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   by lquist 12y ago

   What is the source of the data? It seems crazy to provide EPS estimates (etc.) without the source.
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   by lquist 12y ago

   Thanks for sticking with InQuicker! It's a great product!
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   by lquist 12y ago

   > Did you get "never have to work again rich" through software? Yes > How did you do it? Started a bootstrapped, profitable small/medium-sized business (not a startup in the traditional sense). Don't really want to
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   by lquist 12y ago

   Flatiron did a $5.5M round at a $15M (guesstimated) valuation, and DBC is probably 4x bigger, so this was probably in the $60M range, with a bit more thrown in for being a big player?
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   by lquist 12y ago

   My startup is in a relatively new industry that has had multiple investments/acquisitions in the past year or so, and we've not been able to pursue conversations with some of these acquirers because we don't have financials i
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   The second-largest religion in each state(washingtonpost.com)

   2 points by lquist 12y ago|0 comments
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   by lquist 12y ago

   As an American with little knowledge of British politics this is a bit surprising. Do you mind going into the reasons that lead you to be on the Royal side?
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   by lquist 12y ago

   I know you're joking, but you're comparing the one-off sale of an entire business to (very possibly repeatable) annual income.
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   by lquist 12y ago

   Here's the Spotify link for the Bostridge recording: spotify:album:5ZHCqltda5ywYkHPqFIUQJ.
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    by lquist 12y ago

    That's because Bloomberg moved all the homeless to the Bronx and outskirts of the city...
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    The Economics of Adultery(washingtonpost.com)

    2 points by lquist 12y ago|0 comments
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    by lquist 12y ago

    My bet is that Google and Amazon will come out on top. My thesis on each of the big 4: Google: Some investments in Google X and other technologies will pay off and Google revenue stream mix will change. Size of pay-off will offset or eclips
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    Amazon Same-Day Delivery Arrives In San Francisco(techcrunch.com)

    2 points by lquist 12y ago|0 comments
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    by lquist 12y ago

    40x 2013 Revenue. Probably 20x 2014 revenue.
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    by lquist 12y ago

    Still seems to be a problem?
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    by lquist 12y ago

    I'm still able to submit more than once. I find that polleverywhere's sms based voting is a good way to get around this (but kind of annoying for voters).
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    by lquist 12y ago

    There seems to be nothing to prevent multiple submission. I would expect meaningless data as bootcamp founders + staff hang out on HN.
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    by lquist 13y ago

    The Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography is a fantastic list: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm .
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    by lquist 13y ago

    I hope you're doing this because you're passionate about it, because my understanding is that Hacker School doesn't make much profit.
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    by lquist 13y ago

    Reminds me of the xkcd packaging: http://xkcd.com/993/
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    by lquist 13y ago

    Sorry to hear about your situation. For what it's worth, my advice: Stop trying to build a startup. Build a business instead. A bootstrapped, makes cash today business. Maybe it's a consultancy specializing in bank software or may
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    by lquist 13y ago

    I'm a bit confused. The YC VC program (and it's earlier incarnation) made sense to me because VCs wanted access to YC deal flow. But now with the new program traditional LPs are investing at the same time (i.e., acceptance to YC)
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    by lquist 13y ago

    It's in an industry ancillary to web development.
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    by lquist 13y ago

    Immediately. The beauty of a service business! Not massively scalable, but we don't need investors and do $4M in profit (before-tax) between 2 partners. It took us ~6 months to hit this run-rate.
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    by lquist 13y ago

    So much money for such terrible( http://www.yelp.com/biz/general-assembly-san-francisco ) classes! Some highlights from Yelp: "Their web immersive is a joke, but you'll never hear anyone admit that because they
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    by lquist 13y ago

    "there seems to be some sort of disdain for the inelegant style of cut and paste hacker programming ingrained in the startup community" Wait, what?
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    by lquist 13y ago

    I have used firepad as well as other online collaborative text editors extensively, and believe it to be the best one on the market. Go Firebase!
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    by lquist 13y ago

    I am awestruck by ITER. This is the reason that I am in this field.
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    The New Sidecar Has Arrived(blog.side.cr)

    1 points by lquist 13y ago|0 comments
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    by lquist 13y ago

    Any idea why this is such a crowded space? Doesn't seem to be a huge market to me, but maybe I'm missing something?