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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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