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by epa 10y ago
Unfortunately for your ego, that makes you risk adverse.
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by epa 10y ago
If any ratio below is above 10%, you may consider it material 1) acquired assets / groupon total assets 2) acquiree pre tax income / groupon pre tax income 3) purchase price / total assets Groupon has 1.7B in total assets. By
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by epa 10y ago
Your difference is known as off-balance sheet intangible assets. This represents Microsoft's employee capital, and how the group of individuals are able to produce future revenue generation. How do you value having a group of the smart
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by epa 10y ago
The point you are missing is that new technology such as the 'panable' 360 video on youtube can take the rectangular structure beyond its current form
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by epa 10y ago
It seems to me like the real solution to a lot of traffic and affordable housing problems is 'work-from-home' ideology. In the 1800s it was common for business owners to contract with homesteads to produce good for them, which is
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by epa 10y ago
I wonder if the introduction of plastics, bpa, or other chemicals have something to do with this and other issues we see growing over time. Likely we will not know for 50-80 years (see: Smoking, asbestos).
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Chef Marco Pierre White speaks on how success is part luck part hard work(youtube.com)
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by epa 10y ago
Maybe - but the same argument can be made for photography. In my opinion when you have more people engaging in something the bell curve tends to expand, with outlier individuals having natural talent and abilities at the highest ends being
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by epa 10y ago
Any debt is typically done early on for seed level amounts and has convertible features - converting at the next funding round. We are seeing more leveraged buy outs recently.
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by epa 10y ago
NYT/WSJ are understandably biased towards east coast markets and typically pessimistic of silicon valley as a whole.
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The world can transition to 100% clean, renewable energy(thesolutionsproject.org)
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by epa 10y ago
Im not so sure of that. The hardest part of trucking is the first 1% of the trip and the last 1% of the trip. I envision that the robotic trucks will leave and enter into designated facilities at the outskirts of town, from there a trucker
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by epa 10y ago
The alternative view is that without rail it would be harder for those individuals to bring their high pay checks back to Rhode Island to spend their money in the local economy.
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by epa 10y ago
Can you expand that argument to work life - as in creative people may be better at dealing with situations such as startups where a constrained environment is often time and money. Are there trends that successful founders often had prior c
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by epa 10y ago
Tread carefully between being fake and being sincere. People will stop asking you if you give a fake answer like the article.
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by epa 10y ago
The United States has a very skewed view towards work and individual employee production. At some point in time, cultures must shift to realize that two individuals at 40 hours per week can do the work that one individual at 70 hours per we
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by epa 10y ago
Relevant HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4584656
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by epa 10y ago
It generally will impact only new employees coming into the company. Their options become more expensive to obtain, and therefore will be less profitable in the future if an IPO occurs, compared to existing employee equity options. Sometime
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by epa 10y ago
Consider what it does have that you dont want it to have (iTunes Syncing, locked filedrive, etc).
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by epa 10y ago
Interesting you mentioned the marketing/exposure benefit aspect of going public. This point is overlooked a lot.
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by epa 10y ago
You're assuming both sides 1) play nice and 2) actually collaborate in that way. A lot of the time it is David (small corp) vs Goliath (huge corp) where David has to accept terms of Goliath on their standard deals or risk not completin
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by epa 10y ago
As a home owner in this area, the majority likely already have double or triple unrealized gains on their home value. The potential to lift that to 'quadruple', for the cost of increased noise, traffic, people, etc is probably not
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by epa 10y ago
Probably one major factor was completion of the trans-canada rail road to British Columbia, finished in 1885 by CPR. This allowed free movement of immigrants from Coast to Coast, lowering immigration to the US and moving that migration to W
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by epa 10y ago
They used to have instant playlists, where you press a (+) button on a video and it would add it to your queue - I have no idea why they removed this feature. That combined with the mess that is 'next video' and relevant videos ha
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by epa 10y ago
He was already paid out amounting to $9,310,100 prior to the IPO. Consider that insurance just in case an IPO never happened.
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by epa 10y ago
I think analyzing only two companies is too short sighted, it would be better if you benchmarked against 5-10. It could be that twitter is in line with other companies and facebook is actually high - suggesting FB R&D staff get higher c
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by epa 10y ago
In the context of a small shovel, not that impressive. Put that into context of a large diesel earth mover used to efficiently mine earth, it sounds different. Its all relative.
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by epa 10y ago
That's not really how accounting works
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by epa 11y ago
'Stay on a couch for a week' - pretty large pre-requisite here..
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by epa 11y ago
Location is everything. Where you live is the 'outskirts' compared to where they are..

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