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Posts by Ricky Nave

link to Palm Beach County Votes to Cut Property Taxes

Palm Beach County Votes to Cut Property Taxes

The commissioners of Palm Beach County, Florida recently voted (unanimously) to cut the millage rate for property taxes from $4.715 to $4.5. Millage is the amount of tax per $1,000 of taxable...

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link to 4 Characteristics that Make SaaS Products Sticky

4 Characteristics that Make SaaS Products Sticky

1. High-Stakes Applications If a company uses a cybersecurity tool to protect itself from ransomware attacks, that company is very unlikely to ever switch unless the tool fails. That's because the...

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link to Walmart’s New $3 Billion Advertising Business

Walmart’s New $3 Billion Advertising Business

Walmart generated $611 billion of revenue in 2022, but it only brought home $20 billion of operating income. That's a 3.3% margin -- terrible for an average business, but normal for a retail...

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link to 66 Profitable Industry Niches for B2B SaaS

66 Profitable Industry Niches for B2B SaaS

A good B2B SaaS product is one which the customer deeply embeds into their business so that the product is very sticky. SaaS products built for specific industries ("niches") often have that...

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link to Why Local Businesses Are Low-Hanging Fruit for Entrepreneurs

Why Local Businesses Are Low-Hanging Fruit for Entrepreneurs

Local businesses are easier to launch but tougher to scale past a few million dollars in annual revenue. By "local" I mean a business which is physically constrained so that consumers have to buy...

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link to A Chink in Section 230’s Armor? Hundreds of Schools Sue Social Media Companies.

A Chink in Section 230’s Armor? Hundreds of Schools Sue Social Media Companies.

Over 500 school districts are suing YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook for causing a child mental health crisis and interfering with their educational duties. These school...

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About the Author

In college, Ricky studied physics & math, won a prestigious research competition hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, started several small businesses including an energy chewing gum business and a computer repair business, and graduated with a thesis in algebraic topology. After graduating, Ricky attended grad school at Duke University in the mathematics PhD program where he worked on quantum algorithms & non-Euclidean geometry models for flexible proteins. He also worked in cybersecurity at Los Alamos during this time before eventually dropping out of grad school to join a startup working on formal semantic modeling for legal documents. Finally, he left that startup to start his own in the finance & crypto space. Now, he helps entrepreneurs pay less capital gains tax.

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