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by lubos 11y ago
Misleading title. Nowhere in the article it says "it's easy". The article is about how it's more common to see SaaS companies with $1MM+ in ARR therefore founders shouldn't be thinking investors will be begging them
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by lubos 11y ago
Simple. The way Google gets away by paying little corporate tax in USA is by loading up their US entity with tax-deductible expenses. What is stopping IRS to say.... "Hold on. These tax-deductible expenses are bullshit, we don't a
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by lubos 11y ago
> SF can't expand easily since it's water 3/4 all around. Demand still high and supply very low. That might easily change. If average salaries go down, people won't be able to afford pay rent they once used to. There
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by lubos 11y ago
I think the problem with the article is that it doesn't dig deep enough. For example, Facebook news feed is driven by an algorithm to push posts you are likely to be interested in. Liking an anti-vaccination post or anti-immigration po
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by lubos 11y ago
Because it's just Javascript generating random numbers. It's not analyzing anything at all.
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by lubos 11y ago
You actually get 200,000 free events if you put their badge on your website. The next tier is 500,000 events for $150/mo.
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by lubos 11y ago
MixPanel has very generous free plan and many free users. Sales people were hired to try to convert free users into paying customers. Plan failed, sales people shown the door. This is why companies need to think really hard about freemium m
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by lubos 11y ago
How could Woolworths be so stupid? Net assets of Dick Smith before acquisition were $370MM and that's not even accounting for intangible assets such as value of Dick Smith brand. Why would Woolworths think selling for $115MM was ever g
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Why conspiracies spread faster than ever(theguardian.com)
3 points by lubos 11y ago|3 comments
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by lubos 11y ago
Why would you register a domain name which contains a trademark? Wasted money.
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by lubos 11y ago
This is the most insightful thing I've read on HN in a while. The beauty of this argument is that it doesn't put customers (who are less demanding while paying more) on pedestal. I run SaaS where there is one plan only. So all cus
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by lubos 11y ago
Office tour video nails it. Beer dispenser? 6-foot printer so staff can print their ideas in high resolution? Having 60 non-employees to live with them for free? And I'm pretty sure this is not even scratching the surface of non-sense
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by lubos 11y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. Wall street rewards growth over profits so incentives for Salesforce are to keep purchasing businesses which at least break-even (e.g. Heroku) which in turn show growth in revenue but don't necess
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by lubos 11y ago
Salesforce did a lot of acquisitions worth billions of dollars. Looking at their financial statements, net loss for last FY was 250MM but depreciation and amortization was over 700MM. In other words, the loss they show is just a paper loss.
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by lubos 11y ago
Everybody can create new money. Not just banks. Let me give you an example. I'm worth $100. We agree I lend you $1,000,000. Sure, I don't physically have $1,000,000 but I can still make a loan to you and give you some piece of pap
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by lubos 11y ago
There was another essay from Steve Yegge some years ago where he was comparing Amazon vs Google (he worked for both companies) and how Amazon completely transformed themselves into using internal APIs as the only method of communication bet
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by lubos 11y ago
Foreign investors buying up real-estate don't do it for the love of it. They seek returns by renting out. And even though real-estate value has increased a lot. Rental income from these properties didn't increase at the same rate.
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by lubos 11y ago
Last one was 10 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9980222
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by lubos 11y ago
Or why put output binaries to source control at all? Who is going to ever clone that? Github has "releases" feature for that which the project seems to be using too ( https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/relea
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by lubos 11y ago
People who paid them up-front were basically companies they've done some business with before. It's good to work your network to get first customers but every startup can do that. It's just common sense. And nowhere in the ar
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by lubos 11y ago
I would really prefer to use mouse to move around like in Agar
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by lubos 11y ago
It wasn't too long ago when YC halved money to be received by their startups. PG famously said back then "$150k was too much".
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by lubos 11y ago
This is the first thing that came to my mind too.
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by lubos 11y ago
Does anybody know how many of their 400 million "registered users" are still active?
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by lubos 11y ago
Social insurance, health insurance and income tax will be around 25% on €15k annual salary in Czech republic. And that's assuming they have no children. With children it's even less. source: http://www.penize.cz/ka
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by lubos 11y ago
You cannot use "Github" name to represent your product. So good luck with selling that domain name. It's worthless and you are wasting your time.
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by lubos 11y ago
That's awful. Why would I want to watch that in 720p?
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by lubos 11y ago
Disposing items properly costs money. Donating items doesn't. So the incentive for them is to "donate" as much trash as possible. Then non-profit org will have to deal with it. Sorry, I just don't like non-profits being
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by lubos 11y ago
So they pick up someone's trash and give it to some non-profit as a donation? Poor non-profits. It will cost them more to sort through and dispose unwanted items than the value received.
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by lubos 11y ago
This is related to "Data Retention Directive" [1] which was declared invalid by EU Court of Justice for violating EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. It means member EU states must update their legislation which will prohibit metada

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