Hacker News: nigekelly

New comment by nigekelly in "Do VCs really add value? Founders say sometimes"

nigekelly — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:26:16 +0000

There is severe bias in this study. Are entrepreneurs going to really come out and say what they really think? After all they need the money.

Why weren't the institutional investors/LPs surveyed to see what they think of VC/GP value add? I think this would be more telling about who the good/bad VCs are ..... who's bringing home the bacon across the board consistently. A bad VC may do well with one investment, get great feedback from that founder but yet destroy investor capital on all other investments..... meaning the LPs are down on the money they put in.

The Kauffman foundation produced a great study of return performance from VC/GPs back to LPs several years ago. The conclusion was that investing in VCs produced very poor returns. The Russell 2000 index was a superior investment alternative.

New comment by nigekelly in "Apple invests €1.7B in renewable energy data centres in Denmark and Ireland"

nigekelly — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:43:57 +0000

The double irish is under pressure but core Corp Tax is still 12.5%. Much lower than anywhere else. so tax is a good reason to do this in Ireland.

In addition, Irish gov are talking about new R&D scheme which will be like 6-7% corp tax on companies that focus on R&D. Alot of European companies have such schemes and Ireland can't be singled out for being "dodgy" with this. I suspect Apple will benefit from this.

Of course we (being Ireland) wouldn't get all this investment if Apple (and all the other US multinationals) was allowed to repatriate profits back to the US without paying the draconian US corp tax of 35%.

Companies like Oracle, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Cisco have huge amounts of cash sitting there in their balance sheets. They spend it in other countries (and/or issue new bonds) to avoid paying the stupid 35% US corp tax.

Once the Republicans and Democrats get their act together on this, Ireland will be screwed.

Why Fighting for IRR Everyday of Your Life is So Important

nigekelly — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:54:07 +0000

Article URL: http://www.startupvice.com/why-fighting-for-irr-everyday-of-your-life-is-so-important

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739152

Points: 1

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Killer Stats for Business Angels

nigekelly — Fri, 09 May 2014 16:49:36 +0000

Article URL: http://www.startupvice.com/killer-stats-for-business-angels

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7721848

Points: 1

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The Venture Capital Business Model (Nice if you can get it)

nigekelly — Tue, 06 May 2014 16:43:18 +0000

Article URL: http://www.startupvice.com/the-venture-capital-business-model

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7705543

Points: 1

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New comment by nigekelly in "Volvo’s first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Sweden"

nigekelly — Tue, 06 May 2014 10:03:05 +0000

Very interested in this space and how it will end up. We have a big emotional attachment to cars evidenced by the fact that the annual cost of taking taxis everywhere is probably cheaper than the annual costs of owning a car if you live in a city. NYC habitants have probably made this transition already.

SO if we end up with self driving taxis then this form of transport will become ridiculously cheap as the driver's salary is now eliminated. The rationale to own a car will become harder to justify.

Also I read recently that our actual usage of cars is very low over a year. This means huge inefficiency. There is plenty of spare capacity per car to do alot more journeys. If we all start taking self driving taxis that run 24x7 in a few years time where does that leave the car companies. One assumes with far fewer car sales. Are they shooting themselves in the foot?

5 Things You Didn't Know about Startup Unicorns

nigekelly — Fri, 02 May 2014 16:23:01 +0000

Article URL: http://www.startupvice.com/5-things-not-known-about-startup-unicorns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7686584

Points: 2

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Minimal Viable Return for a startup

nigekelly — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:57:35 +0000

Article URL: http://www.startupvice.com/minimal-viable-success-for-a-startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7674572

Points: 2

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Benchmarking business angel investment returns

nigekelly — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:35:15 +0000

Article URL: http://www.startupvice.com/making-sense-of-startup-investment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7660180

Points: 1

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New comment by nigekelly in "Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?"

nigekelly — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:40:00 +0000

Hi - looks interesting. Can you forward revenue last 12 months and what you think it's worth

Startup Failure Rates for Business Angels

nigekelly — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:05:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.startupvice.com/startup-failure-rates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647310

Points: 3

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NASDAQ has fallen 20% since end of February

nigekelly — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:51:38 +0000

Article URL: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/investors-take-275-billion-bite-out-of-big-tech-groups-1.1754329

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7555566

Points: 2

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New comment by nigekelly in "The reason Angular JS will fail"

nigekelly — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:22:04 +0000

I agree that angular is difficult and docs poor. I think knockout has great docs and is easy to learn. But google trend both and clearly angular is winning and probably has won the mvc js battle. It defies logic but there it is.

50% of your article was about how jquery was superior and simpler than prototype and moo tools. It may have been superior but it's nonsense to say it was simpler. I used prototype alot and it was simpler. To grab a div you simply:

$("mydiv")

not:

$("#mydiv")

So much more elegant than jquery!

Prototype comes from a js perspective whilst jquery seems to come from a css perspective. So I think prototype is better for traditional developers and jquery for web designers.

Creating re-usable components in Knockoutjs

nigekelly — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:50:46 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2014/02/03/creating-basic-re-usable-component-knockout-3-0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7183011

Points: 1

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New comment by nigekelly in "Vue.js: JavaScript MVVM made simple"

nigekelly — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:57:33 +0000

Looking at those performance tests makes me wonder why knockout isn't more popular.

PouchDB Chat - How to make it

nigekelly — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:34:53 +0000

Article URL: http://nigelkelly.github.io/how-to-make-pouchdb-chat.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653244

Points: 1

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Angular Vs Knockout Final Thoughts

nigekelly — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:09:35 +0000

Article URL: http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/WebDev/UIDevelopment/angularjs-vs-knockout-final-thoughts-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6606038

Points: 9

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PouchDB Chat

nigekelly — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:14:46 +0000

Article URL: http://nigelkelly.github.io/pouchdb-chat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6570753

Points: 7

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New comment by nigekelly in "Manager.io – Free accounting software for small businesses"

nigekelly — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:47:04 +0000

This is really superb. It's quick and responsive. Looks good. Looks easy to use. Will give a test drive over next few days as have to get my taxes done. I see that many of the plugins are disabled so suspect that's the business model.

Limitations of the Dropbox Data Store API

nigekelly — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:18:42 +0000

Article URL: http://nigelkelly.github.io/dropbox-data-store-tutorial.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6534894

Points: 1

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