Good for Blendle! Not the first Dutch start-up to be funded by US investors, but one of the most well known (in the Netherlands anyway).
As far as I am aware, there is no US-based Blendle yet? (An article aggregator where you pay per article). If so, they have a large market ahead of them!
On behalf of the team: Thanks! (I only recently joined, so I can't take any credit myself).
As far as we know, there's no other company in the world that offers this 'pay-per-article-service'.
Blendle has been tremendously succesful in the Netherlands, proving to us that people are still interested in high quality journalism. It's just that until Blendle came along, the way journalism is offered to readers was outdated to the point of it being ridiculous. We're happy to provide an easy alternative!
In addition, in the step before where the heat is transferred away from the reactor walls to the turbines, a heat flux is needed of 100MJ/s. Assuming a contact surface of 100m2, that is 1MJ/s per m2. That sounds like a huge flux and I am not sure if there is any medium that could do this.
It looks like the interview parts were mixed up in the editing. To watch the interview in chronological order start at 13:44, watch till the end and then start from the beginning.
Sure, but they still aren't abnormally outsized, probably even before adjusting for risk. If they were they would do like the very top hedge funds and charge more than 2/20.
If you know specific rates of return please share.
I would anticipate there would be diminishing returns over time as the "bets are spread" if you will... that being said they're doing a damned amazing job so far.
Besides being only a single data point the returns for one $300M fund aren't a good indicator of the returns for 2-3 concurrent $1+ billion dollar funds.
I concur...that's why I said: "only from the first fund" and "I would anticipate there would be diminishing returns over time as the "bets are spread" if you will".
That being said it is counter to your statement "Sure, but they still aren't abnormally outsized, probably even before adjusting for risk." That particular data point is quite higher than both the median and the means of VC returns that I've seen (and would probably lend more credence towards DaniFong's statement). I look forward to seeing how their other funds progress so that we have more data points.
Nice, although I'd like some more explanation about what I see.
When I click the hint for the oldest object in the universe I get: [object Object], with the URL: javascript:Zoomers.map.setView([79.39604189337487, -122.98095703125], 5)
May I ask what browser you are using? I plan on doing some other large images in the future and would like to make sure the underlying platform is robust.
I'd then like to add things like being able to pin features & share interesting objects with friends, or add annotations etc.
I haven't used BB10 yet, but I am willing to believe you. However, I think the issue is that success on the mobile OS market is determined in a large part by the ecosystem around it. The ecosystem is heavily influenced by network effects (i.e. the more users, the higher the value of the network) en BB is way behind in this aspect. They still have many users but the amount of apps pale in comparison to Apple and Android.
If Apple, Android, Windows and BlackBerry would all have started at the same time, we would have seen different results (maybe). But the simple fact remains that BB is very, very late to the game. And once market dominance is reached, as Apple and Android have, competitors can only change that dominance by being dramatically better. And I get the impression that BB10 is somewhat better.
