15961
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,897 posts.
Tech Industry & Business
Any year
15962
Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
15963
15964
Why I gave away my company to charity
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
15965
15966
15967
15968
15969
Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?
In my 21 years of startups I’ve had my ideas “stolen” twice. Once it almost mattered. This is about the time it didn’t. Worries from the garage One of the worries I hear from entrepreneurs (not ju…
15970
My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
TMJ is/was a punk-pop band of some minor renown. Some of that renown was due to their music, which included semi-hits such as “Crush Story,” “Donna Everywhere,” and “That’s a Lie” — a cover of the LL Cool J tune that featured the man himself in the music video, which actually got played quite a bit during daylight…
15971
15972
15973
So I finally tried Wave...
Last week, TechCrunch published a story about me not yet trying Google Wave (" Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn't Trie...
15974
Getting it wrong over coffee
Money management can be one of the most interesting careers in the world. At best it gives you lots of unstructured time to think about how ...
15975
15976
Setting Pricing for a Startup - The Rule of 80%
In just the last week, two different people have come to me to get feedback on their pricing. One was a startup selling a very sophisticated product to corporate enterprises. The other was selling...
15977
15978
15979
15980
Challenging the MLS Monopoly
Personal website for Ryan McGreal
15981
15982
Universities and Economic Growth
Value of $120,000 spent at Emerson College: I hired a summer intern, who had finished three years studying film and video production at Emerson College, to work with me on a series of videos for people learning to fly helicopters. He brought his own equipment to the first day of filming, including some "work lights"…
15983
Hardest delegating lesson to learn: Trust but verify.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
15984
Minimum Viable Product: a guide
One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product . Its power is matched only by the amount of confusi...
15985
IPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store
I think it would be good for everyone — Apple, developers, and iPhone users — if unrestricted web apps became a serious alternative to the restricted App Store. But it isn’t credible to argue that they already are.
15986
15987
15988
How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice
Insights on how to price software from the book by Neil Davidson.
15989
PPK: "Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid."
In his “ Apple’s mistake ” essay Paul Graham makes an unwarranted assumption; an assumption everybody who’s currently involved in the Great App Store Debate seems to be making.
15990
Morality, Compassion and the Sociopath
Again, the response to the Gervais Principle II seems to require a response to key themes that have emerged. There are several that I am going to touch upon in…