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by adamonkey 6y ago
Rent is typically only 7% of total restaurant operations costs. See Chipotle's quarterly earnings filings for example, and any restaurant industry analyses. Labor and food costs make up 60% of costs, with them being roughly equally div
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by adamonkey 7y ago
Fair point about my misuse of words, :). "democratizing" was a poor word choice. "Giving opportunity" would be more appropriate, and is the vocabulary Daniel Gross uses. He specifically mentions that he wants to find mor
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by adamonkey 7y ago
YC has better diversity stats though? And I don't think it's because its pipeline is too different.
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by adamonkey 7y ago
I'm shocked by the lack of diversity of those who win Pioneer, given that this is supposed to democratize funding for anyone across the globe. Right now, it's mostly peer recognition which is prone to favor projects the dominant d
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by adamonkey 7y ago
http://3kvc.com/
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by adamonkey 8y ago
I think what this company is doing is great. Unlike all the other automated food startups, this one focuses on COST. I would definitely buy a $6 burger with great ingredients. The founder cares about people's wellbeing, and seems to ha
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by adamonkey 9y ago
Thank you for recommending this article! Just what I needed!
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by adamonkey 9y ago
Smart Bathroom These bathrooms don't necessarily need to be targeted at households. It could make sense for office buildings, so that: -costs/person can be kept low -it is easier for the employer to handle connecting measurements
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by adamonkey 9y ago
How is the pricing? Firebase Realtime Database is fairly expensive ($5/GB of storage per month), so it makes economic sense for developers to migrate to their own backend once they hit a certain scale. This is why third-party mobile ba
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How I discovered that some foods were messing with my son's brain(medium.com)
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China Exploring New Fiat Digital Currency(technologyreview.com)
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by adamonkey 9y ago
She should become COO of Uber. Perfect!
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Five Lessons from Scaling Pinterest(news.greylock.com)
3 points by adamonkey 10y ago|0 comments
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New twist on sofa problem that stumped mathematicians and furniture movers(phys.org)
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Valuation Shell Game: Silicon Valley’s Dirty Secret(nytimes.com)
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When Large Companies Are Better at Entrepreneurship Than Startups(hbr.org)
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by adamonkey 10y ago
Hi everyone, I just set up this site. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! The site is a crowdsourcing platform for randomized control trials, where anyone can start and/or join an experiment. I do have plans to integrate health
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Show HN: Experimentera – Crowdsourcing platform for randomized control trials(experimentera.com)
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The Cure for Cancer Is Data – Mountains of Data(wired.com)
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