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by tansey 16y ago
Sorry, busy on my own startup. Best of luck to you guys!
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by tansey 16y ago
I loved the pitch. :) I thought it came off as playful/competitive smack talk, not mean spirited.
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by tansey 16y ago
I also liked how they implicitly bashed 80% of the guys who presented by pointing out that they're doing "real" technology work, not just throwing a Rails app together.
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by tansey 16y ago
I don't understand the reason to want to "physically own" something, unless you think the banking/financial system is going to go under. If it does, inflation will be the last thing you'll have to worry about.
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by tansey 16y ago
I outlined other extensions, but that is the very start of all marketing research. I don't see how you can possibly just launch into a project without having any clue of how much money there is to be made in the area. The approach above is
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by tansey 16y ago
Also, how long until mold growth sets in with no air circulation for that tub.
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by tansey 16y ago
> On a more serious note, I am not selling out or going to ask for capital ever. You are thinking a TON of steps ahead. You have nothing. Ideas are cheap. > I didn't feel the need to do research to prove that people are interested i
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by tansey 16y ago
How so?
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by tansey 16y ago
Thanks. I had never heard of Clickbank before now. However, a quick look at their terms is a non-starter. They want 8.5% + $1 + 50% to the affiliate. On top of what we would charge, our sellers would be getting something like 30% of their s
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by tansey 16y ago
We were thinking of doing a similar approach, basically verifying people's ID upon first purchase. However, we thought it might significantly decrease the number of customers. I suppose there's no free lunch here... verification will sacrif
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by tansey 16y ago
We haven't launched yet, but we're a digital goods marketplace and my intuition is that our niche audience may have a high chargeback rate. We're looking for any additional protection so we don't stumble out of the gate.
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by tansey 16y ago
Can we get some more information? What are they doing better? What kind of fee structure are they selling? Also, one big concern in my startup is chargebacks. Does this service help me with chargeback protection at all? More generally: how
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by tansey 16y ago
Great article! I write a ton of statistical reporting code at work. We don't deal with the kind of rare cases that the author points out can cause high degrees of imprecision, but it's useful to know. The speedup alone makes changing my imp
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by tansey 16y ago
That's pretty much how Drools works as well. :) I'm going to guess that the rools gem was inspired by Drools, since the Drools project is much older.
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by tansey 16y ago
I've used Drools: http://www.jboss.org/drools/ It's a deductive rules engine for Java, so you give it some objects with state and apply a set of first-order(ish) logic rules to them, in an if-then kind of form. You can give rules differen
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by tansey 16y ago
Typo: Bloomberg terminal
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by tansey 16y ago
This is a good start, but I think structured information would be a huge help here. The government should require firms to register common things like interest rates and other conditions. Then you could search carriers and identify who actu
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by tansey 16y ago
Luck. :) Basically I knew a really smart guy (my boss) and he just happened to be launching this hedge fund just as I was finishing grad school.
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by tansey 16y ago
Languages are pretty irrelevant. I use C# personally just because I like it, but others use Matlab, R, or Java. If someone came on board and could make us money in Smalltalk or QBasic, we'd let them use that. :) Data can come from numerous
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by tansey 16y ago
Seems like there is a need for an independent third-party group to monitor the tests. Since that is likely prohibitively expensive, here's an idea: 1) Have schools partner with each other, where each school is matched to another school of s
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by tansey 16y ago
Morality usually boils down to shouting matches, so I'll avoid getting into that, sorry. And my job is certainly not high-influence. :) My tobacco analogy was not trying to say that without tobacco the farmers would starve. Rather, it was a
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by tansey 16y ago
I think that's a separate argument from the one the OP is making, based on his selected quotes. I've read the article before, but I just re-read it to refresh myself. The issue I take with it is that the story pitched to the reader is: 1) L
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by tansey 16y ago
My work life is similar to yummyfajitas. I work in a 4-person fund that was bought by a 30-person firm (collection of different alternative asset funds), which makes us semi-autonomous. I'm basically a jack-of-all-trades there, but 80% of m
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by tansey 16y ago
Yeah, that's complete bullshit. The "smart guys" have been working on Wall St. for decades. Maybe there weren't as many high-profile funds, but they were there. They were there (and blamed) when LTCM collapsed, they were there (and blamed)
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by tansey 16y ago
I work for a hedge fund.
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by tansey 16y ago
I see... so the incentive is that they will have a resume booster. Makes sense I suppose, but where are they getting the stipends with which to pay the founders?
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by tansey 16y ago
So I'm guessing their thinking is something along the following lines: 1) Stanford student has idea. 2) We help Stanford student bring idea to market. 3) Stanford student get mega-rich. 4) Stanford student pays for new wing/department/schol
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by tansey 16y ago
This article is using some anecdotes, a few outdated statistics, and poor mathematical analogies. The reason CS majors declined from 2004-2007 is because the stigma of outsourcing and failed dot-coms were still in people's minds. I know bec
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by tansey 16y ago
This tutorial is particularly troubling, as the two examples are poorly chosen at best and dangerous at worst. The very basics of neural networks are not very tough, as it's just a black box where you give it some set of real-valued inputs
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by tansey 16y ago
I am in CA, and trying to incorporate in NV. So I need to get a registered agent in NV. Also, my cofounders are in different states and we're not paying straight dividends for other reasons. Then there are the pains of having a lawyer to cr

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