peterjancelis

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by peterjancelis 12y ago
You're over-thinking the IQ part. And I know some 20-somethings making $500K and more for PE megafunds. There are some guys from middle class backgrounds there. The connected-but-useless ones tend to get hired in investment banking.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
I'd include in this calculator a negative value per 'passion' speech given by the founders to convince the employees they are building something 'bigger than themselves'.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Companies don't just serve those who can pay the most. They serve, absent transaction costs, all customers who can pay more than the marginal cost.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
It's too easy to scare people from hosting tor exit nodes right now. I think the way forward is to incorporate some use based digital currency payments to compensate exit node operators for their risk. Make it a business and let the ma
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
so basically when you hit 901 real shipments, it becomes profitable to send 1000 - (number of real shipments) empty envelopes, at a total savings of $3 * (number of real shipments - 900). (For number of real shipments <= 1000)
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
You should sit down with the team and work out the unit economics per city. This will give you a tangible and precise target for what it takes to make the next city profitable. (E.g. "70 apartments available, 4 ad sponsoring business f
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
A lowering of the real rate of interest, either by a voluntary decrease in spending and a corresponding increase in savings, or by an artificial rate set by central bank policy, will indeed lead to more investment into earlier stage product
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Sounds like a potential SaaS app to me. Companies who want to be acquired at some point may want help in keeping them "acquirable".
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Patreon's team is just right: Technical co-founder who built the site himself, business co-founder who is a YouTube artist and has a lot of friends in those circles. I even think they met as college room mates, typical story VC's
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Here's how the team splits the money: https://www.gittip.com/Gittip/members/
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
If your fee is $250 per interview or $15K per hire, does that mean you expect employers to need 60 interviews with MightySpring leads to find a good candidate? Or is there a reason for discounting the interview fees comparatively?
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
In university I did a summer job at my local municipality twice. Those people had extremely boring job and joked openly about how they had to learn to work less hard. A lot of them had hobbies where they derived their life satisfaction from
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Depends on the traffic. You'd starve with 14K visitors for cat pictures, but could make a very healthy living of 14K visitors who want to buy home insurance or remortgage their house.
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
I always really liked math in school, cause it was just logic and that appeals to my lazy side. I was good at it too. The last 2 years of high school, however, I had picked the 8 hour math options (25% of total course time) and the fun was
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by peterjancelis 12y ago
Not everybody should be selling his labor freelance. There are various economic explanations as to why people work on a non-freelance basis in free markets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
The innovator's dilemma, happens in all industries. Great management teams recognize this and keep their products simple or at least modular.
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
If you were profitable when paying that company car and those salaries, and your cash flow was secure in that you either had a lot of clients or long terms contracts, then yeah I agree your employees did take on zero risk. If you were profi
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
In Brussels Uber (more specifically UberPOP) got banned as well.
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
The win-win here is not between you and the people who you are unemploying, it's between you and the person paying their salary. Go and talk to the business owners or managers of those ID making people.
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
Lamborghini is owned by the Volkswagen, Rolls Royce by BMW and Ferrari (for 90%) by Fiat.
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
I stand corrected.
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
Here, I edited my post so I don't hurt your peculiar sensitivities. I wasn't outing anyone, the founder who shall not be named is the only married one as plenty of people pointed out from the start. Also, for context to the origin
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
They are lucky it's not the CEO-founder. Easier to put a non-CEO on leave than a CEO I imagine.
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
Even more so, it is the sexual attractiveness of the guys who are watching.
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
Convenient for what?
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
I looked at your website and don't really understand how customers start using your site and how they pay you. Do you sell them a GPS tracker and show them their GPS logs in an online map maybe? If so, I'd make the selling of the
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
It's a theme from WooThemes, a company with 2 South African founders and one Norwegian one and, as far as I know, an international customer base. Not sure what is so US American about this theme.
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Carl Icahn Accuses Marc Andreessen Of Conflicts Of Interest As EBay Board Member(foxbusiness.com)
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
Sure but they earned that right.
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by peterjancelis 13y ago
You really should look for a job. There's nothing wrong with it. Look at it as starting a consulting business with just 1 client, get to know your 'client' and start suggesting ways you can make more money together - then cha

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