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Why the iPhone will fail (2007)
The forthcoming (June 29) release of the Apple iPhone is going to be a bigger marketing flop than Ishtar and Waterworld (dating myself aga...
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Let's just say it: 3D TV is a joke.
(At Panasonic's IFA booth: People using 3D glasses and monitors to watch the live women in front of their faces.) If you determine the big story here at the IFA tech show here in Berlin based on raw square footage in the booths, there's no question what it is: 3D TV is everywhere. The massive boot
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Apple's ping is a big pile of steaming dung
Hi 👋 you're reading a pretty old post! I started writing on here back in high school and this page may not reflect my current views. Recommend checking out related articles and categories down below, I've likely published more recent thoughts on this topic.
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Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey
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Scribd.com Comes to the Dark Side
SALDOWD adalah salah satu layanan alternatif link login dan daftar platform resmi situs terbaru saldo wd hari ini yang sangat mudah diakses 7/24 jam nonstop.
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High Resolution Fundraising
September 2010 The reason startups have been using more convertible notes in angel rounds is that they make deals close faster. By making it easier for startups to give different prices to different investors, they help them break the sort of deadlock that happens when investors all wait to see who else is going to…
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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant
People are shocked when they hear I've been able to pull off the use of virtual assistants in startups, and excited at the thought that they might be able to do the same. The conversation almost always turns to questions about where to find virtual assistants and how a startup can use one.
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What A CEO Does
I am posting this as a MBA Mondays post. But I did not learn this little lesson at business school. I learned it from a very experienced venture capitalist early in my post-MBA career. I was working on a CEO search for one of our struggling portfolio comapnies. We had a bunch of them. I […]
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The Tragic Death of Practically Everything
Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson is catching flak for the magazine's current cover story, which declares that the Web is dead. I'm not sure what the controversy is. For years, once-vibrant technologies, products, and companies have been dropping like teenagers in a Freddy Krueger movie. Thank he
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What non-technical users don’t understand about your software
If you are writing consumer software you have to understand that you and your average user have a very different level of understanding of computers. When you first start doing support it can be a …
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How Authors Really Make Money: The Rebirth of Seth Godin
What do the economics of publishing look like… really? (Photo: thinkpanama) (Special thanks to my agent, Steve Hanselman, and my anonymous sources within the world’s biggest publishing houses) Print is dead! This has become a popular headline, and a great way to get quoted, as Nicholas Negroponte has shown. Iconic…
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How to Minimize Politics in Your Company
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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Homeless Experiment
On Thursday June 4 th of 2009 I left the comforts of my home in Austin, TX. with no food, no money and no place to stay for 5 days and 4 nights. I did this voluntarily as a small experiment to see what it was like to live on the streets of Austin, TX.
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No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
I personally find the people who are in the software startup game just for the money to often be nearly delusional about their chances of success and the likely magnitude of it when it happens. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. If you are in it for the money and…
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The right way to position against competition
Most startup founders either claim there is no competition (because they're soooo unique) or define themselves as a combination of the best traits of their competitors. Neither is a good strategy; here's what to do instead.
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The Stock Market Is Still for Suckers
I wrote a whole series of articles warning people about the stock market over the years. You can see them here . It’s gotten worse. So I thought i would write some more about why you should probably avoid putting any new money into the stock market…
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The Bowling Pin strategy
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Daring Fireball: Creep Executive Officer
More and more, I get the feeling that if there’s a rift between the old “Don’t be evil” Google and the new “Let’s do whatever we want” Google, that it’s a rift between Schmidt and Larry/Sergey.
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