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by veyron 14y ago
Please accept my apology for shouting. Many threads regarding the Facebook IPO are littered with people repeating the same idea that Facebook was forced to go public, based on a faulty understanding of SEC regulations. And no one, especial
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by veyron 14y ago
Which part? "Everyone is blaming NASDAQ for issues that are not inherently NASDAQ's fault." The IPO was delayed during the day because of Morgan Stanley (asking customers not to dump at the open). NASDAQ is not buying shares and hence is n
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by veyron 14y ago
Facebook was not required to go public. I've posted this many times, including http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753915 They were required to make disclosures but no one forced them to go public. Plenty of companies have more than 500
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by veyron 14y ago
The roadmap is fairly clear. You would first have to set up an ATS (which really doesnt require too much, but it does involve regulatory and paperwork hurdles) The main advantage is that you can disrupt the exchange business. The disadvan
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by veyron 14y ago
Everyone is blaming NASDAQ for issues that are not inherently NASDAQ's fault. The IPO "flopped" not because of the exchange but because demand wasn't there. Switching to NYSE won't magically change the price (and I'm pretty sure the price
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by veyron 14y ago
Is there any way to disable this?
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by veyron 14y ago
Your mistake was buying into FB. Honestly it will take a major acquisition to reach 38.
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by veyron 14y ago
Was about to comment that you misspelled Kirchhoff but it appears there's a different Kerckhoffs's principle.
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by veyron 14y ago
Does the DMCA have a provision allowing BMF to be sued for improper claim? If so, someone should actually challenge them.
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by veyron 14y ago
Drop in the bucket ...
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by veyron 14y ago
Also let's not forget about hard links, so that even if you 'rm' the file it will still reside ...
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by veyron 14y ago
Gupta and Rajaratnam are the ones that were chosen to fall. The crimes are perpetrated on a daily basis by a whole slew of individuals and firms, but someone had to walk the plank to create the illusion that something is being done.
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by veyron 14y ago
He got his FU money.
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by veyron 14y ago
minimum is 50 bucks, so i doubt you are getting anything
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by veyron 14y ago
Ah http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4104642 That was posted an hour after my post :)
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by veyron 14y ago
Thiel wouldn't let his kids skip college unless they had a blockbuster idea. I thought there was an article recently which showed one of his job offers actually required a college degree.
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by veyron 14y ago
I think the term 'bubble' is sensationalist. The author is trying to say that crowdfunding is not a panacea and can do things the normal paradigm wouldn't support, but at one point people may do something stupid and back projects that shou
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by veyron 14y ago
The problem is twofold: 1) for customers price is more important than UX 2) price is a relationship, not discovery, game You can't get access to the really deep deals without relationships, and if you are not the primary you have to undercu
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by veyron 14y ago
The reality is a bit murkier. Usually a hedge fund "leaks" info to the journalists (someone familiar with the matter is the standard euphemism) which is sufficiently plausible so as to become the reality
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by veyron 14y ago
If US really legalizes online gambling Zynga is not the best play. IMHO MGM Resorts (MGM) or Las Vegas Sands (LVS) are better plays if you are bullish.
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by veyron 14y ago
I think the complaint focused on other costs that were pushed onto the author. If amazon presented a larger cost structure (increase their per-unit charge) but covered costs like content delivery, I don't think the author would have as muc
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by veyron 14y ago
The 3GS phones are still being sold. It would be a real surprise if it didn't support a product currently on the market ...
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by veyron 14y ago
They dont open source the latest version. Tech 5 already came out.
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by veyron 14y ago
I don't think you directly told anyone that Facebook would be a $100B company. There are plenty of wall street analysts (like Lou Kerner from Wedbush, who called for $200B facebook) to do that dirty work. But if some analysts are pumping F
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by veyron 14y ago
This is deceptive. The entire reason the late stage guys invested in higher valuations is because the early stage guys convinced them it was worth more. You can't say before the IPO that the company is worth 75 B or 100B and then after the
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by veyron 14y ago
You have to work backwards. The penultimate round of investors depend on future investors to buy in at a higher valuation. The third to last group depend on the second to last group. And you can walk this all the way back to the seed stage
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by veyron 14y ago
Facebook IPO disaster, coupled with Yelp and Groupon and the others, is the real death knell. PG's letter merely states the obvious. The goal of the VC game is to get 10x+ returns. That only happens for early or mid-stage investors if the
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by veyron 14y ago
Sage covers many things, including symbolic algebra. TMK R does not handle those well ...
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by veyron 14y ago
Sum[x^2,{x,1,y}]-y*(y+1)*(2*y+1)/6 mathematica correctly handles this: $ math Mathematica 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) Copyright 1988-2010 Wolfram Research, Inc. In[1]:= Sum[x^2,{x,1,y}]-y*(y+1)*(2*y+1)/6
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by veyron 14y ago
Vc Money represents a seal of approval. The externalities are far more important in this case.

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