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This Is 2016 Not 2012
Her eyebrows knot themselves. A pencil grates back and forth on her legal pad. Scratch. Scratch. My back itches; a tiny incessant itch that demands more at
Dan Shipper
Writer and entrepreneur. CEO of Every, author of Chain of Thought, co-host of The Every Podcast.
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How to get your first ten customers (2013)
Preface: the assumption for this essay is that you’re building a B2B app, and you have something built but you’re having trouble getting people to pay for
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Here’s what I learned hanging out with Jason Fried
Discuss on Hacker News. I went to meet Jason Fried so I could learn how to stop selling software by accident. Since I started programming 10 years ago, I’v
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I am a terrible programmer
I recently got this from the co-founder of Artsicle, a startup I interned for over the summer after my freshman year: From: Scott Carleton Subject: just re
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Why I'm Doing It All Wrong
Discuss this post on Hacker News. Conventional wisdom for doing a startup as a young entrepreneur these days is something like the following: 1.Drop out of
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I'm Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code
“So the site’s pretty simple, all it needs to do is X, Y and Z. You seem like a good programmer so I’m sure it will only take you a few days to put it toge
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Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously
Discuss this post on Hacker News. My workout plan this summer would make any fitness guru shudder. I try to go to the gym once or twice a week. I spend 25
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Public speaking for introverts
A few days before I have to talk in front a lot of people I get this queasy feeling in my stomach that won’t go away. I don’t want to eat. I just want to c
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B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It
Discuss this post on Hacker News. When I tell people I do B2B software I get some very interesting reactions. “Why do B2B? It’s so unsexy.” And that’s true
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How To Build A Blog Readership
Discuss this post on Hacker News Despite the recent success of this blog over the past year (250,000 uniques, hundreds of new subscribers, republished in L
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DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months
Hi my name is Dan Shipper. I’m a sophomore at UPenn and last month I sold my web app DomainPolish. If you’re new around here DomainPolish is an MVP I built
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Your Goals Are Holding You Back
This post was republished on Lifehacker. I just started my junior year at Penn. Aside from a newly developed disdain for the freshmen I see bumbling their