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by sl8r 10y ago
Cf. The Dark Lord of the Internet [1] and the relevant HN discussion [2], which give an interesting peek into the psychology of internet scams. [1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-
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by sl8r 10y ago
What are you looking for in particular? If you're looking to gain functional familiarity / put in practice reps with classical classification & regression algorithms, I think that running through the online tutorials for sciki
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by sl8r 10y ago
Tactically, for the tech industry: 1. Earning potential is higher in management, if you can make it to a director-level or vp-level position at a major public tech company; take a look at the relevant comp figures for Facebook, Google, Micr
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by sl8r 10y ago
I think this is more about distributions than it is about expected values. If VC and PE generate roughly the same returns to their investors (say 20% to 25% IRR), what does this mean for the companies they invest in? Fred Wilson notes ( htt
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by sl8r 10y ago
My understanding is that most unrepatriated earnings are actually deposited in US banks, meaning that those dollars are already being lent into the US economy. Repatriation is a tax accounting issue.
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Data Science Playbook: Churn(carried-interests.com)
3 points by sl8r 10y ago|0 comments
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Liquidation Preferences and Participating Stock(carried-interests.com)
12 points by sl8r 10y ago|1 comments
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by sl8r 10y ago
Lower middle-market private equity firms are probably the most likely investors. Often, they'd want to buy the entire business, but in some cases they might look at taking a minority stake with some control rights.
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by sl8r 11y ago
This is an interesting point; thanks! Found this article incase anyone is interested. One quote stood out to me: > Private equity recruitment firm PER conducts an ‘unofficial count’ into how many analysts join the M&A and corporate
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by sl8r 11y ago
> Care to name some, besides banking and consulting, and possibly corporate law? I'd suggest that in most fields, you don't make significantly more money until you're managing a significant percentage of people, or tasked
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by sl8r 11y ago
Yeah, piling on: While some tech companies have huge market caps, there are plenty of non-tech companies above the $100B mark. Current top ten includes Exxon Mobil, Berkshire Hathaway, Petro China, Wells Fargo, Johnson & Johnson, ICBC,
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by sl8r 11y ago
The labor market for programers in the tech industry has two features (anecdotally observed) that are interesting to me: 1. Labor does not receive (or insist on) percent-of-value or percent-of-transaction compensation. This is in contrast t
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by sl8r 11y ago
My experience is that there are some "weird" effects of equity comp once one gets into the calculus of incentives: 1. Payoffs are too small to be consequential. If you own 0.01% of a company and are personal-profit-maximizing, the
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by sl8r 11y ago
Something I've often wondered about his how much of the top 10 VC performance advantage is due to deal availability. Top firms are offered the best deals (every startup wants to be funded by them), which means that they might be able t
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Data Visualization in Python: Advanced Functionality in Seaborn(blog.insightdatalabs.com)
7 points by sl8r 11y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing Machine Learning Thresholds to Make Better Business Decisions(blog.insightdatalabs.com)
40 points by sl8r 11y ago|1 comments
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How late is your BART commute? 2.5 months of train data(sl8r000.github.io)
1 points by sl8r 11y ago|0 comments
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by sl8r 12y ago
"When I analyze the process that is expressed in the sentence, 'I think', I find a whole series of daring assertions that would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to prove; for example that it is _I_ who thinks, that there mus
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by sl8r 12y ago
No condescension perceived :-) I think that background varies - some people are fluent statisticians and others come from different disciplines / careers. Anecdotally, my experience from browsing A/B testing advice online is simil
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Statistical Advice for A/B Testing(sl8r000.github.io)
10 points by sl8r 12y ago|3 comments