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wensing

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About wensing

Founder, Summit - https://usesummit.com

Prev. Founding CEO, Stormpulse

http://twitter.com/@mattwensing

E-mail: matthew.wensing at gmail

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    Creator here. You can use fuzzy numbers to get varied output, and if you want to do MC you can use the API into your model to call it with whatever distributions you want and aggre…

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    Strong agree on the size of the space and the room for many approaches. wave :)

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    The exercise of modeling your business helps you become aware of all that you don’t know, which helps you stay humble and curious and focused on answering the right questions.

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    Comment #23063158

    Hi, I’m the founder of Summit. Honored to be included among great and smart company. Happy to connect anytime to talk financial planning or support usage of the product. Long-time …

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    Comment #18885269

    Thanks! Fixed, I think ...

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    The Babe Ruth effect of VC's needing big hits and the entire industry being a hits-driven business (unicorns, PG's Black Swan Farming, etc.) is a relic of the VC industry being not…

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    Thanks for the nod to competence. Re: "By binding the payback to profit" -- but it isn't bound to profit. Re-read the terms. It's Founder Earnings, which is profit PLUS any founder…

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    _"A Shared Earnings Agreement is not debt and comparisons based on interest rates are academically interesting, but misleading because"_ I address this in the 'Seal Typing' section…

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    Yes, absolutely. The key question in my mind still (after finishing the article) is what startups actually WOULD be smart to take money on these terms (what kind of business model,…

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    Unless your forecast is probabilistic.

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    Comment #10313818

    Senior Engineer | Riskpulse | Austin, TX | Full Time | ONSITE Riskpulse is looking for a senior, full-stack engineer to join our team of engineers, scientists, and meteorological r…

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    Ah! The real world! Hello. I enjoyed all the mentions of weather, as Paul T. at the Memphis GOCC is someone I've had the pleasure of talking to about some of those issues. I'm the …

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    CEO of Riskpulse here. I've been through all of the monetization trenches for weather software and we are now capitalizing on real demand in B2B/enterprise. If either of you guys e…