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King Digital (Candy Crush) IPO Prices at 7.5B(online.wsj.com)
1 points by drinkzima 13y ago|0 comments
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by drinkzima 13y ago
Transaction costs on housing hover around 5-6% generally, and that ignores holding costs. Housing isn't an 'economically perfect' marketplace.
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by drinkzima 13y ago
The entire thrust this of the article seems to be that growth hacking should just be building a product people love and share. This in itself is completely obvious. Even though growth hacking has become a silly term, all the points Andy Jo
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Lyft Raises $150M at valuation of $700M(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by drinkzima 13y ago|0 comments
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by drinkzima 13y ago
Visa processed ~4.2T of payments last year (page 32) and earned ~5B of net income on ~11.7B of revenue (page 29). By my calculations that is ~0.1% off the top of the transaction net of costs to do business. Not much. All from the most rec
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by drinkzima 13y ago
The problem with logic like that is that even suspending disbelief and accepting the 10% chance, a discount rate needs to be applied. Risk-adjusted returns are getting entirely ignored. If they have a 10% to turn into Tencent tomorrow, at
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by drinkzima 13y ago
One important fact that seems to be getting ignored with payment fees is that credit cards have much higher fees than debit/ATM cards. If bitcoin intends to be a cash-like currency, the more apt fee comparison would be swiping ATM card
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Twitter’s Ballooning Market Cap(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by drinkzima 13y ago|0 comments
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Uber Surge Pricing Hits 8x in NYC(businessinsider.com)
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by drinkzima 13y ago
I'm going to be a contrarian on this one. Markets are clearly more efficient at the top (and all but the most inclined wont be running their own hedge funds). Buffetts, Paulsons, etc cannot just move into a position on a whim. They t
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by drinkzima 13y ago
Just an FYI, but accidental flagging happens to me all the time on my iphone, would be nice to have a flag-confirm on mobile (I'd bet mobile flagging correlates much worse with controversy if others are having that problem too)
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by drinkzima 13y ago
Commissions don't decide peak power prices, the marginal producers of power do. And, yes, natural gas is a large portion of the power stack, but peak days (which only happen a nominal number of times per year) are driven by plants tha
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by drinkzima 13y ago
People don't fully appreciate how long the tails get on power pricing when alternate sources have to come online. Not uncommon to see 10x base pricing a few times per year: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.
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by drinkzima 13y ago
He also fails to mention that the last 3 TC Disrupt winners in SF have been Crunchfund companies... Layer - http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/and-the-winner-of-techcrunc... YourMechanic - http://tec
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by drinkzima 13y ago
I'd love to see an analysis of the risk embedded in the future profits that everyone talks about. What these analyses completely ignore is that Amazon's future cash flows are risky, while the current cashflows at the dying busine
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by drinkzima 13y ago
Perspective: http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=TSLA&p=D&yr=3&mn=0&dy=0&id=... TSLA has been on a moonshot, it is "tumbling" all the way back to September prices.
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by drinkzima 13y ago
It probably makes the most sense to just look at advertising as a share of GDP or some sort of sales metric (this page indicates it has been pretty stable for the last 50+ years: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/ca
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by drinkzima 13y ago
Did I miss something or is there a massive correlation vs causation issue with this article? I actually agree with the premise, but I also know that my lowest-value, highest-boredom moments are spent on Facebook, so it seems like there coul
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by drinkzima 13y ago
Here is the actual report: http://electrificationcoalition.org/sites/default/files/EC_S... Let's also not ignore the obvious conflict of interest in a group promoting electric vehicle sales trying to spe
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by drinkzima 13y ago
The Taproot Foundation is exactly that mission, donation of pro bono work: http://www.taprootfoundation.org/
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Opentable Acquires Urbanspoon's Rezbook(m.eater.com)
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Yelp Shares Up After Beating Q2 Estimates(forbes.com)
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by drinkzima 13y ago
My fault, numbers backwards, 1-2% should be 98-99%.
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by drinkzima 13y ago
TLDR: Lots of businesses don't succeed in venture and if you are of the 1-2% of businesses that receives funding and doesn't succeed than you should have postponed/avoided VC. Bad logic and even worse advice.
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by drinkzima 13y ago
As mentioned above, this launched in mid 2011: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/09/early-look-at-our-f... Also accompanied by Google Hotel Finder: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/07
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Calculating Apple’s True U.S. Tax Rate(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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Google IO Live Presentations(youtube.com)
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by drinkzima 13y ago
It seems to be the AirBnB's effort to build more and more community into the platform puts the business at odds with its ultimate growth driver (replacing/substituting hotels). This just feels like another step to move the company further
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by drinkzima 14y ago
Love this, to chime in with suggestions, something with color indicating inbound/outbound would be awesome for seeing through some of the noise. Love the line selection idea as well.
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Scientist Films First Footage Of A Giant Squid(npr.org)
1 points by drinkzima 14y ago|0 comments

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