stanfordkid

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by stanfordkid 10y ago
Tim Draper is, quite frankly, the Trump of Venture Capital. He's a great, nurturing guy though in terms of personality and affect.
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by stanfordkid 10y ago
follow the fucking money don't listen to words ... when will people learn?
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by stanfordkid 10y ago
The honest answer to this is to unite... the introduction of transfer restrictions is new waters in the legal space and were only recently introduced (past 5 years) and mostly limited to Silicon Valley. There are many disgruntled former-emp
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by stanfordkid 11y ago
I've been calling this for ages since I saw Elizabeth Holmes speak at the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar at Stanford 5 or 6 years ago. Huge vision, entitled dismissal of incumbents, and a story that is just a little bit too pe
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by stanfordkid 11y ago
Perhaps correlation but not causation ... I wonder if historically "Baker" was used for people who were of the profession baker? It is well known that certain genetic characteristics may pre-dispose people to go to certain prof
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by stanfordkid 11y ago
This is another great point!
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by stanfordkid 11y ago
I am all for research into basic income -- and in fact a big believer. However I take a HUGE issue with reading too much into the viability of the system based upon research done on small sample sizes: "Our idea is to give a basic inco
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by stanfordkid 11y ago
They didn't per-se leave money on the table. The 60% pop is for shares that are actively trading. The actively traded amount is much much less than the amount that was taken in by institutional investors that would agree to hold the st
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by stanfordkid 12y ago
My impression is that labor laws don't work that way. If a person meets expectations for the current role then the company cannot fire them simply because they are over-compensated -- I think the employee would have the right to file a
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by stanfordkid 12y ago
Yeah I have. You know who actually does that low margin work? Deployment companies, consultants and implementors, outsourcing firms. There's a reason why "SAP Certified Specialists" exist. There's a reason that there are
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by stanfordkid 13y ago
do you really take that paper seriously? In human systems epsilon of the best approximation is pretty relevant. If N (time scale) is millions of years and epsilon is tenths of cents for the reduction to work then it is functionally irreleva
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by stanfordkid 13y ago
Well that would only work if they are using the most simplistic encryption on the planet (i.e an XOR cipher or something like that). In general replaying the same data through an encryption algorithm should not result in the same encrypted
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
The artists are a commodity until they are stars, the scarcity at the early stage is the set of people that can make the system work (promotion, marketing, producers)... thus they reap all the profits. Artists are not forced to work with ma
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
What you say is hardly the case. Top 8 VC firms compete with each other incredibly hard for the best deals. The top-8 as a group make up 80% of all venture capital returns so maybe that should tell you something about their decision making
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
I just don't think that's true. If you ignore "connections" with outside institutions the inter-personal interactions are where you learn the most. You are surrounded by peers that are much smarter and more determined than you and it tends
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
what about renting vs. owning? Can't you arbitrage between the two. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/business/28leonhardt.html?...
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
not really. The majority of traffic on youtube is not pirated material. I agree though that I support his right to due process but not his innocence itself.
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
While I do believe his confinement is somewhat unethical ... I am still quite intrigued that technical people somehow support the likes of KimDotCom or this guy. I've never used megaupload or piratebay for anything other than ripping off c
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
meh. sometimes people don't know what's best for them. That's why you market.
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
I don't think this will work well for investors. The best deals in Silicon Valley go to the best angels who generally don't need a website to be able to get in on the deal. There is no shortage of access to capital for proper companies in S
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
Spot on. You have to realize that the government buys software and systems that rely on encryption from the private sector. It is in their own interest to have the strongest crypto in government hardware and software. So while they know a l
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
lifestyle businesses are great. but to make real money you need to scale -- I think this stuff is okay for the size of business they are aiming for but if you want to build something that can be acquired for 500m+ or IPO then you need to do
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
Insider access?? lol
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by stanfordkid 14y ago
I took Thiel's class at Stanford and I can tell you that Thiel is kind of a nut. He has a lot of very smart, very on point things to say -- however he is either gravely misinformed or pretty much delusional in his views of broader academia
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by stanfordkid 15y ago
This is awesome! I took a class in motion planning and we did similar things... have you heard of kinodynamic planning? (probabilistic roadmaps)... it is a cool technique if you want to do multiple queries.
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by stanfordkid 15y ago
I don't want to post on a forum but send me you email and I can connect you.
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by stanfordkid 15y ago
what about the drug industry? the movie industry? Furthermore the idea that artists aren't motivated by profit is wrong. It is true that unlike -- say investment bankers -- they have intrinsic value for the work they are doing this does not
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by stanfordkid 15y ago
Just discussed this bill with the head of a mid-size investment bank today. The crowd funding provisions are not really that important. He said that the most impact will be the reduction of disclosure requirements for emerging growth compan