your components will lead to downward price pressure on engineering wages. Also, it's superficially great for employees too: apply to a common app and get prequa
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by _lex 12y ago
This shows me how myopic and out of touch these guys are - I already use the biggest loser on xbox kinect, and it's replaced both a gym and a trainer for me.
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by _lex 13y ago
This should not be an app - it should be a service, billed at $12/year (or $10 for a 3 month pass), with fresh content/languages added regularly. This would turn your company into something potentially investable, and would give y
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by _lex 13y ago
I might be drinking crazy juice, but I see everything EXCEPT a business model. How does this company make money? How do you attract customers? How do you reach scale? What you've written down is a bunch of ways to spend money - not a b
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by _lex 13y ago
I think you need to define your own language if it's better. 'Deck' is clearly better than 'Dockerfile'. Feel free to innovate - you're a startup, and it's what we love about you.
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by _lex 13y ago
CEOs are employees, and stocks are considered passive income. Granted, he might still have to be on the "board", but he could get pretty close to passive income. To spell this out: Most successful businesses eventually hire someon
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by _lex 13y ago
Sounds like you took the best parts of digital ocean and are trying to push it as a platform with docker baked in. I like. It seems like you're also trying to simplify using docker. I like even more.

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