inthewoods

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by inthewoods 2y ago
I dunno - I heard about tariffs in every single Harris speech. I don't get ads because of my location, but they were clearly saying it.
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by inthewoods 2y ago
Many corporations pay so low that people have to be on assistance even though they are gainfully employed. Thus, corporations off-load their costs onto the American taxpayer. This is also true for some people in the US military.
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by inthewoods 3y ago
Yes agreed - the internationalization of the college application process has changed everything. The other factor is that when you have such competitiveness, you start seeing a professionalization of the process - so admissions consultants,
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by inthewoods 3y ago
Simple: he's crushed because he had a dream of going there - he wasn't framing it as "I'm better than everyone else." As I mentioned, it is his dream running into reality. So saying "not being in the 0.1% as a
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by inthewoods 3y ago
What I'm really curious about is how he got into Stanford, a school that famously no one gets into, given what we know about him. Not to say he's not smart or interesting - he's clearly a good writer - but I don't see wh
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by inthewoods 3y ago
Oh where there's a will (and a profit) there's a way. See this story about bags of nickels stored turned out to be filled with rocks. https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgans-nickel-bags-turned...
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by inthewoods 3y ago
If you're concerned about those things, then I get it. I'm not - I've never had an issue.
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by inthewoods 3y ago
"Second, I also don't get how people trust strangers with intimate details of their thought life." Pretty simple: legal barriers to revealing that information creates an open space for discussing those thoughts that you don&#
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by inthewoods 3y ago
Binance, Coinbase, et al: "We'd like new rules from the SEC/CFTC to let us crime." SEC: "No." Binance et al: "You're stopping innovation!" SEC: "You're going to jail."
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by inthewoods 4y ago
He got the payout of $480m as a settlement for stepping down. But he also got a $1b when Softbank bought out shareholders: "Neumann led WeWork to a failed attempt at an initial public offering in 2019 and was ousted shortly afterward.
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by inthewoods 4y ago
VCs talk a game about being ethical, but let's be real - if it works they probably don't care. Uber is a great example of this - the rules can be bent to serve the purpose.
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by inthewoods 4y ago
I think that if you have free/easy money, with low risk of a meaningful downside (e.g. going to jail), and there is increasing competition from other VCs with access to the same money, then you greatly increase the risks you're wi
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by inthewoods 4y ago
I like the idea of there being some requirement on student spending for these educational institutions to maintain their tax-free status. Not dissimilar from requiring insurance plans to spend a set percentage (say 85%) on healthcare vs. ad
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by inthewoods 4y ago
As someone who was involved in the creation of Infini-D back in the day, I can only say that this brought a smile to my face and that I've shared it with the whole original team. Thank you! Thank you!
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by inthewoods 5y ago
Many of the large companies will say "we have a complex sales cycle" (and they often do) and leverage multi-touch attribution models which removes the direct ROI calculation.
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by inthewoods 5y ago
It wasn't the pricing model - when I went to the website originally all the pricing levels were the same - it looked like a template that hadn't been updated. I have no issue with charging for value.
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by inthewoods 5y ago
Performance marketing is essentially the only way most startup marketers can go. The reason is that they generally have 6 to 12 months to prove themselves as performance marketers. Generally the CEO has sold some insane growth model to the
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by inthewoods 5y ago
"Also, as another member pointed out, Airbnb's performance marketing budget is still well over $200M/year, which no responsible/public company would spend if it wasn't returning a great ROAS. Finally, Airbnb is know
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by inthewoods 5y ago
Natural outcome of all internet advertising based models imho.
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by inthewoods 5y ago
This is the fundamental issue with all advertising-based models. Eventually, they all run into the problem of having to continue to grow. The only way to continue to grow is to display more ads, thus compromising the user experience, which
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by inthewoods 5y ago
Usegravity looks interesting - but the pricing page really made me stop taking it seriously.
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by inthewoods 5y ago
One interesting theory I've heard on this is that, given there are about 6400 accounts with 1000+ ETH, that these folks essentially don't recognize the amount of money they're using to buy this stuff. In other words, it'
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by inthewoods 5y ago
Some compelling reasons - I think most of them can be addressed in Excel, but the reality is most people don't know how Excel really works or how to do anything complex in it. Having said that, as your need to batch process numbers goe
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by inthewoods 5y ago
I don't have this experience at all - first, I have slide decks that have 100s of slides and it works fine. I have no issue finding documents either - however I do struggle with the invites to documents inside of Gmail.
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by inthewoods 5y ago
on24 is perhaps one of the worst events platforms I've every experienced or worked with. They seem to have changed little about their platform in a long time. More comparable would be gotowebinar or webinarninja.
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by inthewoods 5y ago
Morningstar and S&P are not academic institutions. If you have data to refute what they're saying, I'd welcome it.
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by inthewoods 5y ago
That's great but you didn't answer one question I asked - mutual funds or hedge funds? AUM or performance?
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by inthewoods 5y ago
Most active manager performance is mean reverting. They have a good year, and then there is little evidence of persistence in their future returns. Here's a larger study from S&P: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji&#x2F
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by inthewoods 5y ago
So you're saying the same funds always have the top performance? Or have the top AUM? And are you talking about hedge funds or mutual funds?
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by inthewoods 5y ago
No I didn't - it's easy to research. See the articles I reference above.

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