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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> First they say that 56% of companies started in 2004 were still in business in 2010. Then they reference the VC rule of thumb that 4 of 5 companies will flounder and dismiss VC companies as being "riskier". The fact that having VCs
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> but in fact I'm most interested how this guy becomes a VC 2 years out of university after being a telecom banker, That should tell you everything you need to know about becoming a VC.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Prison? Orphanage? Whorehouse.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I think it's time the tech industry starts asking for broad sweeping changes of the copyright laws. This is a great idea. Broad sweeping measures, hopefully with a catchy name, to counteract the current nuttiness. Call it somethin
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Up voting thru your app (plus comments) might be an interesting value add.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Much faster browsing. I would like some way of grouping and also upvoting. I know, we're never satisfied.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Requests for startups: Kill the IRS.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> For the Valley to do that, it’s going to have to get out of the mindset that eyeballs equal quality. It's not about quality. It is about building a monster revenue (and profit!) stream. To quote from the dead trees: "No one in this
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Hollywood doesn't really "make" movies so much as market and distribute them. If that was a complete listing: Then destroying them would be a pretty straightforward matter, because startups do distribution and marketing like the be
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Would love to see the same thing for monthly billing, but with completely variable monthly payments.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> You should also note that the US Treasury ended up making $12B on that deal after repayments. Never rely on reporters from CNN to do arithmetic. This is the daily TARP update: http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stabilit
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Brings me back to the fall of 1998, Bah. I took it in 1983, on a TOPS-20 machine iirc with vt100's. We might as well have submitted our work in crayon. Now get off my lawn. (Sussman's book was still notes at that point. I wouldn'
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Search SEC's EDGAR. You will find who the underwriters are selling the IPO shares to.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I dont see the average 401k investor investing in IPO's Nor, for that matter, do you see many investors at all getting pre-IPO shares. Most of the small guys come in after the IPO. The problem is that the 401k's go to funds, who a
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
FTA: > “The IPO market is dying,” he said. “You see companies achieving robust valuations on the private market but being treated poorly when they go public.” (We’re looking at you, Groupon and Zynga.) It seems quaint, but there was a
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I was at Bell Labs when the Jan Hendrik Schön scandal broke out. Before the scandal, many of us were convinced that he was headed for a Nobel. (The fellow across the hall won a Nobel while I was there, so this was not an insane propositio
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I think the article completely misses the boat. The first question is: What happens when Greece defaults? The next question is: What happens when the next PIIG goes? These are monetary issues, not traditional value-investing issues.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I really look forward to the countersuit where the Irish State sues EMI for having too stupid of a business model.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Wolfram's proposal sounds completely backward to me. Yep. Just call it a New Kind of Internet. Edit: Relevant: Edit2: Amazon removed the review! Search for "A new kind of review" on this page http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/AN
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> The vapor pressure of molten lead has got to be pretty low If you go to the bottom of the Kaster link: Cast Number 12 was a whistle. The casting was in multiple parts, and I never figured out how to assemble it (I actually thought
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
That's awesome, and requires great research into the interpretation of lead blobs.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Personally, if you don't make money out of gaming, do get into it... I'm gonna guess based on the rest of your post that you meant "don't" instead of "do". Otherwise, you're just evil. :)
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Aha. I find shoutcast.com useful in this regard: I tune to a station with mostly soulless repetitive music. It somehow creates a space around me but doesn't make me "listen" and steal focus. Also, it requires no care and feeding after t
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Great list, but help an old guy out: > Learn to love podcasts. ? What is this for?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I just pulled cells out of discarded car batteries that I found while playing on a construction site Dodging the acid in the lead-acid batteries?! Now that is dedication. I raise my cup (of coffee) to you in honor of your superior
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
My grandfather worked for AC Gilbert, which made the Erector Set, and American Flyer trains. I had rather complete sets growing up, and couldn't figure out why my erector set and toy trains were so much better than everyone else's. But ano
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Reframe SOPA
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Modern architectures have reached the point where people can't code effectively in assembler anymore Someone should inform the guys over at ffmpeg that the jig is up.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> they're so far removed from the person they were when they were 20 and 30 that it's just not fathomable to go back to that. I asked my wife's grandfather on his 88th birthday: Forget the mirror, how old do you feel on the inside?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
There were many gems hidden in the rough on your original website. Whatever happened to the db of posts? It was practically a catalog of pathological behaviors during a company's end.

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