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by ajiang 13y ago
I'd like to see if it's decreasing margins over time on products or if it's due to a shift in product mix sold. Would product level information be disclosed if I submit a request for the full prospectus?
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by ajiang 13y ago
Thanks, that's helpful. Any hints on the declining margins?
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by ajiang 13y ago
Right, so I think that's the reason why the standard Income line is replaced with Seller Discretionary Income. Since it's assumed that there is very little actual work on the new owners side, all of the income of the business beco
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by ajiang 13y ago
A few questions: * Why is Q4 Projected so low compared to Q1-3? * Why are Gross and SDE Margin % falling consistently from 2011-2013? I think one thing that pops out at me is that while most business get better margins as they scale, your m
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by ajiang 13y ago
That's why you don't use revenue relative to profit as a metric, but various returns on invested capital as a metric, e.g. profit to debt, profit to assets, profit to capital expenditures, etc. Revenue is often a difficult figure
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by ajiang 13y ago
Congrats on making the leap! I've been waiting for the right time as well, and it has been too easy to continue kicking the can with reasons why not. I am curious on the 6 months of runway. Have you found how many months others save up
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by ajiang 13y ago
For all the good that tech does for the world, can we stop the judgment of why people are entering the careers they choose, whether it's finance, tech, or otherwise? Let's judge a person not by the content of their background, but
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by ajiang 13y ago
I think of the value of any asset in the form of expected value. For bonds and stocks, it's present value for forecasted future cash flows. For Bitcoins, there is an element of underlying value, but also an element of acceptance as a b
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by ajiang 13y ago
Can you provide a bit more detail? I'm curious, but the page doesn't really give much more than the title & TBC. Btw, I really like the payment structure. Lower minimum with a suggested price, and easy refund processing.
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by ajiang 13y ago
For the record, I'm all for the airline industry being disrupted. I've heard of a few of these Uber-like services being started, but never fully understood the challenges. I'm curious as to whether the objections the author b
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Why sharing a private jet doesn't work(theearlyairway.com)
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by ajiang 13y ago
Perfect. You could go to conferences free for life and make a nice side business from it.
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by ajiang 13y ago
That's amazing...and probably a nice little side business there, working with artists to attend events and providing physical books as gifts to conference attendees.
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by ajiang 13y ago
Could I ask about the user testing you did on this? Intuitively, if I lost something valuable, I would feel that people would be more inclined to make an effort in returning it if they saw a name (and hence a person) attached to it. Emotion
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by ajiang 13y ago
For the optimist undergrad...less competition for the next-best and next-brightest to get jobs on Wall Street
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by ajiang 13y ago
This is great. I hope the trend catches on for more conferences / events to have these books as a nice momento of the event and reminder of the key points from each speaker.
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by ajiang 13y ago
You're right, I misread the top end of that range. Top trading firms get close to that, (e.g. Jane Street), but $225k is probably pushing unlikely until your 3rd year.
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by ajiang 13y ago
Just over 100k and 130k or $160k (Moelis) makes all the difference for what the parent comment said, which is that bonus is is 100-125% of base (65k)
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by ajiang 13y ago
Nope. 120-130K all in for top bucket in 2013, with some firms paying 140-160K (see BAML and Moelis). Also not true is the 2 year contract, as GS is moving towards a career model and away from a 2 year analyst model. http://www.me
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by ajiang 13y ago
Holy negativity. Why is the overall sentiment of the comment pool so cranky and skeptical? 1) YC startups have a combined valuation of $13.7B. Fact - groups of investors have valued YC startups individually, and in aggregate the current kno
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by ajiang 13y ago
I agree that non-profits can and often are not independent of private influences. Universities can fall under the same influences as well, such as MIT's concrete research studies being funded and advocated by the Portland Concrete Asso
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by ajiang 13y ago
Are we putting that much significance from a quote in 2005 by a Google executive who has since left Google? While some see it as a social utility, Google is a $350B public company that generates its revenues from advertisements. 8 years ago
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by ajiang 13y ago
Yep. I actually think it would be valuable to have a third-party non-profit entity that provides economic impact assessments of start-ups like Uber and Airbnb, so we are backing up our regulatory policy changes on data rather than emotion o
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by ajiang 13y ago
This is just incredibly dumb and disrespectful. I'm hoping this gets enough attention that people start calling them out.
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by ajiang 13y ago
Agree with Jonathan here, but wanted to say that the landing page is beautiful. Did you do the design work yourself? If so, where did you pick it up?
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by ajiang 13y ago
You are the man. And you just got yourself another twitter follower :)
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by ajiang 13y ago
Beautifully implemented. If it's not too much to ask, please consider making public the source code behind the display and design - really gorgeous way of showing a collection of notes.
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by ajiang 13y ago
So it is misleading to make conclusions from a PE ratio at any given time, simply because earnings for any particular quarter or even year is very situational. If for perfectly legitimate reasons (say to fuel growth) my earnings this quarte
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by ajiang 13y ago
Two things you need at the beginning of starting a business: the ability to have a product/service and the ability to sell. The better your product, the less skilled you need to be at selling and vice versa. If you're doing it alo
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by ajiang 13y ago
Not arguing at all that things have inherent value, but the challenge is having an objective way of putting a dollar value to those activities. For example, does a backup generator add any value if the electricity never goes out? Do you onl

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