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CarWoo (YC S09) Launches CarWoo Version 2 To Keep Car Buyers Even More Informed(techcrunch.com)
29 points by pmchiu 16y ago|3 comments
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by pmchiu 16y ago
If this is actually true (I've never tried to get a VC job) maybe partners in VC firms should plan better because they'd end up with better hires instead of the dregs who can't find a job anywhere else. No wonder some VCs are completely us
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by pmchiu 16y ago
True - but then the developers have to deal with higher taxes as a result of free health care. I also think the effective corporate tax rate is higher too so that can causes issues.
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by pmchiu 16y ago
My guess is that the SSA didn't factor how poorly American's would treat themselves over the next 65 years. If they had their projections for life expectancy would have dropped inline with what they are today. Either that or those fantasti
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by pmchiu 16y ago
Why is it surprising that a country could shut down access to the internet? It's not as if the internet is some sort of magic cloud where packets fly in and out to destinations across the world. It's a system. It has points of failure ju
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by pmchiu 16y ago
It's funny that on average Canadian broadband performs a lot better that most American broadband providers.
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by pmchiu 16y ago
I totally agree. It's such a piss poor way to rank universities I can't believe they published it. The data isn't even really complete so there are a bunch of universities (like the University of Waterloo) in the 76-100 ranking that shoul
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by pmchiu 16y ago
If 4% of founders in YC are female I would be interested to know what the breakdown of male/female entrepreneurs are for businesses outside of tech. My initial guess is that there are a lot more female entrepreneurs outside of the valley t
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by pmchiu 16y ago
I'm a huge fan of PadMapper. Does a great job for apartment search. Far better than what Google Maps was doing. http://www.padmapper.com
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by pmchiu 16y ago
Based on this move I wonder how much truth there ever was to the rumor that Google was considering buying Trulia ( http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091218/open-house-google-has-al... ). The infrastructure they have is basically the same so the
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by pmchiu 16y ago
Congrats to the folks at Hipmunk. I've always really liked the simplicity of this idea for travel search. I do wonder, however, how long they'll be able to continue to link directly to the airlines. I'm assuming (and this may be an overly
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by pmchiu 16y ago
"The promising thing is that companies like Groupon, Facebook, and Zynga are already making money, whereas early dot-coms were just a promise to make money." And this statement neatly wraps up why we have a second tech bubble. Because aver
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by pmchiu 16y ago
Out of the whole article I think the key point to take away is the fast reaction in face of a bad hire. Because let's face it - there is no fool proof way to hire people. So accept it and make sure you have the systems in place to reconci
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by pmchiu 16y ago
"While the liberty movements in the West are busy enough doing good job fighting off the surveillance wave at home, the totalitarian customer segment remains steadily serviced, by the virtue of civil opinion there being discarded and silenc
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by pmchiu 16y ago
I disagree with Fred Wilson that a multiple of 25-50 EBITDA is not unreasonable. I think it's completely unreasonable at this point. Let's for a moment consider what a 25 or 50X EBITDA multiple means. In the long term that would imply th