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I'm "investing" $20 for the rest of HN to find out how accurate it is. Okay so it's scanning...

It is a scam and you are a horrible investor for investing in them.

So let's say these firms consider investing 250,000 with Palmer to build his headset. That kind of decision is not made lightly nor is it made by any one person.

This violates two simple, and obvious, tenets of investing: 1. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

No one is saying that investing isn't dangerous. The market has always worked this way and Groupon is no exception.

But if you're not, you should be investing and thinking long term cause the other guys probably aren't. I've seen a related phenomenon in the startup world.

Unless your interest does lie specifically in investing in the entertaining things. Cool.

I learned how quickly problems of scaling a development team crop up, and how early you should start investing in automation. Working for Google, I learned how to fix problems once and for all and build that culture into the organization.

Something I thought slightly peculiar given that he was supposed to be investing his own, significant funds along with B. Plus, I don't believe that he actually did any measurable work during the time period that would justify it based on what I knew at the time. Investors are rightly finicky about deferred salaries, and the bar is pretty high to justify them.

But in April this year, after AOL acquired TechCrunch, Mr. Arrington announced he was investing in start-ups again, while also becoming a limited partner in venture funds Benchmark Capital and SoftTechVC. Mr. Arrington has often said that transparency and full disclosure keep things above-board when his blog writes about companies he has some financial stake in.

I think the element you are missing is that the Greek government spending is very inefficient; they're not investing in some kind of economy-growing infrastructure revolution, they're spending money on totally unreasonable union contracts and extraordinarily early retirement for large classes of pensioners. The cuts they agreed to are something like 78 billion euros over more than 10 years, which is quite moderate, for all the screaming.