mcmoose75

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by mcmoose75 6y ago
For myself and others in my social circle (mid 30's Americans), we'll often comment on something in each others' Instagram Stories and have a casual chat. Usually these are quick conversations, and longer ones are on some oth
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by mcmoose75 6y ago
Look, people spend money on it because people DO look at these things. I don't think a big splashy banner in my signature looks good, but if I get even a handful of extra people attending my webinar then it DOES pay for itself. This is
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by mcmoose75 6y ago
Look, a lot of people insist advertising "doesn't work on them", but the whole hundreds of billions of $ industry works because it DOES have a reliable ROI. I'm just explaining the world how it is, not necessarily how it
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by mcmoose75 6y ago
Typically spend that is tied to an anticipated incremental revenue is easier to approve ("this $20k investment will be worth it if we only get one $50k booking out of it"). That's also why salesperson variable comp tied to sa
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by mcmoose75 6y ago
It's useful for customer-facing roles. From a sales context, it means that you can have a dynamic signature that includes a) up to date logos and branding and b) a dynamic list of upcoming marketing events like webinars, trade shows, r
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
Aha- that's a good anecdote. Regardless of the perceived/ actual waiting time, however, it's MUCH better not to have to wait for a bag at all- going straight to curb or car rental and skipping that step is the only way to fly
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
Overhead bin space is the big reason- give the somewhat (last 5 years-ish) changes to charging for the 1st checked bag, many who would have otherwise checked a bag are bringing on as carry-ons. Many flights I've been on in past several
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
Ya I'm with you, hence the scare quotes. In any case, I'm not defending the MBA industrial complex, but it is an attractive, valuable, and stable system they've set up. I definitely got value from it, but fair it is not. Sili
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
Right- the current state of affairs serves the top-tier MBA programs, their graduates, and management consulting/ banking/ PE firms very well for the time being. Top-tier MBA progams' whole pitch is about how getting in to th
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
A problem for who? Certainly not for the MBA programs and their graduates.
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
I really don't know in that case.
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
This is something I wrote for a previous post on Hackernews re MBAs: I went to one of the top-tier (top 3) MBA programs in the US. The way I've described that value of the top MBA programs is in 3 (roughly equally-weighted) categories:
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
I was at a company previously that had a liquidity event, and many of my colleagues (not me unfortunately) had very meaningful stock awards. A lot of people discussed what they should do openly, and recognized the potential for the stock to
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
I don't have a clear stance on whether O365 is "better" than G-Suite, either, but the lock-in is real. For non-technical business users, having a deep expertise in Excel (and knowing all the hotkeys) is really tough to pivot
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
I was there at the end of June- it's pretty spectacular. We arrived on a Friday morning at 7am to beat the heat, and we were the only tourists on site at all. Extremely surreal to go down in to the middle of an engineering marvel that
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
There are a few exceptions to the above- for instance, often schools that aren't in the top 3 nationwide can punch above their weight in regional networks. For instance, if you want to live and work in LA (or work in the entertainment
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
The whole pitch at the elite institutions is that they don't WANT to pitch it as some sort of dollars-and-cents ROI. They want to advertise the prestige, the education, etc. There's a whole cottage industry of MBA review sites, bo
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
That's probably overly dismissive. Obviously state schools are super valuable for undergrad- I went to one. I just wouldn't pay a ton of money for an MBA from one of them.
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
I went to one of the top-tier (top 3) MBA programs in the US. The way I've described that value of the top MBA programs is in 3 (roughly equally-weighted) categories: 1) The Education: Getting to discuss business concepts with a group
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
Yeah- I have a ton of sympathy for folks driven in to homelessness by economic hardship, or mental illness, or even addiction, but the crust punks are INCREDIBLY frustrating for a number of reasons (the one you mention being a big one)
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by mcmoose75 7y ago
Yeah, they're often referred to as "crust punks" or "crusties" (and I think that's the name they use for themselves). Plenty of articles about them- absolutely homeless by choice, and migrate up/ down the
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by mcmoose75 8y ago
That sounds right- they may also ask for other PR concessions, like very publicly admitting they violated the terms of the agreement and re-committing to being good citizens of the iOS developer community. One sort of "rubbing their no
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by mcmoose75 8y ago
"Competition" doesn't have to be narrowly defined. In general, Apple, Google, and Facebook are 3 of the largest technology companies in the world. In general, they have areas where their interests overlap (messaging as one go
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by mcmoose75 8y ago
It's not anti-competitive, but it is unfair. The reality, though, is that this sort of behavior in VERY large, VERY influential companies is going to draw way more scrutiny than a small company getting crushed by one of the big guys.
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by mcmoose75 8y ago
Anything that smells anticompetitive is kind of a dangerous dance- by preventing two of their largest competitors from developing on their platform I think they'd be inviting some regulatory scrutiny (even though FB/ Goog DID viol
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by mcmoose75 8y ago
I agree that Google & FB violated the terms of the agreement they had with Apple. I think an interesting question is: What is Apple's best move from here? I would suggest that Apple should leave Google/ FB blocked for ~1-2 wee
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by mcmoose75 8y ago
Does it really? I can imagine there's room for innovation in helping people to honor and grieve the passing of their loved ones.
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by mcmoose75 8y ago
Ah ok, they're closing Partner Categories (not Custom Audiences). Appreciate the link
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by mcmoose75 8y ago
Are they? This would really surprise me- Custom Audiences (FB brand name for the tool that integrates data from 3rd parties like Acxiom, etc.) is VERY powerful and makes FB a whole bunch of money.
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by mcmoose75 8y ago
Every advertising-based business drops off q4->q1. There's a ton of ad spend for the holidays, and just not as much commercial activity in general in q1. The right way to compare it is 17q1->18q1, or 16Q4->17Q4, rather than Qo

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