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great article, thanks for posting

I will use this next time I'm in NYC visiting, I'm frequently leaving with small dollars or change, and I end up losing the card or forgetting about it [as MTA's plan]

wow, great post thanks for sharing

If we gave everyone a billion dollars except you, does it impoverish you in anyway? I think so.

I wrote this article because the tech scene is so disconnected from where it started.

It doesn't include storage Id doesn't include SSD storage It doesn't include provisioned IOPS for SSD Storage (well, ridiculously low) It doesn't include bandwidth IT doesn't include support.

very sad day for consumers and tech, lots of possible business models broken.

Its amazing the only comment is about what happened to the stock price, no discussion of the tech/Oracle @ all.

I think there is a fundamental lack of understanding with how business works unless you have a new angle or technology to accomplish this. Is there a physical business that doesn't have a $100 Lifetime value per customer?

Is that the same Eric Brewer from Inktomi?

I think this is really fantastic

Whats scary is from reading all this and my experience, if FB ever got their act together, it would be a serious hurt on GOOG.

According to the article, the family had family insurance plan which would have existed before Obamacare, so I think this is a bit of a red herring. I think he was pointing to increased costs of Obamacare AND the distressed babies as examples.

But I agree, if you can't use your insurance when you need it, whats the point of insurance?

Can you test http://www.atlantic.net/cloud ? It has slightly lower price than DO and larger SSD Disks. I would be interested in seeing the results.

This was a great article, thanks for posting!

this is pretty interesting, thanks for posting.

its the us version of rocket internet/sawmer bros?

She quotes calculating churn as 1/churn rate.. in this example she said her churn was 2.2% month meaning lifetime value of 45 months. But that doesn't make sense, since its compounding/exponential.. its really only 32 months (not 45). Then she talks about having to explain the math to the VC. Am I missing something here, because I find this fairly alarming coming from a successful company.

I found this pretty accurate. He might have overstated churn retention is closer to 85% but I think the author is pretty much "on" with this post.

This is really useful, thanks for posting!

Because it affects earning estimates going forward, if they "beat", analyst can raise estimates looking out 5 years [so the results look like they are on track to be way better than estimated], or vice-versa, when you miss you have to take down your future estimates of growth. Then its discounted to the present. Thats why it moves, its not about this quarter, its about adjusting all the expectations of the future down and to the present, all wrapped up nicely in a stock price.

dont forget atlantic.net

Hi, rudimentary but interesting results. Please consider including atlantic.net in your testing in the future.

Congrats, this is a great win for DO.

This is pretty cool, I think its going to be a hit. Great job!

Well, considering that their industry didn't exist very long ago, 2000+ employees is still commendable [ie if they had gotten there with no layoffs we'd be saying how great they are doing].

Its a young company, who knows what form it survives in but that it go so far so fast is pretty impressive!

dont forget www.atlantic.net/cloud, it has a free trial!

This is pretty cool. thanks for posting

www.atlantic.net/cloud is a working alternative. It offers a free trial.

Nice article, thanks for posting.

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