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by pmart123 8y ago
That’s definitely true. I often find myself clicking first on a more recent search result and then backing out and clicking on older content if the initial choice didn’t live up to expectations. Since I probably still had decent time on pag
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Well, every broker is incentivized to get its customers to trade as much as possible, ie, “make you change your mind often.” This is why brokers promote real-time news, information, focus on earnings reports, etc. Even on the institutional
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I think the "Mythical Man-Month" does a great job accounting for the process and implementation of a mega-project. But as Brooks even stated, there's "No Silver Bullet."
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I do think these aggregated services are a net benefit to the fintech ecosystem overall. However, any service that uses a Plaid type service still could be selling transaction data to third-parties. For instance, Acorns: https://
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by pmart123 8y ago
Maybe the closest real-world example I've heard so far is the Catalonian government using IPFS during an election, and how Filecoin could be used on top of IPFS to pay people to store data: https://medium.com/swlh/
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I think the hard part is we haven't seen anything take off in reality yet. I've thought about one from a conceptual standpoint. In finance, many buy-side firms are collecting the same alternative data. This might be anything from
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Not quite, at least from what Netflix has publically stated about its content strategy. Each time Netflix produces content, they view that content as having very diminished value for the customer that has already watched it, but that new co
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Coming from the investing world, I won’t say this is entirely true. If an ICO token is a genuine utility token, then it could have true value in the distributed network as far as I understand. If some company takes off where this utility to
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I agree with that. I think it makes a ton of sense for MSFT to buy it given it bought github. Plus, LinkedIn data + slack for customer tickets could integrate with its CRM.
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Do you think Slack or Github has higher switching costs?
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That actually is factually misleading. Active has greatly outperformed in foreign securities net of fees: https://www.ft.com/content/d93100ca-acf4-11e6-9cb3-bb8207902... In domestic markets, active management has not o
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by pmart123 8y ago
Twitter was just added to the S&P 500 this year. Facebook wasn't added until 2013. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sp500-facebook/facebook-t... The chances of Uber getting into a major index quickly is
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If Uber wanted to operate a scooter division, I still think it makes way more sense to do it themselves at this point given Uber has no barriers to enter this market. Millions of people already have Uber on their phone and a number of drive
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by pmart123 8y ago
Interesting. 2.5x revenue though and has exclusive city contracts. I still view this differently than paying $680M pre-revenue for Otto. On the scooter side, at $300/scooter, Uber could buy 100k scooters and stick an UberScoot button o
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Southwest Airlines for a long time just focused on point-to-point flights, avoiding money-losing flight patterns that routed passengers through a Chicago to New York type connection. Additionally, SWA only maintained 737's, and free ch
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I really like this in concept.
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I think in practice though, if you act that you "earned it", it is much harder for people to assume they can ask you for it. You here a lot about lottery winners going broke, but you don't hear as much as startup employees on
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"Don’t tell anyone beyond your wife and very trustworthy family about this. Otherwise,you will quickly have lots of 'friends' and family members who “love” you." I completely agree with this if he had won the lottery. Mo
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Yeah. This looks like a "modern textbook" presentation.
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Hasn't AppAnnie accomplished being "the Neilsen of the mobile age" in some ways? I'm not sure how AppAnnie collects its data. My guess would be that it is buying data from Foursquare, etc. I don't have much of a pro
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I don't buy this. Strategically, it makes way more sense to roll it out as a driver-assisted system. Instead of dealing with the negative PR associated with a mishap or accident (like Uber in Arizona), you can place blame on individual
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"Don't be evil" -> "Don't be the most evil"
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Hmm, looking at this with a glance, I am surprised the coverage around Onavo hasn't been bigger. If I am following this correctly, it would be similar to Google creating a Firefox extension to enable "extra privacy," but secr
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One good example I uncovered a while back was that Bloomberg timestamped its crude oil futures data by finding the last trade to occur in a given second and rounding down. This means that the user of the data had no idea if the price used o
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I guess if Facebook did an ICO in 2003, what would that look like? Let's say Mark creates Facebook and offers participants one token if they create a profile and invite 10 friends. When would we expect this token to be liquid on the ex
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Well, it is publically available in that anyone can subscribe and get the data. I’d venture to guess anyone can get the tail number flight patterns from the FAA. The value add is matching that to who owns or is leasing the plane.
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I think the success of Facebook and Google (being ad businesses) had a lot to do with this, i.e. "you are the product." If the trend to subscription businesses continues, do you think investors will approach how a company should s
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That's probably fair. Quandl started by offering the "everyday" investor API access. I know the typical VC approach is to first get users and then scale, but often in investing/financial data products, it seems better to
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One example could be combining credit card data and location data to try and infer is bad weather affected same-store sales. Another use could be determining if a company was emailing loss-leading discount promos at the quarter to juice its
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Yep. OpenFIGI plus using LEI codes seems like the best practice to move forward.

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