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PBS documentary on Paul Tudor Jones from 1986:

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/XH5W4vffBbY

Sorry that the first 10 seconds are shady japanese yogurt commercials, last time I looked the videos were $300 on ebay reportedly because PTJ had gone around buying up all the tapes (maybe the glasses?)

Re:Business Class: Freemium for News? on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @06:57AM (#2513436)
Perhaps that's a good starting point for business class
Good luck Sean
>>> That won't happen

Better take another look at Dodd Frank

What happens to all these payments startups when credit card fees go from 3% => 0.3%?
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Re:Facebook open sources its servers and data centers on Friday April 08, 2011 @01:46PM (#2424873)
Now if only there was a company whose non-core competency was Google-style spelling check

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251071.aspx

That makes sense, but why don't you just say that you make "[your cateogry] simple" instead of saying "we are the [successful, unrelated product] for [your category]"? The benefit being that you won't have to write two paragraphs to explain it to people.
Re:Facebook launches overhauled comment system on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @02:15PM (#2276783)
And at 30:15 he talks about the potential implications of Facebook entering the comments space. His point is that it validates the market.
Re:Facebook launches overhauled comment system on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @02:02PM (#2276712)
That will be the best thing that's happened to blog comments in 5 or 6 years.
Yeah, I realize one of the Clustrix guys got a lukewarm reception when he compared to MongoDB a month or so ago, but I am genuinely curious about the advantages of this (ElephantDB) versus Voldemort or other alternatives.
Re:Non-intuitive Examples of Compounding Returns on Thursday February 10, 2011 @10:22AM (#2202162)
Even assuming dollar cost averaging, the return is negative after taxes and inflation.
Re:Why Peter Thiel is wrong about search being a natural monopoly on Saturday February 05, 2011 @02:31PM (#2183807)
This video has Thiel's comments:

http://bigthink.com/series/62#!selected_item=4845

He starts at 8 mins in, and although the whole video is 2 hours long, he makes a bunch of major points in the first 3 to 4 minutes of his talk, after which he answers questions for 3 to 5 minutes.

His central point is that there is a lot of potential value in getting the fixed costs of the search business down, and that he would prefer to invest there, rather than in playing the zero sum game of trying to take away make share in the $25 Bln search business.

Also worth noting: anybody who can lower the fixed costs of search by an order of magnitude is also going to be in a position to make money from businesses that have similar cost structures.

Re:You Dont Need a Good Idea To Start a Great Company on Thursday January 27, 2011 @02:09PM (#2149045)
It's true some successful company are the results of serious pivots. But I bet some 80% of them are the result of an initial good idea.

The successful ones that are a result of an initial good idea are a strict subset of the ones that choose a promising market.

Re:Eric Schmidt, in Control on Sunday January 23, 2011 @03:32PM (#2133255)
Sometimes less is more
Re:Wolfram Alpha API now free and open on Saturday January 22, 2011 @07:40AM (#2130350)
Beware: The free development account is allowed a maximum of 2,000 calls per month

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