mikepmalai

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by mikepmalai 11y ago
Storytelling is a very effective way to interview job candidates. It's a good way to tear down inflated candidates to get to the truth, but more importantly it's a good way to uncover and find talented high potential people.
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by mikepmalai 11y ago
Agreed. Charts are narrative. They are the visualization equivalent of TLDR. It captures the presenter's gist of the data but doesn't tell the whole story.
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by mikepmalai 12y ago
U.S. could probably address this issue if they moved to a territorial tax regime. It would bring a lot of offshore cash back to the United States (especially in tech) that can later be redistributed back to investors and the economy via buy
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by mikepmalai 12y ago
So what parts of the "American Dream" are cut and/or subsidized with debt to fit reality? Median household income is about $50K so there's about a $80K shortfall between the $130K "American Dream" and the $50K
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by mikepmalai 12y ago
From what I've seen, low churn businesses tend to have 1 or more of the following characteristics: 1. Network effects: Your product is a key (or highly integrated) part of an industry's value chain. 2. Process lock-in: Your produc
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by mikepmalai 12y ago
Here's one way to figure out the valuation of your bootstrapped company. If you continue running the business and pursue your current operating plan, how much cash will you have in the bank in year 5 and year 10? (Broad estimates are f
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by mikepmalai 12y ago
TLDR: 1. Still more runway for smartphone usage - 30% mobile penetration 2. Tablets growing with plenty of penetration opportunity - 400M+ tablets vs. 800M Laptops and 1.6B smartphones 3. Mobile internet install base will be 10x desktop ins
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by mikepmalai 12y ago
For those interested in getting a good overview of perpetual vs. SaaS business model I highly recommend Dave Kellog's post on the topic. He discusses both the operational and valuation impacts and walks through an example of a hypothet
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The Internet of Coffee: Blue Bottle Buys Tonx(wired.com)
5 points by mikepmalai 13y ago|0 comments
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Warren Buffett on stocks and the difficulty of making money on disruption (1999)(money.cnn.com)
1 points by mikepmalai 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikepmalai 13y ago
Turn off the music and scroll through playing Daft Punk's Recognizer on the Tron soundtrack.
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Share buybacks are what happen when you run out of ideas. Financial engineering (twitter.com)
3 points by mikepmalai 13y ago|4 comments
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by mikepmalai 13y ago
When Facebook first reported strong earnings on Oct. 30, the stock was up ~15% in after-hours trading or ~$18 billion in market value. Those gains were basically wiped out when the CFO said, "We did see a decrease in daily users specif
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
Many of the emerging enterprise centric companies you hear about today initially got their start selling to SMBs/sole proprietors. Instead of targeting large enterprises from the get-go, start with small business owners and talk to them abo
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
Recruiting is a very interesting process. Unless you happen to be pre-IPO Google/Facebook/Hot Start-up, you are typically constrained by the following: 1) The kind of person you want to hire is either too expensive or unattainable. Let's as
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
It seems like with enough time we become institutionalized to a certain way of life and will reshape our happiness to fit perfectly to that world. Oddly, first time I saw the world this way was after watching Shawshank Redemption as a kid a
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
I'd put money on most cleaners not having hobbies =) (Sorry couldn't help myself...I come from a family of very blue collar folks and it's a running joke that your hobby is sleep) My main point is it's hard to break years of routine/habit.
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
> To each his own, but would someone really want to keep cleaning professionally even if they were wealthy? I could easily seeing less-than-profitable but creative hobbies being way more interesting for hypothetical cleaners who were we
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
Agree. While it probably wasn't a big financial win, I think Reddit was a big win for the YC brand and highlighted what the program was all about.
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
Way to turn an entire generation into a caricature. I think a more important workplace trend is Gen Y managing Gen Y. You're seeing fewer and fewer Gen Y vs. Baby Boomer culture clashes and more Gen Y employees reporting directly to Gen X-e
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
Maestro looks really interesting. As an excel power user and fan of spreadsheet innovation in general, I always felt that an excel disruptor would probably look and feel more like a robust post-it note than a spreadsheet.
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
I think there are a couple interesting issues with self-driving cars. 1. Liability: How does an insurance company properly underwrite a self-driving auto policy? How is fault/liability determined if there's an accident? 2. Privacy: Does it
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
Hybrid. Appears they'll operate separately but All State will play a big role in improving their pricing and claims process. Should be interesting to see how Allstate balances Esurance pricing versus pricing through their traditional captiv
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
I'd focus more on the analytics than the affiliate revenues. Most bloggers I've spoken with on the topic say the visibility/analytics they have on their affiliate revenues is poor. Most affiliate programs will give you click data but beyond
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
For now I have a really long email password, but I'm considering moving my sensitive data/email out of my general email account and into a new email address that requires 2 factor authentication. The thing I really want is a "lockbox" folde
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by mikepmalai 14y ago
I like that I can post content through email and text messages. That said, do we really need a single app that manages multiple 'circles'? When I look at my phone, my apps are my 'circles'. For close friends and family, I have text/email/Pa
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by mikepmalai 15y ago
Based on the "Don't Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup" thread, the simple fix is to just start clicking on all his ads until Google bans his account lol. No need to extradite anyone.
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Sheryl Sandberg Leaves Work at 5:30 Every Day — And You Should Too(mashable.com)
9 points by mikepmalai 15y ago|0 comments
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by mikepmalai 15y ago
Best tips I learned: 1. Call / email for price quotes - The biggest dealers (due to much higher volume/scale) tend to have no problem quoting you a price over the phone. Those that can't compete on price, tend to tell you to come to the de
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by mikepmalai 15y ago
This is great. I'm just starting to learn this stuff and I've enjoyed the user experience so far. couple thoughts: 1. Would love to be able to type my code as the walk through is played so I compare my code and see if I can replicate. 2. It

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