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by econner 10y ago
This advice is often given but it's easier said than done. Let's say you work at a unicorn for 3 years and in that time it goes up 10x in VC fantasy land valuation. On paper you have a lot of money and the company reasonably mig
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – I Have a Dream(youtube.com)
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by econner 10y ago
How do I short this loan category?
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by econner 10y ago
Is a secondary sale good or bad? Why ask this question?
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by econner 10y ago
I've recently started to complete side projects. I also graduated in 2012 so I was in a similar position a few months ago. What clicked for me was that I realized I didn't have to do anything heroic. At first I'd start a p
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by econner 10y ago
How does clawing back some of the variable fees alleviate the fixed part of the fee? You're still paying the fixed part of the fee no matter what! It sounds like you work at a hedge fund and are rationalizing...
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by econner 10y ago
Lots of people will say not to use Django because ORMs don't scale. In my experience, if you don't use an ORM you end up writing one (and doing a poor job) in the early stages of a project. Usually this happens because you'
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by econner 10y ago
User growth, number of page views, engagement / retention + trajectory, evaluated against similar businesses. People said the same thing of snapchat, facebook, and twitter early on.
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Pinterest passes 150M monthly active users(venturebeat.com)
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by econner 10y ago
Why was he selling the website? (That would be my first question in evaluating it)
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by econner 10y ago
Why did you quit to freelance?
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Proofs without Words(pinterest.com)
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by econner 10y ago
Having a place to live is one of the primary needs people have. Why shouldn't you be able to make an income off of that? Everyone lives off of other people's labor...unless you're subsistence farming or something. I'll
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by econner 10y ago
Why do you need gross of $240K? Are you saying you pay $95K in tax? If you have a 401K you can save a significant amount pretax. You're also not factoring in portfolio growth over the 15 years you're saving.
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Proofs without Words(pinterest.com)
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by econner 10y ago
I take pause when I see anything from Larry Summers. From his wikipedia page: Summers's role in the deregulation of derivatives contracts On May 7, 1998, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a Concept Release solicit
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by econner 10y ago
Why the .io domains for everything?
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by econner 10y ago
In a promotion review, being able to say my project drove $X in revenue wins almost every time against any other metric. It's easy to state and directly relates to the companies business goals.
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by econner 10y ago
Go help NGOs internationally.
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by econner 10y ago
Is it possible that your experience is not representative?
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by econner 10y ago
Hah. This is why I hate all comparisons in percentages. You can't have 110% of something. Or the old "give it 110%"... no I can only give 100%. Nothing more.
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by econner 10y ago
That's a good point. Presumably the funds that invested were raised around 2007 and also have a 10 year window.
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by econner 10y ago
Hm.. I wonder if this is because they have option grants expiring in 2017 (10 year mark) and are trying to get some liquidity for early employees.
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by econner 10y ago
I always liked jwz's take: > But in 1999 I took my leave of that whole sick, navel-gazing mess we called the software industry. Now I'm in a more honest line of work: now I sell beer.
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by econner 10y ago
I assume he's in Menlo Park now at Oculus. I wonder if he still feels the same way.
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by econner 10y ago
The amount you work is one of the few variables in your control. I'm still a believer that luck plays a bigger role than most will give credit. Also, people tend to think they work harder than they actually do. I'm sure they work
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by econner 10y ago
Seems pretty similar to me. There either needs to be more affordable housing where the jobs are, or more jobs where the housing is. You need both to have viable housing.
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by econner 10y ago
Yea, good ideas definitely. I try this but I end up reading the twitter home page, lol. Maybe I will try blocking them using /etc/hosts
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by econner 10y ago
Thanks these are great ideas.
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by econner 10y ago
Regarding #3 do you have designated times that you read, etc? I find that I end up spending a lot of little chunks on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and HN when something is compiling or deploying or starting to run. I keep saying I'm go

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