johnglasgow

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by johnglasgow 16y ago
After being so upset with his cheating class, why does the professor offer a large time period to re-take the test? It seems like he is baiting the students to cheat again. Can't he set it during a normal class period where everyone takes i
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
You act like TSA agents came up with the idea to grope and body scan everyone in the airport. This is a huge pain the in ass for them, and they know that it poses a health risk for themselves. However, this is their job, and they are carryi
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
"There is no point having the optimal colo between TSE and NYSE because they have no overlapping hours nor do they have anything that trades on both and is fungible." There is tremendous overlap amongst various stock exchanges, OTC's, dark
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
Quantitative trading companies are spending more and more money to trade faster, because the barrier to entry continues to plummet. For example, they used to install software programs on computers, now they actually hard-wire programs direc
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
Automated trading is almost to an equilibrium, where the costs will begin outweighing the profits.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
Not only do the supporters not vote, but they have very little political power nor do they provide monetary support.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
The users are not at fault here. Even a SSH or VPN will leave them vulnerable to attacks. Companies (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) have to increase their own security, because they are the only ones that can fix this problem.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
It's all relative.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
Let's say I go to the mechanic with a light on in the dashboard, and he'll immediately notice the gas cap isn't tightly secured so it set off a car sensor. He probably went back to his mechanic friends, told them the story, and everyone lau
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
Arrington loves writing link-bait articles. The WSJ just published an article on My Space leaking user date to advertisers: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230373850457556...
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
An IPO for Facebook would mean losing all of their top engineers who are hanging around until they can cash out. Everyone will leave for the next hot startup and to work on their own projects. Zuck is smart for dragging the process out.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
Three points: 1. Sounds like UberCab should look into licensing out their platform to existing cab companies. It would mean lower margins, but they can quickly scale throughout the US and beyond much faster. 2. UberCab's blog post is arroga
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
What are your thoughts the two founders being identical twin brothers?
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
This is way off topic, but I believe we met at the Founders and Cocktails event last month that was held at the lounge across the street from Santana Row. We chatted for a while about the Reddit vs. Digg battle going on at the time.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
Apple is one of the best companies at cannibalizing it's own products, which is mandatory to stay ahead of the competition. Example: Apple crushed iPod sales by releasing the iPhone.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
It's called an LBO.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
This article is very relevant to our company as we redesign our social product to better achieve the network effect and reduce this exact issue. Thanks for the great insights.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
http://alpha.patterntap.com/collections/Tabs I always start at PatternTap.com when I'm stumped on a design solution.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
If payday loans are really as secure as you make them sound, the interest rates wouldn't be so high on the loans. It's pure economics.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
I wrote this in the TC comments, and will echo it here: "This article was not very well written IMHO. The big exit was for the Tech Coast Angels investors who had over 100x. Criticizing Zappos for their 1B+ exit vs Green Dot's 2B exit is an
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
Paul was interviewed at CrunchUp this summer, and he briefly talked about what they have learned works and doesn't work. The video can be found on TechCrunch. - 2 founders is best - founders should have known each other for a while before
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
There's nothing wrong with being a pay day loan company. Their interest rates (500% or more) are through the roof for making high risk loans that no other bank will touch. high risk = high reward
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
They have a daunting customer acquisition mountain to climb. It took OpenTable 10 years and an IPO to have the capital to scale the SMB restaurant industry. Different but the same.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
He lost a few points in my book for saying new startups will not be able to take on the big tech companies. Imagine if the founders of Google took his advice.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
It sounds like Time Warner moved a lot of write-offs to AOL right before the spin-off to hide their own losses. Then AOL was forced to "take a bath", where you toss out all the huge one time write-offs(i.e. Bebo) in one earnings season and
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
"Collusion" can occur at the angel level even if it's only the top 10 angels. However, there's nothing wrong with them discussing deals and the proper valuation for a company.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
The real scare for these angels is if entrepreneurs lose trust in them, because then they will start losing out on the hottest deals.
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Brave New World With Such Google Transparency In It(techcrunch.com)
1 points by johnglasgow 16y ago|0 comments
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
She gripes about the A/R and A/P pains of a small business owner, but has never owned a SMB...I'm rooting for her, but hope she has added people to her team that really know this market.
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by johnglasgow 16y ago
"many entrepreneurs would tell you that even considering the possibility of failure undermines your chances of success." Although I'm overly optimistic about my own company just like every other entrepreneur, you can't be naive and think yo

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