mariozivic

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by mariozivic 5y ago
$0 for income tax as his salary is $0 and he funds his lifestyle by borrowing against shares he owns: https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-techs-cash-poor-billi...
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by mariozivic 5y ago
In the current low interest rate environment, I've heard that it's common for founders like Musk to borrow against their shares instead of selling shares. The difference is that they pay small interest rate but don't pay larg
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Screening Applicants: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly(blog.testdome.com)
5 points by mariozivic 8y ago|0 comments
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by mariozivic 9y ago
Unfortunately, I cannot find that article. IIRC, the loan never gets foreclosed. It's like the bank is receiving an interest as a fee for the service of tax-free repatriation. If I had time to analyze this further, I would take top 5 t
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by mariozivic 9y ago
There was an article exlaining how they get that money back in U.S. tax-free. Something along the lines of geting a loan from the bank against deposit by their pardise subsidiary. Also, the money owned by the subsidiary is allegedly in NY b
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by mariozivic 9y ago
Exactly this. This is THE advanced feature I need.
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Why App Stores Need Progressive Pricing(svedic.org)
9 points by mariozivic 10y ago|0 comments
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by mariozivic 10y ago
You don't need to invest in a foreign company to invest in a foreign market. Take a couple of US companies and see where their revenues come from geographically and diversify your holdings in that way.
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Build a Business, Not a Financial Machine(medium.com)
3 points by mariozivic 10y ago|0 comments
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Silicon Valley's Unchecked arrogance(medium.com)
3 points by mariozivic 11y ago|0 comments
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by mariozivic 11y ago
The example with ATMs happens in a lot of places I've been but I'll just list Japan as the most extreme example.
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16 Lessons on Scaling from Stanford's CS183C – Technology-Enabled Blitzscaling(medium.com)
2 points by mariozivic 11y ago|0 comments
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Improving Your Web App with Functional Object-Oriented Design(medium.com)
2 points by mariozivic 11y ago|0 comments
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by mariozivic 12y ago
Have a look at http://www.testdome.com We have approached creating our content to be as work-relevant as possible. Our front-end questions address all the areas you mentioned. Disclaimer: I'm co-founder of TestDome.
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by mariozivic 12y ago
That's exactly the point I'm working on right now. We realised that just the information that "something" is not working well is not good enough. Hopefully in a week or two, feedback from the execution of the test cases
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by mariozivic 12y ago
One of the co-founders here. I must say, you are the first one to say that the tests are too easy. A significant number of our customers said just the opposite, that tests were on the hard side. That's not to say that you are wrong but
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by mariozivic 13y ago
IMHO, you are looking at it the wrong way, that is the candidate's way. From the employer's point of view, it's all about determining the most effective way of finding out if you're a fit or not. In my personal experienc
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by mariozivic 13y ago
"YC investment results in an average of 6% ownership, 6% of $13.7B is $822,000,000." - this statement is not actually correct. YC ownership averages 6% at the time when YC enters but that doesn't mean that YC gets 6% of $13.7
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by mariozivic 13y ago
I've heard one too many times that I have to react now and voice my confusion. When you have students and you want then to have had some work done outside of coursework, I'm perfectly ok with that as I understand the merits but I
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by mariozivic 13y ago
IMHO, the post is more about the interviewers not understanding what is important for success in the job they are interviewing for than about anything else. If you need a person that will have to switch technologies, languages and paradigms
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by mariozivic 13y ago
It just so happened I clicked on this link just a moment after clicking restart link on Chrome to let it update and it still said no?!