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Germany’s bizarre version of capitalism (2015)(qz.com)
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by elmar 9y ago
Germany’s bizarre version of capitalism—where bosses and workers actually cooperate—is winning https://qz.com/452076/this-just-in-german-capitalism-has-won... Secret German auto subsidies exposed http://www.
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by elmar 9y ago
a lot of startups emerged from Craigslist niche offerings Airbnb being probably the most successful.
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by elmar 9y ago
Germany's manufacturers are heavily subsidised by the government and have a big advantage of a lower value EU currency than they would have if they still traded on the German mark.
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BTC-E Pledges to Return Customer Bitcoin Days After Police Seize Domain(coindesk.com)
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Startups CAN Work: MOG CEO David Hyman Responds To imeem’s Dalton Caldwell https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1817845
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by elmar 9y ago
> Especially when I also hear stories about companies like Whatsapp and Instagram being able to scale their businesses to hundreds of millions of users using very small engineering teams very diferent business models Netflix is probab
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WHAT UBER'S NEXT CEO NEEDS TO SAY by Robin Chase https://www.wired.com/story/what-ubers-next-ceo-needs-to-say... BTW Robin Chase is probably a great candidate to be CEO of Uber.
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by elmar 9y ago
Another source speakes more of ether. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14885294
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Any idea why Monero as such low usage traction?
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Dalton Caldwell at YC Startup School 2010 did a great presentation on the subject talking exactly about the nuances of the music industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOlrN5-UGU In October 2010, Caldwell spoke at Y Co
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by elmar 9y ago
headcount is a relevant metric to justify higher valuation when you are unsophisticated investor that probably never built a Tech-Startup yourself. "the guys I invested in are killing it they just doubled the headcount" VC pitchin
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Yes, but you could argue that WhatsUp is even more impressive because it can be considered much latter stage and aquisition value also reflects that being 19x more than Instagram.
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by elmar 9y ago
I heard in a lecture of Blitzscaling with Eric Schmidt that google founders got the Google Chrome and Android projects running inside google without him knowing the real breath and intentions of the projects. https://www.youtube.
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Ethereum Miners Opt for Leasing Boeing 747s to Ship Critical Amount of GPUS(cointelegraph.com)
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by elmar 9y ago
don't ignore the lack business acumen of some VCs.
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On AI is probably the best way to approach the problem, nature already as figured it out we jyst have to understand it and replicate it.
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by elmar 9y ago
I think reality is more serendipitous, ny view is that if you have hardworking creativy people working on side projects sometimes magic happens. For example: Android was a completely diferent tech stack from google.
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> But plently of really successful tech companies did not overgrow their team size for a number of years. E.g Facebook. A much better example is WhatsUp with 55 employees at the time of aquisition.
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I think most of google sucesses outside search were done like that without the CEO having knowledge.
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personally I think if they had focus on monetizing the artists side of the business and keep it small as you say they could have a great business not at the scale of Spotify but sustainable.
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by elmar 9y ago
Six ways nature has inspired tech innovations http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34676930
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What you need to know before raising a Micro-VC fund today(medium.com)
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YC S17 CocuSocial is a marketplace for affordable cooking classes(techcrunch.com)
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by elmar 9y ago
well we have the advantage of only copying nature that already works the hardest part is already done the Zero to One. Nost of human technology today is based on replicating nature.
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by elmar 9y ago
Personally I think the touchscreen option was because of lower cost and more options when updating the car software.
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WHAT UBER'S NEXT CEO NEEDS TO SAY by Robin Chase https://www.wired.com/story/what-ubers-next-ceo-needs-to-say...
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The Machine Learning Algorithms Used in Self-Driving Cars(kdnuggets.com)
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by elmar 9y ago
The Tesla Model 3 has the most minimalistic interior I've ever seen http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-minimalistic-in...
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by elmar 9y ago
they should have a small supercapacitor to capture the instant energy spikes of regen.

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