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Look for anti-cyclical companies and more generally “value” companies (in opposition to growth companies). This means large companies in banking, insurance, telcos... Consider that everyone has to purchase home and car insurance, whether th
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Ireland?
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Agree. Bloomberg is taking on the two biggest companies in the history of capitalism and China. And they doubled down on their claim after the initial refutations from A&A. So I’m pretty configent they made double extra sure their fac
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I had the same question when I read the article. It sure was lucky that both Apple and Amazon checked the hardware and found the impossible to find chip. Or, assuming the rest of the article is true, someone somewhere found out about the
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Especially when border cops can seize your phone / ask for your passwords
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Nope, I meant literally by 1000. I was thinking of Martin Shkreli but some googling shows he merely multiplied the price of the drug by 55 (although I think others have done worse since then)
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It’s called price elasticity. It basically means that you’re much more willing to pay a large price for a product you need and which has no substitute than for a commodity product. Which is why stunts like multiplying the price of a drug by
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by laurentl 8y ago
You can try sites such as wix or strikingly which offer a wysiwyg editor and allow you to build your website without knowing the first thing about HTML. Saves you the hassle of hosting your own Wordpress or static pages (although S3 and oth
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I didn’t get this feeling from the proof in the article. I thought there was a kind of poetry to it. The diagram and colors make it reasonably easy to understand and they emphasize the geometrical nature of the proof, which uses only elemen
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by laurentl 8y ago
Hello, as I replied in the thread above I'm based in France, so the job postings are in French. However if I have a bit of time I'll put up an English translation as well.
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I’m the CTO of a startup in France
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- what does 0-3 years of experience mean to me? I assume this is in the context of "0-3 years of experience is specified in the job description". Answer: nothing. There's very little in common between a new graduate with 0 ex
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> 1. Can this candidate do the job? I'd go so far as to ask: "can this candidate learn to do the job?". In our recent job postings, I've started adding a specific paragraph after the desired qualifications stating m
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Ask HN: Which tool for lean Kanban?
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I can see the value for non-tech-savvy users. Simple (to understand) product, clear description and instructions. For non-price sensitive products (i.e. the type of products you'd expect to be developed and sold on line by small /
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by laurentl 8y ago
1. Quitting. I realize this is not a big deal if you have a highly sought-after expertise (e.g. software development) and the local culture and employment laws make it easy to change jobs (e.g. the US). But in my case, I was working as a de
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I don’t know much about mkt or bizdev from the angle that you’re describing (software in SV ?) but what pops out from your post: you sound a lot more excited about bizdev than PM. Basically your post reads “I think I’ll love sales but what
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Yes, signaling plays a big part. At some point you’re basically buying a gold-plated LinkedIn profile for the VCs and the press releases and the keynotes in industry summits, and that feeds on itself - each new prestigious VP position is an
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I was about to link to the Opportunist / Idealist / Pragmatic blog post but this is even better.
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I have a very similar experience. Besides knowledge, I gained a lot of insight about myself, and also learned quite a bit about entrepreneurship (more in terms of state of mind than actual knowledge). And made a lot of connections and frien
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by laurentl 8y ago
EMBAs are usually part-time over 18 to 24 months, MBAs are full time over 12 to 24 months. So an MBA naturally has a bigger (as in more in-depth) curriculum than an EMBA. It is also a significantly higher investment in terms of time and opp
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> There are other companies who will buy a bunch of iPhones for example and by carefully analysing the serial numbers can deduce to within a reasonable margin exactly how many have been sold. AKA the German Tank Problem ( https:/&#x
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by laurentl 8y ago
Glad that helped ;) If you want more feedback on my personal experience, feel free to reach out (will update my profile with an email address).
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Maybe a bit (a lot?) out there: why not go for a business degree instead, e.g. EMBA? You mention “foreign country” so I’m guessing you can have access to good curriculums without paying the US premium on education (or just go for an online
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More than that probably. At 36% margins you don’t really have to worry about cost efficiency - there’s probably a lot of cost savings to be had hiding behind all that free cash flowing around (and if that 36% margin disappears, it won’t tak
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I thought so too at first but given the way addition is defined later on, it makes sense to keep the coefficients sorted by increasing power (the leftmost element in the list is its head, and the easiest to access when doing anything recurs
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I recently discovered Erik Dietrich (daedtech.com) and it’s induced the same kind of splurge reading as when I discovered Joel on Software. Lots of stuff on what’s broken about developers’ place in the corporate world and what to do about i
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> assertAndContinue OTOH, it’s the perfect title for a sequel of Halt and Catch Fire .
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Last internship position I opened, I received more than 100 applications. Going through all of them and replying (even with a standard template) was grueling. I did give feedback to everyone we interviewed, though. A good 50% of the resume
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How does the last method (modified Fibonacci sequence) so on the d* measure ?

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