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Your idea sucks now go do it anyway
Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.
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Facebook is scaring me
Yesterday I wrote that Twitter should be scared of Facebook. Today it's worse. I, as a mere user of Facebook, am seriously scared of them.
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All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook...
I don’t mean to overhype this, but frankly I don’t think it would be possible to overhype something as huge and profound as what Facebook introduced yesterday, at least from what I gather reading the reports coming out of F8. Timelines. Open Graph. Apps. Music. Video. Bam! It’s all there and it’s all amazing and huge…
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How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend
Noah Kagan built three multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28. He also looks great in green. (Photo: Brandon Wells) I first met Noah Kagan over rain and strong espressos at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View, CA. It was 2007. We were both in hoodies, had a shared penchant for the F-bomb and burritos…
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37signals sent me a gift for pwning their leaderboard
This year I took an AK to the Answers leaderboard at 37signals , mostly answering Highrise questions. The Answers board is the best place to learn how to use Highrise because if you have a question there’s a good chance someone else has already asked it. I scoured it during our implementation in April, 2010 and…
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A Business Insider retrospective
After reading Ryan McCarthy’s post at Reuters about Business Insider, I wanted to run some numbers.
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Don't try this at home. How credit card arbitrage funded my first company.
Getting a startup off the ground takes time, talent, and money. Time can be stolen from various parts of your life with some determination and prioritization. Talent can be eventually learned or acquired with cofounders. Money’s different. You can do a lot of things to reduce the need for money, but it usually takes…
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How Github uses Github to build Github
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The Wetware Crisis: the Thermocline of Truth : Bruce F. Webster
[Copyright 2008 by Bruce F. Webster. All rights reserved. Adapted from Surviving Complexity (forthcoming).]
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What Netflix Could Have Said This Week
In the 14 years since we started Netflix, we’ve gained more than 25 million customers worldwide by providing the best DVD by mail service anywhere. Along the
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Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done
I have found that the two biggest causes of having to fire an employee at an early stage startup are a lack of culture fit, and the inability to Get Shit Done. I don't care how smart someone is - if they are unable to work hard and crank out a large amount of high quality work, they will weigh down your startup.
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Why I regret going to TechCrunch Disrupt
Several months ago I decided to bring my startup from Ottawa, Canada and exhibit in Startup Ally at TechCrunch Disrupt. What better place than Disrupt to absorb insight, meet visionaries and explor…
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Look out for No. 1
In the late 1990s, eurozone wannabes squeezed and stretched to meet the criteria for accession, including low inflation and government deficits, and moderate levels of debt. The criteria were somew…
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Should you launch at a conference?
Should you launch at Launch? (Or TechCrunch Disrupt? Or Demo? They’re all pretty similar). This year I launched two major new products at conferences: Careers 2.0 and Trello, and both times, i…
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Design for Hackers (the book) is here
It was less than 10 months ago that I told you that I would be writing Design for Hackers. Less than 10 months, and the book is already available. In fact, I just signed a bunch of books for some of the amazing 138 backers of the Kickstarter campaign, and I’m also packing my bags
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All His Life Has He Looked Away, to the Future...
It’s one thing to look at today’s Windows 8 on a tablet and say that it has a lot of potential. It’s another thing altogether to look at it and declare victory.
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Please don't use pie charts
I don't like pie charts. I don't like them because they fail to convey information. They do that because people have a really hard time ju...
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Google & the Future of JavaScript
Simply stated, Google is absolutely committed to making JavaScript better, and we're pushing hard to make it happen.
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