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Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
AT&T Learns Exactly the Wrong Lesson About Data Usage
AT&T says that 65% of its users use less 200 megabytes per month; a whopping 98% use less than 2 gigabytes. (NYT) AT&T looked at these numbers and concluded it was time for tiered pricing; …
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Daring Fireball: iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations
Notes from today’s WWDC keynote.
Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile industry
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My Dip Into Domaining
What led me to try my hand at domain name speculation was curiousity about a particular angle on the market. Domaining had always seemed boring in practice, despite my theoretical interest in it as kind of a stock market for words. This angle that I'd thought of was to focus on domains composed of two three-letter…
You’re a little company, now act like one
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
How We Improved Our Conversion Rate by 72%
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Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks
Regarding Tynt, a service that breaks copy-and-paste on websites.
Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups
Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers I was having coff…
I've Changed My Mind About The iPad
I got an iPad for our home when the wifi version first came out. I used it for a day and then wrote a post about the iPad on the iPad. I was not very enthusiastic about the device. At the end of the review I said: Over time it may turn into a mainstream […]
Lessons learned from 13 failed software products
“No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.” – Proverb Software entrepreneur culture is full of stories of the products that succeeded. But what about t…
Ejection Seats
I pulled a few pranks in the military, but the one that got pulled on me took years off of my life. Alone in the Cockpit There isn’t anything cooler for a 19-year old then getting into the cockpit …