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Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions?
“I’d be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullshit I hear today” –Big Sean, The One I felt a little odd writing that title. It’s a little like asking “Why should you give engineers big monitors?” If you have to ask the question, then you probably won’t understand the answer....
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A Copyright Vote That Could Change the EU’s Internet
On October 10, EU lawmakers will vote on a dangerous proposal to change copyright law. Mozilla is urging EU citizens to demand better reforms. On Octobe
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Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home
In the face of a category 5 hurricane, Delta Air Lines meteorologists, dispatchers, pilots, cabin crew, and ground crew accomplished an incredible feat on Wednesday. As Hurricane Irma bore down San Juan, Puerto Rico, Delta sent one last flight to help evacuate a few hundred people from San Juan just before the airport…
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Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
After a great run, we have decided to officially sunset Nylas Mail.
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“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power.
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Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research
We’re excited to announce that we’re expanding Watsi to provide health coverage! Together, Watsi Crowdfunding and Watsi Coverage will help create a world where everyone has access to care––whether that’s by raising money through crowdfunding or enrolling in health coverage.
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Free Data Recovery of Wet Phones and Hard Drives for Hurricane Harvey Victims
Visit our Press Release page to get more details concerning the latest as well as upcoming news in our DriveSavers company. Click here to read.
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Supporting Hypothesis
Stripe is supporting the development of Hypothesis, an open-source testing library for Python
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Read This Before You Build Uber for X
Sam is a cofounder of PocketSuite (YC W16). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We still hear it all the time: “I’m building the Uber for X.” That idea – an app that lets consumers get a specific service when they need it, while giving service professionals (“pros”)…
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Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans
New features are coming exclusively to GitLab.com paid plans – find out why and how to upgrade.
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Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA
New capabilities of Same Day ACH become effective over phases to allow financial institutions and businesses to acclimate to a faster processing environment, as well as to ease the implementation effort. Beginning September 15, 2017, Same Day ACH is available for debit entries, enabling the same-day processing of…
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Chrome Enterprise
Since we launched Chrome OS in 2009, our goal has been to build the simplest, fastest, and most secure operating system possible. And we’ve been inspired by all the ways…
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YC Summer 2017 Stats
Today is Y Combinator’s 25th Demo Day. With 124 companies presenting over the next two days, this is the largest Demo Day in YC’s 12.5 year history. We wanted to share some stats about YC and about the batch. For the more visually inclined, see the graphic below created by YC alum SketchDeck…
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Is the open office layout dead?
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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What Should Happen to People’s Online Identity When They Die?
It’s difficult to know what action to take with the account of someone who has died.