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2019 in Review
A quick summary of the evolution of our company, our open-source work, interesting news and lessons in product design and engineering throughout 2019.
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How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built
NFX Managing Partner Pete Flint talks to Thumbtack co-founder & CEO Marco Zappacosta about building billion dollar marketplaces.
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Ignore Sunk Costs (2009)
The most important decision-making rule you learn in business school is still largely misunderstood. When making a choice between two options, only consider what’s going to happen in the futu…
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Unremarkables
There has never been a better time to be remarkable, nor a worse time to be unremarkable.
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Clear and Present Leadership
Great leaders communicate clearly and are involved
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Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing — Tiny Capital and Buffer
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Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade
For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a ...
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curl receives $10K USD donation
The largest ever single-shot monetary donation to the curl project just happened when indeed.com graciously boosted our economy with 10,000 USD. (It happened before the new year but as I was away then I haven't had the chance to blog about it until now.) curl remains a small project with no major financial backing…
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How the Digg team was acquihired
About a year after the catastrophic Digg V4 launch, our last-ditch experiment to salvage the site showed a spark of hope. We’d cajoled our way into a Facebook beta that allowed us to publish each Digg users’s read articles into their Facebook newsfeed, sending every clicking friend directly to Digg’s permalink page…
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I Was Google’s Head of International Relations
The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed.
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Just Build the Product
ALEXISTOGEL menyediakan slot gacor situs resmi terpercaya yang emang sudah terbukti kasih kemenangan besar tanpa ribet. dan fokus pada pengalaman main yang asyik dan adil, ditambah transaksi online secepat kilat.
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Don't Shave That Yak (2005)
The single best term I’ve learned this year. I want to give you the non-technical definition, and as is my wont, broaden it a bit. Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occur…
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What Will Happen in the 2020s
It’s 2020. Time to look forward to the decade that is upon us. One of my favorite quotes, attributed to Bill Gates, is that people overestimate what will happen in a year and underestimate what will happen in a decade. This is an important decade for mankind. It is a decade in which we will […]
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The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases
During the summers of my high school years in suburban Georgia, my friend and I would fill the time by randomly walking into local establishments asking for odd jobs. It was a great way as a studen…