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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,982 posts.
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Build your own Startup Death Clock
Here's a simple, powerful trick for focussing your mind on one of the most important things about your startup: The date that you run out of money.
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The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.
At $5.2-billion Iridium was one of the largest, boldest and audacious startup bets ever made. Conceived in 1987 by Motorola and spun out in 1990 as a separate company, Iridium planned to build a mo…
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Github has won
This is probably old news to most, but I've discovered recently that github has won.
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Things Economists Agree On
If we could get the American public to endorse all these propositions, I am sure their leaders would quickly follow, and public policy would be much improved. That is why economics education is so important.
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The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19
The common theme uniting most of my efforts is the desire to be free. One of the reasons I'm so interested in startups is that they give peo...
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The Mac App Store isn’t for today’s Mac developers
Apple’s recently announced App Store for the Mac is a Really Big Deal™, for reasons I’ll get to in a moment. But a lot of existing Mac developers have pointed out major issues or unknowns that need to be addressed:
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A White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be Shipped
The Great White Nope.
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Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn't Get About Silicon Valley
Founders at Work
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Things Paul Graham is wrong about
I debated with myself for a long time over whether to write this post (which is one of the reasons some of the subject matter is a little ol...
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You need to use social services to understand them
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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When App Engine Went Wrong
The High Falls hike was my first with the Vancouver branch of the Alpine Club...
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Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X
Starting with this week’s new MacBook Air models, Flash Player is no longer bundled with Mac OS X.
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What We Look for in Founders
(I wrote this for Forbes, who asked me to write something about the qualities we look for in founders. In print they had to cut the last item because they didn't have room.) 1. Determination This has turned out to be the most important quality in startup founders. We thought when we started Y Combinator that the most…
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Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Marco Arment: The new MacBook Air
The new MacBook Air was released today, and it’s a hell of an upgrade. It got much better and it’s at an extremely compelling price.
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I’ve Made $216,688 From Products This Year
Hey, would you look at the time? It’s getting late. Just two months until the deeply introspective blog posts start comin’ hot & heavy. It’s still on