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by ezl 14y ago
thank you for your feedback.
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by ezl 14y ago
thanks steve, but i know what i'm doing. it boggles my mind that people presume ignorance on the part of the actor (as referenced in the blog that "everybody else is doing it wrong"). its a deliberate play against my current income that i w
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by ezl 14y ago
thanks jawns: i suck at markdown
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by ezl 14y ago
lifeisstillgood -- I really appreciate this. hard to get great feedback, and your list shows that you really clicked through the site. spending your time for someone is a fantastic compliment.
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I am Financing my Startup with my 401k(blog.ezliu.com)
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Noah Kagan in Chicago notes from a talk(blog.ezliu.com)
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by ezl 14y ago
Children are useless until around the age of three. I never thought it would take them thatlong to become real people. Love this answer.
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Ask a banker: what's a derivative(npr.org)
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What is the difference between an F-15 and F-16(quora.com)
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by ezl 14y ago
Across three consecutive venture-backed attempts, the probability of a $10MM exit is now 34%.
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by ezl 14y ago
I love this comment, but probably for the wrong reason: For every successful startup that has ran their bank account down to $100, maxed out their credit cards, had trouble fundraising, etc., dozens (hundreds?) more have done the same but
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by ezl 14y ago
very cool. wish this had come out 2 weeks ago. we hacked together something from github borrowed code for www.cereal-and-code.com admittedly not pretty, functional enough for our audience.
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by ezl 14y ago
just went back and re-read your paragraph. I am fine with "Ethics != Morals". However your explanations seem suspect: 1. I disagree entirely with the comments "ethical/unethical pretty much always refers to a relationship" and "ethics are a
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by ezl 14y ago
it is possible to disagree with an agent's behavior even if you don't believe there has been a breach of ethics
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by ezl 14y ago
upvoted. i am aware that i used ethics and morals interchangeably in the parent response, and as i was originally writing it, i debated whether that was appropriate (i left it because i didn't thin i'd get called out, obviously wrong). From
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by ezl 14y ago
i wouldn't claim that it's not crossing a line of some sort (professional vs non-professional). i tend to like aggressive moves by startups. i also thought wepay freezing cash i huge ice blocks and dumping it at a paypal meet was pretty cle
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by ezl 14y ago
i love the hustle. i find that people use the word "unethical" very liberally. its not clear to me how there is a moral brightline here. fortune favors the bold. (edit: before everybody thinks i'm just an unethical kind of guy... i defini
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5 dumplings for 1 dollar: immigrant entrepreneurship(opencitymag.com)
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by ezl 14y ago
op here. i should own up. this is an apology. @dantillberg, @jcr, et al: you're right. i heard about the original study, was curious, but not enough to think much of it. in a previous startup we had a female intern who was getting substanti
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by ezl 14y ago
i don't really understand why this is "putting a slant on it". citing an absolute difference isn't very useful when you're talking about differences in conversion rates. * 0.6% -> 1.2% is a 0.6% bump. * 49.4% -> 50.0% is a
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A/B Testing the Effect of Sender Race on Email Response Rates(blog.ezliu.com)
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by ezl 14y ago
Love the blue screen of death. This is a fantastic idea, not only for Twice to acquire, but big incubators and vc funds to acquire talent for their portfolio companies.
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by ezl 14y ago
I agree that you, the OP, or anyone is entitled to not like the fact that the mainstream meaning is changing (or find it ridiculous). As I understand it, the conflict is that essentially this: Person A has adopted a word to mean a certain s
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by ezl 14y ago
words get redefined. language evolves. i'm sorry you're upset that a word that is personal to you because you feel it symbolizes an era when you were persecuted for your adolescent social awkwardness is being adopted by the mainstream to be
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Cereal && Code: A Hackathon with Cartoons (Chicago)(cereal-and-code.com)
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i think i might have said that 1 year ago. now i feel like the secret sauce is that there is no secret sauce except working your ass off. great products and prolific blogging are hard work, but they'll get your name out there. its that sl
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by ezl 14y ago
betting against yourself as a pitcher incentivizes you to perform poorly and fail. "paying" 3% of your company leaves you with 97%. Trying to drive your remaining 97% in the ground is idiocy.
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by ezl 14y ago
3% of all my companies to date is worth exactly zero. The idea isn't to say "everyone should throw X%" into a pool. It's for you to pick a number that makes sense for you and find a group of founders that wants something similar. Founders w
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by ezl 14y ago
i don't think pooling is about loss _minimization_ so much as accepting that startups are often risky. the idea would be to give up a VERY small sliver of your upside in hopes of participating on other wins. I understand founders' desire to
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Founder Failure Insurance(blog.ezliu.com)
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