rsepassi

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by rsepassi 14y ago
Mark Cuban has touched on what is at the center of why financial regulation is so difficult: the roles, values, and differences of the primary and secondary markets. All of Wall Street exists to do one thing: connect those with capital to t
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by rsepassi 16y ago
My pleasure. What I meant about people reviewing ideas is this: what incentive do people have to come to the site to review ideas? I see the incentive for the entrepreneur: see what others have to say about your idea and figure out what po
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Yeah, Mint.com is pretty awesome.
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Have you considered giving a bit more structure to the "Idea" submission? Maybe just split out basic questions like "What problem is this solving?", "Who is this for?", etc. into separate fields. Might give it a bit more organization and
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Make sure no matter what you get up at the same time every day, even if you went to bed really late the night before (or earlier that morning), and go to bed at night when you start feeling drowsy. If you need a kickstart in the beginning
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Why not just keep pushing the edge of what's currently possible, and keep a catalog of the more advanced ideas that you can revisit from time to time to potentially begin executing on? For the ones you identify as still too advanced, speci
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Well-rounded often means the person seems generally capable of tackling a broad range of activities, though they may not be stellar at any one. A guy who does well in school, plays sports, can mingle well, has a good group of friends, etc.
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Is it generally trying to solve the problem of having so many video platforms that people can't keep track of what's on? Would you just link to the video stream? What's the social feature exactly - just letting your friends know something
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by rsepassi 16y ago
I did not intend to portray extreme views, and I believe that I've represented their views fairly. Buffett recommends index investing, but also believes that it provides great opportunity for the enterprising investor because of its passiv
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Very interesting that more subscription models didn't make the list (Spotify is the closest but so few people opt for premium). And I only really see 4 business models here: Take a cut: Flattr, GroupOn, HumbleBundle, Quirky (40% of sales),
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Does anybody have good data on conversion rates for credit card info at the beginning of the free trial or end of the free trial? That is, let's say you e-mail the user 5 days before the 30 day trial is over in both scenarios, but if they
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Yeah, seconded. I'm a total beginner and W3Schools has been really helpful just getting me familiar with the terminology and very helpful in looking up various tags/functions.
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Switching costs are absolutely the thing to focus on here, but limiting the switching costs to a replication of the social graph may be understating the true cost. Think of all the photos, and to a lesser extent, wall posts. I would imagi
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by rsepassi 16y ago
Tichy is exactly right, and this point on its own makes passive investing extremely dangerous (though I tend to agree that on average, putting your money with an active money manager is even more dangerous). The indices are rather arbitrar