mastermojo

If you eat spicy food you are less likely to get cancer, heart disease, and respiratory disease.

If you eat spicy food, over a period time (7 years in the study) you are less likely to die compared to someone who eats spicy food less than once a week by the following amounts:

1-2 times a week: 90% as likely

3-5 times a week: 86% as likely

6-7 times a week: 86% as likely

Not drinking alcohol helps.

Cloud storage has been (sort of) commoditized. By that I mean it's easily obtainable from a variety of different sources (Google, Microsoft etc). It's not immediately obvious which service is "better". However Dropbox does have strong brand awareness going for them. People in Tech frequently underestimate the value of an established brand.

My personal opinion is that Dropbox will continue to do well in revenue for small sized businesses and sole proprietors. However, it's medium/large business solutions do not have as strong of a reputation (things like access control are relatively new features, I had to check if it even existed). As long as they stay first-to-mind when people talk about personal cloud storage, they will do okay.

The difference between jumping from 1-10 billion to a 10-100 billion will be how well they execute on b2b solutions.

Edit http://gohugo.io/tutorials/github-pages-blog/ THERE ARE SO MANY STEPS. I guess I'll eat the build time until it gets to 5 minutes.

An app developer needs to be mindful of if their app is a daily/weekly/monthly/annual use case.

I have plenty of apps on my phone that I purposefully keep around but will probably only use when I do that big trip once year: TripAdvisor, AirBnb, WhatsApp, GoPro, EpicMix etc.

Other apps: Amazon, Shazam, Bank(to cash checks) I also keep around but use rarely.

Under a conventional definition I've probably been marked as a "churned" user many times over for Shazam. It keeps sending me notifications for random things (Click here to find out the trending new hot single from Shakira!) so I've turned them off.

I also hate when companies force you to download their app to do something. United wouldn't let me check-in and print my boarding pass from my computer. I had to download an app and scan my passport with my camera.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/teambios

dang check out all these craigslist guys. I've never given any thought on who runs this platform.

It is actually 0.95^12=0.54 (5% churn/month = 46% annual churn).

"For example, Bench handles all of Patrick’s bookkeeping. He’s grateful for the freedom to “never think about it again.”"

I guess thats basically the time and point for you to start worrying about duct tape.

I see Uber being a 10 Billion dollar company without any problem.

Companies can build successful businesses around not charging for the core service.

i.e do I do my own laundry, clean my own place, drive my own car, cook my own food?

  Uber 9000 miles x $2 = 18000
  Personal Car: 7000
  Maintenance 2500 
     - new bumper (old one taken off while street parked) 1000
     - replaced foggy headlamps 400. purely cosmetic reasons
     - side window smashed 800. never park in oakland =(
     - oil changes etc? (200 at most) 
  Insurance 600 (checkout AAA) 
  Depreciation 2000(?)
  Gas 1800 ($4/gallon @ 20 miles/gallon)

For people who can get to and from work easily using public transportation, perhaps owning a car does not make sense as much as Zipcar/Uber. Owning a car can cost a lot of money, but for people who want one as a form of transportation it can be very affordable (i.e dont buy new). Also, the average car is expected to travel 10-12k miles a year.