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How much to raise using Crunchbase data
(correlatedcausation.com)
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13y ago
I think this phenomenon of using house as a place to park money exists mainly in countries with insignificant property tax. For example in India, China and most of Europe people park their money in property rather than stocks. A 2% yearly
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Banning private health care kills: Equality at the cost of human lives
(capitalismmagazine.com)
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Software and Design Defects Cripple Health-Care Website
(online.wsj.com)
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13y ago
One benefit of being a indian language speaker (or other language not in hackers dictionary) is we can easily choose reasonably secure passwords that are remember-able by simply using native language phrases (combined with numbers and mixe
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13y ago
>> "How can I send someone a check?" is a counter-intuitive business model for most people Great Point. This was the sole reason for Groupon's success even though were a lot of coupon companies before. Imagine what would have happen
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14y ago
Actually Michigan tax free areas are already there in a small scale for both business and people. They are called Michigan renaissance zones - http://www.michiganadvantage.org/Renaissance-Zones In my opinion MI income tax is low a tax holi
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If you are a US citizen and planning this for tax purposes then forget it. As a US citizen you have to pay tax on your worldwide income. Even if your offshore company don't pass the income to you, you have to pay tax because of something ca
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14y ago
How is this different from the secret Asian admission quota Harvard and the other elite US universities have?
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14y ago
I am not worried about the adults but Kids who can now easily access all the pervert filth's of the world (many times accidently). BTB, I am not talking about blocking porn, just users should go through a password wall. Also the users shoul
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14y ago
Why not both?. I like compound or blended names with one part of the name subtly telling what is about and the other part make it a brand (ex Photobucket, Pinterest etc) Its easy to trademark such names too.
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14y ago
This comment may be down voted here. But i think there is a case to be made for a new law that mandates the ISP's to password protect all porn websites by default.
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14y ago
AnaGator.js - Short for Analytic Code Aggregator...also this name allows you to have a cute logo with a alligator :)
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14y ago
Maybe i am weird but i just use the Gmail Draft as a todo and note taking tool.
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14y ago
How accurate are their results for non-caucasians especially non-mainstream minorities like east indians?
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14y ago
The quoted report in that article is interesting. It details the top marginal tax rates in all the US states for various source of income - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2176526
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Californians will pay highest Tax rate(52%) in US
(blogs.sacbee.com)
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14y ago
Great Story. Years ago i used to be the top affiliate of ServiceMagic (HomeAdvisor) supplying 8-10% of their entire lead volume. But instead of creating a sustainable web property leveraging my SEO skills i was concentrating on shorterm mon
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14y ago
genepartner.com
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Actually China and India are approximately 4 times the US population while US is almost 10 times the population of Canada!
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The Forgotten Art of Estimation
(numeratechoir.com)
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BancBox Debuts Its Payments Platform
(techcrunch.com)
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14y ago
In my opinion the great benefit of PHP especially for non-coder founders is the big offshore talent pool.
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14y ago
Its takes a lot of time and effort to become a good programmer. But you don't need to become one to have success. 1, Give yourself 2-3 month time and try learning basic php. mysql,unix and javascript/html/CSS. Also develop basic photoshop/f
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Yes it costs a lot more to go to college in US compared to Europe. But if you take into account the higher salary and low tax you will be still better off in the end. This is assuming you have 2 kids not 4 :)
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14y ago
1, 10k deductible?, thats unheard of unless if they worked for a startup with funding issues :) 2, It takes about an hour to find out the good school districts in any metro!. 3, 2x salary is real, Just compare the 2200 euro beginner salary
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Public education: I was talking about schools in good school districts. They are comparable to most European schools. Healthcare: If you have a good health insurance, you are covered better than any other govt sponsored health system in the
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I see this argument (Europe is superior) made again and again. Let me try to clear the misconceptions. Please note i am a immigrant in US and somewhat qualified to compare it with the other countries. 1, Public education is free in US. Of-c
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Behind Instagram’s Success, Networking the Old Way
(nytimes.com)
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15y ago
This looks like an amazing business with the gross margins of a software business and the efficiency of an internet company!. They have more than $1 billion in sales but employs just around 500 people. I don't think even Google has $2 milli
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