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TheOnlyRew | 13 years ago | on: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

I love Moleskine, but that just made me all the more sceptical about the "optimized" dotted paper pattern. That just screams gimmick to me, especially looking at the picture provided.

If it does make a significant usability difference, that would be pretty cool and I'd love to get some insight into why dotted lines would be simpler for image processing software to work with than straight lines, but... For now, I'm gonna keep on trying to bury myself with post-it notes...

TheOnlyRew | 13 years ago | on: Seed Accelerators Have Created Nearly 3,500 Jobs

According to these numbers, 1436 companies were accelerated with $1,176,787,411, creating 3389 jobs. Doing some simple math, these numbers suggest that, on average, each of the small businesses created just about 2.36 jobs each at an initial investment of roughly 347 thousand dollars apiece ($347,237).

I know this is a case of lies, damn lies, and statistics, but I wonder how these numbers compare -- or if it's possible to compare them -- to other other growing industries, other "job creators". (I'm _very_ skeptical of that phrase.) Is this market value for a new job? The fact that 83% of the value of investments were recouped is significant, but how significant?