joshjkim

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Focused Chaos(focusedchaos.co)
2 points by joshjkim 1y ago|0 comments
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Adept(techcrunch.com)
1 points by joshjkim 2y ago|0 comments
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by joshjkim 5y ago
8VC does some meaningful defense investing - they were founded by Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir) and they are invested in Anduril, and have some folks on the team who specifically focus on defense.
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Index Funds May Harm the Economy(theatlantic.com)
12 points by joshjkim 5y ago|1 comments
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NPR the 2010s: The Rise of Bandcamp(npr.org)
1 points by joshjkim 7y ago|0 comments
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by joshjkim 8y ago
OT (and pretty random, apologies in advance!) but my company is distributed and might be a good fit for your spouse (we're an international e-commerce marketplace) if interested at all or if she'd like to chat, feel free to hit me
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by joshjkim 8y ago
ya, i did the same, took a few tries - i actually ended up reading the pale king first, might be worth trying that. it's shorter (around 500 pages) and i think written in a more digestible/measured manner - still a DFW work, the p
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by joshjkim 8y ago
i immediately fell in love with dostoevsky's work (just finished my third read of TBK), but it took me a long time to get into david foster wallace - now, i think of them as very similar. DFW is known for a lot of things (long books, f
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by joshjkim 8y ago
a few years back i learned that glassdoor was co-founded by Rich Barton who founded both Zillow and Expedia (another interesting fact I didn't know until then: Expedia was a MS spin-off, Rich Barton built in-house at MS and then Gates
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by joshjkim 8y ago
it's normal and you can expect that no matter what, as CEO you'll have phases like this on/off throughout your tenure, for better/worse it is part of the job. that being said, without knowing more details, I'd ventu
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by joshjkim 8y ago
biggest jump ball: Apple/Google/Amazon competing services. spotify deserves real credit for changing how people consume music, and I think that story will serve them well in the short-term, but their biggest risk is Apple/Goo
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by joshjkim 8y ago
you can check this out! https://www.launchaco.com/
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by joshjkim 8y ago
also - all of the above applies to the CEO as well, so if you're not already talking to the non-founder board / investors, then I'd guess the CEO is (or should be).
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by joshjkim 8y ago
a lot of the comments are about the validity/tenability of your position, and while I overall agree with a lot of what is being said (unfortunately, the fact that an adversarial dynamic has been introduced strikes me as the hardest thi
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by joshjkim 9y ago
even worse for spotify: Tim Cook said that Apple isn't particularly interested in on Apple Music turning a profit - when asked the question directly, he responded: "you're right, we're not in it for the money. I think it
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by joshjkim 9y ago
Native Americans used to live in North America, the colonists who became the United states nearly annihilated the native americans, and certainly annihilated their way of life.
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by joshjkim 9y ago
one way scammers make $$ is by using stolen accounts to purchase goods and then re-sell them, but in general they have pretty much one shot before they are found out and the credentials go stale (for their purposes). electronics can be smal
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Kickstarter co-founder and CEO Yancey Strickler will step down this year(techcrunch.com)
2 points by joshjkim 9y ago|0 comments
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Kickstarter-cofounder-and-ceo-yancey-strickler-is-stepping-down(venturebeat.com)
2 points by joshjkim 9y ago|0 comments
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Patreon raises $60m(techcrunch.com)
2 points by joshjkim 9y ago|0 comments
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by joshjkim 9y ago
agreed, very likely a factor as well.
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by joshjkim 9y ago
PS - if you want to know more about IPO road, here's a decent summary: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020916/inside... if you want to dig really deep (like, 284 pages deep), this lays it
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by joshjkim 9y ago
per earlier comment, yes, way more volatile because supply/demand will be less managed - as you say, IPO sets price, and this is done when bankers effectively pre-negotiate price and placement amounts with many institutional investors
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by joshjkim 9y ago
IPOs accomplish two concrete, positive things: 1. raise funds and 2. provide liquidity to investors. they also make a company seem more legit (at least in some cases, and in some circles). on the negative side, IPOs expose the company'
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by joshjkim 9y ago
"TWC has skin in the game to explore a new channel." <-- IMO, piece that holds it all together. all media cos have a huge interest in finding and maintaining channels-that-are-not-Facebook - newspapers/magazines/print
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by joshjkim 9y ago
What people gloss over about soylent on their way to the oft-repeated "it's just like slimfast wtf" point is that it's not the specific product that's interesting/innovative/valuable (it is kinda like slim
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by joshjkim 9y ago
A good example of the durability of religion in the heart of SF/tech: Reality SF, a thriving, fast-growing church in the Castro, made up mostly of under-35 tech professionals. One of my favorite sermons in recent memory is quite relate
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by joshjkim 9y ago
This a good start, but I think there could be a lot more thought given to how we should think about monopolies in the context of markets where networks effects are crucial to the business value (aka. Facebook and Google most obviously, argu
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by joshjkim 9y ago
This is a good start, but I think there could be a lot more thought given to how we should think about monopolies in the context of markets where networks effects are crucial to the business value (aka. Facebook and Google most obviously, a
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by joshjkim 9y ago
surprised there's not more focus about network effects (a nod and link to "aggregation theory", which is more about distribution), and the fact that any social network's value, is tied to that in a big way, and therefore

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