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Fidelity marks up shares of Dropbox and Snapchat(fortune.com)
4 points by npalli 11y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 11y ago
The USD has gone from 41.9 to 41.73% in the SDR basket. So, no change in the Dollar status. The Euro has gone down the most from 37.4% to 30.93%. The importance of SDR as a reserve currency is not accurate. http://www.imf.org&#x2
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by npalli 11y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jan/11/computing > What is known about her life is that she grew up in Annapolis, on the coast of Maryland, in a house on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. H
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by npalli 11y ago
You can click/tap on the sugar and fat pie slice to separate out sugar vs fat.
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What is disruptive innovation?(hbr.org)
2 points by npalli 11y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 11y ago
So, here is the list of unicorns that Fidelity has invested with individual gains/losses shown. Turns out for the entire unicorn fund, it is about 36% above cost. http://www.valuewalk.com/wp-content/uploads/20
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by npalli 11y ago
1. Cross border e-commerce from China is a small portion (~10%) of total e-commerce. So most of the commerce is still internal to China. 2. Who do you think directs the logistics and distribution of products. Alibaba has large stakes in log
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by npalli 11y ago
Yes, it was bought by AOL for $4.2 Billion. Wish someone would crush my company that way.
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by npalli 11y ago
This is exactly why the Baidu study is important. China is so big and data quality so poor that you can create your own version of ghost city narrative ("big crash" or "people moving in no worries" etc.) by selecting 10
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by npalli 11y ago
Lot of interesting comments about difficulty of IT integration. However, there is a much more fundamental problem with Healthcare IT. That has to with a lack of a functioning market. Thanks to HITECH subsidies, a bunch of money has flowed i
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by npalli 11y ago
No, this is another set of 16
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by npalli 11y ago
I hadn't heard of the Buddhist Army, so I looked at your link in wiki. Kind of undermines your point. > Though the majority of Karens are Buddhist, the Karen political leadership and leadership of the Karen insurgency have been over
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by npalli 11y ago
Interesting twitter update by sama > Oh, another important stat: about 300 of the companies we have funded have shut down. This is a hard gig. Even after you get into the top accelerator in silicon valley.
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by npalli 11y ago
Pretty standard usage in online marketplaces that connect buyers and sellers and take a commission/cut on the transaction. The first official use was probably in the ebay IPO prospectus from 17 years ago (they call it gross merchandise
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by npalli 11y ago
Two quick points 1. You have switched the terms in your amazon example. Amazon uses GMV for 1st party and revenue (its cut of GMV) for 3rd party marketplace. 2. Why would you have flash ownership in a dropship model? Seems to me that would
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by npalli 11y ago
So from the article we read >> Jeff Bezos turned to data-driven management very early. He wanted his grandmother to stop smoking, he recalled in a 2010 graduation speech at Princeton. He didn’t beg or appeal to sentiment. He just did
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by npalli 11y ago
This is an interesting viewpoint about Starbucks that I have heard many times. So here is an article [1] talking about how 75% of Starbucks employees don't have a college degree. If you go up the Starbucks hierarchy 50% employees are b
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Breaking Smart – Seeking serendipity through technology(breakingsmart.com)
8 points by npalli 11y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 11y ago
So, everyone knows that Software is eating the world and coding is hot. However, something about this article seems off to me 1. All persons quoted are coding camp organizers/owners. Could it be they have some vested interest in pushin
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by npalli 11y ago
No, $705m is correct. The $705B number would be gigantic. The entire stock exchange capitalization in India is about $3 Trillion. An influx of so much money could easily triple or quadruple the stock market in a flash. It is almost as big a
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The data or the hunch(moreintelligentlife.com)
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by npalli 11y ago
1. The welfare system is unsustainable, given European demographics and economic situation. So, adjustment is necessary. Having a balanced social system in line with what your economic situation is doesn't mean dismantling everything.
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by npalli 11y ago
Public benefits such as this -- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3148451/A-island-pre... Plus greeks cannot collect taxes. Tax collectors are threatened ("break their legs") http://www
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by npalli 11y ago
If you look at the Greek situation from an American lens you will mistakenly consider debt forgiveness to be a solution to the Greek problem. There are two big issues with the Greek situation that go beyond the debt forgiveness issue 1. Eve
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by npalli 11y ago
That's a pretty bad way to look at a bubble and feel calm. In reality, most bubbles at start are bought in by smart money, insiders, big boys etc. and at the end (peak) are bought by retail investors - mom&pop, grandmothers etc. wh
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by npalli 11y ago
>In his view the market would "succeed" if it would always go up? Strategist? Seriously? No, I think the Chinese genuinely believed the stock market would channel the excess savings that households have into private and public
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by npalli 11y ago
Lol. Do I look like I'm Steve Jobs? So what makes you think that I personally think Gassée is evil. I have no opinion on Gassée, thought it was interesting to report the Jobs' quote since the original comment talked about Gass
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by npalli 11y ago
Also note what Steve Jobs thought of Gassée “Jean-Louis Gassée is evil,” [Steve Jobs] snapped. “I don’t say that about many people, but he is evil.” Brent Schlender. “Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary
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by npalli 11y ago
> I have always started on the solution to an ambitious problem by asking "what would have to be true for this to be solvable?" and from each of those things working backward until you get to things Can you give an example of a
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Greece Saunters Across the Autobahn(bloombergview.com)
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