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by tryitnow 11y ago
For those of you who want to learn more and don't want to waste money on a finance text book, check out Aswath Damodoran's website. Pretty much everything you need to know about valuation finance can be found there, along with a
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Yes, that sounds like a terrible idea - unless the CTO and his gang were very self-aware and made sure they integrated themselves into the team. Which it sounds like they did not.
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It sounds like your describing a consulting firm. The problem of hiring individuals to join the firm still exists though. Although I like the approach you propose more than the "dump a bunch of resumes" approach.
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Not necessarily. It probably means they just overhired, which is a problem at a lot of companies. They could just plan to get more out of a lower staffing level, this was fairly common in the "re-engineering" triggered layoffs of
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OK, I was skeptical of this before I looked at it (do we really need another way to discover events). But I like what I see. One peeve: why are webcasts and teleclasses included? I can't imaging a use case where these items will be se
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I agree with the above. This seems like a "neat to have", but not a huge productivity enhancer. I'm seeing more and more apps like this. It's telling me that a lot of the low-hanging fruit has been picked in this techn
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I don't know if there's much that Gates can do about corruption. That's something that might have to take it's natural course and weed itself out (like it has partly done in the US and other developed nations). In the m
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It makes them a much better target. If I'm looking to buy Zynga it's because I want a software company, not a real estate holding company. I can expose myself to real estate through REITS or PE funds that specialize in real esta
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Why? They can just rent that billboard (or any of the many others along that stretch), they don't need to own it.
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Actually, I think the balance sheet is affected because they're realizing a profit on the sale. The profits probably haven't been accrued in past P&L's have they? So the amount of profit will be a credit to equity and a d
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Secession and federalism are fairly naive. We already tried those solutions. In the US context it led to slavery and ultimately to a massive armed conflict. And at what unit do we consider secession acceptable? The Confederacy believed s
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From an investor perspective this reminds me of the type of company Warren Buffet would invest in (if he invested in tech). Steady, focused, easily understood. Highly useful product. The only thing I quibble with is the knock against ente
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This is the crux of the matter. No, there's no evidence that these activities produce economic value of a magnitude that justifies their compensation. A certain number of "speculators" are needed to provide liquidity to capi
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Here's more Mother Jones reporting: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/irs-tea-party-ta... I can provide a little context here. When I was in college I was a conservative Republican. Some righ
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Thank you for doing this. I would have appreciated someone like you in high school. I remember going to the "best" math teacher in my high school with a math question about my science fair project. He couldn't answer it. T
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We're seeing the same consolidation that happens with any new industry. There used to be a hundreds of automobile manufacturers, eventually that shrunk to the Big Three in the US.
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Gloomy, but likely correct. A lot of these current valuation numbers just don't make sense. The implied growth rates in many tech stocks is unrealistically high. The Bay Area's long-term employment prospects simply cannot support
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Let me preface this by saying that my favorite comedian is Doug Stanhope. So I like very politically incorrect humor. However, it's an issue of boundaries. I make terribly politically incorrect jokes with my girlfriend, who shares my
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Yes to this. Musk is brilliant, but more in the Henry Ford sort of way than the Einstein/Tesla sort of way. And that's not to diminish him. To the contrary, we need more visionary industrialists than scientists/engineers.
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Aubrey de Grey's SENS approach to creating and maintaining a state of negligible senescence in humans. Every advanced society faces an aging population. This population will put massive strains on healthcare expenses. It could also s
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The power struggle between C-Level and shareholders is up for debate. And keep in mind that an executive needs to fool the board just long enough to get what he wants. So even if they eventually wise up, it may be too late. As for the rel
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Thanks for this post. It explains a lot. Unfortunately, if the changes you propose are implemented then that means a lot of H1Bs will lose their jobs. Like it or not, the value proposition for employers is that H1Bs are cheaper and more de
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That will work with Africans and other groups who have a strong sense of ongoing ethnic identity. American blacks descended from slaves have a lot of problems doing that for all sorts of reasons. My guess is that a lot of African immigrant
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One complaint: "Nanodegree" is awful branding. "Nano" implies "really small." So am I too understand that this degree will get me a really, really, really tiny bit of knowledge about the subject? I think usin
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What I like most about this is the incentive it places on Udacity to actually create a curriculum that employers find attractive. It's far from perfect and students shouldn't expect miracles, but it's a step in the right dire
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I don't think using a placebo is sufficient in a study like this. I'd like to see another psychedelic used as a control, not just a placebo. Subjects are going to "know" when they've received psilocybin and then th
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Thank you. This is interesting science, but any study backed by someone who has a history of selling pseudo-science is going to be a setback, not a step forward for scientific research.
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I love the general principle of this and applies to other professions. I work in finance and accounting and it's rare for someone's technical skills to be evaluated in an interview. The problem with that is that the profession bec
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I just signed up for this. It looks pretty cool. Can this connect to Venmo? Square cash? Or similar systems? That would be neat.
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These rankings are pretty meaningless. All of these metrics except for productivity are "density" measures. That is the size of the state matters (in a way that penalizes states with larger, more diverse economies). A better rank

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