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So sad... There's a thread in cloudynights that seems to indicate they have a buyer. Unsure if they would just liquidate the stock or start printing the titles again, if it even goes through. Here's hoping for the best.

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/736701-willmann-bell/#ent...

Well not necessarily... didn't google use a dutch auction 15 years ago?

Good post - pricing is so very critical (although I do agree with others here that three weeks is such a _very_ short timeframe). It's interesting to think about pricing from a "what's my per-user cost so I can reasonably bootstrap this myself", but it's usually more reasonable (and profitable) to think about it the other way around - "what value am i providing to my user?".

The book "The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing" was a real eye opener for me as I don't come from a business background. The crux is that don't think about it in terms of costs, but how much value (e.g., time saved, leads generated, etc) you are providing and if the price is worth it from the user's perspective.

Isn't this more of an AWS-specific issue?

The difference lies in their enormous existing lease obligations. Most corporate leases are for 10 years and they have very large payments that must be made, so it's not like they can just easily scale back in the loss-making locations.

It sounds very inefficient to be honest. Containers don't add much overhead - they are essentially processes that run in constrained environments (see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/namespaces.7.html).

Why dedicate an entire ec2 instance to a single container?

It's too bad LYMErix was taken off the market due to anti-vaccine marketing in the 90s...

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lym...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/

Average daily volume of VOO over the last 60 days is about 2,000,000 shares. At ~$200/share (it's actually about $220 right now), that's about $400m dollars daily, so unloading $1m would be well under 1% of shares traded in a typical day.

That's a good point. I've lived in poor neighborhoods but I'm not a minority.

Have you really had that experience in NYC? I've lived in Brooklyn for 10 years and have only once had a cab refuse to drive me home.

"I believe the reasons for your crazy voting record, young chap, is because of humors of the mesentery. Myes."

You're right that they're 2 very different investments, but I don't think you can say unequivocally that #1 is better than #2. It all depends on desired returns, risk, etc. Let's face it, if you had given money to Apple in 1976 there was a good chance you were never seeing that money again.

They do provide you with unique reach at the adset level, which will tell you how many users in your audience have been reached.

The simple answer is if you IPO at a certain price and declare you don't plan on growing at all, then nobody will participate in your offering or buy your shares in the open market. It's just a fact of life that as a public company you need to prove to your shareholders that next year your shares will be worth more than right now. Otherwise outside investors have no reason to invest in your company rather than keeping their money in a savings account (or a low risk alternative). The same basic premise applies to VC investments.

That's not to say that a patio11-style business is wrong, just that it's very different. It's personal preference if you've started the business and there's no right or wrong way.

There are some well-defined rules around publishing your code on github w/o a license. Apparently it's detailed in the TOS.

https://help.github.com/articles/open-source-licensing/#what...

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Irrelevant. On a personal level, he didn't get to his current net worth by not seeking out lucrative deals. It's also irrelevant from the legal perspective (see Martha Stewart).

Cheap to extremely cheap. Newark has been plagued with low employment and violence for a long time, although it is currently going through a bit of an uptick thanks mostly to investments in the downtown area and general positive attention due to Corey Booker.

While looking at the cap structure might lead to this conclusion, I would bet the farm on the fact that she's gotten some cash out of all of these rounds, or simply through bonuses. Being the CEO of a high profile company (at least in fundraising circles) she can easily make the argument for it.

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I love node, but a node REPL in lieu of a shell sounds like the worst thing ever.

I've noticed that too with some friends. Tesla has been a really popular short position for traders over the past year and (you guessed it) they're all taking a bath right now. It'd be interesting to see what role WSJ coverage has in that.

Do you really think Buffer has little brand recognition? That's very surprising that anyone here would think that.

Totally. Investors are probably just moving to gold & treasury bonds as safer assets in anticipation of a global slowdown.

Everything is down. This is almost certainly related to macro signals and not Square itself. Smaller cap stocks tend to have higher volatility and will normally take a heavier beating than larger cap ones.

It's probably not just oil, but rather a general reduction of risk from investors. People are worried about the global economic climate and are pulling their money out of stocks and putting it into more predictable, dependable assets like gold and treasury bonds, which tend to have much lower yields but also much less risk of tanking in value during bad times.

Just because one person doesn't want it doesn't make it a hostile takeover. If the board votes for it and a majority of shareholders approve (as would seem to be the case in your example) then it's definitely not hostile.

True, but I think that the fact that they're using these anti-competitive practices indicates they don't have that firm hold. Predatory pricing will only work as long as they keep doing it. Although I've heard stories of the opposite, where people really get gouged during surge pricing.

Exactly. Uber is doing all of the work on the regulation front, which benefits any company wanting to do the same thing. And I would imagine the barrier to entry is already fairly low.