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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 920 posts.
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Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised
Marketing, entrepreneurship, and the ongoing study of how influence spreads (with the occasional interlude on travel, pasta, TV -- the important stuff) from founder Rand Fishkin.
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How Apple Works
Who takes over for Steve Jobs? 1 John Gruber recently posted his argument for thinking it will be COO Tim Cook. The biggest point in Cook’s favor is simple: “He’s already run the company while Jobs has been on leave.” That’s true, but it’s less meaningful than it sounds. But to understand why, you need to understand…
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What does $1265 of bugs look like?
To start with, there's a lot of spelling mistakes — 53, by my count. Within a few hours of my announcing the bug bounties, someone had run a spell checker against all of the comments in the Tarsnap source code and found about half of these; the rest, consisting mostly of cases where one English word was replaced by…
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Steve at NeXT
Late in 1989 I opened my email one morning and there was one from sjobs@next.com saying “come see us.” So I went and spent the day and failed to make a sale, but so did Mr. Jobs.
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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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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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Facebook announces new privacy and tagging model
Learn about Meta: our mission, principles, leadership, who owns the company, apps (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads) and products like Quest.
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Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing Amazon ElastiCache
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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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