asanwal

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by asanwal 15y ago
Great to see data being used to dissect entrepreneurship, but have to disagree on a few fronts. -- "Steve Jobs isn’t doing anything radically different than other entrepreneurs. He just knows the rules of the game and plays it extremely wel
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How Vulnerable are Superheroes Crotches? - A Study(nymag.com)
1 points by asanwal 15y ago|0 comments
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17% of Americans consider themselves Geeks(geekwire.com)
17 points by asanwal 15y ago|14 comments
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Carbonite vs. Dropbox - The Economics of Carbonite (or Lack Thereof)(wikibon.org)
28 points by asanwal 15y ago|13 comments
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GigaOm raises $6M to take on industry analysts(gigaom.com)
7 points by asanwal 15y ago|0 comments
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by asanwal 15y ago
Incredible and remarkable story. Quite honestly, I am amazed/impressed that her husband also persevered and stuck through what must have been a very trying and long recovery process.
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by asanwal 15y ago
As a nerd, I feel your pain but equating social rejection from women to apartheid is probably overreaching a bit, no?
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How I Deal with Sexual Discrimination in a Positive Way?(tammycamp.com)
114 points by asanwal 15y ago|220 comments
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by asanwal 15y ago
Unfortunately, NYC and Columbia haven't been aggressive in this regard. As an NYC'er, the competition will likely cause everyone, including the incumbents, to raise their game which is good for students, the city, etc.
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by asanwal 15y ago
I think the artwork of a children's book, especially one as good as Go the F to Sleep make piracy beneficial. The content and the artwork are both very funny. So the PDF makes you realize it's actually quite good and then want the actual
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Why is TechStars NYC run by a non-entrepreneur?(pehub.com)
1 points by asanwal 15y ago|0 comments
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by asanwal 15y ago
I wrote a book on optimizing corporate portfolio management (publisher: Wiley). In English, portfolio mgmt means how large organizations handle resource allocation, i.e., whether to spend that next dollar on a marketing or IT or operations
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by asanwal 16y ago
I think your comment on share buy backs is not steeped in reality. Moreoever, share price is not always tied to fundamental value of a company. For value stocks, it is. But for tech companies (growth stocks), it is often tied to implied
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by asanwal 16y ago
Unfortunately, when people give you money (aka investors), they have certain expectations and you have responsibilities to them. And Google needs the money that the public markets enables them to have to fund operations, hire, grow, innova
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by asanwal 16y ago
That's fine. But let's assume all 81% of institutions hold "less privileged" (likely non-voting) stock, it doesn't matter if they can't vote. They can vote with their checkbooks (allocate investments to other stocks) and that is bad for G
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by asanwal 16y ago
Sorry but 81% of Google is owned by mutual funds & institutions. 1% is held by insiders http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=GOOG+Major+Holders This also underscores the fact that this is not Page's company and so while the Street's short
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by asanwal 16y ago
Page may justifiably dislike Wall Street and their short-term orientation, but he probably does need to detail his vision for shareholders esp the long-term type of investor. Because if that type of shareholder loses faith in the company's
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Is the whole lean startup thing really nothing more than UX?(iijiij.com)
12 points by asanwal 16y ago|1 comments
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by asanwal 16y ago
The data for Illinois is already looking up based on VC activity. The Halo Effect that Groupon will enable should be a good thing for Chicago. Look at page 15 of this report which shows an uptick for Illinois - http://bit.ly/hdL5Yz . Of
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by asanwal 16y ago
As Terretta mentions, you'll be offering "membership interests" and as far as I remember from our experience with an LLC, you don't offer shares but "units". You'll have to detail unit interests in your operating agreements and set up unit
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by asanwal 16y ago
CB Insights, 6 people, www.cbinsights.com, 2 positions (NLP intern and statistics intern) , info@cbinsights.com, natural language processing, information extraction, information retrieval, statistics, algorithm development
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by asanwal 16y ago
I do agree in theory. But just because people can be fooled into wasting their money in other ways doesn't mean we should encourage it in new ways. That said, I'd be all for this if the laws worked. The reality is that although criminals,
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by asanwal 16y ago
Sorry - that's a baseball analogy referring to batting average. Batting average is defined as the quotient of hits divided by at bats. So .300 means that a batter has 300 hits out of 1000 at bats. More than you'd ever want to know about b
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by asanwal 16y ago
Our startup's office used to be next door to what is affectionately called a "boiler room". These guys would essentially prey on old people and other vulnerable folks with various schemes related to penny stocks. And we'd hear the stories
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by asanwal 16y ago
A much more thoughtful article on Living Social vs Groupon which the TC article references - http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/livingsocial-chief-ra...
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Powerset founder launches lunar transport co (Late April Fool's post?)(gigaom.com)
2 points by asanwal 16y ago|0 comments
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How to know when to launch your startup(viniciusvacanti.com)
49 points by asanwal 16y ago|6 comments
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by asanwal 16y ago
Good thoughtful post. Especially agreed with the OP's point dispelling the notion that that entrepreneurs shouldn't do other things (consulting) as advocated by PG and many other investors. Think the subtext with those comments often is "
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GFI apologizes for Samsung keylogger claim. Nobody else does.(afterdawn.com)
8 points by asanwal 16y ago|0 comments
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Is Shark Tank with Mark Cuban a realistic depiction of angels & VCs?(chubbybrain.com)
3 points by asanwal 16y ago|1 comments

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