mastermojo

"But like so many other companies in these golden times, Coupons.com simply told investors to exclude about $13 million of normal everyday expenses and, abracadabra, it claims to be profitable on a nonstandard, cockamamie "adjusted Ebitda" basis. It's all part of the show."

My impression is that Groupon made up their own mumbo jumbo financial metrics, but that adjusted EBITDA is a pretty standard financial metric.

I've heard that writing equations on a whiteboard paces the talk and give the audience time to digest. With a slideshow most presenters will go at a pace comfortable for them, but that typically ends up being too fast for the audience.

Do you happen to know how the active user base compares between 2010 Facebook and 2013 Twitter?

I'm pretty sure Microsoft is a pretty big player in Enterprise SaaS already.

In high school I used Facebook to share photos with friends and comment on them. Similar to what people use Snapchat and Instagram for now.

I think youtube wouldn't have managed to continue operations without a company like google stepping in. It was running massive bandwidth costs and did not have the ad network in place to monetize.

what system are you running such that viewing a pdf takes 20 packages and dependencies? How are you on hacker news if you can't get your system to view pdfs?

It takes more than a million just to be a certified for financial transactions I believe.

I'm working at shopkick (straight out of school) as a generalist right now. I think a lot of the official titles of our engineers are just "member of the technical staff". The culture here is that people shuffle around from teams and projects (if they want to) and people touch a lot of aspects of the company's code base. For example, I've written server side code and android screens. As part of a growth initiates I've also done html/css/js pages and spent time analyzing data through sql queries.

The engineering team here is a little over 20 people, and the entire company is less than 100. I guess my point is there are companies that are on solid ground financially that will hire generalists. If you are potentially interested in what I am doing, shoot me a message and I can make an intro for you.

It is notoriously difficult to get USD out of MtGox. I've heard that often the process will take weeks or even a couple months. The price there reflects that people are less willing to sell Bitcoins on MtGox.