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by gpresot 6y ago
The PE funds you describe are only a portion of the many PE strategies. Some take over well managed family owned companies where the family wants out; other acquire parts of larger groups that are being sold off because the current owner ne
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by gpresot 7y ago
Companies in Germany, like Switzerland, Netherlands, US etc import green coffee from around the world, roast it, mix various types and origins and qualities to produce commercial recipes that have a stable taste, then grind it and pack it i
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by gpresot 7y ago
True. But that unpredictable change in tasting notes is the enemy of commercial packaged coffee: your box of illy, carte noir, maxwell house, nescafe, nespresso MUST taste the same every time, and MUST have a stable cost of raw material (ap
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by gpresot 7y ago
Apart from the need of roasting coffee close to where the demand is to ensure "freshness", the other main reason that most large roasting operations are in Europe and US is "mixing". Most commercial coffees that you buy
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How did Europe become the richest part of the world?(aeon.co)
6 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments
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The Path Forward at Lime(li.me)
1 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments
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Abandoned stores, empty homes: why San Francisco's boom looks like a crisis(theguardian.com)
121 points by gpresot 7y ago|137 comments
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AI system outperforms experts in spotting breast cancer(theguardian.com)
2 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments
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by gpresot 7y ago
Locking the costs at a fixed amount for a fixed amount of time. This certainty allows retailers to plan promotions, discounts levels, special offers without impacting profitability. It also simplifies accounting and budgeting. Making a prof
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by gpresot 7y ago
A business like Google Cloud would not be wound down, it would be sold. MS and Amazon woulc not be allowed to buy it for antitrust issues, so potential buyers might include Rackspace and Apple, among others.
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by gpresot 7y ago
I am a management consultant, so field of work might be different from yours, but general rules are probably the same. Also, I am not a freelancer, though i have worked often with them. My two pence: - Always have a Scope of Work (SOW) agre
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Swiss Cat Ladders(99percentinvisible.org)
2 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments
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The fall and rise of a spyware empire(technologyreview.com)
3 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments
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In the modern commune, a case of beer is not welcome(1843magazine.com)
3 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments
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The True Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions(imf.org)
4 points by gpresot 7y ago|1 comments
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by gpresot 7y ago
You axe it if you can use the same resources (people, capital, time) to produce something with a higher absolute margin (or better, future cash stream, which is the real measure of value for a company). So you don't axe it but keep the
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by gpresot 7y ago
I agree. A simple to use software, that does very well the things you need for personal / home ( & very small businesses) use (family/personal business budget, lists, calendars, small inventories...). With a large library of w
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by gpresot 7y ago
Hats off for this. I was thinking more about as a substitute of a simple paper list (or if on mobile, just a list on whatever default note app is you have in iOS or Android)
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by gpresot 7y ago
I found the Ribbon a good evolution. Especially if you use plugins for Powerpoint and Excel. Once you have a few of those (and if you work in finance or management consulting it is easy to have 3 or 4 installed by default by your Company) t
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by gpresot 7y ago
I always found that excel can be as simple and as complex as you need it to be. You can use it to write your shopping list (ok, not ideal), or a small budget, and you can ramp it up for really complex simulations. Once you know vlookup, ind
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by gpresot 7y ago
But why should they do this? MS Office 365 is 150 USD per year per user. For the vast majority of companies, large and small, this is a very small price for a software that is so engrained in daily business processes and activities. If a co
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by gpresot 7y ago
MS Office is around 150 USD per year (on Premium Plan, and it comes with 1TB/user of OneDrive: good luck beating that package), I would imagine it would be less for large corporations. This is really not much for a software platform th
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by gpresot 7y ago
>So how about treating profits that way? In every market, you count the revenue made from selling in that market, and subtract the costs made by buying, hiring, etc in that market. The difference is the profit you made in that market, an
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Flooding in Venice – In Pictures(theguardian.com)
1 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments
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No-one understood our idea, but now it's worth over $1B(bbc.com)
2 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments
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Beyond the Holacracy Hype (2016)(hbr.org)
1 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments
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The hellish future of Las Vegas in the climate crisis(theguardian.com)
27 points by gpresot 7y ago|2 comments
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Gardens with a 12,000-person waiting list(bbc.com)
105 points by gpresot 7y ago|107 comments
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The Story of Us(waitbutwhy.com)
2 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments
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Privacy Fundamentalism(stratechery.com)
1 points by gpresot 7y ago|0 comments

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