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by eellpp 11y ago
> .. buying part of Richard's company for 1 million bucks. He's valuing it at 5 million, so that's 20% of the company. No. The purpose of convertible note is avoid that kind of valuation in % of the company. It is very dif
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by eellpp 11y ago
> As a result of our effort in the past few years, 45% of our management team are in the post-70 generation, the post-80 generation make up 52%, while the post-60 generation only accounts for 3%. We are also fortunate to have 3,000 young
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by eellpp 11y ago
> 4. Promotion. I recently discovered that ... Thats interesting way to look at it. Technology trends go in cycles where initially the solution is centered around single service/device (monolithic service) and slowly it decentralis
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by eellpp 11y ago
> For sake of comparison, it takes Twitter roughly 10 minutes to accumulate that many Tweets. That is not a fair comparison at all. You could as well compare twitter to number of google queries (or number of some other number that dwarfs
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by eellpp 11y ago
> Excellent people want to go places where they can make more The issue with engineers is that we don't do that and are bad at negotiations. Once at job people rarely look out unless they realise that they are grossly underpaid. Thi
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by eellpp 11y ago
> Any childless bachelor could know what the "path" is like by staying over with a friend that has a child and helping out for some time. This is a important point which i struggled as well. As a teenager, i had my lived closel
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by eellpp 11y ago
> Do you think you can get the ideas presented in, say, SICP or Principles of Mathematical Analysis by going through online material? The parent was making the point that it's possible to have a much better system where the book aut
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by eellpp 11y ago
Ideally college education is about providing economic freedom by opening up many possibilities for the young mind. It provides a basic knowhow to get started in a field of choice or having the confidence that a skill to get started on anyth
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by eellpp 11y ago
> I had to really force myself to read the entire article first, and not give in to that urge to get a hit of dopamine. It's actually reverse for many of us who like to read. If i read an interesting article, i just cannot get over
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by eellpp 11y ago
There is a quote which goes by "Nothing to fear but fear itself". Doing startup is for the brave hearts who believe in this. To the people on sidelines it may make little sense (varying from career suicide to lottery tickets). But
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by eellpp 11y ago
> There are two types of technology: ones that everyone wants and no one knows how to do (think SpaceX) and ones that everyone knows how to do but nobody knows anyone wants (think Facebook). Facebook does not fall into latter. Online soc
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by eellpp 12y ago
Besides the productivity aspect, its a reflection of single dimensional focus of Zuckerberg. If facebook continues to be a platform of social collaboration between people, then the team building it has to live it as well. Given that the dev
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by eellpp 12y ago
The basic assumption behind this seems to be that marketing spam in email will keep increasing and instead of fighting against it, organising content around it is better approach. Most people (who nowadays carry lot of personal/group c