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The $1,531.90 Wharton MBA(medium.com)
5 points by mikekij 12y ago|0 comments
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by mikekij 12y ago
They have each told me that they now think we absolutely did the right thing. Being the one that pushed the deal through, this makes me feel much better. I'm so glad I wasn't wrong!
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by mikekij 12y ago
Swinging for the fences is great, but so is getting on base. Twelve months ago I accepted 7-figure acquisition offer for my company. Members of our team thought the offer was too low. It was a struggle for me to get everyone on board for th
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by mikekij 12y ago
First, congrats. Having real revenue probably puts you in the top 5% of startups already. Great work. - Incorporate. You want the legal protection of (at least) an LLC. - Really think about if you need to raise money. If you do, it should b
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by mikekij 12y ago
- You don't owe anything to anybody. Leave if you're not happy. - If you're forced to be working 14 hour days, you're doing it wrong. You need to hire people. Raise money. If you're so busy that you're working
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by mikekij 12y ago
Buy $TSLA for earnings in 2020, not Q1 2014.
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by mikekij 12y ago
The flip side of this is that it may be helpful to tell students "This can be easy for you too, with a little work!" As a high school physics teacher, I had students look at me like I was a genius because I could do inclined plane
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by mikekij 12y ago
Someone told me that entrepreneurship is the art of blurring what is true today and what will be true shortly. 42floors has done a great job projecting success through your web presence, which certainly has at least a small part to do with
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by mikekij 13y ago
Reading this actually makes me hope that Facebook gets their wifi-beaming balloons up and running quickly. I'd like to support Comcast as little as humanly possible.
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by mikekij 13y ago
I can list a hundred tech companies that wouldn't have been successful / acquired had they not raised money. You couldn't really bootstrap Twitter. Or most medical device companies. I have a friend bootstrapping a company rig
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by mikekij 13y ago
Definitely sounds like poor communication between founders. As an aside, I've been the founding CEO of a company that raised money and was acquired. I think my gifts make me really effective in running a company from idea stage to firs
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by mikekij 13y ago
This may be an unpopular sentiment, but I would do three things: 1) Hire an attorney to make sure your equity is safe 2) Negotiate for an above-market-rate consulting engagement that will continue to pay your bills in return for ~!0 hours
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by mikekij 13y ago
It could (ideally) be boiled down even farther. You need to do one thing: build a great product! In reality, there is a lot more needed to be successful, but Atlassian is a great example of success being 90% great product.
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by mikekij 13y ago
The use of the word "successor" in the article title implies that Bitcoin is dead. It's a shame how many people (and news outlets) equate the failure of MtGox with the failure of bitcoin.
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by mikekij 13y ago
It seems like there are a lot of variables that need to be controller for here. For example, do people who adopt a vegetarian diet DEVELOP depression and mental illness? I doubt it. Much more likely that those people who are predisposed to
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Five Graphs Showing $TSLA Has Nowhere To Go But Up(medium.com)
2 points by mikekij 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikekij 13y ago
@mhartl FTW! Great work. Kind of reminds me of a LaTeX for the web. Source code files -> properly formatted documents. I may use this in a future project. Looks awesome!
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Results of a Four Month StockTwits Experiment(medium.com)
1 points by mikekij 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikekij 13y ago
I clicked the link because I thought it was an app that would give someone a ticket every time they took a selfie. Like a parking ticket. Selfie ticket.
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I Hope My Kid Fails(medium.com)
1 points by mikekij 13y ago|0 comments
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Please, Make Bitcoin Illegal(medium.com)
6 points by mikekij 13y ago|4 comments
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Why Fremium May Be the Future Of Healthcare Software(medium.com)
1 points by mikekij 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikekij 13y ago
Great article. TL;DR - I was a douche. Then I was visited by the ghost of christmas past, stopped being a douche, and started giving away groceries. I'm still rich though.
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by mikekij 13y ago
Two issues. - I'm currently paying $2,300 for a $500k house. I think his rental rates are way off. - In a free market, rental rates are supposed to adjust to make it such that an individual is indifferent between renting and buying. If
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by mikekij 13y ago
Confidentiality agreement + breakup fee. Be more worried about wastng your time and diverting attention from running your business than your competitors seeing your books. Stay focused on your business. Sacca says companies are bought, not
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by mikekij 13y ago
Rename it "Stanford Bluebook+", give Stanford a 4 year license, and transfer.
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by mikekij 13y ago
There are a few startups that are letting investors fund student loans. People pay 7% to sallie Mae, so I think these investors get about 5%.
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Bitcoin in 2031(medium.com)
2 points by mikekij 13y ago|1 comments
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by mikekij 13y ago
If Krugman is short bitcoin, I'm long.
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Why Business School Isn't Actually a Crazy Plan for Entrepreneurs(medium.com)
1 points by mikekij 13y ago|0 comments

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