peterjancelis

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by peterjancelis 11y ago
Sue for what? Cecile sounds very broke to me...
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
I hope your MVP will be catering to prison guard or prison management. You probably got some unique insights there that few developers have.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
I have been cheated by taxi drivers in every city where I lived for more than a few weeks. I am 100% in support of Uber.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
Great article but begs the question, how much is a helicopter ride for 4 from New Haven to JFK?
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
For others wondering if 2K euro is really needed, there are plenty of 'digital nomads' living in Ho Chi Minh and Bangkok for $1200 a month. That's with a serviced studio and restaurants all the time.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
You only remember the polite remarks that came across fake. Like the author says, real politeness goes unnoticed.
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
Arbitration requires either an arbitration clause upfront or a mutual post-dispute agreement to arbitrate. The latter rarely never happens as cases are often quite clear or parties don't talk anymore, the former is rare for small claim
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
The market for legal services is an extreme power law. I used to run an online arbitration service where I paid arbitrators a fixed $150 for handling a case and was amazed at the caliber of people that applied. Former law firm partners, Har
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by peterjancelis 11y ago
At most this Odesk based dispute will go into arbitration, Net-Arb is the service used by Odesk. The price of the arbitration is $300 last time I checked (I had a competing service to Net-Arb a few years ago). The arbitration is ex aequo et
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What is the least expensive way to annihilate humanity?(worldbuilding.stackexchange.com)
1 points by peterjancelis 12y ago|1 comments
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Part of the reason those jobs feel like bullshit is because they are future oriented. The market feedback mechanism in early stage [1] sectors of the economy is less direct and more variable than in later stage sectors such as retail. Work
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
I still don't understand why they don't want the rent money on those properties.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Different people have different worldviews. Some people consider it not a life well lived (or lived at all) when not going all-in on what it is they do. There are a lot of passions that are very safe most of the time yet present life thre
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
The fact that you can pay it off with a bribe makes it much less threatening.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Having cash on hand has optionality value (larger universe of possible deals and better batna in each deal negotiation).
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
There's also the Hawthorne effect you can enjoy just by being vocal about your (random) methodology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
I would be cautious making assumptions like that. Interests rate have been very low, at times negative even, for a long time.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
What the author is implying is that entrepreneurs seek those nice round X billion valuations, and the VCs are fine giving it to them as long as they can write the term sheet. Remember, these valuations are not cash paid for common equity li
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
If Apple would do this, they'd have even more incentive to promote the highest grossing apps in their app store. Look at the 30% fee as a marketing cost. Surely you want the owner of your only marketing channel to be well compensated?
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Competitive markets always end up with zero economic profit, all the 'profit' is compensation for the efforts and risks in allocating capital. If there is no need for a human doing the allocation of capital anymore, and the market
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Those very same APIs that create the incentive to make human labor obsolete also destroy existing business models, where old money is parked. You vastly underestimate how hard it is to stay rich. Most families are back to square 1 after 3 g
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
The week before Christmas so about 5 weeks ago. I booked a very nice hotel in Nha Trang for a 3 day trip and not taking my computer was a very deliberate choice. I didn't suffer from any withdrawal symptoms, although I napped a lot (wh
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Would you still want to own your personal car when cars can do all that? I think what you describe is the future but we'll be renting luxury vehicles from Uber (or equivalent) for very little money.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
$35K per month for a team of 4 seems ridiculous to me. And $500 for a desk, really? I live in Vietnam, serviced room in the middle of Ho Chi Minh City, eat out in restaurants daily and spend about $1000 per month.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
> Most mathematical objects have very similar structure and the rest is just maps (morphisms) between them. Is there a book covering this topic that you can recommend?
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Also, immigration and free trade are different things. You can be anti-H1B but still favor free trade, allowing those H1B'ers to sell their software in direct competition with US firms online if they so wish.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
I think the more important advice is: If you do talk to corp dev, insist on a breakup fee upfront, payable if no minimum price has been offered: "We can talk but I am looking for at least $xxx million and will need $xxxK / $x mill
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Sorry I did not notice there was a reply.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Not true. Being the last mover is more important than being the first. Also, having an established competitor is great as it allows you to research what customers say about their experience. An MVP with a slightly different angle can become
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
The finance list seems a bit random. There are plenty of 20-somethings vice presidents at investment banks and funds.

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