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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,552 posts.
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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project
In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.̶…
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How To: Spend your investors’ money
I’ve invested in two startups and advise, officially and unofficially, a dozen or so other startups. Recently, a company that I’m involved with, attachments.me , raised $500,000 from Foundry Group . Since their raise, the two cofounders, Ben and Jesse, have been on a tear adding features, solidifying the…
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How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
2008 is a leap year. That means that three hundred and sixty six days ago, almost to the minute, I was sitting alone in a booth at Zeke’s Sports Bar and Grill on 3rd Street in San Francisco. I wouldn’t normally hang out at a sports bar, let alone a sports bar in SOMA, but back then Thursday was “I Can Has Ruby” night…
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An open letter to Mike Arrington: Please stop investing in startups
Hi Mike, I’m one of your customers. We don’t really know each other. We’ve chatted at a few events, you’ve covered some of my antics, but I’m mostly just a guy who reads TechCrunch a lot. I find it’s a pretty good place to see what’s important in the industry. And you and your team do some damn fine reporting on…
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Startups Are Hard
Contrary to popular belief, there are no clouds of money that float around Silicon Valley and rain on anyone that utters the phrase, "I'm a founder!" Unfortunately, starting a company and raising money is just as hard as ever; it's just that the investors don't have as much leverage as they used to, but they still…
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Insight From Dropbox: Failure Is Not The Worst Outcome, Mediocrity Is
Lesson from the success of Dropbox. Should entrepreneurs abandon current ideas to shoot for something bigger?
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How to Price Software - Economics vs. Pyschology
You’ve just released your latest photo-organizing software. Through some mechanism which will be left as an exercise to the reader, you’ve managed to actually let people know about it. …
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Google's Social Strategy
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Mint’s Original Marketing Plan (circa 2007)
by Paul Hontz
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Crash Course: Design for Startups
A detailed brain dump about how to go about starting web design for startups. Including design process, inspiration and required reading.
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