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newsum

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    Comment #16908585

    so many haters on this comment thread. Just read and stop hating. https://www.thestreet.com/investing/nasdaq-all-in-on-blockch...

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    Comment #14863042

    again, just because there's speculators on a secondary market buying and selling doesn't mean it's a security. a commodity future option is by default NOT the commodity. In the cas…

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    Comment #14862720

    quick thought experiment: If I presell tickets to my music festival to a reseller who in turn profits in selling it to festival goers, you're basically saying my tickets were secur…

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    Comment #14862709

    right. which only pertains to a DAO token – not the vast majority of Ethereum tokens out there.

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    Comment #14862670

    http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/security.asp "It represents an ownership position in a publicly-traded corporation (via stock), a creditor relationship with a governmental body…

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    Comment #7848215

    nice read. especially about determining the candidates baseline and assessing how fast they grow from there.

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    Comment #7631004

    nor does hoping/praying to get into YC so you can build the company of your dreams. take risks, calculated of course.

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    Comment #7630288

    Exactly. move into your mother's house. become a 1099 contractor at $100/hr+. save, save, and save. a year later there's your bootstrap funds + credit cards, excess of 100K. Outsou…

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    Comment #7024411

    if someone stole your idea. it wasn't a good idea. not to say you couldn't make you alot of money off of it, but really you came up with a predictable idea any analytical or entrep…

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    Comment #6929645

    http://www.mta.info/nyct/rules/rules.htm#restricted See Section 1050.9 (d)

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    Comment #6925070

    it is illegal to switch from one car to another car (regardless if the train is in motion or not). that's a crime/fact, in NYC of course.

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    Comment #6924664

    I would agree with the fashion profiling argument, but I had a (black) friend arrested on his way to a job interview in a suit for switching subway cars. The only reason he switche…

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    Comment #6849694

    Time = Money only for ideas that are easily reproducible. if you truly found a niche it's nearly impossible for another business to execute it the same way.

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    Comment #6849196

    My thoughts exactly. Just save, bootstrap, launch and raise a large Series-A round. $150K for most companies is still not enough.

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    Comment #6844005

    Yes, because buying merch and donations are one-time deals. No one is buying the same shirt from their favorite band every month but they are sure listening to their music every mo…

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    Comment #6843020

    he/she didn't exactly mean "2 indie artists"...just listening to bands who had an extremely low percentage of streams on Spotify.

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    Comment #6730774

    guys, gals, ladies and gentlemen. The valuation is purely greed. A raw human emotion not governed my logic or common sense. There's no financial model that will be able to justify …

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    Comment #5964824

    you really believe NYC is taking in more low income residents? Exactly where are they moving into? Remember, they destroyed a couple blocks of section 8 housing to build the new Br…

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    Comment #5964814

    cannot agree more. in my opinion, regardless of the statistics drop in crime is primarily attributed to exuberant increase of the cost of living especially in the historically impo…

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