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by tvladeck 13y ago
Right. So am I. It's the liquidity of the secondary market that makes the primary market possible. That's my point.
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by tvladeck 13y ago
This is not true. Because there is a liquid market for equities, it is possible for companies to IPO into that market, incentivizing entrepreneurs to start companies and for VCs to fund them. High liquidity in the market also leads to highe
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by tvladeck 13y ago
How does that bear any relationship to my argument?
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by tvladeck 13y ago
I have the opposite reaction to this posting: Penny Arcade are being abundantly clear and transparent about the requirements and drawbacks of the role. It's not exploitation; it's a trade, and Penny Arcade have listed out their te
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Just a quick thought. I do not have a background in information design or health at all. But for me, what would be a lot more useful is the _one thing_ that I should focus on in terms of my health. "Focus on getting more sleep." &
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Just as a quick reality check: Google has about 300m MAUs [0] and for their last quarter made 14.8b in revenue [1], which with quick-and-dirty math leads to about $14.6/user/month [0] http://marketingland.com/googl
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by tvladeck 13y ago
This effect is also a good reason to let the other side talk themselves out during a contentious discussion (instead of objecting to every point).
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by tvladeck 13y ago
If your first sentence were true, then the stock shouldn't have been affected much by today's news. Instead, it fell significantly. The price of the stock has to do with how much money it might make in the future, and where they a
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Boxbee and MakeSpace are both new companies going for something like that.
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by tvladeck 13y ago
I am too. I wrote up a brief note about how that might work here: http://tomvladeck.com/2013/10/04/twitter-conversation/
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by tvladeck 13y ago
I wish they'd stop saying "problems of the last century". What's described in this article has never stopped being a major problem in many parts of the world.
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Remember, there are no stupid users. This is common behavior. Yes, it's not "ideal" when considered along a single "safety" dimension. But when you're having a dinner party and you have a really annoying beep b
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Free Cash Flow, conceptually, is the total amount of cash you would have from the company's operations as a single owner of the company in a given year. The importance of free cash flow lies in how capital investment (buying buildings,
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by tvladeck 13y ago
It's the job of CrunchBase and AngelList to separate the wheat from the chaff. There's nothing wrong with hoping a side project becomes a bigger thing, and using available tools to try to make that a reality. Some side projects do
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Product management is a dark art(tomvladeck.com)
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Once Suicidal and Shipped Off, Now Fighting Nevada Over Care(nytimes.com)
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Introducing v10r, a less impractical automated conditional prediction market(tomvladeck.com)
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Coke Engineers its Orange Juice with an Algorithm(businessweek.com)
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by tvladeck 13y ago
> Collaboration with allies is fine but that should come as a distant second to protecting your own [citizen's] interests. What makes you think the NSA is sharing data with Israel for any other reason? We have strategic and human in
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Show HN: Ridesharing for Daily Commuters
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by tvladeck 13y ago
You're not disagreeing. The first step in a startup (as far as my read on this world is concerned) is to identify and validate a real problem that you can solve.
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Save Locky's Dad(savelockysdad.com)
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by tvladeck 13y ago
"Fail" implies it's a priority. Maybe they think this is a bigger problem for their customers?
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Off topic, but if Armstrong is serious about wanting people to leave the company if they're not committed, why not offer buyouts? That would remove one reason why people may decide to stay even if they don't believe in the company
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by tvladeck 13y ago
I have a friend that was /very/ recently diagnosed with type 2 bipolar disorder. She really needs people to speak with, and I'm excited to pass this along to her. Kudos, team!
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by tvladeck 13y ago
> He’s more of a believer that we don’t really think about or even consciously care about the vast majority of our meals. I'm busy. I'm not a good cook. I'm even worse at "keeping a kitchen". I rarely have food a
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Welp. I guess I'm in no place to complain, but I will anyway. My college friends and I were very active users of The Actual Old Reader. We shared a lot of content internally and commented profusely. When Google made the switch to force
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A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95(thisiscolossal.com)
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A "Third Way" in Entrepreneurship(tomvladeck.com)
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by tvladeck 13y ago
I was initially very skeptical of this idea but then I thought: "Well, some of the money that investors would put into a startup would just go employees and other service providers - why not skip a step?" There are definitely alig

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