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by neworbit 16y ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard that other than anecdotal "I am a vietnam vet please help" - what is that percentage?
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by neworbit 16y ago
Oh, as regards real, I mean dollar volume. You won't get Goldman to underwrite an IPO for such a small valuation. You could certainly do a shell merger or bulletin board/pink sheet listing.
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by neworbit 16y ago
I wonder what fraction of that $2B gross revenue number is purely Zynga.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Instead they have a HUGE beg banner. Gah. It's like PBS donation mongering.
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by neworbit 16y ago
There is a pretty good desktop app store which drives a lot of impulse purchases: Steam. Sure, it's game specific, but they've done a very good job with it.
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by neworbit 16y ago
You are not paying attention. The single-dose versions that were targeted at administration to children explicitly do not. The nasal inhalation version that was targeted for pregnant women explicitly does not. The multi-dose vials are the o
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by neworbit 16y ago
Incorrect. The H1N1 vaccine given to children and pregnant women explicitly did not have Thimerosal due to exactly this sort of concern.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Seems like the summary of the research is that there is a BLATANTLY FRAUDULENT argument on one side. Erroneous consensus or agreement to disagree is NOT superior to objective truth.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Good friend of mine has a older son who wears glasses and a younger son with perfect vision. Must be the buildup of ZOMG VACCINATION EVILZ that ruined his eyes, right? I know, you're not saying that, no one is, but it seems about as silly.
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by neworbit 16y ago
I don't think you're likely to contest that 1999 was an easier time for IPOs. Private Media and Playboy are both public. And unprofitable. And not especially worth all that much these days; you'd have a hard time getting a "real" IPO done e
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by neworbit 16y ago
https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en... makes it look like Digg lost about 750,000 daily users over the last year, in the same time Reddit added 500,000. Obligatory disclaimer, not causation, FSM pirates vs global
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by neworbit 16y ago
Not generally true in that era, though. Alexa and IMDB, yes. Junglee, Planetall/Shoptheweb, Exchange, Live Bid, Bibliofind, Accept, etc - mostly dead. Good list of Amazon acqs/investments at http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/07
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by neworbit 16y ago
As I recall he has to spend at least half his time outside the US in that instance (or is taxed as if he were natively resident). I am not a tax lawyer, YMMV
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by neworbit 16y ago
Well barring effective virtualization, booting into Windows disables supernode functionality on Windows and MacOSX in the same sense that a brownout does
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by neworbit 16y ago
Wow, Ballmer must be pretty tired by now
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by neworbit 16y ago
Except perhaps by recognizing Marilyn Monroe and knowing enough about her to realize she is is room temperature at the moment.
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by neworbit 16y ago
If you like them well enough, offer them some sort of early stage special deal - but only if they invest. But if they didn't pony up further for your previous venture and let it die, I'd be inclined to say "Sorry, guys, you already buried t
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by neworbit 16y ago
I like appcelerator but they really need to step up things on the Android side of the house
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by neworbit 16y ago
Sorry - parents were both in exceedingly regulated industries (medical and telecommunications)
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by neworbit 16y ago
Reasonable enough to say that people with big-company backgrounds often have expectations that amount to "first I'll hire 4 people to do the job you are expecting me to." I would hire someone from Microsoft over someone from IBM any day. Bu
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by neworbit 16y ago
Consistently? Take a quant job in Chicago or NYC (or London). I'm sure there's groups outside those cities as well, but I don't know the southeast well enough to say WHERE.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Yeah, I think I'm serious too. Team up? Let's talk about this if you get anywhere with them.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Hell, I would make Yahoo an offer. Or I'd syndicate with other HN readers. Anyone game? Anyone know who at Yahoo to sell this to? My initial thought would be something along the lines of a 20% profit share for the next three years, guarante
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by neworbit 16y ago
The hard part lately (last couple years) seems to be that when you have business traction it's still slow to get capital to expand. Can't get it from a bank. Getting from a VC is slow. Getting from angels works if you need $100k but not if
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by neworbit 16y ago
Yeah, it used to be a fairly commonplace story from the guys running online gambling shops.
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by neworbit 16y ago
People who live much more mundane and low-visibility lives than Fred also have too many demands on their time and can't do everything they want to or feel like they should. Seems like this is nearly everyone, in fact. A VC's workload falls
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by neworbit 16y ago
You may very well be able to sell the company simply for the user base...
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by neworbit 16y ago
Um... how is Lieberman not part of the administration?
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by neworbit 16y ago
But then they pulled that book too, right? I thought that result also ended up as censorship.
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by neworbit 16y ago
One euro was worth about $1.60 in the middle of 2008. It's worth about $1.35 now. Was worth about $1.20 back this summer. And in mid 2001 it was worth about $0.85. Cheap is relative.

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