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by nrao123 15y ago
Anand- don't forget our very own BestVendor at the incubator - Nik
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Y Combinator Fund Up 30x- Best Performing Fund ever?
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by nrao123 15y ago
Your Scenario: (25M * 100% paying* $120/customer * 50% margin)/$10BN= <10 PE Ratio An extremely good deal by any measure. Alternate Scenario 1: (25M * 10% paying* $120/customer * 50% margin)/$10BN=66 PE Alternate Scenario 2: (25M * 10%
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by nrao123 15y ago
@pg- see Page 2 & 3 of this paper for actual A/B testing results on the coupon code issue http://cginsights.posterous.com/hippo-ab-testing
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Why Neanderthals Became Extinct(cginsights.posterous.com)
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What Middle Class White Kids Giveth, They Also Taketh Away(cginsights.posterous.com)
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by nrao123 15y ago
I have long believed that Facebook/MySpace is like a TV show. Once the "content" becomes less interesting, people will slowly tune out. I am personally seeing fewer and less interesting updates from my friends. In fact, the general theory o
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List of Michael Lewis Articles(spreadsheets.google.com)
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by nrao123 16y ago
There is no doubt that Sarah Lacy is the best writer on the TechCrunch staff. This was an awesome piece which in the old days would have been a magazine cover or a New Yorker Article.
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by nrao123 16y ago
A substantial part of your $260 valuation Comes from Terminal Value (I.e. Post 5 yrs) And a 8% perpetual growth rate is an extremely aggressive rate. Basically, to justify the current value, The 5 year CAGR has to be way, way higher than 3
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Look at your bookmark service, now back at me(news.ycombinator.com)
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How much Muni Debt does a New Jersey Employed Person Carry?(businessinsider.com)
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by nrao123 16y ago
Is Dave the 1st investor to explicitly say and invest in pre-product/market fit companies? I though First Round Capital also did that but the sense that I get from reading FRC team blogs is that they are quite hot on investing only after cu
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The Dirty Truth about Electric Cars & Hybrids(scientificamerican.com)
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This is so great. I have no interest in sharing my location with my friends (4Square) but I carry a number of cards to get discounts (the stamp on top of a square everytime I visit kind) for my local neighborhood places including: http://b
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The Anatomy of Determination- The Non-PG Version(youtube.com)
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by nrao123 16y ago
Small detail but neverthless annoying while comparing a stock & a flow. "2 Trillion of Debt is more than GDP of England" Its like I am saying I am worth more than 1 year of your income. More here: http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodrik
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by nrao123 17y ago
This was a great quote and was our experience as well. I wrote a post 6 Months ago to determine what type of market you are in by using Adwords: http://www.nikhileshrao.com/post/664/using-adwords-to-determ...
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by nrao123 17y ago
I guess Fred Wilson (Investor in Twitter) sort of Indicated this was going to happen... http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html "Much of the early work on the Twitter Platform has been filling holes in the Twitter produc
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Ask HN: Do you see sales jump on the 1st of every month?
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Asperger's Syndrome & its advantage in Financial Markets(nikhileshrao.com)
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by nrao123 17y ago
Yes, scaling local businesses are not easy. My research on this topic... http://www.nikhileshrao.com/post/9824/links-on-local-interne...
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Lesson for VCs?- Buffet's relationship with his portfolio companies(businessweek.com)
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by nrao123 17y ago
Also wanted to let PG know to change the link for this article at http://ycombinator.com/lib.html The current link is broken and it should be changed to: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/200502/google-lar...
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Journey to the Center of Google (2005)(gq.com)
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Is Twitter Worth a $1 Billion? Can They Generate $300M in Revenue in 5 Years?(nikhileshrao.com)
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by nrao123 17y ago
Thanks. This is great.
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Ask YC: How does News.YC figure out domains for a story?
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by nrao123 17y ago
I have been following the "reccomendation algos as a service" for about 2 years now. This definetely seems interesting but a side opportunity could be to do aggregator/optimizer of recco algos for merchant/publishers similar to what Rubicon
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Ask YC: Lamson Project Versus Boogie Tools for Email Bounce Detection
4 points by nrao123 17y ago|1 comments

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