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How we got our first 100 paying customers
Being a startup in the SaaS segment, customer acquisition has been one of the most challenging topics for us. In this article, we describe our experiences.
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How We Get Things Done (2015)
The technology behind Canva. We're sharing how we solve complex engineering problems to empower everyone in the world to design.
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Building a business, not just an app
This past week has not been the first outbreak of independent developer angst over the app store, but it feels like it has been one of the more intense. The pump was primed by the news that Kim Kar…
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How a College Student Used Creative Commons to Dominate Political Photography
Gage Skidmore has photographed nearly every presidential candidate since 2008 — and by giving away all of his images for free, he has quickly become the Internet's most prominent political photographer.
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Funding, Incentives, and Governance
In my first blog post I focused on the most important thing: our values. Now I turn to the next-most-important issue for our mission: funding. Here’s how we’ve gathered the necessary resources to get…
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On Google's self-driving car acident rates
Hot on the heels of my [CES Report](http://ideas.4brad.com/ces-2016-robocar-news) is the release of the latest article from Chris Urmson on [The View from the Front Seat of the Google Car](https://medium.com/@chris_urmson/the-view-from-the-front-seat-of-the-google-self-driving-car-chapter-4-d707b9e925d3#.6okyykxyq)…
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How to Survive an Acquisition
Last week Facebook announced that they will be shutting down Parse.
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Why did Facebook decide to shut down Parse?
For those working in the “aaS” business, the Parse shutdown was the main topic of conversation this weekend. Many in the developer…
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Help Make “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen” a Reality
Readers of my blog know I’ve been going to Shenzhen for some time now. I’ve taken my past decade of experience and created a tool, in the form of a book, that can help makers, hackers, and entrepreneurs unlock the potential of the electronics markets in Shenzhen. I’m looking for your help to enable a print run of this…
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Making 20% Time Work
Following Google’s lead many companies have instituted “20% time” for their employees. This is one day per week in which employees can work on projects of their own choosing. The practice keeps developers motivated and sharp, produces tools to solve company problems, and in the best case creates open source which…
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Using Graph Databases to Stop E-commerce Fraud in Real Time
Discover how to detect and deter e-commerce fraud – before fraudsters inflict significant damage – when you harness the power of graph database technology.
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Eve: My Concerns
Eve is a new programming language. Maybe. Or, a development environment. More accurately, perhaps, it’s a tool to think. If you have an hour to spare, this is a great video to watch from Chris Granger:
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John T. Reed's analysis of Robert T. Kiyosaki's book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Part 1
An in-depth, factual analysis of Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad. Discover the dangerous advice, factual errors, & misleading claims exposed by John T Reed.
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Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Second Quarter Results
Commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate exceeds $9.4 billion; Windows 10 active on over 200 million devices
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Request For Research: Basic Income
We’re going to try something new—our first Request For Research. We’d like to fund a study on basic income—i.e., giving people enough money to live on with no strings attached. I’ve been intrigued by the idea for a while, and although there’s been a lot of discussion, there’s fairly little data about how it would…
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HFT in the Banana Land
It’s beautiful outside Looks like it’s raining money Dr. Dre, For the love of money [Updated 1 on 01/27/2016 | Minor corrections + kmz file added] [Updated 2 on 01/27/2016 | This post w…
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results, Slowing Growth in iPhone Sales
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Fellowship V2
Last fall, YC ran an 8 week experiment calledThe Fellowship [https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/yc-fellowship]to fund and work with startups at the idea or prototype stage. The goal was to see if we could create a program that could help more early-stage startups at scale. The experiment went well and I have a few…
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Amazon's customer service backdoor
As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able…