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On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to NSA’s PRISM
Putting on my tinfoil hat.
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The 20 Most Expensive Keywords in Google Ads
While the minimum bid per keyword is 5 cents in Google Ads, the highest cost keywords are nowhere near that. Google can make up to $50 per click from the most expensive PPC keywords, and keyword advertising is a highly lucrative business. Learn all about the most expensive keywords for your industry.
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How Google missed the boat
Their biggest mistake was their attitude about the rest of us.
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Sam Altman for President
I’m delighted to announce that Sam Altman has agreed to become president of Y Combinator starting next batch. I’ll continue to do office hours with startups, but Sam is going to lead YC. Why the change? Because YC needs to grow, and I’m not the best person to grow it. Sam is what YC needs at this stage in its…
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Fundraising Mistakes Founders Make
There’s a lot written about what you should do when you raise money, but there hasn’t been as much written about the common mistakes founders make. Here is a list of mistakes I often see: •...
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Leaving Google
As of March 17th I’ll be an ex-employee. It’s an amicable separation in the face of irreconcilable differences: I wouldn’t move to California and Google wouldn’t open a Vancouver office. I haven’t decided what to do next.
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AI
Yesterday at lunch a friend asked me what tech trend he should pay attention to but was probably ignoring. Without thinking much I said “artificial intelligence”, but having thought about that a...
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How Microryza Acquired the Domain Experiment.com
How do you get an amazing domain name like Experiment.com?
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A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work
A New Car UI - How touch screen controls in cars should really work.
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The Engineer Crunch
For most startups in the bay area, the engineer crunch is a bigger problem than the Series A crunch (this somewhat applies to designers as well, but most startups need far more developers than...
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Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide
Or how cash would be described in the press if invented today. Full bitcoin series here : Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide New York, February 17, 2014 World governments announced a plan today to allow citizens to anonymously carry parts
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My Startup, a Retrospective
Two years of OpenCNAM, my Caller ID API startup: the weekend MVP, the Django to Flask rewrite, the cold emails that won customers, and my mistakes.
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Letter to MIT community regarding support of students behind ‘Tidbit’
The following email was sent this evening to the MIT community by President L. Rafael Reif.
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How the US Treasury imposes sanctions on me and every other "Stephen Law"
Right, here's another thing I am getting off my chest - email letter to OFAC (edited slightly from version sent). Dear OFAC This corresp...
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Startup sales negotiations 101 – how to respond to discount inquiries
Learn 7 proven ways to say no to discount requests, protect margins, and strengthen customer relationships.
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Publisher Transformation with Users at the Center
*Feb. 13 update: I posted more details about Directory Tiles here.* We believe that if you put the user front and center, you can make ...
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The Book of Graham
I emailed my 22 year old cousin Eric, who’s graduating Summa in Economics from Harvard, to see if he needed any help getting interviews...
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