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Walmart Waves the White Flag to Apple Pay(aboveavalon.com)
2 points by supster 24d ago|0 comments
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by supster 9y ago
An IPO provides 1) a fundraising opportunity 2) a liquidity event 3) an opportunity to fulfill contractual obligations One of the conditions of their recent debt financing was that they IPO within a certain time frame. If they believe that
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by supster 9y ago
Since Dropbox is making a big push into enterprise, they are hiring a ton of high touch enterprise sales people - who can't scale in the same way an engineer can.
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by supster 9y ago
Accelerated depreciation schedules often have tax benefits compared to linear depreciation schedules. See here for more info: http://www.investopedia.com/walkthrough/corporate-finance/2/...
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by supster 9y ago
So majority of the brokers have brick and mortar operations that can't afford to compete on price. That leaves only the online brokers. Then the next step is to build a brand that attracts customer trust/loyalty, which is what Rob
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by supster 9y ago
The long play is that it actually doesn't cost significant money per trade at an institutional level. The only reason the other major brokers charge you money is because it covers their brick and mortar retail costs (e.g. Scottrade) an
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by supster 9y ago
True, but all major retail brokers sell their order flows to HFTs (e.g. Etrade used to sell its order flow to Citadel), so this is nothing new
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by supster 9y ago
True, but all major retail brokers allow investors to trade on margin (and charge you interest on it), so this is nothing new.
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by supster 9y ago
All the major retail brokers sell their order flow, so you generally eat this cost no matter who you use. In addition, the hidden cost is fractions of a penny on the dollar (so still better than the $5-7 a regular broker charges per trade a
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Forward – Design Your Health(goforward.com)
2 points by supster 10y ago|0 comments
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Health Moves Forward(medium.com)
3 points by supster 10y ago|0 comments
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by supster 10y ago
"The future is wireless!"
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by supster 10y ago
Since you buy the house upfront for cash and hold 10% on the corporate balance sheet, isn't that a significant price & liquidity risk taken (in addition to the usual startup risks)? Because the time at which that house is eventuall
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by supster 10y ago
Actually hedge fund managers tend have a large portion of their net worth invested in the fund also.
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by supster 10y ago
https://www.flexport.com/careers#join
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by supster 10y ago
I would say this one has the most traction so far: http://vapor.codes/ http://vapor.university/
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by supster 10y ago
Swift, the language, is from Apple. IBM simply has built a bunch of tools for Swift and would like to sell consulting services around them.
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by supster 10y ago
You're right, I believe it's on the road map
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by supster 10y ago
1. Inferred static nominal typing with generics 2. 1st class support for Optionals 3. Support for Structs and Classes 4. Native binary & scripting mode 5. Automatic reference counting (instead of garbage collection) 6. Large standard li
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by supster 10y ago
WishCan is incredible - really well done! Any thoughts of open sourcing it? I would love to host a private version for my parents. Thanks.
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by supster 10y ago
During WWII the US government set wage controls, so in order to compete for employees, corporations started offering health insurance benefits. Then after WWII, the US government created tax benefits to corporations for providing health ins
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by supster 10y ago
An insurance company makes money from the difference in premiums collected and expenses paid. Because Oscar is a startup you are right that they have a significant disadvantage in negotiating rates with providers. But they can lower costs i
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by supster 10y ago
Google is in a really interesting spot: - They own a significant stake in Uber via GV (formerly Google Ventures) - They own Google Maps, which everyone relies on at the moment - They own the most advanced self driving car and are closest to
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by supster 10y ago
This is very cool. How do you allocate the money (i.e. into which Vanguard funds and what percentage each)? I understand that you do a risk tolerance test, but how do you diversify among asset classes? Also how are you going about tax loss
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by supster 10y ago
That data and content is (near) worthless if they can't serve up ads against it.
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Uber and Land Wars in Asia(sapan.svbtle.com)
1 points by supster 10y ago|0 comments
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by supster 10y ago
From Quantopian website: "You own your algorithms. Your algorithms are kept secret. Ideas are some of the most valuable assets anyone has. We are committed to protecting your intellectual property and keeping it safe." More import
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by supster 10y ago
> why does your city or your neighbor have to have a say in how you manage your property zoning laws
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by supster 10y ago
If there is no GC, could a language like Rust or Swift still target WASM?
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by supster 10y ago
I have very similar requirements, and I think within the next few years, Swift will fill this niche very well.

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