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Research Paper shows Facebook Valuation is in a Bubble(arxiv.org)
3 points by knowsnothing613 14y ago|0 comments
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by knowsnothing613 14y ago
yeah, and Yahoo bought Flickr for hundreds of millions. And Flickr never became a profit center for yahoo. Now, Yahoo is laying off thousands of workers, and is close to dead poool, because of all its malinvestment in web1.5 (flicker, geoc
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by knowsnothing613 14y ago
yeah, but they paid $1 BILLION dollar for a company with NO business model. This buy was just another way for connected Silicon players to cash out on the facebook IPO, since the IPO window for web 2.0 is closed.
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by knowsnothing613 14y ago
Groupon is a ponzi. They need money from new groupons to pay out past groupons. This is why they are constantly buying out smaller companies for new markets, and getting into higher end groupons. If the new money coming in is less than t
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by knowsnothing613 14y ago
My accounting buddy says 'Material Weakness' is code for accounting fraud. If so, it explains why Andrew Mason and Eric Lefkofsky massively cashed out pre-IPO, and may have left everyone else holding the bag.
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by knowsnothing613 14y ago
My accounting buddy says 'Material Weakness' is code for fraud. If so, it'd explain why Andrew Mason and Eric Lefkofsky cashed out before the IPO. Thoughts?
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Has Twitter Been Censoring Posts about a Saudi or American Spring?(i.imgur.com)
10 points by knowsnothing613 15y ago|4 comments
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Zynga below $9.00 after 2nd day of trading
2 points by knowsnothing613 15y ago|0 comments
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Twitter suspands account because of too many posts about NDAA & OWS (businessinsider.com)
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
Facebook is extremely overvalued. You cannot rationalize a 80B market cap for facebook on annual revenues of 2-3B, considering how Zynga's business model is faltering (social gaming fad waning), and a large part of facebook revenue comes
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
The float is too thin to short. That is why all new web 2.0 IPO have thin floats. It's easier for larger stake holders to push the price around, and sucker in ma & pa, and momentum traders. But if you look @ ICI data, common folk are
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
or you can say that investment bank client couldn't find dumb money to offload their shares to on opening day. And Pincus & insiders were probably fcking over investment bank clients by offloading their shares. Investment bank clients
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Zynga closes below IPO price(google.com)
1 points by knowsnothing613 15y ago|0 comments
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WTF: US Government pull Youtube Video for National Security Reason(twitpic.com)
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Did the NSA shut down reddit to limit occupy wallstreet news & organizing(reddit.com)
3 points by knowsnothing613 15y ago|1 comments
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
A large part of Reddit winning was Kevin Rose fumbling while CEO of digg. Reddit had open sourced its code by then, and Digg didn't even bother adding some of the useful functionality.
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Show HN: crowd funded journalism. Kickstarter meets Huffington Post
1 points by knowsnothing613 15y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Comic/Graphic Novel Social Network built with Drupal 7 in 7 days(comicsthegathering.com)
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
this article should do wonders for its IPO /sarc
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
It's part of the built to flip mentality of the VC world. Look @ Groupon for godsake. The sustainability of its business model is dubious, but they still rushed the IPO, so they could flip it to ma & pa. But ma & pa aren't buying,
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
wtf. If you live in Europe, you should be selling Euros and buying property in London/Germany/USA, and prepare for the collapse of fiat currencies. if the ECB prints to bailout the PIIGs, it'll cause hyperinflation, and the disparity betwe
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
seed funding usually provides an 18 month runway before more financing is needed. Mid stage runways are for a 2-5 years. You had a seed/angel funding bubble in 2010, so those companies are likely close to the end of their runways now, so
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
if the EZ fails, there will be a liquidity crisis, and IPO runways will have to be extended, so all seed to mid-stage startups will go bust over the next 8 months, as their cash dwindles, and they can't get financing. Expect massive layoff
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
groupon is a pseudo ponzi scheme. For any market X there exists a high variability for profitable, volume adjusted, daily deals (resource {R}), which people want. After time t, the most desired deals r in resource R are exhausted, leaving b
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Occupy Wall Street Dashboard -- I built with Drupal 7 over the weekend(occupydemocracymovement.com)
2 points by knowsnothing613 15y ago|0 comments
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Groupon: the promise, pitfalls and a cupcake maker's cautionary tale(telegraph.co.uk)
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
And how many of these companies are EBITDA profitable, and not lifestyle companies. I remember the business week cover of Kevin Rose, which gave a similar mythos-narrative. But Digg never lived up to the hype. It flamed out. But in a gol
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
you'd have to adjust for cost of living. Someone living in SanFran, or New York will get paid multiples than someone in the Midwest for the relatively same skill set. Your survey may suffer from selection bias, if most of the respondents ar
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by knowsnothing613 15y ago
It was the best of times (Silicon Valley). It was the worse of times (rest of country).
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Workers Sickened at Apple Supplier in China(nytimes.com)
1 points by knowsnothing613 16y ago|0 comments

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