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This another example of what is called the Master-Slave dialectic from Hegel, an 18th century philosopher. Something that I studied in a philosophy class and had a profound influen…

Me too. Products cycle too fast those days so there is less need for those great books.

Yes, taxes are related to IP of course. Parking your IP in a country where you have a super low tax rate guarantees paying no or very little taxes using transfer pricing shenanigan…

For me it makes total sense to tax Google, Facebook and all others. Why not? What do you to lose? Parking your IP in some remote country, be it Ireland or Turks and Caicos, is fine…

We were in the same situation 4 years ago for our computer vision company, same team size. We targeted the wrong industry (beauty) and that was a mistake. Lessons to be learned and…

Thanks for the clarification. Sorry about sounding cynical, that was not the intend. I have just seen a lot of BS over the years and I super careful trying to understand what is be…

This is a BIG space open for changes. Technically this is not a new entrant, just a different way to recycle capital. Munich Re (one of the top three reinsurers in the world) will …

I love the work, and it is directly applicable to the work I am doing now. Have you published your thesis?

A good IP / trademark lawyer will cost $1,000/hr BUT no lawyer will meet you for an hour. They don't have any answer, need to do some research that is why they will ask for a $50K …

Thank you @andybak, you made my day. Truly admirable document! This is the highest concentration of BS I have ever seen. I have to check who was the VP Marketing and CEO of Pepsi w…

Look for signals. Pretty simple: the caliber of the CEO, CTO or the caliber and experience of the VP Eng. Then look at the VC's funding the company, and the names of the partners o…

Spot on HillRat. You nailed it.

Those contracts are not enforceable. I guarantee you a win 100% of the time in California. There are several exceptions: 1) you are the CEO or a top exec in a VERY large company. I…

To be more accurate California is an at will state (for everybody: low level employees and CEO's) and non-compete are illegal. Other states are different. It exists to protect the …

Find a connection with an investment banker (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs), or consulting company (McKinsey, etc...). Also an investment advisor would have access to IB reports. T…

I suggest you reach out to EFN https://www.enterprisefutures.org/ It is non profit, 501C3 designed to link entrepreneurs and advisors. It is FREE and I know there are hundreds of c…

First, Kuddos to John Carreyrou from the WSJ for great investigative journalism. I’m too tired of all these “fake it till you make it” lines of thought, and it is not only a YC iss…

In the videos series, Khan is excellent: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/multivariable-calculus/mult...

I recommend the excellent (and free) book from Jean Gallier @ the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Opt…