You are gaining as a consumer but many new retail investors in the stock or through ETFs may get burned when the business model stops working. Most of the shared economy startups are a house of cards expecting a magic bullet to solve their cost problem (self driving cars). The current stock holders are providing the hang time till that happens or not. The early investors will probably be all gone by then.
No- They just favor business owners and the above average earners more and are highly distrustful of those not working or not making enough money. Extreme capitalists!
An average Canadian or American cannot compete with the ill-gotten wealth of corrupt individuals in China, Africa or anywhere else. Those corrupt individuals are investing in these properties taking advantage of the stable and lawful markets enabled by the common man- but they are also harming them. Ironic.
but its not just cooks. It is software test engineers, Devops engineers, front end developers, ux designers, desktop support, technical recruiters, receptionists, admins, content moderators, search raters, map verification specialists, language translators - many of these are core to any tech company- the only thing common is that they are available more easily and can be paid less as contractors or h1b consultants
I have the opposite opinion. I just use priceline to get get a good deal on a hotel. Its always cheaper than airbnb. Plus its a pain to browse through hundreds of listing to try and figure out the catch in an Airbnb listing because of the non standard places.
They could be - if they spend a bit on improving the UI (look and feel) and a enable payment processing and they'd instantly be comparable to Airbnb. I use them 50%, 40% hotels and 10% Airbnb on my vacations.
The only reason I still have yahoo as my homepage is the the comments on the top stories. While most are low quality, there are some very clever comments and I feel I get a better sense of what everyday people are thinking about it.
I don't think that's what they mean. Its hidden from the candidate and the candidate doesn't know whats in it - except from the result of that application. but only the candidate can decide which employers to show it to. Weird why I might want to show or not show references when I don't know what's in it.
I third this. Vicodiene when you need it is a lifesaver after surgery, but it can tempting to continue with it beyond when you need it. Just beware and stop.
Fresno to Silicon Valley is very bad road route (single lanes, towns, redlights) with no major highway and very poor Greyhound/Amtrak connection. It will be great to have an HSR instead of the 3 hr drive.
The genie is out of the bottle. No company can afford to hire it's contractors as fulltime. Their cost would double. There's 2 things that can happen
1. Move to automate or offshore these jobs
2. Bring parity to fulltime or contract employee pay and benefits so its indistinguishable whether you work fulltime or contract- its just a choice for both. Just like do you want PPO or HMS for healthcare.
Valuations in Silicon Valley are not based on some rational price to earnings multiple. It is based on what investors think a large monopoly like SAP, MSFT, GOOG, CRM, etc would pay for it. Even the 8 times revenue is not a good benchmark anymore. The buyer will have umpteen ways to justify the price- new users, complementary products, etc. Just see SAP buying travel expense app for $8B.
Can hotels start converting their rooms into apartments and start renting out to families? If Airbnb is taking business away from hotels shouldn't this work?
It is cute and a brilliant business when someone rents out their place for a weekend. It becomes a serious problem when vultures abuse the rules and convert homes into hotels.
I haven't used Pinterest in years and may have accidentally clicked on a Pinterest result in Google search results and suddenly started getting all kinds of desktop popup notifications from them and don't know how or why.
There might be a few American companies that may do it but not out of fear, and I suspect many companies and individuals would resist, oppose, leak, resign if this was the case in America as you often hear in the news. There are courts, public opinion, journalists that you could involve in the US. Ever hear of pushback in China from anyone?
Nashville makes sense for anyone doing distribution. Great airport with tons of planes, pilots, distribution center workers already there for the largest couriers. Also because you can reach 60% of Americans by road in 1-2 days and efficient hub and spoke distribution for air freight.
I can't comprehend why companies in strong positions need to acquire the strongest company in a new category at a premium. I'd think they'd want to buy the 3rd or 4th ranked player in that category for a fraction of the price and then use their know how, clout and sales force to grab market share. That would be a win-win for themselves, the smaller company and customers.
This is fucked up but not because of a Government regulation which has good intentions and not because of Upwork who is trying to reduce its client's co-employment risk. All freelancers come across this situation over time and all are amazed but it is very reasonable.
The labor laws in place are to safeguard companies from using employees in a fulltime manner but treating them as freelancers so they dont pay the 10% employer tax, or sick leave or vacation or minimum wage or overtime. Once you start hitting over 30 hrs/week, and for more than 3 months workign for the same company- you are hitting the red warning flags that either the IRS is going to start asking questions about why they're not getting the employer tax, if th freelancer claims unemployment they are going to look for the last employer. and the freelancer might himself decide to sue the client claiming he was misclassifed as a contractor.
In this case all he has to do is enroll in the payroll service, pay a little more in taxes and reduce the co-employment risk to his client in exchange for more regular work. If not diversify your client base.
The Indian Government trusts no one and will make 99% of Indians jump through all kinds of hoops like KYC, getting bank letters, stamp paper documents, notarized documents to supposedly avoid such problems. And then they find out all the bureaucracy they put in place was rendered useless because the 1% bad actors know how to leverage that same bureaucracy to beat the system.
The American Govt trusts everyone and lets them go about their business and self report while keeping the option to audit or selectively target the bad actors. Its why foreigners love to start businesses in the US. Its so refreshing.
Given that at any time there are only a few hundred or so good houses available in any big city suburb, 10K new highly paid employees looking to get in can overwhelm real estate.