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verganileonardo

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Get in touch: - Email: vergani[dot]leonardo[at]gmail[dot]com - Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardovergani
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verganileonardo··on Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail
I would say that revenue and marginal marginal contribution are the most important. It is OK to be unprofitable of you can fix it by growing and diluting fixed costs.
verganileonardo··on Experiences with the Thinkpad 13?
X1 Carbon is amazing (not that old!).

I just do not recommend the Yoga models, the specs look great, but they are insanely slow with huge presentation decks or big excel models.

verganileonardo··on Experiences with the Thinkpad 13?
Yep! My former employer even sold most of them to the employees. The only piece we needed to buy externally was a hard drive (for client's data security).
verganileonardo··on The first augmented reality social network
Saw a similar idea back in 2013. They had no success

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thinkr/id655199132?mt=8

verganileonardo··on How Not to Explain Success
LPT: always study failures before defining what make people succeed!
verganileonardo··on How Not to Explain Success
Yes, please! He is famous for creating theories based on one or two very specific stories. Even when he is based on real academic studies, they are usually featuref by small and biased samples (e.g., 40 harvard students).

Would love to see the same for Blue Ocean Strategy!

verganileonardo··on Ask HN: How do I know if I'm building something only myself find useful?
0. Talk to people and potencial customers about it.
verganileonardo··on Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up
That happens because the company is trying to adjust the capital structure to maintain a 'constant' leverage ratio.

Too much leverage? Sell shares! Not enough leverage? Sell debt!

verganileonardo··on Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo
Yes, that is exactly the case! :)
verganileonardo··on Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo
He is not buying equity in Yahoo, he is lending money to the actual buyer and will receive interest on that lending. (Which is much more secure)
verganileonardo··on AdBlock Plus teams up with Flattr to help readers pay publishers
Me neither. uBlock is much more efficient. Anyway, I still support the concept that AdBlock 'creating' here.
verganileonardo··on WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
2nd time in less than 12 months. probably, we are going to see a surge in telegram downloads/usage today.
verganileonardo··on Ask HN: What is the best non-technical skill I could develop?
Learning how to sell new things - not only following someone instructions, but creating the instructions yourself.
verganileonardo··on Brazil Oligarchs and Finance Magnates Are Taking Over Brazil Government
Is there any proof of what you just said?
verganileonardo··on Reddit for iOS and Android
I use Relay For Reddit and it works really well. Better than The mobile website and newest mobile official app.
verganileonardo··on Ask HN: Who writes the most interesting posts on driverless cars?
IEEE Spectrum http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-self-driving-car
verganileonardo··on Ask HN: Do you find reading increasingly challenging?
I did two things: 1) Create (initially, force) a routine: everytime, read for 30~60 minutes before you sleep. Do that even if it is late and you're tired.

2) Try to use small moments of free time. As an example, if I have more than 30 minutes of free time, I read some pages of a book.

If you stop to think about it, you are probably going to remember recurring moments in which you had 30~ minutes of free time. Instead of using it to read Hacker News or browse Facebook, read something. Commuting is a great example.

verganileonardo··on Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms (2013)
They probably don't spend time doing a complete (credit, fraud, etc) analysis before a potential client shows interest in the product.
verganileonardo··on Ask HN: Help me find profitable side project
Which skills do you have? Are more technical, creative, or business-oriented?

Without knowing anything, I would suggest selling services/freelancing. Your gross margins are high and you usually don't need initial investments.

verganileonardo··on Why PowerPoint should be banned
Is he suggesting that we ban Powerpoint because the users are not using it in the right way?

I work at a MMB management consulting company and we use Powerpoint all day to create really good presentations - full of insightful information and easy to read.

verganileonardo··on Why Tesla Won’t Be Able to Scale
And a second factor: Apple may be the high-end-only player, but that is not necessarily a disadvantage, as they are still raking in most of the profit of the cellphone market.
verganileonardo··on Why Tesla Won’t Be Able to Scale
Would love to read opinions on the 'access to resources' argument.

To me, it seems that EV require different/unique resources (like access to a giant factory of really good batteries), and not just 'brand' and 'cash', as the article says.

And, if that is the case, Tesla would be the car company most likely to succeed in this market.

verganileonardo··on Ask HN: Marketing job boards?
http://inbound.org/jobs
verganileonardo··on Ask HN: How Do You Manage Leads Properly?
Where I work, we use Podio (now part of Citrix).

It is free (until you reach 5 users) and is fully customizable. I highly recommend.

verganileonardo··on Ask HN: How do you track individually targeted emails?
Seems like Toutapp ( http://toutapp.com ) solves your problem! :)
verganileonardo··on Ask HN: Good Examples of Credit Card Forms
CrazyEgg has a great form. You can read about the optimization process here: http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/crazy-egg-case-study/ (after the "Optimizing the checkout gave 116% more sign-ups " headline)
verganileonardo··on Ask HN: What is your favorite book on A/B testing
I recommend Conversion Rates Experts (http://www.conversion-rates-experts.com). Mainly, the CrazyEgg case study (http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/crazy-egg-case-study/) -- love how they approach collecting qualitative data.

Also, the guys at Unbounce does a great job with landing pages A/B Testing (http://unbounce.com/blog/).

Patrick, a fellow HNer (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11) writes a blog on marketing for software (http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/) and other tips for developers.

verganileonardo··on Show HN: Demiba - Get the most out of YouTube music
Nop, I tried to skip, but nothing happens!

Also, I searched for Gentle Giant's music and there was a video with an oldman showing a sculpture!

Anyway, great website! :)

verganileonardo··on Show HN: Demiba - Get the most out of YouTube music
Great idea! When the next video/music is unavailable (deleted or unavailable for my country) the queue stops foverer and I need to start over :(
verganileonardo··on Facebook HQ Urges Employees to Ditch iPhone for Android
Games compose the biggest category of apps, but represent only 20%~ of total applications.
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