January 2011
“Any website that encourages unsophisticated investors to buy specific stocks is...”
– cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / How to disrupt Wall Street (via rafer)
+1. Wall Street makes money by separating customers from their money by way of fees, and bonds, ETF’s, and index funds all have the lowest fees out there. If anything, more demand for and competition among ETF’s and index...
Dropbox + picplz!
picplz:
We have added support for Dropbox, a free service that securely backs up your files online and lets you access them from any computer or mobile device. Dropbox+picplz integration is now immediately available for all iPhone, Android and web users. No app update is necessary.
One interesting aspect of this integration is that when you connect picplz with your Dropbox account, your...
WatchLuka acting ridiculous.
Anonymous asked: Can you get someone over at facebook to resolve my facebook problem. No one cares and I am not getting any younger.
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Watchgiantrobotlasers:
This is a search for “crunchies CEO” on twitter.
I think Andrew Mason is going to win Best CEO, but I think Drew will get the most votes.
See, I told you Mason would win, despite the obvious evidence that Drew got the most votes.
WatchThis is a search for “crunchies CEO” on twitter.
I think Andrew Mason is going to win Best CEO, but I think Drew will get the most votes.
How do large tech companies like Google value...
kberger:
How do large tech companies like Google value startups that they acquire? Often we’ll build multiple financial models for a given potential acquisition. One for the standalone company, and one or more for various acquisition scenarios reflecting whatever synergy we expect to see within the company. You can then run a DCF (discounted cash flow) analysis to calculate the NPV of the...
!@$#ing for a living
modernnerd:
Imagine a web publishing platform that costs $10 per month.
$5 of that $10 goes to the platform company for the boring stuff.
The other $5 gets split evenly between the writers, photographers, videographers, designers, and other creative people you follow who also pay to use the platform, up to a maximum of — say — 20 followers, hand-picked by you.
Now imagine if that platform was...
Aaron White: Competition & Class →
aaronwhite:
Having competition is great, personally, I get fired up and motivated into new levels of energy. Friends have seen me “on the warpath”. My productivity & focus seem to double instantaneously. (If I only I could bottle this, and sell it to you, friends)
I recently discovered Proxlet has a new…
There was a company that would leave a comment on every news blogpost about...
The Dropbox Blog » Hack week! →
Read about Dropbox’s Hack Week!
Plus, go and upvote this here on Hacker News.
Public TODO List.
I’m going to be a bit criptic, but I’ll link when appropriate. Here are some milestones for something small I’m working on. I’ll make a similar post whenever I get the next one done.
X_ GAE
__ blog
__ analytics
__ push
__ post
“They stated I was I wasn’t under arrest and so I was not able to contact...”
– Twitter / @Jacob Appelbaum
Read his recent twitter history for a rundown of what’s up.
WatchBattle: Los Angeles looks like Independence Day meets Black Hawk Down. That is to say: it looks super mega awesome. I like movies where the world is actually destroyed. None of this Deep Impact bullshit where the whole movie is a drama around the threat but the actual disaster is seemingly benign.
My hope is that this movie has a depressing ending that sets up a trilogy where the sequel is even...
