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See link to a chart on returns by year/fund from the article: https://twitter.com/vcstarterkit/status/1173611439833006080

For whatever reason, the cost issue is completely missing from the dem primary debates on healthcare. Everything so far has been focused on health insurance coverage, and the candi…

The most interesting thing about this whole thing is how irrational the public market can be, especially at a time when there’s so much scrutiny on private valuations. I don’t reme…

For those who never took an accounting course or worked in accounting, how did you learn, at least to the point you got comfortable with running a business?

The Harvard connection was more widely known than the MIT one until recently.

I wouldn’t look too deep into it. Private valuations are mostly meaningless. This goes for everyone.

I was surprised to find that Miami Beach has free trolleys and Hollywood (CA) has a free nighttime (weekend?) shuttle as well here in the US.

I mean these companies have been getting crushed in the last week or so when the rest of the market has been rising. Medallia and Slack near all time lows since IPO.

There seems to have been a few big moves down among recent SaaS IPOs (Slack, Medallia, CrowdStrike). Not sure why the market is suddenly fearful, though objectively these are mostl…

I wonder why mopeds have never taken off in the US. Seems more practical than a scooter for medium to long distances within a city. I have relatives in Taiwan and mopeds are everyw…

The landlords that jack up rent more than 8% a year, at least in SF, are the commercial landlords of large apartment complexes like Avalon. At the very least this will stop the one…

Rent wasn’t that much cheaper 5 years ago, if at all, save renting one of the luxury high rises.

For those living in SF, this significantly expands the number of eligible apartments for rent control. Right now only multi-unit homes/apartment complexes built before June 1979 ha…

I wonder what'd the courts would say if Uber decided to charge a nominal fee (say $1/year) for the driver app in the App Store? That would make it more obvious that it's a piece of…

Uber's defense is that it is licensing lead generation software to drivers, and that it just takes a commission from each trip as payment for use of its software. In many ways, I c…

I didn't realize 690 was the cut off for "subprime." I thought that was generally considered "ok/good" but not really that bad.

It isn't right now, but if you buy at this valuation you're betting that they can diversify away from memberships as their main source of revenue to something more "techy." Persona…