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by jbrun 8y ago
Read Capital in the 21st century and histories of the French Revolution.
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by jbrun 8y ago
That is all true. However I would say that the divisions within US society (black vs. white, guns vs. no guns, abortion vs no abortion, tax rich vs. tax no one,...) and the horrible public education system will be its biggest challenge goin
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by jbrun 8y ago
If you are interested in a more detailed portrait of the shifts happening, this book is excellent. If the US loses its technological advantage and its reserve currency status, it is very difficult to know what will happen. https:/&#x2
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by jbrun 8y ago
How about the clothes you are wearing, do you think they get your the same wage as a worker in the US or Europe? But I bet you like the cheap clothes... Your Amazon warehouse workers... the aviation repair people in El Salvador... the list
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by jbrun 9y ago
Email me anytime about FightClub, have not organized one in a while, but they can be fun!
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by jbrun 9y ago
When we bought the company it was losing about -20% of revenues and had never made a profit. We are up to -10% after 6 months and I think we will get breakeven in 4-5 months. So, we are not profitable yet, but we will be!
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B2B SaaS in China(jonathanbrun.com)
14 points by jbrun 9y ago|6 comments
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by jbrun 9y ago
Japan is a pretty good place to be born. Better than many places. Talking about debt without talking about assets and ownership structure of debt is incomplete.
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by jbrun 9y ago
For example, we pay out team in Shanghai between 3000 USD and 1000 USD per month. They represent the middle class. Yes, it is less than many in the US, but it is still high enough to enjoy consumer products, travel, and invest in their futu
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by jbrun 9y ago
You have to marry Chinese.
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by jbrun 9y ago
Having lived, worked and now running a B2B SaaS company there, the growth is real. Are the numbers exactly right, of course not. China is a massive, complex and not entirely transparent mesh of interests. Long story short though, there is a
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Business Books for Scaling and Selling(jonathanbrun.com)
2 points by jbrun 9y ago|0 comments
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by jbrun 9y ago
We are seeing increased action on environmental compliance in China. Our SaaS company offers tools to help businesses comply to environmental (and safety and quality laws). We recently bought a company in China that is in the same business
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by jbrun 9y ago
Isn't bitcoin limited in the number of coins that can be issued?
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by jbrun 9y ago
That was much later on. I am talking about basically end of Roman Empire to 1600.
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by jbrun 9y ago
We had privately created money in Europe for centuries. It was a disaster.
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by jbrun 9y ago
You are just delaying the problem, not actually fixing it and who forks and when? Unless you change the way crypto currencies are made and allow for unlimited creation of new money, it cannot work as a general purpose currency.
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by jbrun 9y ago
Then you would not have an economy.
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by jbrun 9y ago
Crypto currencies can exist for those who want them, I don't see any reason to block them beyond ponzi scheme and marketing issues - similar to stock issues. So probably they need some regulation to not defraud unwitting people. Bitcoi
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by jbrun 9y ago
No, that is not at all the argument. The argument is that you cannot have an economy run on a deflationary currency, which bitcoin is. An effective economy requires a bit of inflation and the ability to issue new money when necessary for so
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by jbrun 10y ago
A police officer screams at a lady whose three year old child is running all over the place.
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by jbrun 10y ago
Excellent book indeed.
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by jbrun 10y ago
Quebec has gone about 50 years.
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by jbrun 11y ago
If you are in Quebec - join us at http://revenudebase.quebec In Canada: join us at : http://biencanada.ca
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by jbrun 12y ago
Call http://equalit.ie/ - they have a free open source tool for exactly this!
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by jbrun 12y ago
And then all of them could not go to college due to immigration status and lack of money. They do manual labor now. Great American Underdog Story.
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This Christmas, Give Cash(jonathanbrun.com)
4 points by jbrun 12y ago|2 comments
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Looking for Startup Partner - Romance Management Site(jonathanbrun.com)
1 points by jbrun 13y ago|0 comments
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by jbrun 14y ago
Javert
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Has anyone sold a site on Flippa? Looking to learn more.
1 points by jbrun 14y ago|2 comments

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