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Linux vs. Bullshit (m.linuxjournal.com)
1 points by jstanderfer 13y ago|0 comments
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What do you make as a manager(medium.com)
1 points by jstanderfer 13y ago|0 comments
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The iPhone Killed My Creativity(readwrite.com)
2 points by jstanderfer 13y ago|0 comments
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The cult of ideas(pandodaily.com)
1 points by jstanderfer 14y ago|0 comments
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The smartest guys in the same damn room(pandodaily.com)
2 points by jstanderfer 14y ago|0 comments
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by jstanderfer 14y ago
No one doubts that Amazon's customers love them and that Amazon is growing revenue at an incredible rate. The question is when and if will this revenue growth translate into increasing margins? Revenue growth without profit has very little
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AdTrap aims to block all Internet advertising in hardware(gizmag.com)
1 points by jstanderfer 14y ago|0 comments
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by jstanderfer 14y ago
Zynga is structured such that Mark Pincus has a majority of the voting shares (50.15% to be exact). This means he cannot be fired nor can any takeover occur without his consent.
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Dell Q2 Revenue Down 8% With Further Drops Expected In The Third Quarter(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jstanderfer 14y ago|1 comments
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by jstanderfer 14y ago
HN is focusing far too much on the employee stock options. Once any company gets into a "dire financial situation", the options are already completely worthless. The worse alternative would have been to not restructure and just shut down t
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I hope the iTV rumors are true(johnstanderfer.com)
1 points by jstanderfer 14y ago|0 comments
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by jstanderfer 14y ago
LPs commit money to new funds before the first investment is ever made. What type of information does the seller (VC) have that the buyer (LP) does not?
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by jstanderfer 14y ago
Read "The Hedge Fund Mirage" by Simon Lack
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by jstanderfer 14y ago
My interpretation is that OP is not arguing that BigCo's aren't currently making money. Instead he's saying that the amount of resources being pumped into the ecosystem (financing, incubators, startups) is significantly larger than what is
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Manipulate Machines, Not People(johnstanderfer.com)
55 points by jstanderfer 15y ago|21 comments
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
The last question of the FAQ is this: >Can I export my Space’s to Wordpress, Tumblr, Blogger, or >another service? >Over the coming weeks we’ll provide you with specific >instructions for exporting your content to other serv
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
There is a flaw in this argument. First they say that 56% of companies started in 2004 were still in business in 2010. Then they reference the VC rule of thumb that 4 of 5 companies will flounder and dismiss VC companies as being "riskier"
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
Having lived in Silicon Valley, Seattle and Austin, my estimation is that the amount of money required for a family to live the same lifestyle (owning similar level home, access to good schools, reasonable commute, etc.) in Austin as in Sil
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Ten years later, Windows XP still dominates the Web(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by jstanderfer 15y ago|0 comments
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
To simplify - Spotify can never be profitable because they do not create or own the product they are selling. Also, the product they are selling is not a commodity so they cannot source alternate suppliers. Why is this a surprise?
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Debt - The Opiate of America(johnstanderfer.com)
1 points by jstanderfer 15y ago|0 comments
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Penn State, my final loss of faith(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by jstanderfer 15y ago|0 comments
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
Reminds me of when I first got a modem and was able to connect to local BBSes and discovered shareware. Huge selection of things that sounded cool but only ended up running once or twice.
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
This isn't completely accurate is Be Inc. did successfully IPO in 1999 and won a lawsuit against Microsoft.
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
Agree. What's even stranger is how differently we treat different types of deaths. Anything terrorist related is something that needs to be prevented from happening again, regardless of the costs. Yet as many people die each and every mo
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Groupon may need more cash from its investors prior to IPO?(pehub.com)
1 points by jstanderfer 15y ago|0 comments
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
Can't we wait for reviews of the actual shipping product before making sweeping conclusions about its pros and cons?
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
This article confuses volatility with liquidity. Restrictions on who can buy/sell and how often increase volatility at the expense of liquidity because it shrinks the potential pool of buyers and sellers. Real volatility is not waking up o
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
When you've sold yourself as a growth story, the reasons for the decline don't matter to Wall Street. Sell side analysts build complex earnings projections models based on estimated compounding growth rates. Even a slight reduction in the
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by jstanderfer 15y ago
If they were already public, this would likely cause a huge drop in the stock price. Similar to what happened to Netflix when they guided down on number of subscribers.

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