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riffer on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @08:33PM
from the online.wsj.com dept.
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riffer on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @08:43AM
from the ethanzuckerman.com dept.
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?)
Perhaps that's a good starting point for business class
>>> 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%?
Posted by
riffer on Friday April 29, 2011 @07:17PM
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riffer on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @04:31PM
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riffer on Thursday April 21, 2011 @04:28PM
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riffer on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @05:16PM
from the nytimes.com dept.
Posted by
riffer on Monday March 07, 2011 @03:06PM
from the mercurynews.com dept.
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.
And at 30:15 he talks about the potential implications of Facebook entering the comments space. His point is that it validates the market.
That will be the best thing that's happened to blog comments in 5 or 6 years.
Posted by
riffer on Saturday February 26, 2011 @10:51AM
from the searchenginecaffe.com dept.
Posted by
riffer on Sunday February 20, 2011 @01:13PM
from the mir-in-action.blogspot.com dept.
Posted by
riffer on Sunday February 20, 2011 @11:12AM
from the guardian.co.uk dept.
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.
Even assuming dollar cost averaging, the return is negative after taxes and inflation.
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.
Posted by
riffer on Saturday February 05, 2011 @10:13AM
from the cdixon.org dept.
Posted by
riffer on Thursday January 27, 2011 @04:01PM
from the bryce.vc dept.
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.
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