tommynicholas

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by tommynicholas 9y ago
I think it's about making money by investing in companies they think could be big but maybe I'm crazy.
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
There are two versions of this one: "VC response: We’d love to get in on this as soon as you find a lead investor!" The first is "talk to us when you have a lead". That's not helpful and it's bullshit. When you
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
And I don't think is totally a bad thing! Huge rush of money the last 3 years seeking new opportunity as costs to starting up had dropped (but still high). I believe there will still be some winners that will shake out of that, and in
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
LESS flagrant sexual harassment? Ohhhh noooooo. Tech has a ton of work to do and you'll hear no excuses about this behavior from me, but if you think it's worse in tech than in finance in particular you're mistaking "mor
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
what kind of DB was the reporting database if you don't mind me asking? Seems like translating the data into Google Sheets is unnecessary if you're just trying to graph/chart it, although as I say that I'm realizing ther
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
No reason to do this - you have the shares and the CEO wants to buy you out. Remember - the CEO wants to buy you out for a reason, and I guarantee you the investors want you bought out. Don't underestimate how much leverage "them
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
If that is less than 1/3rd what your shares would be worth if you sold them as part of the funding round you're not getting fair value. You have to decide whether you want fair value or not, but ~1/3rd the value of the shares
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
That is almost certainly true. ACL surgery pain is intense and taking prescription painkillers is strongly recommended, but certainly, there are more intense pains people experience. I don't really think that's relevant to my poin
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
I just got ACL surgery and am doing the entire recovery (day 11) without any painkillers stronger than ibuprofin. This is not because I'm so brave, but because I know the pain associated with opioids to be so much than the physical pai
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
Why does anyone use the raw wage growth numbers (which look bad) not the inflation adjusted numbers (which are healthy) when comparing historical wage growth to modern wage growth? Wage growth only matters in relation to inflation. It seems
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
I used to be a professional musician and I've used a lot of real Ableton equipment and I still found this incredibly interesting and fun.
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
Interesting - I can't recreate this. I have a lot of users who use Blank Slate for code blocks so I'd love to fix this, any chance you can send a screenshot? I know I probably got here late but tomasienrbc at gmail if you can spar
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
Fixed!
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
A "decent" visual recognition API at this point isn't very good or useful. The other comment in this thread is correct - if you want to make a truly useful service out of Watson, they do it as a consultation and do it essenti
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
Watson is comically bad. I'm almost shocked at how bad it is in practice and how little it can do.
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
I wasn't suggesting isolating one factor, I was suggesting that isolating what is actually a cause/effect of this drop, to what degree, vs what isn't is critical. I am 100% sure it's not one thing. Economists, good ones
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
There are a lot of factors that have gone into that drop (women entering the workforce, aging population, the 50's number being inflated, etc) but you're right. I think trying to isolate an answer to that question is fascinating a
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
Most breakfasts (I was eating Oatmeal before so very similar) and the VERY occasional lunch/dinner.
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
Got a case of Nectar - I sort of expected it to be bad but we'll see. May go to 50/50 regular and cacao.
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
The new cacao Soylent is so much tastier than I expected it would be. Despite all the mocking Soylent gets, the product is excellent. Maybe it's groundbreaking and maybe it's not, but it's definitely helpful to my life.
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
He may be referring to speech in part, but he's also referring to people killing themselves and others on camera on Facebook. I think that's what has triggered this.
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
You think I'm moving the ball because you're convinced I'm arguing something I'm not arguing. You're convinced I'm arguing about the value of an MBA rather than why they exist and what they're designed to
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
Your MBA program (or some other MBA program you know of) was designed to specifically to give people the skills to found companies? I doubt strongly that it was. The only exception to this I know is Babson, but I'm not certain whether
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
I think you're continuing to misunderstand my statement. You're suggesting some MBA programs are good at producing founders. I have no idea if that's true and no opinion. The MBA and all traditional MBA programs were started
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
This is irrelevant to my point, just to be clear. Whether they're effective at creating founders is debatable, whether they're designed to create founders is not.
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
It's not a generalisation it's a fact. The fact that it set you up well to launch a startup is a fortunate coincidence, period. MBAs not being designed to help people start companies is a matter of historical record it's not
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
No MBA was EVER designed for the R&D part of building a company. I'm constantly surprised at the myth that an MBA has anything to do with teaching you to start or even run a company. MBA's are designed to train middle managers
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
You can click on any of the several links in this thread to see that you forgot more than Instagram. I don't have any affection for Sacca, don't know him, don't care about him, etc. But he's factually been an incredible
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
Yeah it should just be a switch or something. I agree.
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by tommynicholas 9y ago
1. He only invests early, so yes. 2. His fund for those investments went 213x http://fortune.com/2015/01/08/exclusive-is-this-the-best-per... Possibly the best VC fund of all time.

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