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by robbfitzsimmons 8y ago
Highly recommended! Watched it on Netflix a few years ago and teared up several times.
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by robbfitzsimmons 9y ago
The scare quotes around "invest" in the parent imply (correctly, in my view) that buying anything with this kind of volatility / lack of intrinsic value is not an investment, rather a speculative bet.
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by robbfitzsimmons 10y ago
Does anybody subscribe to this magazine (1843)? I subscribe to the parent magazine The Economist, and this sounds appealing, but $50 for 6 issues seems steep (and no online subscription).
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by robbfitzsimmons 10y ago
> If you're using AdBlocker, fair play, I don't blame you. But please consider chucking me a couple of quid: https://monzo.me/ewanvalentine Am I missing something? It's a nice set of thoughts, but I can&#x
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by robbfitzsimmons 10y ago
Moises Naim, who wrote this article, is a notable Venezuelan dissident (and was a finance minister before Hugo Chavez took over). I'm just about to start his most recent book, "The End of Power," which is about how hard it is
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by robbfitzsimmons 10y ago
Plus daily $5 lunch specials, which basically sustained me through a startup and grad school...
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by robbfitzsimmons 10y ago
I don't have any such anecdote, but I can't even think up a hypothetical, either. If said bootstrapped company was both "well-executed" and didn't fail because it "didn't have the money," what kind of
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by robbfitzsimmons 10y ago
Instead of going through contortions trying to break bad Slack habits and worrying about the API getting shut off, maybe it's worth checking out something made for the purpose. In the original post from the AgileBits team quoted at the
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by robbfitzsimmons 10y ago
Small point, but the handoff was in early 2014, not 2012.
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by robbfitzsimmons 11y ago
Came here to recommend Hemingway. Even if you keep these values in mind, with a linter it's much easier to do. I haven't yet found a Chrome extension which does Hemingway-esque linting on all text input fields, like Gmail or (god
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by robbfitzsimmons 11y ago
Even taking your skepticism about Chinese investment at face value, having LP involvement is tremendously different from operational involvement or investment committee involvement. Having been involved in LP reporting at a seed fund, I can
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by robbfitzsimmons 11y ago
Ceres = goddess of the harvest (grain, bread) Bacchus = god of the vine (wine) Apollo = god of light (enlightenment / knowledge)
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by robbfitzsimmons 11y ago
Everybody who reads HN should pay Ben Thompson $10/mo for his Daily Update (this is the once-a-week public version). The man's writing has unequivocally had a major impact on my ability to think about technology, and is the only e
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by robbfitzsimmons 11y ago
I actually can't say I really mind the "privacy-invading" here because financial systems are already about the most heavily resold data there is, with the people who are currently charging you the fees (your bank and credit c
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by robbfitzsimmons 11y ago
Really like this. Even the cheapest robo-advisors like Betterment charge 0.1-0.3% on top of the fund fees, which sounds small but eats into gains over time. However, I think the target audience is probably more likely individuals rather tha
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by robbfitzsimmons 11y ago
The only place I regularly use it is at Whole Foods, where it actually works quite well and is a bit faster than a card. And given the glares one gets in the WF line, I would definitely be informed if it was inconveniencing anyone... Howeve
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by robbfitzsimmons 11y ago
This is an awesome attempt at a big problem. My financial data seems one of the most monetizable aspects of my life and I'm particularly reticent to give it to Intuit et al., but never seem to have much of a choice. I'm actually c
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by robbfitzsimmons 12y ago
Amazing how broadly applicable Little's Law is. (I suppose that's why it's a big-L law.) We were just recently using it in business school to look at cycle times in assembly line output.
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by robbfitzsimmons 12y ago
This is a really honest, refreshing post to read. So nice to read a "postmortem" that isn't just posturing. I bet a lot of us hit this moment, over and over again: "We didn’t obsess over it and we didn’t love it. We lov
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
This is a huge factor. They started with Yodlee (basically a paid bank-scraper service with fees that might crush a small startup) and now Intuit has built something in-house. I'd be interested to see what partnership companies like IG
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
I think actually the basic problem with Mint isn't those mentioned in the article (UI is meh, miscategorized transactions, data import customization). It's actually as mentioned in Wesabe's postmortem ( http://blog.
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
The key consideration for me here is "they communicate well." As someone who's just recently started to consider full-time hires beyond our founding team, it's ridiculous how important this is relative to how little it&#
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
Love the art here. The giant crashed robot looks like an homage to "Iron Giant" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Giant ), one of my favorite movies as a kid.
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
I can imagine this having great utility for many businesspeople, but I think anyone mildly privacy or security conscious probably already thinks LinkedIn trends to the spammy. Making them an intermediary to 100% of my email is nuts. On a li
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
+1 for Whitelines (though I've had a bit of crash trouble with their iOS app of late). Frankly, I don't think I'd love to have notes leave my physical possession, if are important enough to pay for scanning in the first place
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
Agreed, this is kind of DOA in my book. The thing that none of the ambient-social apps (this, Highlight, etc.) get is that literally no amount of social data is going to make hangouts happen spontaneously. Once you get the context right (ne
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
This is awesome. For two years, my roommate and I hosted drinks at our house every Wednesday night; the effort of continually remembering to add people to an email list + calling + texting was a drag. We were always trying to find ways to r
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
I continue to be confused about when a README is appropriate for documentation on Github, and when a wiki is preferred, as do my coworkers. (It's a minor bone of contention.) If you have this many pieces that it's hard to keep str
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
I think the key quote for me is about how effective Githubbers are as communicators. Which isn't at all common in our industry. I think about it is as being highly networked. [...] you look at the strength of connections between peopl
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by robbfitzsimmons 13y ago
Reminds me of my favorite Tumblr lately, wtfviz ( http://wtfviz.net/ ).

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