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I wish I’d thought of that. Operation Starbucks
I should have thought of it first. I walked into Starbucks one afternoon. Ok. Ok. I do this every afternoon, but something was different this time. Something really neat was going on.
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Hardware startups
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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How we failed our YC interview
We had our YC interview on Friday and were super confused after it. We sort of expected that. We talked to over a dozen YC founders and ...
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Why I am building a product with a tiny market
Two months ago, I launched a [regex tester](/). W...
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Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform
Attitudes towards the Facebook platform have changed Recently, Bill Gurley of Benchmark wrote a great piece on how platform companies like Facebook, iOS, Android, eBay, and others manage the ecosystem around them. It’s an important essay and I’d recommend you all read it. I found myself nodding my head as Facebook was…
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Company with the “World’s Least Powerful CEO” Makes $2.5 Million Every Day
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen calls himself “the world’s least powerful CEO." They've found huge success with a weak CEO by organizing into autonomous cells.
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Hackers can be business guys, and other lessons from Paul Graham
Spent most of this evening reading YC applications. We ask applicants to record themselves for about a minute with their cofounders just so we can get a sense for who they are in person. We fire up...
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A KPI dashboard for early-stage SaaS startups
[Update 12/20/2013: I have extended the dashboard to include multiple pricing tiers and annual subscription plans. Check it out here .] [U...
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How To Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite
Smart people tell you never, ever to rewrite an entire system from scratch. They're right. But if you do, here are tips that will help.
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Zombie VCs
This post uses publicly available data on Crunchbase and has elicited a strong response from the tech community in general. I am making corrections as I re...
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