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by fasteddie 11y ago
Sure, but 1. even a small amount of friction will cut off the vast majority from doing it, especially when 2. there's no payoff to lying about your location in a salary transparency app
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by fasteddie 11y ago
Anyone have an idea if this means anything other than trying to cash out an investment before real estate prices potentially decline? Does this make them a better/worse target as an acquisition? Or could this be generating cash so Z co
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by fasteddie 11y ago
US treasuries are at historically low rates -- if China dumped 'em all it probably wouldn't move the needle that much. And the reason they hold so many is not as some control play against the US -- its because it was the best way
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by fasteddie 11y ago
Evidence increasingly is showing that direct cash transfers to the poorest are among the most effective interventions, among randomized control trials in the developing world.
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by fasteddie 11y ago
Hotelling's law assumes businesses are mobile, which is why its often characterized as a pushcart or ice cream truck. The business in the middle would want to move to the other side of its neighbor, and the process would repeat. As suc
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by fasteddie 11y ago
Which presumably would also get hit with more taxes, lowering it by another 30-40%
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by fasteddie 11y ago
OP isn't gaining any money from this. They are excercising their options: spending $X0,0000 to buy $X,000,000 worth of shares. After exercising, they now own shares. The difference between the purchase price and the value of the shares
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by fasteddie 11y ago
> Working for free is a luxury for the people not struggling to ends meet. This is true for markets where there really is no other alternative than working for free. You are certainly referring to children of wealthy parents who can affo
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by fasteddie 11y ago
King has had many top hits in the same vein as CCS. Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue etc. None as enduring as CCS, but profitable hits just the same. They have a good formula: get it up cheaply on their web portal, iterate, and launch
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by fasteddie 11y ago
What happened with gigaOM?
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by fasteddie 11y ago
Conversion on anything trial-like, is going to be very small, and likely worse than even an upfront purchase because you will hit some people who are satiated with a small amount of trial gameplay or people who decide not to buy after playi
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by fasteddie 11y ago
Probably because the title isn't very informative
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Silicon Valley's Political Endgame(medium.com)
6 points by fasteddie 11y ago|2 comments
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by fasteddie 11y ago
I'm a former Z employee -- one of my friends worked on proposals for a spinoff of the analytics platform, but he never got anywhere. Obviously this is very hard to to do for a number of reasons. Mixpanel employees more salespeople than
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by fasteddie 12y ago
The author missed that we are actually seeing significant movement towards modularization in video games -- PC gaming is/has been growing at the expense of consoles the last few years.
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by fasteddie 12y ago
"I don't see a problem with having the rent control stock transitioned to some sort of means-testing." I would guess this would make landlords avoid renting to low income tenants at all costs -- better to rent to someone who
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by fasteddie 12y ago
I agree its a very high bar, but someone with a relatively lower exit -- say $10m, could hit the $30m mark within 15 years with a 7% annualized return, not to mention getting lucky with a winning seed investment or two.
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by fasteddie 12y ago
A third of China's population are still farmers -- compared to the US's low single digits. It's per capita GDP is somewhere around Peru's and Iraq's. While this has been rapidly changing, it is yet to be seen how mu
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by fasteddie 12y ago
SEGA / Three Rings Design - San Francisco, Madison, and Philadelphia We are looking for engineers with mobile experience to work our new slate of games currently in development. ==Responsibilities== Ownership of server components and c
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by fasteddie 12y ago
SEGA / Three Rings Design - San Francisco, Madison, and Philadelphia We are looking for engineers with mobile experience to work our new slate of games currently in development. ==Responsibilities== Ownership of server components and c
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by fasteddie 12y ago
SEGA / Three Rings Design - San Francisco, Madison, and Philadelphia We are looking for engineers with mobile experience to work our new slate of games currently in development. ==Responsibilities== Ownership of server components and c
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by fasteddie 12y ago
SEGA / Three Rings Design - San Francisco, Madison, and Philadelphia - www.sega.com/mobile We are looking for engineers with mobile experience to work our new slate of games currently in development. ==Responsibilities== -Ownershi
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by fasteddie 12y ago
$1.50 CPIs? Try 2-3x that, even more at enough volume to get to top 5 -- where the chart position really matters