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by dcaranda 14y ago
the regulatory environment variations between countries is a great point to address the point more generally, the IFC (private investment arm of the World Bank) does a report ranking the ease of doing business across countries: http://www.
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by dcaranda 14y ago
Nice catch. More gold from Google's automated closed captioning on their own promotional video: "dissented japanese underground you're done" "to the mountain tell you what internet xxx" (personal favorite) "fearsome evil" "graceland"
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by dcaranda 14y ago
"Events are the only reason many people use Facebook." Is this true? Do we know this? I tried looking up stats on fb's events app usage and wasn't able to dig anything up.
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by dcaranda 14y ago
Despite market fluctuations, pundits and haters - there is an objective truth that Facebook's financial performance is exceptional. Facebook full year 2011 EBITDA was roughly 55%, demolishing google's 37% and apple's 42%. Wilson approximate
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by dcaranda 14y ago
EBITDA is a form of profit. Whenever someone says they made X in profit - you should immediately ask what kind - net income, operating profit, etc. Depending on the business, different definitions of profit can produce wildly different numb
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by dcaranda 14y ago
I'm confused. Having trouble reconciling: Slide 17: 26% of media consumption time is with Internet vs. 10% with Mobile (source: IAB) and separate stats from Flurry: 72 mins/day w Web Browsing vs. 94 mins/day w Mobile Apps (source: http://b
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by dcaranda 14y ago
We don't know if some of the $120MM is for secondary / cashing out existing investors / employees.
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by dcaranda 14y ago
ditto - love it - wish there were more languages (I vote Python & ObjC)
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Kinect Video Tool Kit(rgbdtoolkit.com)
1 points by dcaranda 14y ago|0 comments
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My Muse is Not a Horse - Nick Cave to MTV(lettersofnote.com)
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Art Collective Proposes Open Mobile Lab to Communicate with Dolphins (1974)(greg.org)
1 points by dcaranda 15y ago|0 comments
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by dcaranda 15y ago
not sure this comparison makes sense. viewing photos isn't foursquare's primary use case. venue broadcast/discovery is. I have 2 problems with Path. 1- I'm not sure what their primary use case is (check-ins, photos, status, music broadcast
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Data Scientist Turned Scultpor(bbc.co.uk)
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by dcaranda 15y ago
it's funny - a few people are opting to state their general area (Union Sqaure, Richmond, Downtown Brooklyn). And it seems like the most responses are from posts that are location-specific. I know you're leaving it open ended - but if the
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by dcaranda 15y ago
I put together a really quick valuation multiples analysis based on financial info from the S-1: https://twitter.com/#!/daranda/status/164854828957310978/pho... Disclaimer: This analysis is flawed - Using multiples is not a perfect method
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by dcaranda 15y ago
I think the only reason they went public was because they had to. Mainly the 500 investor limit.
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by dcaranda 15y ago
payments is a $557 million business for them - that's 15% - not immaterial
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by dcaranda 15y ago
Technically, just cause you file doesn't necessarily mean you IPO. Depends how their roadshow goes. But yeah - prolly May
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by dcaranda 15y ago
4th quarter, and December in particular, are usually huge in advertising cause of the holiday shopping season.
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by dcaranda 15y ago
Paul Graham's response is two things... disappointing and misleading. What makes his response disappointing is that this is a great, old debate. Cloudant is developing potentially breakthrough technology ("Our founders first devised our op