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by rscale 14y ago
Your described scenario with Accenture doesn't describe a market-making HFT strategy. You're describing something akin to a mean-reversion algorithm that would be MFT or slower, and is not a market-making strategy. It demands that you buy
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by rscale 14y ago
I have no objection to the provision of liquidity. That said, the flash crash seems to me to be a perfect example of a danger created when liquidity is provided largely by algorithms. We ran into a situation where the market was already vo
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by rscale 14y ago
My apologies for being unclear. Pro-rata would apply primarily to angel groups that simply wanted to increase their attractiveness to entrepreneurs, by getting the ability to (very easily) multiply their financial firepower. For VCs, I'm s
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by rscale 14y ago
I'd love the opportunity to invest pro rata with angel groups, TechStars, Y Combinator, and many VCs. The "gimmick" factor would depend largely on the structure and presentation of the opportunity. As it stands, it's exceptionally hard to
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by rscale 14y ago
This caught my eye: Kaiser spokesman Jim Anderson argues that if Shaw’s products didn’t make their way to hospitals it was because of “significant supply issues” on Retractable’s end. He also says they were prone to malfunction and that, i
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by rscale 14y ago
Dropbox raised $250m at a (rumored) $4b valuation not long ago.
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by rscale 14y ago
It's an especially odd statement coming from the founder of a company that employs people to run errands for other people.
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by rscale 14y ago
There's plenty of action occurring outside of consumer Internet, but it doesn't get much coverage on general interest sites like HN since we need specialized knowledge to understand why those companies are interesting, special and valuable.
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by rscale 14y ago
And in the meantime, HBO Go gives them a great opportunity to learn how to build a great service, so that once it makes sense to fight with the cable companies, they already have a great, mature product.
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by rscale 14y ago
I agree. We're using Recurly and a traditional merchant account instead of Stripe specifically for that reason.
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by rscale 14y ago
It's a good question, but I believe airlines would be classified either as monopolistic competition, or a non-collusive oligopoly. There's an identifiable difference between a flight on Virgin America and one on American Airlines, so at le
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by rscale 14y ago
Sounds familiar, except for the part where your employer changed the words. This offer also came with verbal assurances that it was just a formality so I should just sign it. I offered them two potential solutions. I had my lawyer modify t
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by rscale 14y ago
Perfect competition is a term of art referring to a specific competitive scenario with no product differentiation, no economies of scale, no barriers to entry, and a huge number of well-informed buyers and sellers. The net result is that th
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by rscale 14y ago
As a counterpoint, I recently wound up refusing to sign a contract that was an absolute mess. The prospective client wanted absurd things, like for me to indemnify them against any future IP litigation, whether I infringed on a patent know
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by rscale 15y ago
It's true, I find Marxism morally repugnant. That said, if you hold Marx's labor theory of value so dear that you feel equity holders should not be allowed to donate their equity to a charity without worker consent, that's your right. And t
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by rscale 15y ago
> You seem to think of employees as nothing but bricks in the road to your own personal success. This attitude ensures I have no interest in ever working with you and it has nothing to do with the topic of this post. You've extrapolated
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by rscale 15y ago
I find it repugnant that this is the top-rated comment on this site. The founders of a company have the right to allocate equity however they choose, including the right to allocate a portion of that equity directly to a charitable cause th
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by rscale 15y ago
Are you aware of a voter registration database that's reasonably complete and up to date, and doesn't cost a ton of money to access? I'd love one for a current project, but my initial research seemed to indicate the only solutions were pri
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by rscale 15y ago
Am I correct to think it's 1.5x, and within the investment period (first few years of the fund)?
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by rscale 15y ago
I tried this many years ago, and it decreased conversion. I'm not sure if this is still true, but apparently the surprise of a slightly unconventional form threw some people off, as it increased cart abandonment compared to a typical form
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by rscale 15y ago
No, VCs generally don't recycle their wins. A VC fund is at it's heart a company that is expected to live for ten years; first raising capital, then investing the capital, and then spending it's final years collecting the proceeds of the e
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by rscale 15y ago
I'd think this would be great for their IRR, because this means they had a capital call a month or two ago, and will be returning double the capital very, very shortly thereafter. I have trouble seeing how it'll hurt their IRR.
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by rscale 15y ago
There are a lot of "boring" strategic acquisitions that happen in the 10-20m area. Small companies that are viewed as useful groups for large organizations to own, because they need/want the capability, or they're interested in preventing
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by rscale 15y ago
Or remembered your preference between stays.
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by rscale 15y ago
In his industry, predictions about 2012 are irrelevant. Predictions about 2016 are where he'll make his money.
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by rscale 15y ago
I accept payment electronically via Intuit Payment Network. It costs me $0.50 per transaction for bank payments, or 3.25% if I choose to allow credit card payments. No subscription charges, no setup fees, nothing.
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by rscale 15y ago
mod_perl also had serious performance and memory leak issues. PHP sucked at the time too, but it sucked in ways that were easier to track down and fix.
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by rscale 15y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if that, in and of itself, was an identifier. I find myself thinking of coin-flip experiments, where it's trivial to discern who ran some sort of legitimately random test, and who just made up Heads and Tails, becaus
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by rscale 15y ago
I don't presume that all free services disappear, nor that all paid services succeed. That said I'm very hesitant to make myself or my business reliant on any service with a business model I don't understand.
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by rscale 15y ago
Do you know if anybody has tried a showroom/ship model for those sorts of purchases at any scale? I've wanted to see somebody try the model for a while, because without testing I have trouble guessing the balance between 'get to see things

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