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by gmarx 11y ago
Unregulated mutual fund?
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by gmarx 11y ago
long term the only use for residential property is for people to live in it. Short term it may be seen as a safe place to park money you are sneaking offshore of a regime you don't trust. Of course people have to live in Vancouver and
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by gmarx 11y ago
Renting and buying prices are equivalent in the Bay area? Not in Palo Alto or the few surrounding cities.
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by gmarx 11y ago
Did you really get scurvy when you were in YC?
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by gmarx 11y ago
You don't need an outside offer to ask for a raise. The cap for raises is nonsense. It may present a psychological barrier to your manager but mostly it is a prop to point to; so your manager can say "not my fault- see there'
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by gmarx 11y ago
Holding stocks in a mutual fund is not tax exempt. You pay taxes on dividends and I think also you pay as the turnover produces net profits. You also pay capital gains on shares you sell. Eventually it all gets taxed
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by gmarx 11y ago
People continue to apply to Harvard. The problem YC has will be similar. At some point the thing changes from being a thing that improves its students to a credential or at least a marker. Once you make that transition, smaller size is need
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by gmarx 11y ago
This is true for many services you buy from other companies. The reputation of a giant is likely based on the top people in that company and sometimes based on the top people who were in that company years ago. Unless you are also a giant c
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by gmarx 11y ago
Whenever you read the word "may" in the title of an article about a scientific study, you should mentally fill in the end..."then again, it may not"
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by gmarx 11y ago
Yep. I'm currently trying to figure out a "back door" to sneak in. I had a meeting with a VC yesterday (not to raise money) and she added an idea to one of my ideas and the result has me pretty excited. Of course, I've b
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by gmarx 11y ago
I disagree. Judgments are difficult in the vast formless middle but some things are objectively good business ideas and some are objectively bad. Unless we are having a philosophical discussion about the possibility of anything being "
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by gmarx 11y ago
Most of the ideas and products I attempted to get funded were around the idea of transforming the electronic medical record (in the broadest sense) from a mostly free text entity to a mostly well modeled discrete data entity. For more speci
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by gmarx 11y ago
I like this comment but I'm unsure how to parse the penultimate paragraph. What counts as "their products in Silicon Valley"?
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by gmarx 11y ago
Pump and dump implies that it is being done on purpose. I think what we have here is a kind of functional pump and dump. Most or at least many of the participants are sincere but there are some who get paid either way. They are just siphoni
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by gmarx 11y ago
I am. Maybe rents will stop going up. Maybe the Harvard MBAs will take off their red hoodies and go work on Wall Street or maybe for old companies that make stuff in the Midwest
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by gmarx 11y ago
Excellent
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by gmarx 11y ago
Whenever I see articles about how easily the investment money flows or had flowed all I can think of, from a purely self-centered point of view, is "what kind of loser am I that I have never been able to raise a single round?" Ser
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by gmarx 11y ago
I think if you consult and happen upon a need that can be solved by a product you could be successful. In that case maybe 1 in 10 or 1 in a 100 would happen upon such an idea and execute. If you plan to do this then you are planning to be o
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by gmarx 11y ago
I think it's "lede" but anyway I just didn't want to be too specific in case anyone felt like tracking him down. After the company we both worked for he went back home and was going to do some software projects on a cons
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by gmarx 11y ago
The most successful software entrepreneur I know (in monetary terms) had none of this. When I met him he was fresh out of the army and not as an officer. He did some web programming for us. The next thing he did was the classic bad idea of
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by gmarx 11y ago
"would lift U.S. gross domestic product by 9.5 percent"? Really? Over what period of time? If it's one year it's unbelievable. If it's over 50 years, who cares?
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by gmarx 11y ago
Me too and I am near SF. Would also be interested in talking
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by gmarx 11y ago
You sound like me and this sounds like software I created more than a decade ago. Good luck. It is an incredibly difficult sale (yes, I am a little bitter :))
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by gmarx 11y ago
That's what they are supposed to do. In practice many of them borrow a bunch of money on the acquired company's credit and funnel it to themselves before selling. It's kind of like the legal version of a "bust out"
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by gmarx 11y ago
Not necessarily. Bipolar disorder and/or narcissistic personality disorder and/or sociopathy could account for it too. Or all of the above including coke
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by gmarx 11y ago
Fair enough
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by gmarx 11y ago
joints tendons and so forth. Pounding your knees that much without sufficient recovery could be bad. Not for everyone mind you. I've read that old age involves much more pain for retired pro athletes, for example
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by gmarx 11y ago
I'm an M.D. and let me first say this is not medical advice :). I long ago called bunk on the mainstream view on cholesterol and cholesterol lowering drugs. I think there will be a time in the future when doctors look back on it with a
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by gmarx 11y ago
People assume they can tell the difference but the kind of chronic inflammation you get from overuse can sneak up on you. I saw a story about a concert pianist many years ago who was having trouble with his wrists. At the time his doctor or
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by gmarx 11y ago
currently but I can foresee a time when it is so convenient to hail a car that a lot of people just forgo car ownership entirely. Think of a future in which self driving cars work well and you can use your phone to get one to wherever you a

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