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If I Launched a Startup - Cheat Sheet
Startup lawyer tips for launching: incorporate smart, use mentors/advisors carefully, and raise seed capital with founder-friendly, low-drama terms.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,982 posts.
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My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000
I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave ...
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Resigned
Steve Jobs’s greatest creation.
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Apple actually lost in Dutch court, not the opposite
OK. So here the short form of what happened in the dutch court today. Apple has LOST all claims wrt design and copyright.
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Preparing To Fire an Executive
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm
You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker.
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How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?
credit Having been back in the freelance world for a while now, I once again have to deal with quoting my clients an hourly rate for long-term contract work on an ongoing basis. I've been able to...
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How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How GitHub Works: Hours are Bullshit
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say
Please stop repeating these ideas! This isn't how successful companies work.
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The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization
Thoughts and musings of Dennis Forbes, expert software developer/architect and AI engineer
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Jonathan's Card shut down
Get a coffee, give a coffee - Jonathan's Card
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Flickr is dead
You know what? It doesn’t matter. It’s totally irrelevant. The Google one looks far better, but that’s so beside the point at this point.
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Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example"
The printed copies of Version Control by Example arrived last week. We moved seven tons of books into our fourth-floor office space and all the tenants on the third floor are still alive.
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Why software patents are not fixable
I’m not a patent lawyer. I’m not even a lawyer. I’m just a software developer, and like every software developer, I’ve probably unknowingly infringed upon hundreds of patents while routinely doing my job.
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An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People
The US Treasury is currently borrowing money at a Negative Real Yield . In any normal environment, if you can borrow money at a negative rate you should borrow as much as you can. The premise is that any idiot should be able to earn a return of greater than zero with the money. That’s a premise that should make the…
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Winter is coming
It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down. We're...