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by mdda 15y ago
No! A thousand times no! Second Market's bid/offer spreads are enormous compared to the public stock market. Second Market is a web facade on a straight-forward over-the-counter trading operation. While the idea of doing a 'soft launch'
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by mdda 15y ago
Aside from all the investment banker bashing, is the valuation of Facebook and Twitter being more rationally set away from the public by the VCs?
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by mdda 15y ago
I'm sorry, but I don't see why people are so hostile to trading in the open market. The public stock market is a real-time debate about valuation in the open. The VCs do it behind closed doors. Being critical of the markets for being divo
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by mdda 15y ago
The middle-men (investment bankers, in this case) didn't make the $300 million profit - they sold it to people who manage money, that made the profit. Typically, the biggest blocks of money for IPO investing will be institutional investors
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by mdda 15y ago
Microsoft's single purpose 'File-Compare' utility actually fails to do the one thing that it was designed for? It boggles the mind. (Sorry for the lack of content, but OMG and WTF!)
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by mdda 15y ago
FWIW : Oxford English and RP are different. Not to mention 'upper class English', which is a whole other ballgame. That is, of course, if you're English, when you can tell them apart within 5 seconds (yes, actually). Personally, I have a
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by mdda 15y ago
"Bank" in this context isn't really about ATMs and check (cheque) processing : It's about trading rooms and algorithms that change daily. Boredom isn't likely to be a problem : Stress is.
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by mdda 15y ago
And (from what I understand) this is just the kind of thing that High Frequency Trading algorithms are doing.
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by mdda 16y ago
One day (if not already) they'll be a Harvard Business School case-study of how corporations can create value through strategic use of Open Source communities. And it'll probably be centered on Oracle : OpenOffice just 'got away', Java is l
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by mdda 16y ago
In their end-of Weekend pitch, they said that they were Twilio-based (in the interests of getting this done over the weekend). Over the longer term, they plan to move to Asterisk/trunks if/when call volumes picked up (since Twilio pricing
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by mdda 16y ago
But the argument could be that he was promised half of Zuckerberg's shares, and these shares have benefited from any anti-dilution protection that Zuckerberg got along the way (since this bundle of shares was protected, rather than the actu
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by mdda 16y ago
Something like this : http://www.connectblue.com/products/bluetooth-products/bluet... ? Of course, it would be easier to buy if it were on SparkFun...
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by mdda 16y ago
For lots of writing on purposeful creativity, have a look at Edward de Bono : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono
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by mdda 16y ago
It's a table for 4 up against a wall, on which one could hang menus, condiments, flat-screen TV, etc. More space... Or have a rectangular table for 6 with a low divider down the middle, so that it doesn't feel intrusive to join it (nor ex
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by mdda 16y ago
NY vs. LA Cartoon : http://slithytove.com/media/pictures/callahan.jpg
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by mdda 16y ago
At first blush, looks like a 3d collision detector. (I could be very wrong, though.)
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by mdda 16y ago
Even engineers got a bailout : GM apparently presented a systemic risk to the US car industry.
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by mdda 16y ago
Exactly. GM should be dead by now.
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by mdda 16y ago
And GM is blameless because they make SUVs?
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by mdda 16y ago
I know that organized randomized studies are what is really needed, but there is a poor-man's substitute : Simply gather the data systematically, and data-mine anonymized records. Of course, there will be unwanted correlations in the result
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by mdda 16y ago
I'm far from being a presentation pro, but I've talked myself out of getting nervous - just by reasoning it through like going on a flight. When you're in an audience, do you want to kill a speaker? I know that when I'm in an audience, I (
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by mdda 16y ago
> Features... Patio11 would probably suggest putting a question about benefits and experiences during usage in there too.
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by mdda 16y ago
Looking at this list and adding up what Chile is getting for their money, it looks like this is a win-win (even without Chile getting equity). Of course, when in start-up mode, people want to evangalize too : and Chile just wants part of t
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by mdda 16y ago
This is precisely why I've been repeatedly extending my E-2 visa. Of course, by wanting that freedom, all my payments to US social security are definitely going to waste...
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by mdda 16y ago
I think there is a couple of things going on here, though. Decimalization made stock market-making less profitable for Investment Banks. And the re-regulation of stock analysis prevents banks from using research analysts to tout stocks.
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by mdda 16y ago
Different markets have different day count conventions. For instance is a 3 month deposit rate the same as a 90 day CD? When it comes to 'wholesale size', it's not about gouging clients for a day of interest, it's making sure that everyon
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by mdda 16y ago
The article focussed on how the creators of "Facebook," "Google," "MySpace," "BEBO," "Twitter." don't look like the students. You may be right about the golfing set & B2B, but you're adding your own spin. I just came back from a 'Wall
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by mdda 16y ago
Mea Culpa - you're absolutely right on the valuation side. I think that the majority of value in a YC investment is not in the actual cash, though. And in some ways, this provides a side-by-side comparison of the difference between a 'pu
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by mdda 16y ago
All the amount placed into Muni Funds and ETFs is investing on other people's judgement : It's MASSIVE.
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by mdda 16y ago
The clever thing about this is that Yuri doesn't have any of the due-diligence costs of Ron Conway : He's outsourced it all. OTOH, maybe/probably Ron Conway actually enjoys the thrill of the hunt for new exciting stuff, so he doesn't consid

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