dpcheng2003

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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
To the question below: No, it does not irk me.
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
I respectfully disagree with your argument because that's not the one I'm making. I think the general consensus from Klout detractors is that a single "score" cannot encompass someone's influence. Some people are mo
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
I agree. I guess my original comment was not more clear on this. The sell-out was the hackneyed algorithm, not the $200M.
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
As a startup founder, let me take the contrarian view on this because I can see how it all went wrong. Klout, for the most part, had a very ambitious goal. Given all our activity (direct or indirect) that is being captured on social network
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The Secret Behind Secret: How Reddit’s Meme Culture Is Getting Productized(blog.sharebloc.com)
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
I'd love to see the accounting on that (see it; not do it). It makes sense since they're not customers and free accounts are part of their lead-gen strategy. Good pick-up.
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Sales & marketing for enterprise software is still the largest expense item for most enterprise software companies. Even though more software is self-serve and provides zero-day value, the biggest enterprise customers still need the Sal
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IDG’s Pat McGovern, 1937-2014: Computer Publishing’s Man of Many Worlds(time.com)
1 points by dpcheng2003 13y ago|0 comments
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Agree to disagree my friend. I wish you well.
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
What are we discussing? Who has more power? I'm really confused by your argument because I don't think we're arguing the same points. Can we get back to my original response to the original post: 1. Is finance irrelevant to t
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Who said anything about funding new companies? We're talking about leverage and wealth generation. Big AUM means bigger fees. Non-VC funds like hedge funds and private equity are incentivized to have huge funds because they get the fee
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
New power/wealth generation is and will be in finance for the foreseeable future. I can go into great detail on this but for TL;DR purposes, I will generalize: finance > tech in making aggregate money because finance only cares abou
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
While you can be 100% correct, it's a straw man and irrelevant to my point. You can simultaneously believe finance is rent-seeking and still 100% agree with my points in response to the original post: 1) finance is much larger in capit
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
I can't presume to understand Carl Icahn (as you admitted as well) but IMHO, this is untrue and can lead fellow HNers into an echo chamber. First, Wall Street's role in capital markets towers over Silicon Valley. Venture Capital A
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
I think the real story is how Satoshi unveiled the elusive Newsweek reporter. I didn't realize those were still around! /sarcasm
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Lawrence! You're exactly the same as I remember. Get it?
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Reposted now as a pastebin text. Thanks!
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The Bitcoin personality cult lives on (from FT)(pastebin.com)
2 points by dpcheng2003 13y ago|0 comments
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The Bitcoin personality cult lives on – (I post without commentary)(ftalphaville.ft.com)
1 points by dpcheng2003 13y ago|2 comments
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Billy... it's David Cheng (Hans' buddy). BofA tech ECM desk, FTW.
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Cheap debt with enough financial engineering to minimize EPS dilution. TSLA is an ideal stock for convert debt because it's highly volatile (compared to some other companies) which makes the pricing more attractive and opens it up for
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Can we simultaneously vilify LinkedIn and other companies that use (some would say morally questionable) growth hacking techniques and appreciate that they're still hungry, doing things that a desperate startup would do? I find the inn
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Yes. To the post below, it is entirely possible to be extremely wealthy and have no responsibility. Empirically, however, most people have generated wealth through direct and indirect actions that have benefited and hurt others. Society has
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
I'm a fan of imperfect analogies to prove a point so I can sympathize. However, your analogy really lets off the bad agents in the financial crisis. Enough people directly committed acts some would deem fraudulent (sell baskets of bad
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
At a certain point, your fame/wealth/power grants you some responsibilities if you care to honor them. One of them is to be constantly mindful of what you say or do because it has leveraged, far-reaching implications on your commu
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Where's the app that properly conveys snarkiness in text? Thanks Pandler for your clarification.
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Everyone does this. By now, I consider it an industry "best practice" and no one should be surprised. Is it still reprehensible? Sure, but then again, every startup that has ever grown their user base has used some variation of th
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Mental antibodies is a GREAT phrase. Kudos.
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Honestly, I think we'll see more downloads of Paper (53) because of confused people looking to download Paper (FB). I see this is as a huge PR win for 53 and both will end up co-existing and succeeding (probably). There are TWO billion
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by dpcheng2003 13y ago
Bingo. Sorry... didn't really flesh it out better. Was just bullshitting w/ my cofounder about this and was genuinely curious if anyone's done it.

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