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by capred 12y ago
The product potential and the funding make it seem like this is a bunch of insider baseball going on here. This is something I feel I could build in a few months, let alone require 20 people. Aside from all the jargon about these researcher
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by capred 12y ago
It's the largest streaming site in the world and could possibly be making 10 figures / year. YouTube isn't dishing out money just because they are really nice people.
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by capred 13y ago
Does anyone really think the textbooks in the US are showing the barbarism our country is displaying right now - let alone 70 years ago? Civilian casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan (in the 7 figures) would bring war crimes indictments t
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by capred 14y ago
Does anyone know if these types of $100M numbers are actually true? I think it makes a great headline but wouldn't everyone at senior ranks get packages like this making it unsustainable?
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Braintree’s recent move overseas helps double its payments volume to $8B(gigaom.com)
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by capred 14y ago
What flashes through my mind when I see this type of corporate fetish, even it being Google, is that the future is much more likely to be version of Brave New World than 1984. We consume not because we're told to, but because we want to. We
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by capred 14y ago
I'm skeptical of Lightbank. Taking an investment is a pretty serious relationship and not much in the Lefkofsky or Keywell's history implies these are the type of people you want to get married to. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/10/gr
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by capred 14y ago
Although this girl might be arrested today, this general trend (growing accessibility to information) will show more and more people that there is a world beyond their immediate experience and what they are being told by people like Bal is
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by capred 14y ago
I find it interesting that he records everyone else and puts them up on youtube but doesn't reveal his own identity. More of his approach is about antagonizing people and seeing how they react rather than highlighting the ubiquity of survei
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by capred 14y ago
The problem is these guys themselves think they are awesome. They are not. Case in point: they came back to TechCrunch because they were failures without it. These guys are really bad for the startup ecosystem because they are not intellect
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by capred 14y ago
Exactly. Is he like the Paris Hilton of SV? Famous because he's famous. I see lots of comments about Digg but it seems like Digg peaked in 2008.
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by capred 14y ago
Now this is good work if you can get it. $12m talent acquisition and then he quits in 3 months. Maybe im just not a valley insider but what exactly has Kevin done that was successful? I'm not trying to be critical here, just don't see what
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by capred 14y ago
Unfortunately its not about the desire for the SEC todo their job, its ability. New top-grads in finance (and highly sought after performers) go to work at large banks simply based on incentive structures. The SEC is out gunned from the get
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by capred 14y ago
Its not listed but tech stocks like apple and google hover around 15-20 P/E. That means that the FB has to grow their earnings so their P/E ratio ends up being in line with the industry or their stock falls. I.e. either Price moves or Earni
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by capred 14y ago
This IPO is based as much as the 'dream' of what FB can be than what it is. Here's something to think about: FB investments pre-IPO: $2.4 Billion, Google investments pre-IPO: $25MM. Google's IPO was much smaller ($25B market cap if I recall
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by capred 14y ago
This is a classic case of someone who doesn't realize that their own situation is not everyone's situation. Not everyone comes to the valley as a cofounder of a company that becomes a $100B+ phenomena. Here's a clue: they didn't invest in A