carlosrt

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by carlosrt 12y ago
RE: <The guy built a model, in excel> Do you have a template of that model?
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by carlosrt 12y ago
Wolfram Alpha is another place once can search for that data: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=revenue+per+employee+To...
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by carlosrt 12y ago
Makes one want one of those bike locks that raise your bike 10' into the air, away from thieves. http://youtu.be/kvc0A_cWUCU?t=1m20s
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by carlosrt 12y ago
He might be implying that the cost to rent a car, for 30 minutes, twice a day, would be cheaper than owning an, idle, car 24 hours a day. Or, sharing the ride with three other commuters could bring the total cost of ownership to ~15 minutes
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by carlosrt 12y ago
TL;DR In the broader economy: "Almost every asset is overvalued," For those of you that followed the hashtag #2014GC last week you saw this: "The quantitative easing and the excess money and the low interest rates have driven
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by carlosrt 12y ago
The fellowship, and Hackers program looks promising. However, it appears to leave out a position for the OP's brother. As he mentioned there are many people with deep insight into a problem, but lack the technical resources to execute
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by carlosrt 12y ago
If you're looking for something to contribute to, TheOdinProject looks like a fun project. I saw them on HN a few weeks ago (March 25th). https://github.com/TheOdinProject
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by carlosrt 12y ago
There's ~3 hospitals in the USA that have transparent pricing. If you're interested in disrupting healthcare the founder of The Surgery Center of Oklahoma has a blog on pricing transparency. http://surgerycenterofoklaho
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by carlosrt 12y ago
The speed is what's impressive. One can build a structure in California for a similar price. It seems people often over estimate the hard costs of construction in the first world. It's cheaper than people think. In 2005, at the h
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by carlosrt 12y ago
Instead of spending money on a dev boot camp maybe try going through The Odin Project, and beefing up your github. Then maybe join TreeHouse temporarily just to have them help you find a job. http://www.theodinproject.com/
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by carlosrt 12y ago
It's disappointing when the rich complain about the poors. If you're rich stop complaining about ObamaCare and build a better a better product/service. Billionaires, gather a few of your friends in a room & build a soluti
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by carlosrt 12y ago
Yeah, the $3T the FED printed is accomplishing its purpose of keeping asset values inflated. That being said, remember when everybody said Facebook was overvalued, every time they had a funding round? Well, they never really traded above ~
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by carlosrt 12y ago
One Million By One Million is an accelerator that doesn't take equity: http://1m1m.sramanamitra.com/ http://www.quora.com/Sramana-Mitra-1 Disclosure: I have no affiliation with them.
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by carlosrt 12y ago
Fintech entrepreneurs: If you want to help solve the underfunded pension crisis in the world, and/or help increase the wealth of the bottom 95% work on building a product that allows non-accredited investors to crowd fund real estate,
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by carlosrt 13y ago
Maybe we should also pay people to study math as well. [$10] for each Khan Academy lesson they pass. It'd cost ~$2,500 to educate one person on the entire math curriculum. I think it's plausible, in the future, we will be paying p
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by carlosrt 13y ago
For those of you that didn't realize "Tiny House" was a thing, here's a fb list I created of Tiny Houses: https://www.facebook.com/lists/4064803732495 ph0rque, your AutoMicroFarm side project looks
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by carlosrt 13y ago
>If these firms are buying U.S. debt with that money...> ...then it means these tech companies have not invented the tech necessary to grow the economy.
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by carlosrt 13y ago
Serious question. So what startups would NOT qualify? AirBnB (Hospitality)? SnapTerms (law firm)? Bench.co (accountants)? Opternative (medical office/online eye exams)? Redfin (real estate brokers)? Amazon (retailer)?
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by carlosrt 13y ago
How would you parse lists and tables from a website? e.g. parsing an online schedule in order to use the data in a responsive mobile or native app? Random site example: peoplewhodance.net/events/NYE/schedule.html
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by carlosrt 13y ago
Revenue Multiple would make a more useful chart to me. Broadcast.com had $60M in revenue when they sold. Knowing they sold at ~98x revenue seems more useful to me when pricing a stock.
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by carlosrt 13y ago
There needs to be a emoticon for chortle.
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by carlosrt 13y ago
Yeah, a little while ago there was a Show:HN for movies. It was: http://pegleg.it/ It needs more movies to be added though. Maybe it could automatically search YT for every movie title from IMDB, then verify it with a Mec
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by carlosrt 13y ago
Sort of. If an individual bank has $30M on deposit, then they only have $30M to lend to mortgage borrowers. In order to be able to have $30M in deposit they must have investors invest $3M into the bank (i.e. Tier One Capital must be ~10%
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by carlosrt 13y ago
TheFunded for Peace Officers.
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by carlosrt 13y ago
Calling, works, and is far more effective than clicking a button, says Alexis Ohanian, in this fireside chat at the NationBuilder HQ. Uploaded a couple of days ago: http://youtu.be/ybXKBJ0xDNU?t=10m35s
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by carlosrt 13y ago
SafeWayHealth is one of those. They sell the, cash, price of healthcare procedures to large employers that self insure. This DRASTICALLY reduces the cost of healthcare (e.g. a company pays $800 cash for a colonoscopy, vs. $7,000 via insura
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by carlosrt 13y ago
When I worked at a large bank many years ago, internal calls were verified to be bank employees. It was low tech, but when a bank employee called and asked about a customer we had them verify they were a bank employee by telling them to lo
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by carlosrt 13y ago
"...the poor man’s $550 fridge from IKEA"? I'm sorry, but if one is poor they are not buying $550 fridges from IKEA. They're buying $100 fridges off of Craigslist.
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by carlosrt 13y ago
The time is already here. Anyone can now buy panels at ~$0.50 per watt, from Alibaba. To power a 10,000 watt home costs ~$5,000 in panels. Add $1,000 for an inverter and misc, add another $4,000 for installation labor (I'd pay ~$1,000)
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by carlosrt 13y ago
Having the ability to see everybody that scored in the top 5% for [specific skill] would be nice. Maybe an email to garyeswart@odesk.com is in order.

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