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Tesla Gave Me Control of Their Site Forums
Update, 3/6/21: 2.5 years after they gave me a wild ride with admin access to their forums, Tesla announced that they will be killing off the Tesla
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Kelly Criterion (2007)
It’s fairly clear when one should buy a particular stock. One should buy stock when it is undervalued. What I have always wondered about is how much stock one should buy. A few months ago I stumbled upon the answer which is given by the Kelly criterion . It says that one should invest an amount to maximize one’s…
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I’m leaving Mozilla
It's been five great years, but now it is time for me to move on and try something else. During these five years I've met and interacted with a large number of awesome people at Mozilla, lots of new friends! I got the chance to work from home and yet work with a global team … Continue reading I’m leaving Mozilla →
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Pivot or Fail?
The Pivot is celebrated in startup land. Huge successes like Twitter and Slack are all the results of pivots. So surely pivoting is a good thing, right? Well, I am not so sure. And I certainly don’t want entrepreneurs to think that pivoting is the right thing to do when their original idea fails. It […]
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How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows
I know a change is going to come If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing R…
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I've compiled the best SaaS Landing pages and broke down all their secrets
We'll Rewrite Your SaaS Landing Page Into A High…2018561 points88 commentsTech Industry & Business details
SaaS Landing page inspiration is usually "pretty" but not conversion/result driven so in this article, I compiled the best SaaS Landing pages examples I've seen and broke-down their secrets for conversions!
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A hundred million cars run curl
One of my hobbies is to collect information about where curl is used. The following car brands feature devices, infotainment and/or navigation systems that use curl - in one or more of their models. These are all brands about which I've found information online (for example curl license information), received photos…
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At least it wasn't Oracle
What it was like for relatively new Red Hat employee, Chris Short, during the IBM acquisition announcement and the week that followed.
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Apple’s Social Network
Apple’s decision to stop reporting unit sales is defensible; the company, though, should provide more data to support its new growth story.
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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in startup's metrics
Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. This was a big moment for me, and the result of a long relationship that…
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The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story).
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IBM’s Old Playbook
IBM has bought Red Hat in an attempt to recreate its success in the 90s; it’s not clear, though, that the company or the market is the same.
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The Surprising Power of the Long Game
In everything we do, we play the long or the short game. The short game is easy, pleasurable, and offers visible and immediate benefits. But it almost never leads to success. Here's how to play the long game.
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Unslacking Tideways Company
We have moved away from Slack at Tideways over the last three months, because I found Slack is already annoying, even with just a four person team (plus the occasional freelancer). For me, it disrupts deep work phases and knowledge lost in the depth of chat history.
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Sales results from getting 3M views on YouTube
How getting your subscription box covered on a popular YouTube channel is not necessarily a shortcut to riches.
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YouTube marketing horror story
Results from asking 180 YouTubers to make an unboxing video for a subscription box. Includes detailed breakdown of response rate, number of videos made, views and the sales results from them.
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Duckspeak vs. Smalltalk: Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple (2011)
Duckspeak Vs Smalltalk The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers Malcolm Gladwell's recent piece, "Creation Myth" , in...
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MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable
Update: Afew more thoughts on the SSPL in response to some counterarguments that have been raised. A few days ago, MongoDB, Inc changed the license of its widely-used database software to the "Server Side Public License" or SSPL. They also submitted the SSPL for review by the Open Source Initiative,
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An AWS Region is coming to South Africa
In the first half of 2020 we plan to launch an AWS Region in South Africa
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It’s called Stack Overflow. As of
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Pushback against Saudi funding endangers Silicon Valley valuations
Shifting common knowledge on Saudi Arabia has infected the narrative around SoftBank's Vision Fund, which in turn places unicorn valuations at risk.