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Congrats Sam!

We have invested in a Company that has Chinese partners building the billion dollar factories for us. http://www.ecomotors.com/post/ecomotors-receives-new-investm...

It is desire for yield. If you take the risk-less rate down from ~4% to 0%, then you can shift the rates for higher risk asset classes down similarly. If VC is historically a 12% r…

eShares is an interesting solution but with so many parties involved (company, lawyers, several investor groups) how do you get one person to drive the solution? My experience is t…

The physical holding of a stock certificate is a dangerous thing. If you are an investor in a company that gets sold or goes public (and you have to surrender your shares) and misp…

The bigger problem than the corrosion is the inability to inspect the system in an efficient way. In a regulated nuclear industry, not knowing the status of the system means it wil…

As an active investor in the energy space, I would love to hear how Sam/YC see their model working here. The MVP and concept of early sales is something that is very difficult in t…

There was not an overall net gain. Direct from the source http://1.usa.gov/1e4Na9Q . 8 kJ out from 1.7 MJ (1700 kJ) in. At the end of the month they were able to get 14 kJ. I belie…

"And modern supply chains were built around that very premise – that hands were needed" That is quite far from the truth. Having been in many plants, automation is almost everywher…

The reason oil companies get a lot of their subsidies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_gimmick Also, created the problem of sending so much money overseas.

As a current BCG consultant, thanks for this. Have been fortunate to work on real strategy work, but have lots of co-workers doing IT diagnostics and other not-so-exciting things.

As I see in the comments here, and in general public sentiment, there is an extreme bifurcation. People who believe and people who don't. I grew up in the suburbs and will be movin…

FWIW, my Citi card info was stolen and used last week. This despite never being out of my possession.

These numbers are astonishing. By my calculation YC has a cash-on-cash return of 67X! Avg. value (22.4M) * Avg. equity (6%) = Value of average stake (1.34M) Compare this to an inve…

A much more interesting chart is here: http://www.freep.com/article/20110323/NEWS01/103230444/Detro... Notice the blue areas of 20% growth. These are areas where young people are m…

Seems like spam with so many links to the site...

Not to seem doubtful, but the website does not inspire a lot of confidence. It is terribly formatted and oddly has red text highlighting market sizes. Also, the Business Developmen…

Also worthy of note: Man do I regret not funding these guys. -pg About a company (postabon) founded by two Harvard Business School MBAs.

How do you pay off NYU on $12/hour?