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by pge 14y ago
While the JOBS act made crowdfunding possible, it is still regulated by the SEC, and kickstarter is not a crowdfunding platform. Kickstarter cannot be a market for equity in companies.
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by pge 14y ago
Many of these comments treat "kickstarter" as a homogenous group of companies. Each project on Kickstarter is different, and the resulting liabilities would be different. In many of the most successful cases, the funding is tied to a pre-or
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by pge 14y ago
Just to use a widely known example - Pebble that raised millions of dollars on KS. In Pebble's case, each donation was tied to a pre-order. Since the watches have not been delivered, that money is not recognized as revenue on Pebble's incom
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by pge 14y ago
I think this article makes some good points but overlooks the crucial question - what inventions are patentable? Like a great chef that combines known ingredients, apple has made excellent products, but apple has not produced new innovation
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by pge 14y ago
It's my observation that blows to the head are more likely on a bike than in either of those situations for two reasons - the speed and the position. When you're biking, you're going much faster than you would walk (I commute every day and
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by pge 14y ago
definitely - I've been riding to work in DC for 10+ years, but a shower is definitely a requirement to do it year round. I'm fortunate to work in a building now with a shower, but before that, I just got a membership at a nearby gym. The gy
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by pge 14y ago
I've always thought there was one critical flaw in the every man for himself retirement model (where each person is responsible for saving for their own retirement, as we have in the US) vs a pooled plan like social security or a pension. I
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by pge 14y ago
For those not familiar with Laocoon, he was a hero from greek and roman stories, most famously written about in Virgil's Aeneid. He recognized the Trojan Horse as a ruse (and is the source of the saying that has come down to us as "Beware t
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by pge 14y ago
keep in mind that not all HN posters are native English speakers.
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by pge 14y ago
I think you are misunderstanding the article - All the songs were transposed to the key of C for the purpose of analyzing chords, so don't draw conclusions from the actual chord names presented as the most populat. Instead, what the article
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by pge 14y ago
Since the criteria was having done the task at least once, I am quite impressed with all those who checked yes for died gallantly and were still able to fill out the survey.
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by pge 14y ago
I can't find links to the papers themselves, but the research was published by Lerner and Stahlman at HBS. They looked at firms that had top quartile venture funds and then looked to see what percentage of them remained in the top quartile
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by pge 14y ago
The studies have been done, and there is a much stronger correlation between past performance and future performance in private equity than in the public markets. In the public markets for active fund managers, there is almost no correlatio
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by pge 14y ago
One of the challenges is that the buyer (LP) is usually managing billions of dollars (e.g. a pension fund or large endowment), and venture is only a tiny fraction (a couple of percent) of his total asset base. It's difficult for those LPs t
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by pge 14y ago
I think it's important to distinguish the "VC model" (meaning investing LP money in early stage companies) with the current compensation models that are prevalent in the industry. The first is alive and well. The latter is broken.
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by pge 14y ago
Your rule reminds me of Mark Twain's line, "never argue with a fool; a bystander may not be able to tell the difference."
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by pge 14y ago
I've looked in the past, and the two I've found are weblocks (common-lisp.net/project/cl-weblocks) and dragonfly (www.rundragonfly.com). From what I can tell, there is very little adoption of either. I would recommend Python or Ruby, even i
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by pge 15y ago
in vim, you can also use ">>" command which indents a line. if you use python, your vim is probably already set up to indent four spaces, so the above can be done with "4>>" (=indent next four lines)
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by pge 15y ago
Many funds have provisions for recycling (ie calling a given dollar twice instead of just once) that address cases like this that are quick flips. One other note - for the first five years of a fund (typically), the 2 percent fee is calcula
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by pge 15y ago
Another good article on the subject of caring for your introvert: http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-for...
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by pge 15y ago
I agree with you, and a natural extrapolation of the point is that android is the "desktop linux" of the future. Maybe android is the linux distro (of sorts) that has actually solved the desktop problem.
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by pge 15y ago
Yes - as I've noted in other posts, I'm a partner at a VC firm. Your suggestion is a good one - I've already started putting something together. There have been some pretty good tutorials on the web in the last few years, so I'm a little wo
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by pge 15y ago
also, dont forget pv=nrt: temperature rises linearly with pressure, so the air gets pretty hot as you compress it from 1 atm to 100 atm.
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by pge 15y ago
Totally agree- I didnt mean not to understand the incentives, I just meant don't paint all VCs as a group as having a certain set of values or goals. Everyone, whether VC or entrepreneur, acts in response to a combination of the incentives
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by pge 15y ago
Most funds allow for recycling within defined parameters of total dollars or time frame. VCs and LPs are not ignorant, and the issues raised in the article are not new. In most of the funds whose legal structure I am familiar with, a 2x ret
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by pge 15y ago
Articles like this, which paint VCs with perjorative stereotypes (e.g. "Golf games get abbreviated.") are not helpful. As long as you consider the VC an "other" - a different species from you, you won't be able to work constructively with o
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by pge 15y ago
If you're looking for a "be seen" light for city riding, I highly recommend reelights (www.reelight.com). They are mounted on the quick release and powered from magnets on the spokes, so no batteries to worry about and a little more trouble
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by pge 15y ago
If you're interested in a very good exploration of this topic(in the broader context of managing a large endowment), David Swensen's book Pioneering Portfolio Management is worth a read. Swensen manages Yale's very successful endowment and
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Ozone Widget Framework open sourced (fiercegovernmentit.com)
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by pge 15y ago
might want to give Lubuntu a try(ubuntu with lxde instead of Gnome). I switched from ubuntu to lubuntu when Gnome 3 came out, and I've been very pleased.

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