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Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech
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The $12 Gongkai Phone
Recently, I paid $ 12 at Mingtong Digital Mall for a complete phone, featuring quad-band GSM, Bluetooth, MP3 playback, and an OLED display plus keypad for the UI. Simple, but functional; nothing compared to a smartphone, but useful if you’re going out and worried about getting your primary phone wet or stolen.
Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint”
"We have study hall at the beginning of our meetings." says Jeff Bezos. Staff meetings at Amazon begin with 30 minutes of silent reading. Powerpoint is easy for presenter, hard for audience "The traditional kind of corporate meeting starts with a presentation. Somebody gets up in front of the room and presents with a…
Announcing Evan's Awesome A/B Tools
If you’ve ever needed to do basic statistical calculations for an A/B test, your options traditionally have been:
What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]
We just recently taped a new round of webmaster videos, and I thought this video deserved a full-fledged blog post. This is my rough estimate (as of early May 2013) of what search engine optimizers…
Why education startups do not succeed
I co-founded PrepMe in 2001. We were one of the first education companies online and the first purely online, personalized platform. We were acquired in 2011 by Providence Equity-backed Ascend Lea…
Rainy Day Ideas For Things You Can Build To Grow Your Business
Spinning your wheels for today? Here are some mini-projects to get you started.
LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
The primary reasons LinkedIn is the mustached, trench coat and wire frame glasses wearing mouth breather of the internet are the “People You May Know” and “People Also Viewed” features.
LinkedIn annoys me. It proliferates news aggregation features, and new apps, and all sorts of services. It recently bought an iPad news aggregator, you can use it as a publishing platform and it's spewing out money by selling CVs to recruiters. Reid Hoffman is a genius. But consider som
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The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup
A surprisingly generous sharing of ideas (and the actual deck) from a successful fund-raise.
Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?
When The Great Gatsby rolls out to theaters across the country this weekend, it will bring to the screen a story familiar to millions from a literary classic that's often dubbed the proverbial "Great American Novel." Here’s what many folks don’t know: even though the book was published nearly 90...
Writing Effective Welcome Emails
Learn some tips and tricks on writing welcome emails that actually get responses.