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by startupfounder 13y ago
The choice to take the annuity or lump sum looks like its based on projected tax rates and projected return on the investment.[0] [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/should-you-take-the-annuity-o...
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Of course Buffett isn't getting paid directly, but if you look at the 2010 SEC filing[0] he owns 32.4% of the voting shares and 23.3% of the value of those shares. In my book Buffett and Berkshire are synonymous. You are right that he
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Buffett is making big money on this deal, increasing his personal brand and here is how (my guess): Quicken is paying Buffett for the advertising exposure right before tax season. Quicken is also taking out prize indemnity insurance[0] from
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by startupfounder 13y ago
We have over 35,000 police officers in the 5 boroughs of NYC. If you walk from Wall St. to Central Park you will see more than 200 easily.
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Let's look at the facts: 5 cents. The Nissan LEAF gets 3.16 mi/kWh[1]. When plugged into a standard household outlet for 20 minutes you get 1.67 miles of driving (1 hour = 5 miles)[2], which by my calculation is 0.52848101 kWh of
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by startupfounder 13y ago
In the eyes of the New York City Government what Banksy is doing is vandalism[1]: "§ 10-117. Defacement of property, possession, sale and display of aerosol spray paint cans, [and] broad tipped markers and etching acid prohibited in ce
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by startupfounder 13y ago
It is really interesting to see the "Western" approach to meditation. I grew up in a Buddhist community and have sat week long meditation retreats without anyone quantifying results. It is interesting that Westerners have to be sc
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Ran into PG at a Cafe in Cambridge, MA this past Saturday while out on a walk with my girlfriend and it got me excited for another Startup School. Looking forward to seeing you all out in the valley.
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by startupfounder 13y ago
"If you think about a cubic foot of this dirt and you just heat it a little bit - a few hundred degrees - you'll actually get off about two pints of water - like two water bottles you'd take to the gym," Dr Leshin explai
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by startupfounder 13y ago
pg, thanks for making this simple yet powerful distinction. The airbnb guys are a great example on why this mindset change is welcomed. Designer founders can also be relentlessly resourceful and create game changing startups.
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by startupfounder 13y ago
You would think that a way to stop these kinds of attacks for pennies on the dollar would be to have the security companies, banks, retail stores and others involved on the receiving side of these attacks fund hackathons or startup accelera
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by startupfounder 13y ago
As concerned citizens who would sign a white house petition to block the renewal of the NSA data collection order?
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Elon and the SpaceX team are kicking ass! 2 months ago they hovered at 250m: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvbh-Z8Abk 6 months ago they hovered at the height of a 12-story (40m) building: http://www.youtube.com
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Our government is broken. It is no longer by the people for the people. Politicians are skipping out of their responsibilities. Politicians spend much of their time in office fundraising for re-election. Politicians raise much of their elec
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Paul Revere, "in the Fall of 1774 and winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a Committee for the purpose of watching British soldiers and gaining every intelligence on the movements
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by startupfounder 13y ago
This is ripe for a crowdfunding campaign.
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by startupfounder 13y ago
"This is a lesson in the power of language." Yes! What exactly is being said, but more importantly what is not being said? Zuck's post was 169 words on one of the most important stories to break about privacy and tech compani
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by startupfounder 13y ago
TL;DR: "The new fast company isn't fast at all. It's gradual, slow, measured, and organized. It's making small bets. Which, it turns out, is the fastest way of all to get back to where you want to be." As I work on building my startup it is
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Yes, but... It's not so much about what I buy (though this is important), it is about how to incentivize politicians to be dependent on the people alone, not the .000042% that give 60% of the Super Pac funds. http://www.ted.com/talks/lawre
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Neartime is a very interesting piece of software that might be in the direction this is going, could help in building a timeline of publicly available (fb, Instagram, flickr, twitter, etc.) photos based on lat/long+time. I believe it was on
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Original report here: http://www.eei.org/ourissues/finance/Documents/disruptivecha... I believe that distributed energy is the future, plugging your house into your car, charging your car with solar and selling power to the grid when your
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by startupfounder 13y ago
$6.6 billion in cash was "lost"[0] and then found[1] in Iraq which I can now visualize as 66 pallets of cold hard cash. How do you lose that? [0] http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/06/13/exp.tsr... [1] http://security.blogs.cnn
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by startupfounder 13y ago
Upon first review it was quite interesting to compare how countries perceive themselves, but when trying to compare countries to each other I realized that the x-axis and y-axis are different for each country. For example the first quote sa
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by startupfounder 14y ago
Where are you manufacturing the pieces? I have a friend that was just in India for a year and they were able to make beautiful custom suits for around the $150 price point. If you give directions to the buyers on how to measure themselves (
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by startupfounder 14y ago
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2013/jan/15/bitt...
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by startupfounder 14y ago
Moo Money Moo Problems!
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by startupfounder 14y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, it has been changed back. EDIT: My inner hustler was trying to get out, I put him back in his cage where he belongs.
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by startupfounder 14y ago
I have had a very similar experience to Jason learning Ruby on Rails through Team Treehouse. I was sick of just being the Hustler for my startups, I raised seed rounds, but could not get my hands dirty in code. Why I No Get My Act Together?
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by startupfounder 14y ago
I just finished watching the 13 episodes of House of Cards season one this weekend and my very good friend is in acquisitions for a major network. House of Cards is phenomenal, period. "We believe that February 1st will be a defining moment
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by startupfounder 14y ago
"Vestas are one of the worlds leading developers and manufacturers of wind turbines for whom Malcolm is a senior test engineer." ( http://www.sailrocket.com/node/136 ) Very cool that a senior test engineer from the worlds largest with turbi

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