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by rhiltd 18y ago
I was studying marketing when the 'super premium pet food' segment was invented. The idea that dog and cat were prepared to paid $US 3 per 4oz can of food was amazing. At the time the best steak or fish was about $7 /lb This could be a mul
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by rhiltd 18y ago
Compared the the influence the Paypal gang the M$-types are just irrelevant in retirement as they are in computing science.
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by rhiltd 18y ago
Tridge is considers Australia's best hacker. But he has no interest in forming any company. The only time he was convinced was to help form a company was with Linuxcare. Along with Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP), Martin Pool (Apache), Paul 'Rus
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by rhiltd 18y ago
Sydney, Australia has had Beer 2.0 for about a year and before that Dinner 2.0 But any time to talk startup over berr is cool
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by rhiltd 18y ago
Why do people keep repeating that FB is 'worth' $15 Billion? Is it an American thing for self-delusions? FB as a business has the same credibility as a Washington Mutual AAA rated CDO.
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by rhiltd 18y ago
Concentrated Solar Thermal is more than 90% efficient. Ausra has a 175Mw base-load plant in construction. A number of Gigawatt plants will be made within a few years. In China, there are 30 million solar hot water systems capturing the en
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by rhiltd 19y ago
Why on Earth would ANY startup want to play "Treasury" like a large corporation? Using the KISS Principle an 'normal' bank account is much better. We all have better things to worry about than an extra 1% return on 'cash'. As Warren Buff
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by rhiltd 19y ago
You must remember the authors are government IP bureaucrats. These are the people who make IP lawyers look exciting and rational. IP Australia would NEVER suggest that people actually DO SOMETHING without spending $100K on legal and consul
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by rhiltd 19y ago
That's easy. My wife has PhD in Statistics and works for a large bank. She spends her life building predictive models using archetypes. She has made hundreds of millions in revenue for the bank but now is working with the Australia Feder