svskeptic

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by svskeptic 6y ago
And none of them try to lock customers, partners or decision makers from going away in any underhanded way, right? Just pure offer-the-best-and-they-will-stick-with-us. And if someone does it better than us and takes them away from us, sha
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by svskeptic 6y ago
This is great observation and speculation on what could happen and where would it come from. I've had multiple conversations with top-10 VC firm partners during our unsuccessful pitches where one of the sticking points is 'unfair-
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by svskeptic 7y ago
Benchmark, DAG & Lightspeed... all Valley VCs.
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by svskeptic 7y ago
Yet another shiny example of money vs. ethics in the Valley. Also, don't look towards the engineers, who may or may not have known. Look towards the money. Who are the VCs invested in them and how many of them knew and encouraged that
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by svskeptic 9y ago
Lets start with why you think the particular religion you practice is the one? If you think, all are the same, then you are now moving towards existence of a superior being and possibly creationism.
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by svskeptic 9y ago
Why are the investors involved with this company, specifically the board members, that allowed the sexual harassment to go on unchecked not being named and shamed? It was their job to keep the CEO in check. If they looked aside, in the purs
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by svskeptic 9y ago
"roughly what the wholesale price is plus a very small markup" .. is not my experience. I just had a pharmacist friend show this to me. Blink charged the customer $10 for generic Lipitor (atorvastatin) 20mg, 30 pills. And reimburs
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by svskeptic 10y ago
The VCs keep pushing the 'stage ask' further upstream every year. So, what used to be considered good for A round traction/revenue/MAU is now considered Seed and so on up. They'll only want to invest when 'I kn
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by svskeptic 10y ago
'Experiment' with no conceivable way of monetization gets 'investment' for some behind-the-scenes, non-investment reasons. Bros funding Bros, and then bro acquiring bro when the first-bro has blown through 7.1M. Its the
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by svskeptic 10y ago
And NimbleRx, which seemingly is still around, but not listed in any official or unofficial list. With the recent reviews these guys are getting, are they really around?
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by svskeptic 10y ago
There is only one page. The community-created one. As a business, we never created one. If you google "yelp $business", you can find this page today. If you go to yelp.com and search for "$business", it used to be there.
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by svskeptic 10y ago
This absolutely does happen. I have a small business that is facing it right now. I either pay the Yelp tax or they have taken our community-created page with all 5-star reviews completely off the site. Can still find it from Google search,
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by svskeptic 10y ago
For me the big issue is Mark insisting on holding on to the case that this was a good investment. Last time he insisted on calling out the non-believers about tech. This time, he only writes a couple sentences defending the tech and is layi