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stevievee

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    Comment #35251073

    So this is the level of finance/accounting sophistication now expected for a business with a valuation of $30m–60m? Maybe I'm out of touch. I think this guide lowers the bar unnece…

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    Comment #35250989

    It's really not. The overall tone is "You don't know anything about finance/accounting as an inexperienced leader but that's okay! - Just outsource it! Oh and here are some tidbits…

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    Comment #35241520

    Marco Arment has been one of my favorite makers to follow over the years. Awesome.

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    Comment #35204804

    Too much to address so I generalized. I don't have time to go into details but the very big problems you could encounter mainly revolve around misses on compliance because you took…

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    Comment #35204502

    This is just a bad piece of content marketing. If you just raised a $30-60+ million Series A and are relying on anything in this article, you will have bigger problems. It is this …

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    Comment #33257438

    A UI for accessing my ebook library on my ios/mac devices. A custom fork of Calibre-Web

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    Comment #33137530

    You can buy a shoebox in the sky or something tattered in the middle of nowhere. This is by design of course. All hail the central planners

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    Comment #33137034

    This article and many like it "assign fault" to the labour by making too many assumptions about the cause of the decrease in labour productivity being a decrease in labour effort, …

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    Comment #32953575

    Well put. I am the same way. I view it as the vector of my past experiences and knowledge. Though, I do have to be careful not to conflate gut with excess of any emotion ex. greed,…

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    Comment #32953261

    Agree completely. I like the point on disagreement of value and OP should be prepared to move on. I just want to add that OP should negotiate for the future and not get too hung up…

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    Comment #32924968

    "...the retail giant has pledged to become the Earth's Best Employer, not just for frontline warehouse workers but for corporate and technical employees, too..."* * As long as it d…

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    Comment #32855227

    Who says it will only be Edwin?

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    Comment #32854951

    [Insert name] from Stripe here... [Insert apology] [Insert vague explanation] [Insert promise to investigate and resolve]

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    Comment #32765958

    I love how you worded your advice here and I agree this is the best approach because macroeconomics is a "social science". Everything you hear and understand about central banking …

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    Comment #32703895

    If only these studios appreciated that they could compound the value of the IP by rallying the existing fans (ie. "early adopters") instead of trying to jump straight to the "major…

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    Comment #32701936

    Definitely not Gandalf

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    Comment #31575546

    "Engineer good, MBA bad" ...there I fixed it.

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    Comment #31575233

    Unfortunately, this anecdote re-enforces a stereotype. The CFO in this story is bad and so is senior leadership and the board for allowing the new CFO to run amok. Not all new CFOs…

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    Comment #27119298

    I feel for you. From what I hear, the population in the Netherlands has a unique appetite for overleveraging to buy a home (and this is coming from someone who lives in the most ov…

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    Comment #26983084

    I think the environment has changed since this was project was executed. I am not familiar with the industry but it now seems like travel companies and airlines have more ad-hoc co…

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    Comment #26502913

    Sorry I disagree - I am not saying they are purposefully influencing the flow of capital but their ideas are brought up for discussion by the so-called experts a lot more often bec…

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    Comment #26494777

    The definition of "right" within market dynamics isn't simple - prices will increase with the increased flow of capital regardless of whether the underlying ideas are sound. Changi…

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    Comment #26494417

    You will not struggle to find Bridgewater/Dalio talking about the following themes: - The concept of "Debt cycles" (From Dalio's book "Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises") -…

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    Comment #26491404

    The ideas and narratives put forth by Bridgewater/Dalio over the past 1-3 years are permeating markets and shaping investor sentiment more than you think. Both retail and instituti…

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    Comment #26414903

    "99% of cognitive effort is tip-toeing around all of the unused functionality minefields" This almost always goes unrecognized. Not sure if project manager's fault, the actual soft…