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by thisisit 11y ago
While the idea is interesting, I am curious what would be the market for a newer index? This combined with creating and maintaining a market to run this index, it will be an expensive proposition.
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by thisisit 11y ago
Additional issue is how these companies come about. They seem to be dependent on backtests to see if their secret formula works. While this approach might be workable in coding, it is not so straightforward in finance. As pointed out in the
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by thisisit 11y ago
I think the sub heading makes it clear on author's issue - Weatherfront's real costs. While they write tons of stuff on how they are anti Wall Street and are cheaper options, they actually are misleading people with standalone num
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by thisisit 11y ago
The second para says it all: "Should he beat the odds, he’ll then take your 70 cents and plow them into another app on his phone. This app will not only charge him every day for the rest of his life, but it also increased his fee last
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by thisisit 11y ago
Not only that. Sometimes you just want to help. There are times when you start learning something only to realise while there is a definite market for the approach taken by the tutorial site, you expectations were a bit different. There mig
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by thisisit 11y ago
A bit off-topic here but I think learning peripheral information has become a norm. Last year I was trying to learn Data Science and completed the "specialization" from Coursera. But then there were sometimes when I was unclear o
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by thisisit 11y ago
yea maybe but then if you look at his work, he does talk about sub-contracting, so does that make him an agency of sorts? Then where does freelancing come in. Just trying to understand that part.
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by thisisit 11y ago
One thing which really stood out for me was about focus. Trying too many things at once - write a blog, freelancing, create a source might pull you in so many directions that achieving the first dream might become difficult. What really doe
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by thisisit 11y ago
That is really fascinating. The guy seems to understanding marketing to a level to not try and place his products in retail shelves as people tend to judge based on looks rather than features. I did spend one Sunday afternoon reading up rev
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by thisisit 11y ago
Not sure if it has been asked before but is it US centric or you guys looking to expand into other markets too?
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by thisisit 11y ago
And the oft quoted "inflation adjusted" valuation of companies proves to be misleading, which it does in the mentioned presentation. With the current climate of Feds still pumping money and keeping rates low, inflation hasn't
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by thisisit 12y ago
ECS doesn't require a void check. The electricity bill which you might be paying via your credit card on a monthly basis is an ECS payment. The only problem here is as a business you cannot set it up for a customer, like the AWS bill b
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by thisisit 12y ago
Not that I completely understand the process for Starfighter. But what are the chances of something like this happening? http://www.wired.com/2012/07/how-a-startup-used-a-5000-conte...
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by thisisit 12y ago
A query, how did you decide on the price point for your app? There must be some kind of break-even calculation or something?
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by thisisit 12y ago
> The problem isn't really the initial dollar amount, it's spending what you think you can make back on the application in a reasonable amount of time (6 months). If you can't make $50k on an app then why spend the money t
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by thisisit 12y ago
Currently I am also spending time learn iOS to build an app. And its a long arduous task, specially if someone has never coded ever. Personally, last I wrote a piece of code was 3+ years ago, while in school. I haven't specifically sho
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by thisisit 12y ago
There might have been usages for a common word like canon.While there might not be a use for canon.com there are sites with canon in their name. ex canonshot.com Going forward, just like it happened with .com domain names, there will be ri
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by thisisit 12y ago
LCA declarations filed for H1B does have salary data. It is there to stop people from exploiting immigrant workers. At least that is the official stance. I am not sure how accurate the numbers are but this site seems to have extracted info