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I think this is a great point. A routing layer on top of a deeply feature rich set of underlying providers is probably not a good idea. I think that's why API Gateways are kind of …

The key - for us - is to be not just a routing layer, but a huge value add in addition to being a routing layer. We provide workflow management, decisioning, analytics, etc and tho…

There are many hyper-local issues like this where the real solution involves: - actually wanting the problem to get solved - finding out, at a very micro-level, how to solve it - d…

The only stat they cite is that some employers are raising prices. There are no other stats cited - only anecdotes. In the ideal pro-minimum-wage world, prices go up slightly but t…

Yeah there's tons of data on this, it's essentially not controversial if you care about data/what's real. Cars destroy business in every city in the world where they're dominant.

That rules. There are lots - LOTS! - of local regulations that hurt small businesses. But they're not all headline grabbers and they're certainly not all ideological battlegrounds …

There is an audience for "minimum wage kills jobs" articles and you can't write an article without a source. It's sad but true that the majority of the service industry is in perpe…

I just can't stress this enough: if you're reading an economics article that relies on anecdotes from owners in the service industry, DO NOT READ IT! You can find a service industr…

thank you

Thank you - that was incredibly hard to parse.

It's not intuitively clear to me what the point of this article is. Is it challenging the premise that building more housing stops the growth (or reverses the growth) of housing in…

I would guess it has more to do with many of the "best" angels who would round up syndicates just raising their own funds, first from the syndicates they would round up and then ot…

As a founder on the ground even in late 2015 (NYC), it was very hard to get a single angel check when we were trying to raise $500k. Ended up raising $2m from funds instead - which…

The electric vehicles item here is disingenuous without including how massively subsidized their oil-based competitors are. I understand why urban transit people target electric ca…

correct

I said the multiple is based on the margin of the revenue, aka, how profitable the revenue is. Revenue is the proper starting point as it is the thing that can or can not be optimi…

It depends on the margin of the revenue and the growth rate primarily

revenue * multiple let's say $10m in ARR * a 23x multiple The way you get to the multiple is a combination of how fast the revenue is growing, how long you think that will keep up,…

Great - and as I understand it the original ban was for efficiency reasons that don't apply here

Why are these illegal?

This is actually accelerating and there's no real reason it should stop. I think it's going to happen slowly and then all at once.

Finally, a "leaving NYC for the South" post I can relate to! Every leaving NYC post I've read is so whiny and negative. I look forward to leaving NYC someday and going back to the …

it has decades to grow before that becomes an issue

Demanding a bright line definition and rejecting any argument where one isn't provided is useless and unhelpful.