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Re: Please Just Stop Building These Apps

ldrogen — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:53:27 -0000

I do not believe in the idea that entrepreneurs should not comment on the projects or companies of other entrepreneurs. That type of thinking is for weak people who don't want to be challenged. I welcome the stones thrown at the house we've built. And in the case that we are ultimately unsuccessful in scaling out our platform or business, my words here will have been no less right or wrong because of it.

Re: Please Just Stop Building These Apps

ldrogen — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:47:44 -0000

I think you may have missed the point, in this case none of the coconut stands have ever made any money. That was my point about the information availability heuristic. They just keep creating these things and no one uses them and they make no money, but yet people keep building them.

StockTwits is the only (moderately) successful business built on the trader social network theme, and none of the scorecard apps have been successful.

Re: Barefoot Running: The Beginning

ldrogen — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:53:47 -0000

I made the switch to running in Vibrams about a year ago and it's been amazing for me. I used to hate running, I love it now. My ankles and foot muscles are might stronger, which has improved my skating as well on the hockey rink. But most of all, running just doesn't hurt anymore.

Re: Take Some Risk Already, Will Ya? | The Reformed Broker

ldrogen — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:21:22 -0000

Have we considered though that the input of human capital is no longer needed to drive incremental growth. In a world where a 10B company can have only 500 employees, what is the incentive to hire? R&D isn't going to be done by the next employee and firms are even complaining of a lack of skilled labor to complete this task. I just don't buy the calls to start hiring for the sake of growth, there is a fundamental and structural issue we face in terms of the make up of our labor force. You can't just wholesale hire your way to growth.

Re: The Blogging Abyss Leigh Drogen

ldrogen — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:38:52 -0000

Thanks again Chris for getting me a ticket, see you out there.

Re: Evacuate! A Reading List | The Reformed Broker

ldrogen — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:57:07 -0000

So, I grew up in Chappaqua and Hurricane Floyd destroyed a retaining wall of a lake right outside town and flooded it in 8 feet of water, destroyed the whole thing. Just make sure you're not down in the valley.

Re: Executive Comp Now Completely Off The Rails | The Reformed Broker

ldrogen — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:46:27 -0000

All the more reason to treat them as nothing more than pieces of paper, it's just a piece of paper you want to buy for less than you can sell it for later, nothing more, nothing less.

Re: On Transparency

ldrogen — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:52:53 -0000

I will write a post on this.

Re: On Transparency

ldrogen — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:52:09 -0000

I think I would rather not have the SEC/FINRA all over my ass, I'll leave it up to someone who has already made their name and their money to take that risk, and I'll root them on.

Re: On Transparency

ldrogen — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:38:57 -0000

I certainly won't be the first tim, but I would support your cause.

Re: Chart.ly Chart of the Day 8/19/09 Chart.ly Blog

ldrogen — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:57:20 -0000

Many don't understand that commodities are not like stocks in that they have no intrinsic value behind them, they are only worth what people are willing to pay for them, pure supply and demand. A company can be valued based on earnings, or cash flow, or whatever other metric you want to use, giving them some "value". There is no reason to buy NG_F or UNG at this point, focus on something else, there is always a trending commodity market out there, this isn't it.

Re: Postmarket Update

ldrogen — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:50:21 -0000

test

Re: The Emotion Economy (Part I)

ldrogen — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:18:03 -0000

good stuff dude