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by quickConclusion 8y ago
>"Over 90% of startups die" One of those widely repeated number, but not true: number is below 60%. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/06/2...
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by quickConclusion 8y ago
I agree with that easy statement. But you have to make decisions, even when there is no science at all. What is your estimate of the right control group size should be, for such a study? I am learning from that study that, on 494 patients,
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by quickConclusion 8y ago
Except if you're in a family with a sick parent and you wonder whether you should encourage more exercise or not. Much more important than bar room banter.
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
I recommend the American Life episode about Alex Zharov, stranded on a desert island in New York City. It really gives a vivid insight on how some people find themselves lucky when others do not. https://www.thisamericanlife.org&
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Thought experiment: it may be interesting for a corporation to insert a fairly crazy NCA rule just to see how the applicant reacts. Every now and then there are some crazy stuff happening in big organizations, and you probably want someone
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
"Westminster is at least the fourth college site bought by Chinese interests since 2015." Pretty much one per year. Let's keep looking at it, but probably nowhere as near as foreign companies investing in China's educati
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
it may be a bit unfair to judge them by looking at today's website, which is not in service anymore, even if they have a home page. "Today, Foundem’s website is the digital equivalent of a boarded-up house" Their business is
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
in the article maybe? "By now the couple had been joined by numerous other complainants, including Expedia, TripAdvisor and Microsoft"
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Tim Ferris got to 4 hours per week by working 70+h per week for a long time, then firing his least profitable clients, automating/delegating and giving up about growing his business further. you'll never get there working 4 hours
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Guilty too, but the writing was the main point to me: "I’m not saying your seat is small, but if it were a haystack, you’d find the needle"
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
>Since 2014, eight other babies have been born to women who had uterus transplants, all in Sweden Just to show that single payer system can be good for medical innovation, not just universal healthcare.
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My chat with Jeff Bezos in 1997(medium.com)
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
This is BtoB, not everything is public info, everything can be negotiated. There must have been discussions between Tesla and Loblaw, where expected final price, or even guaranteed, has been agreed. possibly with penalties for late delivery
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
what's the part that "just" does not work? I am starting a new project soon and I played with Sails. I really liked it, except I struggled with the user authentication part. Also worried that the momentum of the project seems
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Just wanted to say good luck!! I always wanted to start my own thing, thought about many ideas, started a couple just for fun, not full speed, because they were not great ideas. I was a bit where you are. Then I met someone with a great ide
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
it just shows how much inequality there is.
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Can't speak for the OP, but when you own and run a profitable business that sustain financially your lifestyle and more, your focus is not automatically about growth anymore. As the OP says, it is often about reducing time spent. Hirin
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Then... who will buy them??
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Our buckets are there, just we cannot GET content, with error messages about reducing the rate.
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Gates and Buffet want to raise the capital gain taxes, democrat multimillionaires like B. Sanders and E. Warren are in favor of taxes. That's only for the most famous. There are a lot of rich people, less famous, concerned about inequa
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
I hope it would not be easy to delete content, but the article shows how much we need to worry about it, when we see how much Taser goes to extra lengths to protect their weapon, and how they collude with the police force in the process. I
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Now you would think we need more body cams and recorded videos... and guess who is advertising free body cams to all US police officers: Axon/Taser. https://www.axon.com/info/offer Axon is actually the new name of
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Yes, the prospect of making big money attracts/motivate certain kinds of very smart people. But if your goal in life is to make gazillions of $, why would you want to become a doctor? This is the wrong job. And if you want to become a
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
>How much money do you think that will take? Most developed countries pay $3,000 to $4,000 per capita, according to Wikipedia. US pays about $7,400 per capita. So that would be the costs I guess. Beware there are more "capita"
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
I am not sure where is the misunderstanding here. The article talks about marginal tax rate at 91% on the take home pay, not effective tax rate. So I am talking about marginal tax rate here too. So NN% (number to be argued) would apply afte
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
"The theory behind all those high-end tax cuts [...] was that it would unleash entrepreneurial energy [...] The first half of that theory may well have come true. Many of the world’s most successful companies are American — not only Am
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
Maybe. But in all cases, it can be very very hard to control indeed. Which does not mean you should not try, because it will help you if you do. And the original point is that if you fail at it, better take it in stride than feel extremely
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
>That sure sounds like an assertion of what a court or jury would actually decide, and it's far too strong. Right now, we're in the court of public opinion, and that is definitely appropriate language for that particular court.
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
We're talking about a small consulting shop here at the start, where the paycheck comes form the actual work. Makes a lot of sense. No VC would touch that kind of business at that point anyway, not scalable. Even later on, once they ha
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by quickConclusion 9y ago
I often wish Facebook would have followed that approach. They made money very early with small ads on a lots of page views, did not need investors. But they went into the VC religion of revenue growth, took their money, then Wall Street mon

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