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by adamt 15y ago
The PPP figure is irrelevant in this case. Purchasing Power Parity GDP figures adjusts the GDP to the cost of living. It has most contextual value when comparing the GDP per capita. PPP GDP per Capita is effectively a metric of the mean wea
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by adamt 15y ago
They have a big building here in Cambridge where they employee 170+ people. The Company has been public for a long time (first floated on EASDAQ back in about 1999). I don't think there's anything shadier about it compared to any other ent
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by adamt 15y ago
Those figures you quote are sterling prices. E.g. yesterday it was £3.7Bn. It's about an 70% premium over market not a 3x
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by adamt 15y ago
It gets better - I hope nobody was relying on their AWS DB snapshots for backups - I just had a note from Amazon to say that one or more of EU-West database snapshots had missing blocks (due to an EBS software errors) and had been removed.
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by adamt 15y ago
My personal experience contradicts this - and as context to that statement I've raised about 10 rounds from EU, US and Asian investors. Some of his points (e.g. about not being shopworn) have some validity, but that can be avoided/mitigated
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by adamt 15y ago
Within the EU - the richer countries subsidise the poorer ones. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#St... This table shows the net contributions over the period 2007-2013. As you can see France, Germany and Bri
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by adamt 15y ago
I've done about 4 startups now - and always chosen to split the equity evenly between the founders, despite the fact a tool like this one would have suggested I would have been 'worth' more than parity. What this tool forgets is that a star
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by adamt 15y ago
In short - you violate a patent if you use, sell or offer to sell something that violates the patent. So if you moved the company abroad (or were a non US entity in the first place) then you're fine, providing you never wanted to sell to U
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by adamt 15y ago
The Django "{% csrftoken %}" that you put into forms (and similar things in other frameworks), is used when posting form responses. It turns into a hidden form field (<input type=hidden>). This helps protects against someone creatin
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by adamt 15y ago
How exactly has Samuel Colt saved millions of lives?
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by adamt 15y ago
In investment terms 'return' normally refers to profit. See http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/returnoninvestment.asp So I think you should have ended up with 1240%. E.g turning $1 to $1.50 is a 50% return and $1 to $2 is 100% so $1 to $
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by adamt 15y ago
I think you miss the point if you rate the market leader by customer satisfaction rather than revenue or customer base. I just did a few searches of smaller US and UK cities, and found 5-40x as many listings on Airbnb as VRBO. For example i
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by adamt 15y ago
The fact that the CPU is high on one CPU suggests that to me all interrupts from the NIC are going to just the one CPU (generally default on Linux). An 8 core ec2 machine has lots of total CPU, but individual cores are not that fast. Change
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by adamt 15y ago
I've just happily paid for this app (congrats, nice app and makes my daily life easier/better) I am always amused when people complain about paying $5 for an app like this. Let's assume for a second that you are an IT/Internet professional,
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by adamt 15y ago
I studied CS at Cambridge having previously come from a below average state school. Although the article is a cliche of half-truths there is in my experience some truth there. I had 2 interviews to get in which lasted only 15 and 60 minute
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by adamt 15y ago
Fixed. Thanks.
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by adamt 15y ago
We're a small (~10 person), profitable, self-funded, UK company based in Cambridge doing over >US$1m a year in revenue. We are doing interesting things around video/content distribution over the Internet. We're looking to add more code
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by adamt 15y ago
Expanding on what tudorachim says, it appears to be an thinly-veiled recruitment exercise. Any EU citizen can work throughout the EU without needing work permits, which is presumably why they have that restriction.
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by adamt 15y ago
In the uk angel investment is only typically allowed by high net worth or sophisticates investors (definitions below). High Net Worth Investors have an income in excess of GBP 100,000 per annum and/or have net assets (excluding primary resi
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by adamt 16y ago
On the whole an excellent article, but i think there is one big flaw in his reasoning. Hs opening argument is that back in 2000, Ebay, Amazon, Cisco, and Akamai were trading at ridiculous multiples, but they are now much more sensible. The
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by adamt 16y ago
I've been doing running internet/technology startups since '95. Here's my $0.02 * Labour costs roughy the same per hour. Although using the likes of elance or even mechanical turk, it is much easier to find cheaper labour for certain tasks.
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by adamt 16y ago
Venturebeat claims Zynga'a 2010 revenues were $850m ( http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/17/zynga-funding-10-billion ). Just shy if a billion but given growth quite conceivable that they did more than $250m in last quarter ($1B annualised) Inte
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by adamt 16y ago
I travel to singapore every quarter and in my experience the bandwidth sucks. You get nowhere near advertised speeds on wireless networks and the international connectivity is highly contended on the wired links. My links in the UK are much
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by adamt 16y ago
Their VCs from 2000, 04 and 05 will all be hungry for an exit.
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by adamt 16y ago
The article states they lost $328k on revenues of $90M for the first 9 months of the year. The $328k loss is not really material (either as a proportion of revenue, or absolutely versus the size of the business) they are essentially breakin
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by adamt 16y ago
MM is widely used within the finance industry to mean million(s). It comes from Latin "Mille" meaning "thousand", so MM is a "thousand thousands" which equals one million.
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by adamt 16y ago
Passports are issued by the UK Passport Office, and driving licenses by the DVLA (Driving & Vehicles Licensing Association). These are both effectively government agencies. However, as having a passport or a driving license is not compu
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by adamt 16y ago
Couldn't agree more. Apple doesn't own apple.co.uk so they just use apple.com/uk and use geoip to make apple.com (by default, can override country) redirect. I don't know how australians perceive it but in the uk people wouldn't care or rea
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by adamt 16y ago
"potential upside on this is big enough to warrant a YC investment" You make it sound like YC is like a traditional VC that requires a 10x return on a $20m investment to make their model work. Disregarding for now any 'grand plan' for furth
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by adamt 16y ago
Am I missing something? That Asus is 1.9KG and 2.5cm thick. The current-gen 13" MBA is 1.3KG and 0.3-1.7cm thick? So the Asus is 50% heavier and twice the thickness. The Adamo is also considerably heavier than the MBA at 1.8KG (and 1.64cm

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