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Early stage is also about ensuring that the levers are understood and that the thinking about the right things to measure and what to action are appropriate in understanding the business. Less about the numbers, more about the variables.. why are you measuring this, why arent you measuring that? What actions will you take to try to get to this number? This would give the investor a better sense of how the founder thinks.

I don't use uber, or any other taxi app. Depends a lot on where you live and whether public taxis and public transport infrastructure is well developed. I can imagine this would be a nightmare in the USA, it was when I lived there pre-Uber days, waiting for a bus could take 45 mins. Out here in Asia, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong etc, there really isn't a big need for Uber, sure it's useful, but plenty of alternatives that are just as convenient.

When I was living in Japan, i once lost my wallet on a bicycle ride. It must have fallen out of my pocket somewhere on the route i was taking.

I didn't notice it was missing until I got home, got my keys out to open the door and realised the wallet was missing. I went back out on the bike and retraced my route but couldnt see the wallet annoyed that I would have to cancel cards, get a new ID card.

After I got home again, i was procrastinating about cancelling the cards for about 30mins and then decided to crack on. After I picked up the phone to start, the front door bell rang, I opened the door and there were 2 ladies with my wallet, they handed me my wallet, asked me to check everything was there and then apologized for taking so long to return my wallet.

Apparently they found my wallet, went to an address I had left in there, but I had recently moved apartments, so they went to the Koban, Police officer told them my address based off my ID card and then they came to my address.

Since this is based off tests does it stipulate whether there is a diffrence in reading, listening and writing comprehension vs ability to speak? There are many countries where written English is exceptional, but when it comes to conversation, it's lacking.

Actually, it's a trade off. How much freedom vs how much control. A prime example is government regulators, they are there to 'protect ' consumers vs pure freedom of capital ventures. Pure unadulterated freedom never exists because one persons freedom can trample on another persons, e.g the freedom to be racist

No, it's not the focus of the world. The US with its upcoming elections and trade wars take up a fair bit of international news.

Brexit and the political crises in the UK is another leading contender for front page news.

In the media I read, Hong Kong is only a small section of the front page, bit not the dominant news item, largely because it has been going on for so long that its beginning to have media fatigue.

Likewise police in Hong Kong are also being Doxxed. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...

Whilst article is accurate in terms of the US tax situation for Apple, it doesn;t really explain how it keeps it's foreign tax payments to ~$2B off ~$40B in revenue.

That's where some people are disgruntled about companies such as Apple paying their fair share.

So if company Y created a genetic variant of a vegetable in Country X, and if this vegetable is shipped and sold in supermarkets around the world, the profit made from sales of that vegetable should only be charged in Country X, and not in the country that made the sale to the end consumer?

There isn't 1 type of protester. They are spread over a spectrum, from those who are totally peaceful, to the extreme end who are advocating violence against they "system". They also don;t have all the same demands, although they are generally in agreement of the 5 demands, however because this is a "leader-less" protest, it is hard to say which of those demands are of higher priority than others, i suspect the different factions of protests will have higher priority over certain ones.. e.g. front line protesters would probably value exoneration higher than the peaceful protesters.

But generally speaking, they come from all walks of life... There are now beginning to be more vocal anti-protest groups as well. So it's becoming increasingly a battle for public opinion. Whilst the front-line protesters have general public support, they will feel they have a mandate to continue what they are doing so propaganda machines from both sides are in full effect to try to win over public opinion.

nah, they would pass on the cost to the consumer. The consumer would go for the cheaper product which would be the manufacturer that uses plastic. So it would need to be enforced by regulation.

Youtube hasn't stated it was state actors, merely that they were suspicious (e.g. uploaded via VPN).. i.e it hasn't pointed a finger of blame.

Really depends on your definitionof social stratification. Traditional class values is correlated to wealth, but you could be not wealthy and still be considered upper class. e.g a Duke or Lord.

Is it the same 1000 families from 2009, the article infers that it's the same 1000 families, whereas in reality there will be some people who drop out and some who come in.

Just like backward testing in stock, if you're measuring against the top X companies in 2000, they are not the same top 100 companies in 2018.

My criticism is that its usually US -centric, sure there is more about China every year, but the healthcare section is all US, lots of media usage habits which are all US, economics, GDP all US.

For example, I've not learned much at all from that deck about whats happening in Africa or India.

There is another option. Just abandon any principle of data privacy and continue to sell their products (although GDPR in EU is an issue).

It's an extroverts world. What are the best channels for introverts? How many potential start ups have never been funded because the founder(s) didn't have the networking skills that are natural to extroverts?

Actually, Nokia Software was awesome. It was their usability and UX that was dog awful. A lot of SW features that are around today have been around for a decade with Nokia. They had a plan, to move over to Meego, which won awards.. but was torpedoed by Elop.

Elop destroyed Nokia, they had the best distribution network and supply chains. Linking up with Elop instantly killed that and destroyed any goodwill they had with operators and carriers who would have continued to back Nokia. Unfortunately carriers are anti-Microsoft...

The mobile space was aready hotting up. Nokia, alone in 2005 was already selling over 250M devices at around 35-40% market share. They were already using ARM chips. Forecast for smartphones was already high, since the whole mobile industry was posiioning itself to upgrade. It was always a question of getting the telcos to improve their 2G networks to 3G before the smartphone explosion was expected. Intel should have known this.

Symbian OS (EPOC) was several years before Danger was founded

Just wondering, what would be the legal case if this was not the USA?

We built something similar for a photo app and our fashion app. Worked great to get details such as what types of content people were looking for. We also headed towards a slightly different path. We had simple polls, but also built in 1 to 1 communications. Essentially like a built in messaging service on top of the polls. Never pushed it to anyone else and only ever used it for our own apps.

I loved that move, teleport behind someone and then shock ball them whilst they try to figure out where you are whilst getting the hell out of the way since they;re anticipating you attacking them.

Plenty of action ongoing in the TV space in China, * ZTE and The9 are producing a TV Game smart box, * Baidu's Iqiyi has overtaken Youku (youtube of china) in active users * Xunlei and BesTV creating a set top box to tap into the internet TV sector * Alibaba also bought 60% of Chinavision for $805M * Xioami (the smartphone maker) invested $200M into Xunlei and created Xiaomi TV focused on film and video content.

The space in China is really hotting up.

It's not just a numbers game.. I write this analysis a few day ago before the viber and this acquisition. http://www.hoista.net/post/76404923258/the-rise-of-trojan-ho...

Makes perfect sense if you put it into the context of what is happening to other messaging apps. Wrote this a few days ago before Viber and now this acquisition. http://www.hoista.net/post/76404923258/the-rise-of-trojan-ho...

in some places, vending machines accept contactless smart cards, which makes it much easier to pay - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smart_cards

More easy for countries where it is supported everywhere, rather than regionally. But also possible to target vending machines in transit areas, since a lot of public transport has moved over to smart cards.

Yeah, it was easy to integrate and use, was glad to have used it.

Sounds very similar to Nokia Life Tools which launched in India back in 2009 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Life_Tools "The agricultural part of the service consists of localized information including weather conditions, advice about crop cycles, general tips and techniques, as well as market prices for crops. Farmers in the pilot scheme said getting daily prices on their phones reduced their dependency on agents for basic information, enabling them to negotiate with greater confidence."

They let the cat out of the bag.

Once AT&T ceded control and the popularity of iPhone as a carrier switcher came along the other carriers had to fall in line. This is not the case with Android, they don't control the updates. (Except in a stealthy way).