romaster

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by romaster 8y ago
Nothing wrong with sacrificing short term profit to meet a longer term objective. So yes, it doesn't hurt. In fact, it quite clearly helps a ton. Does that make them pound for pound competitive with one another? No of course not. But c
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by romaster 8y ago
The 'unrelated' business idea being the result of the inroads made by you being at current company CEO role and having those customer conversations might be a potential fiduciary issue. You need to pick someone on the board you ca
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by romaster 9y ago
Yeah except imagine instead when you should be due that commission but then they find a creative way to bake it into a new cushy position that they carve out just for you (with no more comms on other deals) and they pay that comm out to you
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by romaster 9y ago
This seems like a smart and natural step for AirBnB. Step 1) enable existing hosts who are great hosts to 'step up' to a prestige status which creates visibility and pushes more hosts towards wanting to get there too, thereby impr
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by romaster 9y ago
The biggest problem is the centralizing of biometric data. That's not only slower but a treasure trove once it is hacked. An Opt-in as you're suggesting would be a positive move - even more so would be a decentralized biometric to
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by romaster 10y ago
Works just fine at bodegas in New York, often with more than one. Just don't expect them to come over when your colleagues want to see them.
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by romaster 10y ago
It is clear that user is the biggest risk in all systems, but that doesn't quite take away from the more important addressable question - specifically - is a password-less method better than what we do today (aka passwords. I'd ta
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by romaster 10y ago
On the question of security and privacy - is my face being matched on THEIR cloud? or locally and then a token is matched? Liveness on the whole has its own issues in terms of a spoofing 'arms race' and secondly the more complicat
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by romaster 11y ago
I'm a little bit surprised that the closing remark of his blog post was "even if you remove all the bad causes, the good causes far outweigh the bad and will cause inequality to further increase." I guess if one so brazenly b
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by romaster 12y ago
When I read the article my first thought was... So go to war. Don't be proud that you bootstrapped and they got funded. Go to war. Go to the VC community and raise a ton. You have proof of a strong product and yet you are not capitaliz
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by romaster 12y ago
When will this statement "your customer pays in bitcoin and you will receive dollars in your bank account" become "you the customer pay in bitcoin and you will accept a charge in dollars through your bank account" Eta in
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by romaster 12y ago
but in some respects, it's more than a VC funded startup. Not the concept, but the main stakeholder and one of the key providers of the data needed to make it truly competitive... Telenav. TNAV ticker. Sinking to new lows recently.
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by romaster 12y ago
Zaarly... Taskrabbit... can anyone get this notion of "bid for the right TO service" done properly? or are we all just reduced to having to FIND our contractor, on our own.....
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by romaster 12y ago
Great.... Now what? You've advertised the integration of an API on HN. Now what?
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by romaster 12y ago
negative skew & fat tails vs. fixed income stream.
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by romaster 12y ago
the question this begs is more like.. what is the category which is not yet claimed in this field. It looks crowded in this frame, and many of these companies are reaching the $10-$20b stage (airbnb, uber, etc). So the natural question is w
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by romaster 12y ago
Its possible to be both white and Jewish (in re to your comment on VCs). Persistence is key, and I agree... The stats show a strong foundation and the right family values make a big difference.
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by romaster 12y ago
There's always going to be a battle between VC money/specialists and Much-much-bigger money/generalists (ala hedge funds, asset managers, private arms of big banks or corporations). Some of these 'big money' folks a