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by amb23 3y ago
This isn't a great list--it's a lot of fluff, and self-help books masquerading as business content. There are basically two skills you really need to hone in an MBA. The first are the hard skills/knowledge on finance, account
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by amb23 3y ago
We're going to see a lot of smaller startups wind down by the end of the year: I know a few that have either wound down operations, or are in the process of an acqi-hire or asset sale to other firms. Anecdotally, I started hearing the
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by amb23 5y ago
I think “software is eating the world” has evolved into “software is eating barriers to entry.” All these fintech startups are entering a market that software already penetrated years ago--but those first gen tools are clunky, or have so mu
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by amb23 6y ago
Wonder what this will mean for fintech exits in general. Will VC fintech funding start to cool if exits by legacy finance companies look to be subject to higher regulatory scrutiny than previously expected?
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by amb23 6y ago
WSJ has an article on this too: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-ban-on-chinese-stocks-ro... > "The order, which takes effect Monday, bans Americans from trading the securities of dozens of Chinese companies
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by amb23 6y ago
In general you're better off working at a later stage startup if you want reasonable hours. I started working at a startup after it raised a Series A and then left a year after it raised its Series C; in that time I went from working 9
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Ask HN: How can I learn about bringing new technologies to market?
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by amb23 6y ago
The labor of medical residents is something hospital systems exploit during normal times, but that exploitation has severely deepened during the pandemic. At the hospital my partner works at, respiratory therapists and nurses got a $10k bon
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by amb23 6y ago
https://www.harnesswealth.com/articles/promissory-note-progr... What about a system like the one proposed here? This is the only tech startup I’ve heard of that uses an alternative equity system. Agree with your point
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by amb23 6y ago
Salesforce is already a monopoly if you go by volume of revenue earned from CRM. No one other than small/niche SaaS businesses competes directly for CRM business, and any new CRM startups can't get venture funding because it'
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by amb23 6y ago
> I hate to be so blunt, but 50% of the population has IQ below 100. This is by design. IQ scores are a normal distribution with a mean of 100...
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by amb23 6y ago
The problem with prestige is that you, yourself, may not care about it, but those around it still do and still use it for social signaling. That affects the rationality of the decisions you make around your career in serious ways. I think o
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by amb23 6y ago
One of the lead doctors in the UK is saying life will start to look normal in Spring 2021 (albeit, I assume he was referring to the UK alone). There's good reason for cautious optimism & patience. Science has done its job; now we n
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by amb23 6y ago
A few quick takeaways on this- 1 - the DOJ is targeting a product/feature that Plaid hasn't even released: payment processing. That appears to be the reason other fintechs like Stripe/PayPal opposed the deal. Very odd to see
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by amb23 6y ago
What are the business risks to a company like Github when their source code has been released in the wild? Startups treat their code like IP, but I imagine it'd still be incredibly difficult for a competitor to try and build the same t
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by amb23 6y ago
Acceleration stats aside, SUVs are, statistically, much more likely to kill more people--pedestrians and riders alike--than other types of cars. The increasing popularity of SUVs is one of the main reasons behind the rise in pedestrian deat
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by amb23 6y ago
The lineage of technological progress does not follow the same path as commercial development of a pre-existing technology applied to a pre-existing market. We need to be careful not to equate the two. As much as a D2C brand or SaaS startup
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by amb23 6y ago
In order for internet communities to thrive, you need to install some sense of "psychological safety." I'm using this term in the same vein that Google uses when they say that psychological safety is the foundation needed to
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by amb23 6y ago
I don't know how to flag this thread to the mods, but--hey mods, can we lock these comments? It's disheartening to see threads on women/minorities in tech on Hacker News get strong, negative reactions from the community like
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by amb23 6y ago
I blame it on quarantine, but for the past week or so I've really been longing to spend an afternoon in a library. They were one of the best parts of my childhood and teenage years: scanning a shelf and picking out something that catch
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by amb23 7y ago
Mothers--the vast majority of mothers, not the aristocracic ones we model our current family structures off of--have always worked. They'd strap the baby on their back and go to the fields to plow or gather the harvest or cook or weave
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by amb23 7y ago
> Google said it was willing to ‘work with’ Turkey, but as a partner and not as a corporation working within a sovereign nation. It simply said it doesn’t like Turkey’s law, and so it will stop providing Android phones for an entire coun
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by amb23 7y ago
US MBA programs need to start following the European model: Year-long to 16 month programs tailored to a slightly older demographic (late 20s to 30s) who actually need a degree to move a rung higher in their career. The shorter program leng
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by amb23 8y ago
I haven’t found the ingredients to be too expensive for most of the menus honestly, but I also live by a really cheap fruit and veggie store. (A kilo of blackberries isn’t gonna break the budget when it’s $1.00 a carton.) The book’s recipes
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by amb23 8y ago
I would not recommend it for vegetarians as most of their menus have meat as a core dish unfortunately. The idea is translateable to a vegetarian diet; the menus are not.
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by amb23 8y ago
Non-developer here but I might have some insight on general hiring practices: First of all, most companies, startups especially, are really bad at training. Like, really really bad. A majority don’t have any kind of formal training programs
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by amb23 8y ago
If we're on the topic of how to cook rather than just what to cook: I just got A New Way to Dinner (a cookbook from Food52) earlier this summer and have been using it religiously pretty much every week since. It's a strategy guide
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by amb23 8y ago
I'm interested in this difference too, because anecdotally post-workout stretching does reduce soreness for me. One of the two studies referenced in the part about how stretching doesn't prevent DOMS actually did find that stretch
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by amb23 8y ago
MBA programs should adjust to the market by developing more concentrated 1-year degrees in specific disciplines: Finance, Operations, Marketing, Product, etc. The first year of most MBAs are just core courses in various business disciplines
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by amb23 8y ago
In a perfectly rational market, neither mother or father would disproportionately decide to make one choice or another to prioritize or de-prioritize work at the expense or benefit of raising children. Equal numbers of men would be making t

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