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Highly recommended! Watched it on Netflix a few years ago and teared up several times.
Finally, a WSJ link that's not behind a paywall! /s
The scare quotes around "invest" in the parent imply (correctly, in my view) that buying anything with this kind of volatility / lack of intrinsic value is not an investment, rather a speculative bet.
Does anybody subscribe to this magazine (1843)? I subscribe to the parent magazine The Economist, and this sounds appealing, but $50 for 6 issues seems steep (and no online subscription).
> If you're using AdBlocker, fair play, I don't blame you. But please consider chucking me a couple of quid: https://monzo.me/ewanvalentine Am I missing something? It's a nice set of thoughts, but I can't imagine paying…
Moises Naim, who wrote this article, is a notable Venezuelan dissident (and was a finance minister before Hugo Chavez took over). I'm just about to start his most recent book, "The End of Power," which is about how hard…
Plus daily $5 lunch specials, which basically sustained me through a startup and grad school...
I don't have any such anecdote, but I can't even think up a hypothetical, either. If said bootstrapped company was both "well-executed" and didn't fail because it "didn't have the money," what kind of reasons would you…
Instead of going through contortions trying to break bad Slack habits and worrying about the API getting shut off, maybe it's worth checking out something made for the purpose. In the original post from the AgileBits…
Small point, but the handoff was in early 2014, not 2012.
Came here to recommend Hemingway. Even if you keep these values in mind, with a linter it's much easier to do. I haven't yet found a Chrome extension which does Hemingway-esque linting on all text input fields, like…
Even taking your skepticism about Chinese investment at face value, having LP involvement is tremendously different from operational involvement or investment committee involvement. Having been involved in LP reporting…
Ceres = goddess of the harvest (grain, bread) Bacchus = god of the vine (wine) Apollo = god of light (enlightenment / knowledge)
Everybody who reads HN should pay Ben Thompson $10/mo for his Daily Update (this is the once-a-week public version). The man's writing has unequivocally had a major impact on my ability to think about technology, and is…
I actually can't say I really mind the "privacy-invading" here because financial systems are already about the most heavily resold data there is, with the people who are currently charging you the fees (your bank and…
Really like this. Even the cheapest robo-advisors like Betterment charge 0.1-0.3% on top of the fund fees, which sounds small but eats into gains over time. However, I think the target audience is probably more likely…
The only place I regularly use it is at Whole Foods, where it actually works quite well and is a bit faster than a card. And given the glares one gets in the WF line, I would definitely be informed if it was…
This is an awesome attempt at a big problem. My financial data seems one of the most monetizable aspects of my life and I'm particularly reticent to give it to Intuit et al., but never seem to have much of a choice. I'm…
Amazing how broadly applicable Little's Law is. (I suppose that's why it's a big-L law.) We were just recently using it in business school to look at cycle times in assembly line output.
This is a really honest, refreshing post to read. So nice to read a "postmortem" that isn't just posturing. I bet a lot of us hit this moment, over and over again: "We didn’t obsess over it and we didn’t love it. We…
This is a huge factor. They started with Yodlee (basically a paid bank-scraper service with fees that might crush a small startup) and now Intuit has built something in-house. I'd be interested to see what partnership…
I think actually the basic problem with Mint isn't those mentioned in the article (UI is meh, miscategorized transactions, data import customization). It's actually as mentioned in Wesabe's postmortem…
The key consideration for me here is "they communicate well." As someone who's just recently started to consider full-time hires beyond our founding team, it's ridiculous how important this is relative to how little…
Love the art here. The giant crashed robot looks like an homage to "Iron Giant" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Giant), one of my favorite movies as a kid.
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Highly recommended! Watched it on Netflix a few years ago and teared up several times.
Finally, a WSJ link that's not behind a paywall! /s
The scare quotes around "invest" in the parent imply (correctly, in my view) that buying anything with this kind of volatility / lack of intrinsic value is not an investment, rather a speculative bet.
Does anybody subscribe to this magazine (1843)? I subscribe to the parent magazine The Economist, and this sounds appealing, but $50 for 6 issues seems steep (and no online subscription).
> If you're using AdBlocker, fair play, I don't blame you. But please consider chucking me a couple of quid: https://monzo.me/ewanvalentine Am I missing something? It's a nice set of thoughts, but I can't imagine paying…
Moises Naim, who wrote this article, is a notable Venezuelan dissident (and was a finance minister before Hugo Chavez took over). I'm just about to start his most recent book, "The End of Power," which is about how hard…
Plus daily $5 lunch specials, which basically sustained me through a startup and grad school...
I don't have any such anecdote, but I can't even think up a hypothetical, either. If said bootstrapped company was both "well-executed" and didn't fail because it "didn't have the money," what kind of reasons would you…
Instead of going through contortions trying to break bad Slack habits and worrying about the API getting shut off, maybe it's worth checking out something made for the purpose. In the original post from the AgileBits…
Small point, but the handoff was in early 2014, not 2012.
Came here to recommend Hemingway. Even if you keep these values in mind, with a linter it's much easier to do. I haven't yet found a Chrome extension which does Hemingway-esque linting on all text input fields, like…
Even taking your skepticism about Chinese investment at face value, having LP involvement is tremendously different from operational involvement or investment committee involvement. Having been involved in LP reporting…
Ceres = goddess of the harvest (grain, bread) Bacchus = god of the vine (wine) Apollo = god of light (enlightenment / knowledge)
Everybody who reads HN should pay Ben Thompson $10/mo for his Daily Update (this is the once-a-week public version). The man's writing has unequivocally had a major impact on my ability to think about technology, and is…
I actually can't say I really mind the "privacy-invading" here because financial systems are already about the most heavily resold data there is, with the people who are currently charging you the fees (your bank and…
Really like this. Even the cheapest robo-advisors like Betterment charge 0.1-0.3% on top of the fund fees, which sounds small but eats into gains over time. However, I think the target audience is probably more likely…
The only place I regularly use it is at Whole Foods, where it actually works quite well and is a bit faster than a card. And given the glares one gets in the WF line, I would definitely be informed if it was…
This is an awesome attempt at a big problem. My financial data seems one of the most monetizable aspects of my life and I'm particularly reticent to give it to Intuit et al., but never seem to have much of a choice. I'm…
Amazing how broadly applicable Little's Law is. (I suppose that's why it's a big-L law.) We were just recently using it in business school to look at cycle times in assembly line output.
This is a really honest, refreshing post to read. So nice to read a "postmortem" that isn't just posturing. I bet a lot of us hit this moment, over and over again: "We didn’t obsess over it and we didn’t love it. We…
This is a huge factor. They started with Yodlee (basically a paid bank-scraper service with fees that might crush a small startup) and now Intuit has built something in-house. I'd be interested to see what partnership…
I think actually the basic problem with Mint isn't those mentioned in the article (UI is meh, miscategorized transactions, data import customization). It's actually as mentioned in Wesabe's postmortem…
The key consideration for me here is "they communicate well." As someone who's just recently started to consider full-time hires beyond our founding team, it's ridiculous how important this is relative to how little…
Love the art here. The giant crashed robot looks like an homage to "Iron Giant" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Giant), one of my favorite movies as a kid.