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by mediaman 17y ago
Any idea why Craigslist is so vehemently opposed to either providing an API, or allowing others to scrape their site for data? It doesn't seem to align with many of their other principles of openness.
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by mediaman 17y ago
Along the lines of this thesis, Hernando de Soto wrote The Mystery of Capital which outlines this policy of establishing property rights among the lower and middle classes rather than just the rich as a necessary policy to stimulate growt
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by mediaman 17y ago
Do you disagree that Chile has developed much more market-oriented economic policies than Argentina? If not, what is the point of your comment? If you do, I'd be interested in your perspective beyond this quip, particularly your thoughts on
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by mediaman 17y ago
I suspect that book publishers introducing their own digital distribution mechanism would not make the traditional book distributors (e.g. Ingram) very happy, and you don't want a major channel partner getting angry with you. Because Amazon
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by mediaman 17y ago
Why not do this via email? I don't think a lot of people need to be involved. Once or twice a day, a moderator circulates draft articles to the list. Each author can list a publishing deadline, so a reviewer can choose whether or not to sta
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by mediaman 17y ago
Both logical weaknesses are common among arguments, and people here have a penchant for pointing them out. I'd rather they point it out than let poor arguments pass for lack of language to describe it. Maybe we need new synonyms. Says somet
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by mediaman 17y ago
Absolutely correct. Much of their demise can be traced back to their refusal to provide their risk control group any teeth.
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by mediaman 17y ago
The only conditions that must be true in my reasoning is that (1) an early non-founding employee faces substantially higher risk than a corporate job, (2) at lower pay and with substantially less equity than would compensate for that risk.
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by mediaman 17y ago
The economics for a non-founder in a startup are drastically different than they are for a founder; however, the risk is only slightly better than the founders. It is among the worst risk/reward tradeoffs I can think of. The two reasons to
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Doing a Turnaround Versus a Startup(markenomics.com)
2 points by mediaman 17y ago|0 comments
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by mediaman 17y ago
Toward the end of the article, Greg argues that big companies should use early stage acquisitions as outsourced R&D. In other markets this has proven fruitful. Specifically, in the pharmaceutical industry, the major players such as Pfiz
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by mediaman 17y ago
Mr. Sivers makes two statements: * A marketing mechanism can have very poor, even zero, results. * There exists a marketing mechanism for bands (giving away product) which is effective in promoting the brand. It's not clear how stating that
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by mediaman 17y ago
Because a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Never underestimate the risk of losing it all because of a failure to diversify.
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by mediaman 17y ago
Of course they are lower than average quality impressions. Proportional representation of clicks isn't necessary with that kind of volume.
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by mediaman 17y ago
The study you reference from Duke for people suffering from depression is interesting. Another one I came across from Maastricht University in the Netherlands addressed aerobic exercise and cognitive ability in seniors: http://www.emaxheal
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by mediaman 17y ago
Interestingly, I remember one study that tested the effects of "brain games" versus exercise on the mental cognition of people as they age. The result of the study surprised me because it indicated that brain games do not seem to have a sig
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by mediaman 17y ago
It's not clear that it was replacing productive time.
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by mediaman 17y ago
Usually you just create a warranty liability reserve account for that. It should not affect your revenue recognition.
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Norm Brodsky: Selling My Company Again(inc.com)
1 points by mediaman 17y ago|0 comments
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by mediaman 17y ago
There's a difference between verbally shopping a written offer and verbally shopping a verbal offer.
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by mediaman 17y ago
I'm familiar with Hyde Park Angels and talked with them for a while. Never got any traction with them and kept getting pushed off for a pitch, for vague reasons. This was after we had reached >$1mm in annual sales. Now I know it was be
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by mediaman 17y ago
How have the lawyers fucked you? We've had a good experience with ours (McGuireWoods). And I've been able to raise a low seven figures in angel money in the area. Having said that, were I to do it all over again, I'd have to think harder ab
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by mediaman 17y ago
Dollars are just a means to quantify value. To say one believes in benefits beyond a dollar value is to say one believes in benefits that cannot be quantified - which is usually a dangerous ways to approach government spending.
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by mediaman 17y ago
True, leverage comes in many forms. But what form of leverage could a VC firm engage in that they could not easily be restricted from in order to qualify for less onerous regulation? Restrictions on the use of derivatives is as easy to rest
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by mediaman 17y ago
Couldn't a threshhold level of debt usage be a line of delineation? Debt is a complex subject, but FASB has well-defined means to determine whether a security instrument is debt or equity.
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by mediaman 17y ago
Remember, spin can go both ways, even if it seems one party is better at it than the other, and I think that might be what the OP is trying to get across. Call it the "Serious Sex Crimes Act." Spin it as: "America's worst sex offenders are
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Ask HN: Client Risk Assessment on Startups
2 points by mediaman 17y ago|1 comments
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by mediaman 17y ago
Not sure this is worthy of complaining about. If OP has said, " but she's darned good" then that would be clear that the OP believed there was a conception that she would be not good because she was female and/or Asian. But that's not what
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by mediaman 17y ago
This is a common feature of how humans work and it is backed by volumes of research. Motivation consists of two types: internal (or intrinsic) and external. External is what you do because somebody will reward you, usually with money. Inter
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by mediaman 17y ago
The companies being bailed out are very large. Your example does not work because it presumes that bonuses are, or should be, tied to profitability or performance of the entire company. Many companies wisely do not do this; rather they tie

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