jbduler

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by jbduler 7y ago
This another example of what is called the Master-Slave dialectic from Hegel, an 18th century philosopher. Something that I studied in a philosophy class and had a profound influence on my understanding of work. Please take 10' to unde
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by jbduler 7y ago
Me too. Products cycle too fast those days so there is less need for those great books.
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by jbduler 7y ago
Yes, taxes are related to IP of course. Parking your IP in a country where you have a super low tax rate guarantees paying no or very little taxes using transfer pricing shenanigans back to your home office.
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by jbduler 7y ago
For me it makes total sense to tax Google, Facebook and all others. Why not? What do you to lose? Parking your IP in some remote country, be it Ireland or Turks and Caicos, is fine until you realize that the IP protection is not as bullet p
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by jbduler 7y ago
We were in the same situation 4 years ago for our computer vision company, same team size. We targeted the wrong industry (beauty) and that was a mistake. Lessons to be learned and plenty of contacts for you as we went through the process o
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by jbduler 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Sorry about sounding cynical, that was not the intend. I have just seen a lot of BS over the years and I super careful trying to understand what is behind that smokescreen. Good luck with the venture!
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by jbduler 7y ago
This is a BIG space open for changes. Technically this is not a new entrant, just a different way to recycle capital. Munich Re (one of the top three reinsurers in the world) will provide reinsurance/capital to Vouch or anybody who cou
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by jbduler 7y ago
I love the work, and it is directly applicable to the work I am doing now. Have you published your thesis?
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by jbduler 7y ago
A good IP / trademark lawyer will cost $1,000/hr BUT no lawyer will meet you for an hour. They don't have any answer, need to do some research that is why they will ask for a $50K retainer. And at the end you will be $50K poo
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by jbduler 7y ago
Thank you @andybak, you made my day. Truly admirable document! This is the highest concentration of BS I have ever seen. I have to check who was the VP Marketing and CEO of Pepsi were at the time. They deserve a place in history for having
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by jbduler 7y ago
Look for signals. Pretty simple: the caliber of the CEO, CTO or the caliber and experience of the VP Eng. Then look at the VC's funding the company, and the names of the partners on the board. If top tier VC (say Sequoia, Benchmark, o
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by jbduler 7y ago
Spot on HillRat. You nailed it.
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by jbduler 7y ago
Those contracts are not enforceable. I guarantee you a win 100% of the time in California. There are several exceptions: 1) you are the CEO or a top exec in a VERY large company. In that case your personal lawyers are involved in the negoti
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by jbduler 7y ago
To be more accurate California is an at will state (for everybody: low level employees and CEO's) and non-compete are illegal. Other states are different. It exists to protect the interests of employees. The flipside is if you do resig
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by jbduler 8y ago
Find a connection with an investment banker (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs), or consulting company (McKinsey, etc...). Also an investment advisor would have access to IB reports. They have great detailed industry analysis, deep analysis on
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by jbduler 8y ago
I suggest you reach out to EFN https://www.enterprisefutures.org/ It is non profit, 501C3 designed to link entrepreneurs and advisors. It is FREE and I know there are hundreds of contacts in the midwest.
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by jbduler 9y ago
First, Kuddos to John Carreyrou from the WSJ for great investigative journalism. I’m too tired of all these “fake it till you make it” lines of thought, and it is not only a YC issue, it is pervasive across the valley. Cloning flappy birds,
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by jbduler 9y ago
In the videos series, Khan is excellent: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/multivariable-calculus/mult...
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by jbduler 9y ago
I recommend the excellent (and free) book from Jean Gallier @ the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization. Everything you need to know, all the way up to ma