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by khmel 14y ago
I saw another name for viral growth factor K-factor K-factor = i * c i = number of invites sent by each customer (e.g. if each new customer invites five friends, i = 5) c = percent conversion of each inbvite (e.g. if one in five invitees c
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How to Model Viral Growth: The Hybrid Model(linkedin.com)
3 points by khmel 14y ago|1 comments
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by khmel 14y ago
those were very clever people who understand behavioral economics
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by khmel 14y ago
Maybe, there was similar cases few years ago - when shares prices go up when people started political campaigns or just made photo with President. This is what VC-guys called 'create momentum' - every investor starts to believe that smth is
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by khmel 14y ago
this is example of Halo effect when our judgments of a person’s character can be influenced by our overall impression of him or her. Investors think that father's company will work well because of son's popularity
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by khmel 14y ago
It's not just Korea, there're similar cases in prices Chinese walnuts recently or 17-century Dutch tulips. Invstors are also people that have some behaivoral biases :) sometimes guys just get bored with their usual investment tools
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Investing "Gangnam Style"(economist.com)
58 points by khmel 14y ago|20 comments
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by khmel 14y ago
I agree
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by khmel 14y ago
Google's 'Scientologist' principle that what's true is what's true for you is true. Google shifted from relevancy conception to 'value' conception. Probably, they have some data that this makes users more satisfied in average. I agree that
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How useful is Twitter sentiments analysis for stock market predictions?(venturebeat.com)
2 points by khmel 14y ago|0 comments
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by khmel 14y ago
Patents bring the following trade-off: inventor monopoly defendence vs. block of progress\future use cases utilizing patent. So patents both are enforcing and slowing innovation. This could be fixed with with the following solution that wil