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by immad 9y ago
Other strong factors that are not mentioned: 1. Seed funding has long delays to liquidity. The glut of seed investors, money and excitement in 2012-2015 got a lot of investors interested but none of them have got returns yet so they got tap
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by immad 9y ago
Its a liquid stock with volume of $10m+/day. It seems like its worth what other people are willing to pay for it.
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by immad 9y ago
You make it sound like Snap is a failure. It is worth $16b even after the affect of this earnings report. Facebook might have slowed their growth but they did make a huge company before they were slowed down.
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by immad 9y ago
Mercury | Founding team backend + frontend Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time, ONSITE Mercury is a stealth fin-tech startup. We are currently 4 people (2 engineers, 1 designer, 1 BD/Ops) but have raised $6m from a tier A
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by immad 9y ago
Bitcoin is valued at $110b with 16.66m mined out of 21m. So ~80% mined [1] 1 - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/
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by immad 9y ago
Apple Stock is up 34% in the last year [1]. Its only over the last 2 months that it is very slightly down or flat. Seems like iPhone 8/X was already priced in the stock and its going mostly as expected. [1] https://www.googl
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by immad 9y ago
Mercury | Founding team designer | SF| Full-time, ONSITE Mercury is a stealth fin-tech startup. We are currently 3 people (2 engineers, 1 BD/Ops) but have raised $6m from a tier A VC. We are looking to grow our team and add a designer.
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by immad 9y ago
Mercury | Founding team Software Engineer | SF| Full-time, ONSITE Mercury is a stealth fin-tech startup. We are currently 3 people (2 engineers, 1 BD/Ops) but have raised $6m from a tier A VC. We are looking to grow our team and add fo
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by immad 9y ago
I also extend the same offer as Leo. Email in my profile. If you can get a $14m acq offer you can almost certainly get funding if the market is big.
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by immad 9y ago
If you have headquarters in California you pay tax here as well as a bit in Delaware The reason to register in Delaware is because of business friendly courts there. I don't believe there is a tax advantage
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by immad 9y ago
What does "and then nothing" mean? Not every investment will succeed which is the point of risky startup investment. And USV has an incredible amount of success (Twitter, Kickstarter, Cloudflare etc)
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by immad 9y ago
This seems like a fairly obvious and good explanation. Also one of the other relatives could have since joined Facebook to make this a little simpler.
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by immad 9y ago
Redis won't function till it has loaded all data from disk to memory. So if your webapp doesn't have too much data then possibly. Also since Redis is memory backed you need more RAM then data. This can get very costly. Another ann
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by immad 9y ago
Basically the same reason that bitcoin mining is becoming centralized by a small set of miners in China. At least there is a benefit to being close to the requestor in terms of bandwidth/latency so as long as the network rewards that s
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by immad 9y ago
Yes, Ether has $1.5bn in trading volume for the last 24 hours [1]. 1: http://coinmarketcap.com
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by immad 9y ago
I get mostly pharmacy products and vacation deals
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by immad 9y ago
Per block or per day is the same thing. Also better to look at it on a day level since transactions+fees vary throughout the day
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by immad 9y ago
Number of new Bitcoins a day: 2063 [1] Transaction fees in Bitcoin: 272 [2] So transaction fees are not insignificant. 1: https://blockchain.info/charts/total-bitcoins July 6th data 2: https://blockchain.inf
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Twilio Sued by Authy (YC W12) Founder Over Merger Compensation(bna.com)
81 points by immad 9y ago|23 comments
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by immad 9y ago
Ads over time extract profit margins from all other industries. For example at least 50% of all profits from mobile games are spent on acquiring users from ads.
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Introducing Token(blog.tokenbrowser.com)
1 points by immad 9y ago|0 comments
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by immad 9y ago
JustinTV was winter 07. Dropbox and Disqus were summer 07 The cloundant you are thinking of was much later. The S07 cloudant sold their domain (I was in S07)
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by immad 10y ago
I think he is referring to ebooks
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by immad 11y ago
Basically anyone at or near profitability can weather most storms
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by immad 11y ago
He is probably busier than the average FB employee.
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by immad 11y ago
They do output an early tax document.
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by immad 11y ago
Given the size of investment they probably get access to quarterly company accounts.
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The next generation of spreadsheets will be a database(infoworld.com)
52 points by immad 11y ago|36 comments
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by immad 11y ago
It is extremely disappointing that this is the top comment on Hacker News.
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by immad 11y ago
They launched anonymous login buttons, but its in beta: https://developers.facebook.com/products/anonymous-login

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