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An IPO provides 1) a fundraising opportunity 2) a liquidity event 3) an opportunity to fulfill contractual obligations One of the conditions of their recent debt financing was that…

Since Dropbox is making a big push into enterprise, they are hiring a ton of high touch enterprise sales people - who can't scale in the same way an engineer can.

Accelerated depreciation schedules often have tax benefits compared to linear depreciation schedules. See here for more info: http://www.investopedia.com/walkthrough/corporate-fina…

So majority of the brokers have brick and mortar operations that can't afford to compete on price. That leaves only the online brokers. Then the next step is to build a brand that …

The long play is that it actually doesn't cost significant money per trade at an institutional level. The only reason the other major brokers charge you money is because it covers …

True, but all major retail brokers sell their order flows to HFTs (e.g. Etrade used to sell its order flow to Citadel), so this is nothing new

True, but all major retail brokers allow investors to trade on margin (and charge you interest on it), so this is nothing new.

All the major retail brokers sell their order flow, so you generally eat this cost no matter who you use. In addition, the hidden cost is fractions of a penny on the dollar (so sti…

"The future is wireless!"

Since you buy the house upfront for cash and hold 10% on the corporate balance sheet, isn't that a significant price & liquidity risk taken (in addition to the usual startup risks)…

Actually hedge fund managers tend have a large portion of their net worth invested in the fund also.

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I would say this one has the most traction so far: http://vapor.codes/ http://vapor.university/

Swift, the language, is from Apple. IBM simply has built a bunch of tools for Swift and would like to sell consulting services around them.

You're right, I believe it's on the road map

1. Inferred static nominal typing with generics 2. 1st class support for Optionals 3. Support for Structs and Classes 4. Native binary & scripting mode 5. Automatic reference count…

WishCan is incredible - really well done! Any thoughts of open sourcing it? I would love to host a private version for my parents. Thanks.

During WWII the US government set wage controls, so in order to compete for employees, corporations started offering health insurance benefits. Then after WWII, the US government c…

An insurance company makes money from the difference in premiums collected and expenses paid. Because Oscar is a startup you are right that they have a significant disadvantage in …

Google is in a really interesting spot: - They own a significant stake in Uber via GV (formerly Google Ventures) - They own Google Maps, which everyone relies on at the moment - Th…

This is very cool. How do you allocate the money (i.e. into which Vanguard funds and what percentage each)? I understand that you do a risk tolerance test, but how do you diversify…