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by pcarolan 12y ago
Point taken, but I'd value my (and everyone else's) personal judgment when it comes to property investment higher than investing in a REIT simply because I have more insight into what I'm buying and have the ability to person
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by pcarolan 12y ago
Conventional wisdom says that homes are bad investments compared to equities, conventional wisdom looks to be wrong. Maybe loading up your 401k instead of buying a home isn't such a good idea. The right answer is probably to rebalance
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by pcarolan 12y ago
Way to set a good example.
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by pcarolan 12y ago
I've had my card replaced three times in the last two years due to data breaches (Target, Home Depot, undisclosed). Every time I've had to re-setup all of my subscriptions. If there was no number/cvv/exp date to steal, t
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by pcarolan 12y ago
Point 1 is true here, and out west too. I think MBA's are just better at raising money. Also, entrepreneurship is now getting built into every MBA program out there, so get ready for more of that. The equity thing needs to be addressed
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by pcarolan 12y ago
Don't forget that Bootstrapping is all but religion here in Chicago. http://37signals.com/rework/
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by pcarolan 12y ago
Certainly there's that risk. But saying that only millionaire's are 'smart enough' to invest in private companies seems worse.
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by pcarolan 12y ago
Makes me wish average joe could buy spacex stock. Willing investors shouldnt have to be elite or accredited. Just believers and supporters of a better future.
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by pcarolan 12y ago
It would be nice to get some more info on the VCs behind this. Who are you, and what have you made?
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by pcarolan 12y ago
sadly I was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand
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by pcarolan 12y ago
I'm pretty sure I learned demand adjusted pricing from lemonade stand in 1987.
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This study uses 2007 as it's baseline which is like saying that lake levels are 40% lower than they were at the height of the last flood. Asset prices were overinflated in 2007, so you'd probably want to baseline somewhere between
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by pcarolan 12y ago
I meant what noir_lord said. Ira Glass' monthly donation to NPR got cancelled when Target breached, for example. You can probably back date such things, but a lot of people don't.
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by pcarolan 12y ago
The real losers when this happens are the small businesses and nonprofits with recurring payments that have to contact their customers and ask them to reenter their new credit cards after they are replaced. Even in the best case, they'
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by pcarolan 12y ago
http://home.inklingmarkets.com/ is a YC2006 company that offers crowd predictions as a saas.
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We are good at processing negative information. That doesn't mean we are a race of 'depressive realists' or that significant positive emotional events are not the defining building blocks of our character.
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by pcarolan 12y ago
bullshit
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by pcarolan 12y ago
Go to a code school, you'll meet people and learn the basics. And it's super fun.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Big O Notation(rob-bell.net)
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Divvy automatically splits up your check.(divvythatup.com)
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A bright Idea: Solar Powered Streetlights in Detroit(agentlemanscall.com)
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