jaksmit

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by jaksmit 8mo ago
what gave you the idea that infant formula is "very healthy". definitely not the case for 99% of infant formula in the USA, it's full of canola oil and crap
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by jaksmit 2y ago
dunno why the writer opted for this: "Our equity packages vest over 3 years instead of the industry standard 4-year period." given it takes a long time to build companies; so on the contrary, many startups are instead opting for l
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by jaksmit 4y ago
i just tried to create a map and it didn’t even support searching by gps coordinates how therefore am i supposed to find a place i’ve identified on google maps?
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by jaksmit 5y ago
thanks and thanks for the headsup!
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by jaksmit 5y ago
Here is a reply to this tweet thread, posted on behalf of an incarcerated person (christopherhavensmath.com): "I don't quite agree with much of what is said, but it does also have some truth to it. The fact is that many people pub
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by jaksmit 5y ago
If anyone is interested in number theory and would like to help some incarcerated people that are working on a number theory paper: I'm a director of the Prison Math Project: http://prisonmathproject.org/ We have a few
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by jaksmit 5y ago
yes. look at France
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by jaksmit 6y ago
check out discoverbooks.com - the cheapest used book site i’ve found. by far sold books as cheap as like $2 and with free shipping
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by jaksmit 6y ago
the name has leaked. It's Craig Shapiro from Collaborative Fund and Craig has replied on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cshapiro/status/1317212694529802242
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by jaksmit 6y ago
that's the same with many startups, that you'd need to work longer and for less salary. but more potential upside on equity. they would have been telling you that the equity could be worth more in the future if they IPO etc. not t
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by jaksmit 6y ago
I'd argue that it's almost certainly NOT valued on a multiple of revenue at this stage. still a lot about the founder, market size, story etc
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by jaksmit 6y ago
Pretty useless, over-generalizing piece. I wouldn't have been able to build my startup to the size it became without venture capital support.
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by jaksmit 6y ago
yeah and PE is not VC...
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by jaksmit 6y ago
Naval isn't CEO any more
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Blackstone is acquiring mobile ad company Vungle(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jaksmit 7y ago|0 comments
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by jaksmit 8y ago
Here’s how i did something similar a few years ago, using Linkedin ads: https://thehustle.co/the-linkedin-hack-that-made-me-120000
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by jaksmit 9y ago
100x the price paid "during the period Slack was down" probably doesn't amount to much money. E.g. if you're down for an hour, that would likely void the SLA, but refunding for 100 hours is not much money vs how much a c
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by jaksmit 9y ago
QuestNutrition does multiples more revenue than RXBar. Hundreds of millions in revenue (over $400m): https://mixergy.com/interviews/quest-nutrition-with-tom-bily...
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by jaksmit 9y ago
6x revenue has been a standard multiple for other exits in the health foods space. Including things like Epic Protein Bars, which was bought by General Mills.
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by jaksmit 9y ago
this example is extremely over generalized. Dyslexia comes in different forms and can manifest through a varience in ability on a scale of things, including math ability, remembering a sequence of numbers backwards etc. not everyone who is
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by jaksmit 10y ago
Naval is one of the top spiritual and investing thought-leaders in silicon valley
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by jaksmit 10y ago
The Great Suspender has been around for a long time; I posted it to Product Hunt ~2 years ago: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/the-great-suspender it's pretty good. I don't really use the auto mode much, but
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by jaksmit 10y ago
Jeremy hustled really hard to raise this fund. I look forward to seeing the awesome investments that he makes
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by jaksmit 11y ago
@cmikec it wasn't just split tests on the messaging. if you signed up last week you ONLY got texts telling you to sign up to a payment plan. If you sign up today then it offers you the paid version OR the free version
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by jaksmit 11y ago
I tweeted about this last week and was surprised no one else noticed sooner: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F_... their roll out of this pivot has been a disaster: 1) Last week the homepage was sa
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by jaksmit 11y ago
for one, you don't know how the environment and access to capital might change. So it might make sense to take some cash whilst it's available.
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by jaksmit 11y ago
Kind of funny for people to say that a new startup launching a fund means there's a bubble. That's exactly what Twilio have been doing even since 2010: https://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/got-a-twilio-base
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by jaksmit 11y ago
"RFE process ("request for evidence" – when USCIS asks you to provide more information) always occurs" this is not true. I got my O-1 visa without any RFE.
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by jaksmit 11y ago
@woof : I'm pretty sure that running ads with the person's face who you want to target isn't how linkedin intended their ad-system to be used!
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by jaksmit 11y ago
@bmir-alum-007 : sure, you have some good points. Don't worry, I haven't bought a Ferrari.

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