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by raiyu 8y ago
As others have pointed out using consumer grade SSD drives for a database is a bad idea. Databases are going to do a lot of reads and writes so that's going to lead to problems down the road. The second issue, is that since this was se
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Sheryl Sandberg: The teens consented(gizmodo.com)
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Lyft and Juno sue NYC to avoid Paying minimum wage to drivers(qz.com)
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Tracking WPEngine's Growth Now at $132M ARR(news.crunchbase.com)
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Venmo processed $19B in payments last quarter with $200MM revenue for the year(cnbc.com)
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Slack now has 10M DAU and 85,000 customers(slackhq.com)
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Patreon to pay out $1B to 3MM creators on it's platform through 2019(venturebeat.com)
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SoundCloud Co-Founder Eric Wahlforss Resigns as Chief Product Officer(billboard.com)
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by raiyu 8y ago
While there will be some overlap there was also a lot of perverse behavior. Basically the drug company creates a drug that it wants to sell, drug reps travel to doctors explaining the drugs, when the doctor does the prescription, the doctor
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by raiyu 8y ago
The repackaging and selling of debt isn't an issue in and of itself. During the housing crisis didn't start because the debt was being resold, that's actually a positive thing. It allows firms looking to invest to buy large b
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by raiyu 8y ago
A headline in search of an article. Very little context provided, would have probably been served even better with just a graph of the euro zone growth from 1999 quarter by quarter versus other economies like Japan, US, China for context. J
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by raiyu 8y ago
SV doesn't really fit the criteria of a bubble. Bubbles gain steam by being accessible. The more people that get involved, the larger the bubble becomes. It isn't a ponzi scheme, but acts like one in many ways. ICOs were well on t
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by raiyu 8y ago
This article is a bit misleading. The subprime crisis occurred because of the leverage on packaged debt that was held by big banks. Where by an original loan amount of say $1MM had an outstanding obligation perhaps 100x that. The issue was
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Social layer is ironically the key to Bitcoin's security(techcrunch.com)
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by raiyu 8y ago
I don't think the debate is whether WeWork provides a better office space experience than Regus, which it does, having used both. The question is though is it worth 10x more than it's competitor on a per customer basis? Since they
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by raiyu 8y ago
It's $150 per share so most of that is going to investors and a small number of large share holders. Link: https://www.recode.net/2018/12/20/18150929/juul-altria-billi...
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by raiyu 8y ago
My suspicioun is that while Travis did have voting control they also needed financing and I think that was used as key leverage in the situation. It is possible that the investors had blocking rights on certain investments or that they went
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Thanks for the feedback, but we aren't Amazon =] - DigitalOcean cofounder
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Have to be careful comparing mature companies which show consistent and predicatable growth with those that are still early in that cycle. While the revenue growth the last couple of years for Asana is obviously on an uptick you have to be
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In Art, Who You Know Pays Off More Than Hard Work(bloomberg.com)
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Introducing Datadog for Serverless(datadoghq.com)
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The Facebook Era Is Over(linkedin.com)
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by raiyu 8y ago
Snap is bringing in significant revenue and they will book over $1B in revenue, the challenge is that revenue growth has slowed significantly. That coupled with high operating costs and headcount expenses leaves them very much in the red. A
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Snap Says DOJ and SEC Are Investigating IPO Disclosures(bloomberg.com)
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SoftBank to keep investing Saudi money after CEO condemns Khashoggi's murder(recode.net)
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by raiyu 8y ago
I would agree. Some of the examples for me are exactly what I dislike about many landing pages. They do a very poor job of explaining what it is the company does and you could put 10 companies under the same tag line and it would be just as
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How to efficiently compare strings in Go(blog.digitalocean.com)
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A story of 2,000 startups and 20M Droplets – DigitalOcean(blog.digitalocean.com)
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Twitter bots drive up to 60% of the conversations on trending topics(wired.com)
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