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All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow's VC chase
Joel has decided to chase venture capital for StackOverflow, but I can’t exactly figure out why. He lists six benefits that just don’t compute under even light scrutiny: 1. The Answers market is in a land grab modeUnlike eBay, where there’s a general market for goods and you ge…
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Raising money for StackOverflow
A few people heard me on This Week in Startups (starting at 15:45) asking Jason if we should take money from the first VC who fell into our laps, or spend time doing the Sand Hill Road rounds, meet…
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Google did something seriously wrong
Here's what happened. When Google rolled out Buzz last week they activated an unknown number of users and chose people for them to follow automatically based on who they email most frequently with. Presumably these people had to also be on Gmail. And the list of people you follow is public. Therefore the list of…
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Google changes Buzz to be opt-in and adds easy delete button
Posted by Todd Jackson, Product Manager, Gmail and Google Buzz We've heard your feedback loud and clear, and since we launched Google Buzz f...
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Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"
Link to: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php
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Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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It Must Be A Marketing Problem
The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model, reducing customer and market risk. The first step of Customer Development is call…
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My Biggest Surprise: How Law Shapes the Business Landscape, and a Patent Puzzle
If there’s one thing I’ve been surprised by while trying to start startups, it’s the extent to which the business landscape is shaped by law. Skin Cancer One of my first serious s…
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How to waste money in Google Adwords
I have looked at quite a few Google Adwords accounts as part of a 1-day consulting package I do for other microISVs and small software vendors. I have also talked to a lot of people at conferences…
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Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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What to make of chatroulette?
Last night The Gotham Gal and I had dinner with our friends John Heilemann and Diana Rhoten. As dinner was ending, the talk turned to chatroulette and what to make of it. John and I both had the exact same reaction the first time we used chatroulette; "how did it take 15 years for the […]
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If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.
By now, everyone is tired of hearing about the iPad, but the negative responses are so perfectly misguided that it would be wrong to waste t...
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Steve Yegge's predictions from 2004
Ten Predictions Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ Update, September 2015: I saw the HN thread about Dan Luu's review of this post, and felt people were a little too generous with the scoring. So I'll offer my own scores and justifications here. 1) XML databases will surpass relational databases in
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The Simplicity Test: A Simple Policy Guide for Job Growth
The simplest way to create more jobs is to allow small business and entrepreneurs to spend less time and money on lawyers and accountants and redirect that intellectual and financial capital to the core competencies of their business.
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