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by jartelt 8y ago
But without those 3 rounds, your company likely wouldn't have gotten to the $100M valuation. Sure, if you can get a company to a $1B exit without raising any funding and avoiding any dilution, that is the best case. But, in reality mos
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by jartelt 8y ago
Some startups are reluctant to tell you how many shares are outstanding in the company (happened to my wife). They say you get 100,000 options, but will not tell you the info needed to properly estimate the potential value of those options.
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by jartelt 8y ago
Just want to post a reminder that solar cells are already efficient enough and cheap enough to be cost effective for power generation in many regions of the world. I am all for continued research to improve efficiency or decrease cost, but
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PG&E would likely just go threw bankruptcy again like it did in 2001. Then, it would come back and operate again. The primary loses would be the PG&E shareholders not necessarily all the PG&e rate payers.
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by jartelt 8y ago
Many of forests in California are National Forest land controlled by the federal government. The Californian State Government is not able to go do prescribed burns in the National Forest. A lot of your beef should be with the National Fores
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by jartelt 8y ago
Where I went to graduate school, it seemed nearly every Psychology graduate student used Qualtrics to administer their surveys. When you are sending surveys to 100s-1000s of people, having a tool that manages the survey and helps with runni
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by jartelt 8y ago
I got the post-exposure series with rabies vaccine and immune globulin shots earlier this year. The total insurance charge was around $20,000 for me as well. $15,000 for the immune globulin and $5,000 for ER/Vaccine/etc. My out
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by jartelt 8y ago
I had to get the post-exposure series of shots after getting bit by an unvaccinated dog earlier this year. The rabies vaccine shots themselves are not too expensive. I want to say Kaiser charged on the order of $500-1000 for the series of v
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Bats are tricky because you can often not see the bite marks and it can be hard to tell if you were bitten or not. It is sometime recommended to get the rabies vaccine if you find a bat in your house in the morning after sleeping all night.
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by jartelt 8y ago
The Saudis are limited partners in the fund, so they don't really have any control over the investments. Investment decisions are left up to the general partner, Softbank. Once the fund reaches maturity and the profits are distributed,
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by jartelt 8y ago
Seriously - I just sold a 1999 Civic with 150,000 miles for $2,000. The car made so many noises and did not feel safe at all. Yet, someone paid real money for it and was happy about it. Most cheap used cars are pretty junky. That is fine if
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by jartelt 8y ago
A lot of new cars these days start out at $20-25k. I imagine a lot of people are interested in the $35k Model 3 because it will have lower ownership costs than a gasoline car, is more fun to drive, and is neat. When you take that into acco
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by jartelt 8y ago
A person in a consensual relationship can still abuse or exert power over the other person in the relationship. Based on the what the women said, she didn't want to do that in the hotel room and Rubin "convinced" her to do it
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by jartelt 8y ago
There is much progress being made in decreasing the cost of EVs and cleaning up our grid by installing more solar and wind. There has been not nearly as much progress in the production of cheap cellulosic ethanol or fuel based on algae. The
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A lot of cost is driven by the need to build in a lot of redundant safety features because you are dealing with a fission reaction that can melt down and cause real problems. You also have to deal with and store waste on site. A nuclear pla
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by jartelt 8y ago
I worked somewhere that did 9 hour days with every other Friday off. It basically made Fridays unproductive because half the company was off every Friday and it seemed like you always ended up needing to talk to someone who was off that Fr
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by jartelt 8y ago
Building a new nuclear plant today costs an incredible amount of money and takes many years. The major reason we are not building more of them is that no one wants to sign up for that investment. Many nuclear plants that were built 20 yea
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by jartelt 8y ago
Many people in the US never travel internationally and don't really follow international politics. If you are from the states stay within the states, why would you care if other countries think the US is a bully and a jerk? Outside of
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by jartelt 8y ago
Things are much better in SF now too. I remember ~8 years ago, we would call for a cab in SF after going out at night. We typically would end up standing at a street corner for 30 minutes waiting for the cab and it usually wouldn't s
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by jartelt 8y ago
A lot of people said $1B for Instagram was overpaying and were proven wrong.
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Besides the negative acceleration/deceleration issues, are there any features of the BYD buses that you really enjoy? I imagine they are very quiet and don't smell like exhaust. Just wondering if those nice qualities improve the
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by jartelt 8y ago
Engineer graduates from a Big Ten school can make a solid salary and have a very nice cost of living if they stay in the midwest. If you and your spouse bring in a combined >$150k a year and buy a house that costs <$400k, you can hav
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17% efficiency is a very nice result for OPV. I studied OPV tech for my PhD in 2010-2015. The field really started to shrink once perovskite solar cells were discovered and quickly beat out OPV in performance. Many people were predicting
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by jartelt 8y ago
Utilities make a guaranteed rate of return (up to 10%) when they build new generation plants and when they build new transmission lines. This is payed for by rate basing the new costs to customers. The system works great for utilities bec
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CA is a huge state with a lot of grid to manage. There are lot of transmission lines and lots of trees, fires, mountains etc. that must be dealt with when doing grid maintenance. Utilities also over installed a lot of generation capacity a
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by jartelt 8y ago
Exactly - this will finally make them think twice about installing more generation capacity and will force them to consider installing battery storage or other solutions to fix issues on the grid. These non-generation solutions exist, but u
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You can get to the most remote area of the Trinity Alps pretty easily from the Bay Area. You head north and then eventually get on highway 3 and take that to Trinity Alps road. You drive maybe 10 miles and the there is Stuart Fork trailhe
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by jartelt 8y ago
If the private corporation didn't like the conditions of the city zoning and development laws, they could build their office elsewhere.
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If you build an office in the middle of a city, sometimes you need to be part of the city... The employees can always bring a lunch to work if they don't want to spend money going out to restaurants. Yes, it would suck if you expecte
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Because the sport is better for everyone if you aren't required to buy $250 shoes to have a chance to win. It's the same with the swim suits. If a new piece of equipment comes out that makes you 5% more efficient, then anyone wh

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