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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> These just need the other 20% to go up in value 5x to break even, and with seed/angel money that is easy to do. Yes, picking 1-in-5 investments with 5x return is so easy it's a wonder that this investment style hasn't completely tak
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Wrong. This is not an investor's problem. Because investors never worry when 80% of their companies go up in smoke.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> either just as an aquihire I think if there is an 80% death rate, then nobody has to worry about aquihire deals: Companies will simply go back to normal hiring.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I've watched dozens of focus groups and seen countless quantitative research projects that mostly all indicate how extremely difficult it is to get people to leave their current bank. Apparently none of them thought to try offering
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Sounds a little like the Dantzig story: http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> but I'm pretty sure you can't get sued for declining to invest in a company Try this for example: "Our VC firm does not invest in companies with black founders. We looked at the data, and companies with black-founders have a measu
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Eventually, some enterprising law firm is going to make a bundle. The legal culture in SV (WSGR and their ilk) are not steeped in class-action suits, several folks are going to get their asses kicked from the legal defense, if nothing else
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Good find. Of course, it just changes my question to: How did he find it?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Exit poll: 95% correctly guessed which group they were assigned to. [ie, knew they had taken XTC or not] This pins the WTF meter. 1 out of the 20 could not figure it out? In related info: The controlled studies for viagra were a
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Would love to know how they detected it.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> It would be interesting to look at this as another data point in a macro shift from buying to renting. In real-dollars, housing is still more expensive than the trough of the 90s. Of course, the Fed needed to drop interest rates to
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Correctomundo: 200M shares * 400 microdollars = $80K, and there were several periods at 200M. Someone needs to kill OTC/pink sheets. The NYSE/Nasdaq is close-enough to a scam, god knows that the non-listed guys aren't helping.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I assume this was the reason? http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=ICOA+Basic+Chart&t=5d I don't see how they'd even make their money back on the $500 press release at those prices, but whatever.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> If you have to "market" it, especially with a lot of ad hominem namecalling...maybe it's not science. I'll note that you will never be wheeled into a nuclear-magnetic resonance machine for imaging, because "OMG it's nuclear!" They w
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I'm counting acquihires as failures because we just don't know. I'd add: During tech bubble v1, the acquihire deals stopped as the many failures put significant amounts of talent on the market. For example: Salaries for IC design
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> So I think they handled it correctly, and got the right kind o f attention. I also think they handled it correctly, but I believe the head of that org was relieved of command. Not cool. He was very explicit about the how's and why'
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
This. Also: Going with some mickey mouse plan is essentially a bet that you'll never be diagnosed with anything that is chronic during coverage. My wife manage to strike it rich with an autoimmune disease, and now we essentially cannot mo
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
And the monopoly should scare away anyone who has business sense from putting them in their critical path.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The Romans forced engineers to sleep under a bridge once it was completed. This is exactly what is missing from the banking system. The mortgage madness would never had occurred if banks were forced to retain a portion of every loa
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
git = communication with github, but more importantly, many of the github clones are going to have the same problem.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Looks like git needs the equivalent of a downvote: Something like % git nuke https://github.com/quartzjer
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> It was down to the fact that I couldn't accrue future staff costs towards the event. You lost me: Unaccrued staff costs are quite different than unrecognized revenue, which is what you originally mentioned. In fact, such costs wou
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> but all of them had multiple decades of experience. It certainly requires maturity on the part of the boss, but also on the part of the employee. That said, sometimes there are personality differences for which no amount of maturity
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Nice article. One nit tho: > When it came time to sell my events business, it turned out our Balance Sheet was in bad shape because we had collected a lot of revenue that we couldn’t recognize because it was for a future event. That m
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> and recording IP addresses of peers. Terrific! Anyone know the IP addresses of the state and federal Supreme Courts? It will be good preparation for justices to understand IP spoofing.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I can't tell if this is a good thing or bad thing. Good = it will publicize and make the horrors of war very accessible. This is the biggest jump since Vietnam (the first war to achieve widespread broadcast on TV into living rooms daily.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> this handbook being used against them in the case of harassment, discrimination or wrongful termination suits. Exactly. And since courts tend to favor employees, Zaarly's corporate neck is very exposed. Here's one example: > Wh
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Er, um... you got me there.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Rules for Work -- We do not have these. Note: This was written by folks who have never been on the receiving end of a stupid employee lawsuit. There are reasons why you need an employee handbook, and almost all of them are legal C
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Name-dropping the "cloud"? You must be new around here. :/ Edit: My favorite link of the past few months indicated the percentage of people who believed that bad weather would affect cloud services. http://www.techspot.com/news/49

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