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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,051 posts.
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Exit Interview: Founders look back at acquisitions by Google, AOL, Microsoft
Exit Interview is a Signal vs. Noise series that talks to founders to see what happens after companies get acquired. Webshots Webshots has been acquired multiple times. Webshots Founder Nick Wilder: Webshots has quite a sordid history: we sold it to Excite@Home in 1999, they went bankrupt, w…
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Ideas Matter
The idea is the seed. It is the kernel that is the start of something new. Ideas are powerful because they invade the mind. Once you are introduced to an idea, you cannot get it out of your…
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Sortfolio for sale
Sortfolio, our visual directory of web designers, has been helping companies find web design firms (and helping web design firms find clients) since October of 2009. Sortfolio works It’s been working quite well for people. In a recent survey we conducted, 45% generated new business th…
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The investment that didn't happen
The story of Modista.com — a young startup that was forced to shutdown before it even really got going because of a patent infringement lawsuit by Like.com.
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My startup story: from big idea to thriving business in 8 short years
In the summer of 2003 while still working for my first startup I’ve got a “big idea”: social news reader. Imagine something like Google Reader with Priority Inbox and social recommendations. I was thinking about it day and night. I couldn’t sleep and was working through it in my head while lying awake in bed. I’ve got…
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Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree
Braintree’s Bryan Johnson will answer your questions in the comments section. In 2003, Bryan Johnson (right) was hired for a commission-only job selling credit card services to businesses. “I was broke,” says Johnson. “The job was brutal. Business owners were tired of the industry’s decep…
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What happens after Yahoo acquires you
Whether it’s Flickr, Delicious, MyBlogLog, or Upcoming, the post-purchase story is a similar one. Both sides talk about all the wonderful things they will do together. Then reality sets in. They get bogged down trying to overcome integration obstacles, endless meetings, and stifling bureaucra…
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Square Drops Per Transaction Fee
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Are founders really 1000x more valuable than their employees?
Is it fair for founders to own about 100% of a startup while employee #1 only owns a few percent? Are founders 10-1000x more valuable than employees? The answers are Yes, it is fair. Value doesn…
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How ThatHigh solved the chicken and egg problem and grew to 1 million pageviews
We've joined forces with Insight.io to add semantic code search (built on Elasticsearch) to our roadmap.
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