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by hncommenter13 14y ago
FYI, for Java there's XLLoop (open source), JExcel (commercial) and Obba (commercial). Haven't used these myself, but looking into it.
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Agreed. Great wealth and connections didn't seem to help Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon (a billionaire) avoid prison for insider trading. Or Rajat Gupta. Or the ~60 other wealthy hedge fund managers and their associates who have been convicte
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
In the US it's a mix. Quoting from a recent post[1] on a law professor blog regarding the relationship between the states and the federal government on criminal matters: "...[T]he states and the federal government are not exactly co-equals
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Broadly: Square, Punchcard, Stampt, PlacePop (dead?), Thumbpunch, Perka, Jodesco (dead), Paycloud, Loyalli, Key Ring App, Stampfeet, CardStar (Constant Contact), Cardmobili, Front Flip, Posiq. 1) Readily available angel financing makes it h
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
This is what keeps me from being a shareholder of Microsoft: that they are willing to pay ridiculous premia to purchase speculative or middling businesses. Think about it this way. $1.2B in cash would purchase ~39.1 shares of MSFT stock, h
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Remember that 26 includes the value of $9B of additional cash on the balance sheet from the IPO. So the valuation of Facebook as a business is actually lower still, once you back out the cash.
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
For those interested, there are also implementations of cdb in java: http://www.strangegizmo.com/products/sg-cdb/ https://github.com/sunnygleason/g414-hash
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Sure, if an executive of an acquiror has an LP interest in a VC fund that owns shares in the acquired company (as in the CSCO example you mention), then the executive should disclose that to public investors and/or recuse himself from the c
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
In a sense, all VCs are scouts, as very few are investing exclusively their own money. LPs give VCs money, VCs make investments and keep part of the proceeds. Do we really know where Sequoia's money comes from? Does it matter? Is the en
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Just so I'm clear for the future, what is it about this info that some people find objectionable? As far as I know, it's not available on the web anywhere, and since the story is about fundraising, I thought folks would find it interesting
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Fundraising disclosed to date: 1/18/2012 $0.01 of Common 1/31/2012 $34,105.20 of Common 1/31/2012 $665,000 Convertible note 1/31/2012 $249,133 Preferred stock 4/20/2012 $150,000 Convertible note This is not comprehensive, so there may well
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
As a matter of fact I did, and you're right: I mis-read the parent comment as present tense vs. potential future tense. My apologies. That said, I think some of the problems with the credit report solution still stand; namely that pulling
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Say what? Yelp is pulling credit histories of people who join the site? If they are, that is way out of bounds for what users typically expect when joining an online review site. As a simple reviewer, I'm not engaging in any business w
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
+1. I'm actually curious about this as well, and I've read the VRSN doc. What comes next after filling out the form? What kind of vetting, if any, did they put you/your app through? Do you have to identify the app you plan to build in ad
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
A long time ago, I was a VC/growth equity investor. Reference checks were incredibly important, as a startup's chances of success, are, on average, very much correlated with the strength of the team in a variety of areas. First, obviousl
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The Biotech Venture Capital Math Problem (applies to Tech, too)(lifescivc.com)
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
This post is not quite right in its understanding of how these securities are classified. Securities held by corporations as assets are shown both by type of instrument and by "intent" of the holding. In this case, the types of instruments
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
That's true, almost every license for any profession (including everything from accountants to sports agents to, in some states, interior decorators and hair braiders) has an ethics component. My point is that it's trivial to find examples
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
This is not quite correct. Senior bankers (and certainly senior institutional salespeople, of which Greg Smith was one) are typically required by their firms to be licensed by FINRA. Certainly not all investment bankers or traders are req
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
Roy Thomson, Canadian founder of what is now Thomson Reuters and the 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, was essentially bankrupt in his mid-to-late 30s, having failed in a number of enterprises. At age 40, he bought the first of the hundreds of n
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
This analysis misses a few things: 1) Most significantly, we're looking only at the tax view and for only one year. Companies typically keep two sets of related financials: "book" and "tax." The "book" financials are on an accrual basis (
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
Sovereign immunity is a pretty well settled concept at the Federal level (especially with regard to law enforcement and foreign relations), with a few exceptions. As a result, even if all of the plaintiff's claims were factually true as all
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
Thanks, nice of you to say. I do not have a law degree, so I'm (obviously) not a lawyer. Since you asked, I am fascinated by legal issues, and during long commutes I listened to hundreds of hours of Supreme Court oral arguments from Oyez,
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
This is more of a PR stunt than a winning legal strategy. 1. The US government has sovereign immunity (except where specifically waived by law) for virtually all its official acts, unless those acts violate the law or constitutional rights.
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
Here's an article from back in 2007 about folks doing this, so you can imagine where they are now. http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2007-06-08/high_frequency_tra... Exegy is one company I'm familiar with, based in St. Louis, MO.
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
Forgive me. Your complaint is that you can't watch it on the device you want at exactly the time you want for free. (Though if it's on Neflix streaming, one would think you could watch it via Roku.) Anyway, I think we agree that Fox is
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
I'm sorry but this is a classic episode of WMFS syndrome (aka, "where's my free shit?"). You can't have exactly what you want, when you want it for free , so it's someone else's fault. If you wanted the show, you could watch it right now
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
1. This has nothing to do with the decision in Citizens United. This is about anti-trust regulation, which regulates collusive behavior, not speech. Any speech incidental to such a conspiracy (whether to rob a bank or fix wages in a labor
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
If you read the link, it says that in the case of a civil penalty (not a lien), the prior owner can be excused from paying under some circumstances.
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by hncommenter13 15y ago
This shouldn't be an effective strategy. In many municipalities, the code enforcement bureau can record abatement liens, which must be paid before title to the building can transfer. In some cases, civil penalties enforceable in a court of

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