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by newsum 8y ago
so many haters on this comment thread. Just read and stop hating. https://www.thestreet.com/investing/nasdaq-all-in-on-blockch...
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Show HN: Real-Time Crypro Alerts for Telegram, Slack, and Messenger(icowatchdog.com)
2 points by newsum 9y ago|0 comments
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by newsum 9y ago
again, just because there's speculators on a secondary market buying and selling doesn't mean it's a security. a commodity future option is by default NOT the commodity. In the case of a token – you own the commodity and you
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by newsum 9y ago
quick thought experiment: If I presell tickets to my music festival to a reseller who in turn profits in selling it to festival goers, you're basically saying my tickets were securities and need to be registered with the SEC. you see h
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by newsum 9y ago
right. which only pertains to a DAO token – not the vast majority of Ethereum tokens out there.
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by newsum 9y ago
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/security.asp "It represents an ownership position in a publicly-traded corporation (via stock), a creditor relationship with a governmental body or a corporation (represent
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Show HN: AudioShot, share music from the iOS keyboard(audioshot.com)
1 points by newsum 12y ago|0 comments
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by newsum 12y ago
nice read. especially about determining the candidates baseline and assessing how fast they grow from there.
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by newsum 12y ago
nor does hoping/praying to get into YC so you can build the company of your dreams. take risks, calculated of course.
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by newsum 12y ago
Exactly. move into your mother's house. become a 1099 contractor at $100/hr+. save, save, and save. a year later there's your bootstrap funds + credit cards, excess of 100K. Outsource design/dev if necessary, launch it,
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by newsum 13y ago
if someone stole your idea. it wasn't a good idea. not to say you couldn't make you alot of money off of it, but really you came up with a predictable idea any analytical or entrepreneurial individual would derive given the contex
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by newsum 13y ago
http://www.mta.info/nyct/rules/rules.htm#restricted See Section 1050.9 (d)
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by newsum 13y ago
it is illegal to switch from one car to another car (regardless if the train is in motion or not). that's a crime/fact, in NYC of course.
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by newsum 13y ago
I would agree with the fashion profiling argument, but I had a (black) friend arrested on his way to a job interview in a suit for switching subway cars. The only reason he switched the subway cars was due to a homeless person smelling up t
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by newsum 13y ago
Time = Money only for ideas that are easily reproducible. if you truly found a niche it's nearly impossible for another business to execute it the same way.
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by newsum 13y ago
My thoughts exactly. Just save, bootstrap, launch and raise a large Series-A round. $150K for most companies is still not enough.
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by newsum 13y ago
Yes, because buying merch and donations are one-time deals. No one is buying the same shirt from their favorite band every month but they are sure listening to their music every month. And if the the lionshare of my own subscription is goin
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by newsum 13y ago
he/she didn't exactly mean "2 indie artists"...just listening to bands who had an extremely low percentage of streams on Spotify.
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by newsum 13y ago
guys, gals, ladies and gentlemen. The valuation is purely greed. A raw human emotion not governed my logic or common sense. There's no financial model that will be able to justify Snapchat at $3bln. So stop using logic to justify and&#
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by newsum 13y ago
you really believe NYC is taking in more low income residents? Exactly where are they moving into? Remember, they destroyed a couple blocks of section 8 housing to build the new Brooklyn Nets arena.
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by newsum 13y ago
cannot agree more. in my opinion, regardless of the statistics drop in crime is primarily attributed to exuberant increase of the cost of living especially in the historically impoverished neighborhoods from the 1980s and on. (i.e. Bushwick