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Re:Online Storage Company Box Has Strong Debut in First Day ... by hellskitchendev on Friday January 23, 2015 @04:09PM (#8937277)
If anyone is interested in how much the VC's or the CEO made on their investments in Box check out EquityZen's Infographic here: https://equityzen.com/path-to-ipo/box/?utm_source=hackernews...
Re:Online Storage Company Box Has Strong Debut in First Day ... by mtmail on Friday January 23, 2015 @07:02PM (#8938167)
Love the data. Don't like the &utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=box part of the URL. Is commenting really a campaign and worth tracking?
Re:Online Storage Company Box Has Strong Debut in First Day ... by bashinator on Friday January 23, 2015 @08:13PM (#8938412)
In Firefox, you can automatically strip utm[0], but even more fun - there's a utm poisoner for Chrome[1] that replaces the values with garbage.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/au-revoir-utm...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/utm-mangler/ngddln...

Re:Online Storage Company Box Has Strong Debut in First Day ... by hellskitchendev on Friday January 23, 2015 @08:52PM (#8938500)
I like tracking everything. Just curious, why does it bother you?
Re:Online Storage Company Box Has Strong Debut in First Day ... by priorstoner on Saturday January 24, 2015 @01:44PM (#8940481)
Curious: How many clicks did you get?
Re:Online Storage Company Box Has Strong Debut in First Day ... by wodenokoto on Saturday January 24, 2015 @02:41AM (#8939104)
can't this be tracked by referer links?
Re:Online Storage Company Box Has Strong Debut in First Day ... by garysieling on Saturday January 24, 2015 @07:35AM (#8939444)
The referrers get stripped when you come from an https site like HN, so you actually can't
Re:Online Storage Company Box Has Strong Debut in First Day ... by sokoloff on Saturday January 24, 2015 @09:04AM (#8939608)
I love the "eclipse" section on the infographic (showing investment and return). First time I've seen that presentation style, and I think it's very clear.
Re:Online Storage Company Box Has Strong Debut in First Day ... by avn2109 on Saturday January 24, 2015 @08:13PM (#8941702)
Is return proportional to area? Diameter? Some other quantity? These are the same flaws Tufte identified years ago.
Re:Online Storage Company Box Has Strong Debut in First Day ... by ojbyrne on Friday January 23, 2015 @06:14PM (#8937990)
Presumably Levie has a lockup period...