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by robterrin 8y ago
Off topic, but Sahil, love your drawings and paintings on your IG. I've thought about the idea of moving to a place like Provo from NYC, but I work in cybersecurity, and I don't think there's a client base anywhere but DC, NY
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by robterrin 8y ago
Anybody who is interested by the economics of domain names should read Henry George who laid all this out over one hundred years ago in Progress and Poverty. Domains are just the new frontier since we discovered and claimed all physical lan
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by robterrin 8y ago
This article is well reasoned. I have heard VC's lament that they are constrained by the business model, and one of the world's foremost academics studying PE/VC believes the model is broken. Limited partners (LP's) have
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by robterrin 8y ago
Coworking spaces aren't about work. As a small business owner who uses a coworking space, my perspective is that it's about signaling that you are a real business with a business address. Working from home may work for freelancers
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Understanding Modern Money(youtube.com)
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Tail Risk – Two Truths and a Why(tailrisk.com)
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by robterrin 8y ago
I'm a teaching assistant for a class called Entrepreneurial Finance at my alma mater, which always has a good draw of entrepreneur and investor guest speakers. One of the recent speakers was Kent Collier, CEO of Reorg ( https:/&#x
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by robterrin 8y ago
Just going to leave this here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-03/manhattan... I buy the story about rates and mobility falling in general, although I think this a longer term trend. Mostly, i
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by robterrin 8y ago
+1 Very good comment. You may like to read some Henry George: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George
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Progress and Poverty [pdf](mises.org)
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by robterrin 8y ago
Something else is going on here... Let's look at the reasons given: - Noise - Pleasant to use - Accurate The real reason is because the author is a hipster programmer and wants to elevate his status. It is well known that "real&qu
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by robterrin 8y ago
"[Applicants] shouldn’t be discounted because [they don't] have one exceptional skill, nor should [they] be propped up because this lack of one exceptional skill misleads us into thinking [they are] succeeding only through [their]
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by robterrin 8y ago
And this is eight years after the largest HIPAA violation ever (at the time) at NY Presbyterian suffered because a physician programmer was allowed to take down a firewall and Google started indexing patient records. https://www.
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by robterrin 8y ago
As a Deloitte alumnus and a current cofounder of my own cybersecurity services and advisory firm, I hope I am qualified to weigh in here. First, lumping all consulting firms together is a mistake. The main lists here cover the big brands,
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by robterrin 8y ago
This is a myth: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/06/fda-r-ok.html https://www.fda.gov/downloads/forindustry/datastandards/stud...
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by robterrin 8y ago
"Why don't more executives hire really good programmers and analysts to be their assistants?" They do. Usually they have a title like "Chief of Staff" or "Speechwriter" or "Associate." My friend
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NYC EDC Unveils Global Cyber Center(nycedc.com)
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Searching for Talent and Making Big Life Decisions(marginalrevolution.com)
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by robterrin 8y ago
Micah is an HBS alumnus. I'm not saying he's wrong, but he brings his own biases to the table, as we all do. I also went to business school, and while I wouldn't say it was worthless as a founder, the things that are valuable
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Ask HN: Do you read the author's name or article first?
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by robterrin 8y ago
At first I thought this comment was right on the money, but then I read the article. "... the decline in new retail businesses isn’t an acute crisis. More worrying, however, is the decline in high-tech business formation. Tech business
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by robterrin 8y ago
Thank you imartin2k for posting this. I just came across it on www.marginalrevolution.com, and I'm glad somebody shared it here. Should be on the front page!
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by robterrin 8y ago
Respectfully disagree with _pdp_ here. Many ideas are not low hanging in retrospect. The three pre-internet businesses I cite are obvious needs (trade, oil refining & transportation) and yet had requirements that made them untenable bus
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by robterrin 8y ago
throwaway84742, you are correct. That is why I said, "thing that customers wanted" and not "idea." Even having the kernel of the idea was insufficient.
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by robterrin 8y ago
Really great video and lots to learn here. I think this may be the third time I've seen it, and I'm still getting more out of it. The biggest thing that hits me this go round is that staying alive is key. PG may have said, you bur
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by robterrin 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - New York, US - Local preferred, open to remote and travel opportunities. Information Security and Compliance expert with nearly a decade of experience assessing, monitoring and building security solutions. I work with informa
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Y Combinator Launches MOOC for Investors(forbes.com)
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by robterrin 9y ago
This might answer your question: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/avoi...
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by robterrin 9y ago
Check out Bill Miller's track record to see what a wild ride he takes his investors on: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/10/legendary-investor-bill-mill...
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by robterrin 9y ago
Nate Fick's op-ed is well written but misdiagnoses the problem. Having spent my whole career in cybersecurity, years studying public policy, and prior work at a big four accounting firm, I believe that while legislative action is neces

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