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by fraserharris 16y ago
Pension and endowment funds represent some of the largest VC LPs.
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Exactly what I was thinking. They have an API to mine the links data. http://trunk.ly/developer/
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The jeans analogy is great - thanks.
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Gordon, fantastic post. You've covered a lot of ground, with some great anecdotes - I love the if.com stories. Your (i assume) diagram linking the 'emerging startup business stack' is useful for explain lean to non-believers. I've made t
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by fraserharris 16y ago
They still have a radar signature. You stop them (in principle) the same way you stop all enemy aircraft.
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Possibly East of Paris?
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Dirty? That's a fairly loaded wording. How about varied or heterogeneous?
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by fraserharris 16y ago
The single largest benefit of App Engine is that Google does the sysadmin. I would prefer that Google's highly paid, top 1%, employees are responsible for the servers than whomever I could afford to pay. ;-) If your application fits with t
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by fraserharris 16y ago
The logic is impeccable: why do we search pilots when they get (access to) a gun once they have been cleared.
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by fraserharris 16y ago
For anyone trying to take down Facebook, this presentation (link below) on real life social networks by Paul Adams (Senior User Experience Research, Google) is a must consume. A social network that forces you to bin friends based on groups
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by fraserharris 16y ago
The Warren Buffett opinion piece the author links is a must read too. His ideas around Import Certificates are novel and were ahead of their time in 2003. It seems to be something that both the Democrats and Republicans could support to a
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His remarks about home ownership are astute - it is depressing how rarely politicians consider the 2nd order effects of their decisions. "Mr. Palyi warned in 1938 that a push toward universal home ownership would "make the population fixed
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by fraserharris 16y ago
When I could get my business partners to use Wave, we found it to be a very good brainstorming / organization tool. I still think there is an opportunity for someone to build a product on its open-source foundations: http://code.google.co
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by fraserharris 16y ago
We are living, breathing maximizing expected outcomes functions.
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Great insight bbhacker. Mr. Zuckerberg's quip did not sound off the cuff.
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If you are storing the energy in Li-ion batteries, you'll have an added 10 - 20% loss.
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by fraserharris 16y ago
If you would like to use App Engine (great & free!), then stick with Python 2.5 for now.
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by fraserharris 16y ago
Michael Arrington's coverage of AngelGate came off to me as 'you're on notice' - a warning against colluding, etc more than anything else.
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Search engines are expanding from web searches to information searches. Since search users were really after information in the first place, it's hard to argue Google isn't providing better search results.
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You mean fabulous, right?
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think or thick?
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FYI Income entry chokes on commas (ie: 50,000)
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The second comment in the article is interesting. Basically, ETFs are open-ended funds - you can't run out of the ETF securities because you can always create more. So, if the naked short is called, and there are no ETF securities on the