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Warren Buffett: Pretty Good for Government Work(nytimes.com)
111 points by jakarta 16y ago|103 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
I think this totally depends on the business you are running. If you have outside investors, I think they will for the most part dislike the idea of a percentage of income going outside of the business. Plus, if your business requires capit
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by jakarta 16y ago
The biggest problem with adopting the Israeli model IMO is with resources. You would have to spend a lot of money training and hiring people who would be good at behavioral profiling. The other problem is that Israel is a tiny country, they
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by jakarta 16y ago
That's a really good point - the student subscription route does not work internationally. I don't really know if there is any way around that. One thing I'll note is that often, if you subscribe to WSJ or Foreign Affairs they also throw in
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Can the Med rescue Beirut’s commuters?(mondediplo.com)
1 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
They don't ask for payment. And the registration walls might be annoying, but you're getting news for free. It's a trade off. There's content in the NYT that you wont find on Google News, and maybe that's not compelling for you but it seems
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by jakarta 16y ago
I've rarely seen a pay wall story end up on the front page of HN, with the exception of the occasional WSJ article - where people are quick to show how anyone can access it via Google News. I see a lot of people complaining when NYT article
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by jakarta 16y ago
You can see what the short interest is on a stock to get a gauge of how shorted it is. Plus if you have access to one of the online idea boards for hedge funds, you can see the write ups from analysts that believe OpenTable is a short -- so
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by jakarta 16y ago
That's basically the essence of capital cycle theory isn't it? Wherever you see high valuations and high returns on capital, competition is bound to come in, which gradually reduces returns and valuations.
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by jakarta 16y ago
I'd suggest that the author browse some of the old Buffett letters, you can get some good tips on how to communicate complicated topics to ordinary people: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
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by jakarta 16y ago
Warren Buffett is a big practitioner of this kind of diet. In his biography, there is a segment about his dieting habits and he used a two pronged approach: 1. Calorie restriction but eat a food he loved - so ice cream or milk shakes all da
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Night of the Living Fed(businessinsider.com)
3 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
The past articles written about the company have mentioned that the diapers are indeed low margin items, but they try to cross-sell products that have higher margins (products like baby oil or soap). Since the box to send the diapers is alr
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by jakarta 16y ago
I'd be really interested in seeing how much equity the founders have left in the business. It's definitely not capital light, so I can imagine that they had to raise quite a bit of money to get it off the ground and running.
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by jakarta 16y ago
Plus there is always the fact that when you drop out of Harvard, they usually give you the ability to come back later on. Makes dropping out to pursue a startup a low risk / high uncertainty bet.
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Rob Kalin on Crafting Etsy's Next Move(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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Here's Why I'm Short Open Table (businessinsider.com)
2 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft, Cisco Alumni Use Tech Savvy to Get Giants to Series(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
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by jakarta 16y ago
I research and analyze distressed companies for investment purposes. I spend a lot of time looking at restaurant businesses and they tend to have managers that make the same mistakes over and over. Here's one of my favorite restaurant turna
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by jakarta 16y ago
What I would say is that if they aren't figuring out a way to keep basic financial statements (which seems to be true) then you should get them to start. I think it is important to understand what got them into the mess before coming up wit
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by jakarta 16y ago
Well, let's think about it. So a bakery is basically a big box where people visit and purchase bread (which is usually made on site). So the price per loaf * number of loaves sold = Revenues The food costs (flour, yeast, ingredients) and pa
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by jakarta 16y ago
It's difficult to say without figuring out what their big problem is. If they have always been struggling to break even then there is either an issue with volume/pricing (depending on the structure between fixed and variable costs). If they
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by jakarta 16y ago
It's tough to say without seeing the actual financial statements to get an idea of what needs to happen. Usually, in the restaurant industry when management makes the mistake of taking on debt and opening up break-even/not profitable stores
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Goodbye Proprietary Trading, Hello Loophole(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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The Economy: An Acute Case Of Plantar Fasciitis(dealbreaker.com)
1 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
One of the reasons might be that there are a couple of publicly traded 'aquaculture' companies in China that are kind of desperate to show that they aren't frauds. One is mentioned in the article, HQ Sustainable Marine. So typically if inve
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Amazon hit with Texas tax assessment over sales (marketwach.com)
1 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
Sometimes it is more useful to look at companies on a yield perspective, that way you can compare them to "safe" assets and see how compelling a company really is. In this case, Amazon features an earnings yield of: 1.4% and a Free Cash Flo
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by jakarta 16y ago
But being a leading retailer doesn't make you great. Zappos I believe had razor thin margins that really left little room for error.

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