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by pitdesi 15y ago
From a few months ago... Braintree: Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud "I think VC-funded companies are more inclined to throw money and people at opportunities and problems" http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2800-bootstrapped-profitable-.
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by pitdesi 15y ago
That turned out to mostly be a hoax: http://jalopnik.com/5806946/chevy-dealers-are-not-scamming-t...
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New Payments Provider Dynamics Raises Even More Capital than Square(allthingsd.com)
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‘Amazon Tax’ Would Kill 25,000 CA Businesses(watchdog.org)
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It's Yandex, but I don't see how that's relevant since this is a German site
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How major companies chose their names(en.wikipedia.org)
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Those 2 weren't quite as bad in dollar terms... although they went to 0. http://www.cnet.com/1990-11136_1-6278387-1.html Webvan was at peak worth $1.2Bn, Pets.com raise $82.5m in IPO
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More comprehensively: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologie...
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Tell HN: Google updated visible pagerank today
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The scoop on rising food costs (articles.boston.com)
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Why founding a 3-person startup with 0 revenue is better than working for GS(adgrok.com)
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Laptops Powered by Typing Could Be on the Way(mashable.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Related: God Grew Tired of us... shows Sudanese refugees coming to the US for the first time. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301555/ It's available for free streamed here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11878743
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This one is better atleast: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8p9x6_jean-pierre-dutilleu... Start around 3:30
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How travel makes you smarter, sexier and more productive(inside-digital.blog.lonelyplanet.com)
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They use MediaNet for now... totally legal. It costs them around $.002 per listener of a serendipitous play, and 10 cents for the DJ (which is an on demand play)... This could get expensive pretty quickly, so I'd imagine they are negotiatin
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by pitdesi 15y ago
getting rid of karma points on comments has certainly hurt here... it's harder to ascertain what they are for when they don't increase.
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Better Business Bureau Admits: Mistakes Were Made on Pay-For-Ratings Issue(dailyfinance.com)
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Yahoo's stock is worth 20 billion... and is mostly owned by shareholders. Yahoo can't give it to someone else, because people like me own it. Edit: Suking is right, they could issue new shares... IF people actually wanted Yahoo shares and a
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Unfortunately, this isn't how finance works, so I can't hire you as CEO. Yahoo has $1.5Bn in cash. Companies usually get bought for cash and stock that the company owns, or they can issue more stock if it's a merger that gets broad approval
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Of note: ING direct was sold to Capital One last week. Capital One has til now addressed an entirely different demographic, so it'll be interesting to see if there are changes... USAA is good, but it's interface doesn't compare to what Bank
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by pitdesi 15y ago
I feel the same way... but building a bank from scratch is very very complicated, so I understand.
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http://www.dealsgoround.com/ http://www.dealigee.com/ http://couprecoup.com
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Can you share the methodology?
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Shazam raises $32M to tackle TV ads(gigaom.com)
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LinkedIn Deep Dive: Are Men better than Women at Social Networking?(blog.linkedin.com)
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Colleges aren't focused on teaching entrepreneurial skills (nydailynews.com)
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Page 4 of this PDF ranks US Cities (metro regions actually) as if they were nations. New York City's economy is bigger than Australia or Mexico. Chicago is bigger than Switzerland or Taiwan. http://www.usmayors.org/metroeconomies/2011/cha
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Definitely. Better place does this, and charges on a per mile basis (in Israel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place
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Batteries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#Price

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