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rsepassi

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About rsepassi

Investment analyst in Boston, but prepping for a dive into the web startup world and will hopefully move out to Silicon Valley. Trying to learn some basic web programming too (HTML/PHP/MySQL).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #4554919

    Mark Cuban has touched on what is at the center of why financial regulation is so difficult: the roles, values, and differences of the primary and secondary markets. All of Wall St…

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    Comment #2098674

    My pleasure. What I meant about people reviewing ideas is this: what incentive do people have to come to the site to review ideas? I see the incentive for the entrepreneur: see wha…

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    Comment #2083893

    Yeah, Mint.com is pretty awesome.

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    Comment #2082667

    Have you considered giving a bit more structure to the "Idea" submission? Maybe just split out basic questions like "What problem is this solving?", "Who is this for?", etc. into s…

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    Comment #2082646

    Make sure no matter what you get up at the same time every day, even if you went to bed really late the night before (or earlier that morning), and go to bed at night when you star…

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    Comment #2082612

    Why not just keep pushing the edge of what's currently possible, and keep a catalog of the more advanced ideas that you can revisit from time to time to potentially begin executing…

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    Comment #2082603

    Well-rounded often means the person seems generally capable of tackling a broad range of activities, though they may not be stellar at any one. A guy who does well in school, plays…

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    Comment #2082454

    Is it generally trying to solve the problem of having so many video platforms that people can't keep track of what's on? Would you just link to the video stream? What's the social …

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    Comment #2082444

    I did not intend to portray extreme views, and I believe that I've represented their views fairly. Buffett recommends index investing, but also believes that it provides great oppo…

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    Comment #2082429

    Very interesting that more subscription models didn't make the list (Spotify is the closest but so few people opt for premium). And I only really see 4 business models here: Take a…

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    Comment #2082364

    Does anybody have good data on conversion rates for credit card info at the beginning of the free trial or end of the free trial? That is, let's say you e-mail the user 5 days befo…

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    Comment #2082342

    Yeah, seconded. I'm a total beginner and W3Schools has been really helpful just getting me familiar with the terminology and very helpful in looking up various tags/functions.

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    Comment #2082315

    Switching costs are absolutely the thing to focus on here, but limiting the switching costs to a replication of the social graph may be understating the true cost. Think of all the…

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    Comment #2082296

    Tichy is exactly right, and this point on its own makes passive investing extremely dangerous (though I tend to agree that on average, putting your money with an active money manag…