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by lhh 6y ago
Exactly, the situation would be more desperate without Uber/Lyft/etc, not less.
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by lhh 6y ago
Fair enough, the court's job is just to interpret the law; it's the law I object to. But a lot of people advocating for these types of laws make the moral argument that companies are exploiting workers. Given the evidence, I think
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by lhh 6y ago
Leave it to California to stick it to a company losing $7 billion per year trying to find its footing. Drivers are voluntarily entering into the current work arrangement. Why does the government need to have an opinion on the matter?
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by lhh 6y ago
We do corporate finance consulting, and here's how we present the "productized" version of our offering: https://www.fivecastfinancial.com/core-financial-package/
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Innovation Can't be Forced, but it can be Quashed(rationaloptimist.com)
9 points by lhh 6y ago|0 comments
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Illinois Offers Tax Credits to Angel Investors(www2.illinois.gov)
1 points by lhh 7y ago|0 comments
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The Map and the Terrain: The Relationship Between CEO and CFO(a16z.com)
1 points by lhh 7y ago|0 comments
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How Selling a Company Works(fivecastfinancial.com)
1 points by lhh 7y ago|0 comments
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How Selling a Company Works(fivecastfinancial.com)
6 points by lhh 7y ago|0 comments
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HHS Proposes New Rules on Electronic Health Information(hhs.gov)
1 points by lhh 8y ago|0 comments
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by lhh 8y ago
What matters more than nominal amount of debt is the debt-to-income ratio. If people have income (or liquid assets) to cover their debt payments, things are fine. It's generally when that ratio gets large that problems arise. Also, deb
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by lhh 8y ago
When I find myself procrastinating, it’s usually because the problem feels to me like some combination of unclear and overwhelming, in the sense that it will take a lot of mental energy to even get started and then I’ll have to maintain foc
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by lhh 8y ago
Financial modeling. I work as a corporate finance consultant and am a former investment banker, and it's an extremely valuable tool in my opinion. I think people are crazy for trying to run a company without making heavy use of a finan
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by lhh 8y ago
Pros and cons to each approach. I tend to recommend that it in the early days companies build up by employee, and then look at the metrics coming from the other direction as well to make sure everything makes sense (e.g. if you're fore
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by lhh 8y ago
As they say, "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."
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Financial Modeling for Startups: An Introduction(fivecastfinancial.com)
276 points by lhh 8y ago|33 comments
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by lhh 8y ago
“Never Split the Difference” - fascinating read on negotiation. Author is a former FBI hostage negotiator and his stories were themselves worth the read, but it’s full of good advice on negotiation generally as well.
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by lhh 8y ago
It seems like net share settlement for employee option exercise would benefit early employees considerably without really costing the issuing company much. For example, if I have options to purchase 100 shares at $1 each and current market
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by lhh 8y ago
I agree if what the person is selling is solving a well understood problem. But what if it's something that you hadn't really thought much about before and need to take some time to wrap your head around? In sales, I think it&#x27
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by lhh 8y ago
I’m curious about the financial modeling bit - would you mind expanding on that?
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by lhh 9y ago
For the record, this happens all the time in the private equity world (they're called fundless sponsors).
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by lhh 9y ago
How about the government spends a lot less money, thereby requiring far less tax to fund it? Also, wealthy people are mobile, as are companies that don't have tangible assets. If you try to over-tax, they'll simply domicile everyt
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Upheaval – Computers, the Internet, and Cryptocurrency(econoptics.wordpress.com)
2 points by lhh 9y ago|0 comments
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by lhh 9y ago
I thought this was an especially good quote: "The ideal entrepreneur can go deep into both individually, not just across a team. Because one person who can do both is like two people who are telepathic, and no one can read each other’s
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The Century of Biology(a16z.com)
2 points by lhh 9y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: A simple personal finance Excel model generator(modelbuilder.herokuapp.com)
20 points by lhh 9y ago|1 comments
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Peter Thiel is trying to save the world(businessinsider.com)
5 points by lhh 10y ago|2 comments
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All This Has Happened Before(mattermark.com)
1 points by lhh 11y ago|0 comments
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by lhh 11y ago
Yep. Looks to me like they just provided bad service.
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by lhh 11y ago
To be clear, getting a deal done is the primary reason a company would hire an investment bank. An investment banker who is effective and has integrity would first determine what a client's expectations are (particularly around valuati

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