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Postmates Has Hired Qatalyst, Silicon Valley Bank That Helps Companies Get Sold(recode.net)
1 points by mathattack 11y ago|0 comments
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Snapchat Raises $175M from Fidelity at Flat $16B Valuation(recode.net)
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by mathattack 11y ago
Truth is that peace doesn't make money, it doesn't grease the wheels of industry, the difference is that where is the industry? I will start by saying that I hate war. And war is VERY anti-capitalist. The only time war makes co
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by mathattack 11y ago
I agree - I'm not a fan of hamburgers. But against Nomran's [0] advice I blame myself. It's taken many times to realize what they are, but I assume that I'm just a fogey who is slow in understanding the new standard.
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by mathattack 11y ago
Generally the companies that gut and harvest (like CA) differ from the builders.
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by mathattack 11y ago
Interesting. I wonder if this is the start of a pattern of desktop companies who have converted to SaaS ditching their origins. It makes sense that there is residual value, and the current owners don't want to be distracted.
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by mathattack 11y ago
5 may be interesting, but it's solvable by trial and error on the 5 answers. It's only interesting if it's fill in the blank. :-) I believe the event was a fundraiser for a kids-friendly math museum, so I'll cut these
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by mathattack 11y ago
Let's put externalities (CO2, etc) aside... The only reason that things like canals get built is because people can charge money to recoup their costs. Many infrastructure projects get built and don't earn their capital investmen
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by mathattack 11y ago
Is it correct to call it a $6.5 billion bounty? Once Bitcoin is hacked, the value of all the coins go to 0, no? Who would accept them knowing they could lose them so easily.
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by mathattack 11y ago
In up markets it's easy to say, "I'm a mobile developer" but in a down market, only iOS will do. You're right there are gambles. I see 4 ways to mitigate this: 1 - Live somewhere that has many companies or be prepa
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by mathattack 11y ago
You could argue that the best pay for themselves, and that running out of a cash could come from hiring bad people. The absolutely best employees I've seen haven't been frequent job hoppers. At most it's every 3-5 years. I&
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by mathattack 11y ago
There's a very big time cost to hiring just the best. If you're afraid of even one bad hire, then a growing company must be willing to have all their managers and top employees commit 20+% of their time to hiring. Then you ask &
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Could you pass 6th grade economics?(wsj.com)
4 points by mathattack 11y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 11y ago
Let's do some math from a source [0] Sounds like 1300 jobs paying 46K, double the local average, over the course of 6 years. From a "paying taxes to buy higher salaries" point of view this is 1300 * (0.5 * 46K) * 6 ~= $180M.
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Yahoo exploring sale of $1B-$3B in 'non-core assets': CFO(reuters.com)
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Elliott Discloses Stake in Qlik Technologies(nytimes.com)
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Herbalife Says Database Error Led to Misstatement of Growth(nytimes.com)
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by mathattack 11y ago
Do large tech companies need to be perpetually laying people off because various bets don't work? Or that they necessarily increase productivity so much faster than revenue? (What's unique about tech here?) I'm curious, not
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by mathattack 11y ago
Easier said than done if you have kids.
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by mathattack 11y ago
Very good point - the human toll is tough. Did Dubuque get anything in writing about the jobs to be provided? $50M in tax breaks to support 1000 jobs is very expensive!
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by mathattack 11y ago
Here's what I don't get... If you have any options at all, why stay at a company with sub-par technology that abuses their workers? They've been stuck in low 3 Glassdoor [0] range for a while. It's layoff after layoff
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by mathattack 11y ago
It seems to me like IBM is in perpetual layoff mode. It's not that the ship is turning around - it's that it's grinding down into irrelevance. In a sense IBM is doing it the right way - returning the capital (via dividends
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by mathattack 11y ago
Here are their updates -> http://newclues.cluetrain.com/
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by mathattack 11y ago
It's both. He wants people to invest in Janus, and he wants other large money managers to copy his idea with a slight lag. (Drive up the price of his positions after he's in, and leave slightly after he gets out)
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by mathattack 11y ago
Going public can be a risky strategy. You only want to do it when you benefit from the exposure. You do it after you're already in the position and won't want to get more. (For instance, "I am long High Yield credit")
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by mathattack 11y ago
I respectfully think you have it backwards. Generally financiers put their mouth where their money is, not the other way around. (They talk up where they are investing, not choosing to back their ideas up with investments) They're i
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by mathattack 11y ago
Just keep in mind when reading that everyone who runs a fund is always talking their own book when they talk in public. He might be right with his pessimism but keep in mind that before he released this he has almost certainly put on a pos
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by mathattack 11y ago
It's called "Talking your book". :-) The idea of borrowing cheap in one place and investing for higher yield isn't new. Banks and investors borrowed German bonds to invest in Greek bonds, and investors borrowed in Japa
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by mathattack 11y ago
Very nice! The only thing missing is a Back button to allow me to back out of mistakes. :-) I believe that chess follows the state of the art in AI. The first wave of success was based on brute force of computing better than people. Now i
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Google is testing a payments app that works with your phone in your pocket(theverge.com)
1 points by mathattack 11y ago|1 comments

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