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Upside risk
Everyone claims that they understand the power law in angel investing, but very few people practice it. I think this is because it’s hard to conceptualize the difference between a 3x and a 300x...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 187 posts.
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An idea for non-technical co-founders: try a service-first business
Non-technical founders often want to start businesses that rely heavily on a technical co-founder they dont have. I have an idea for these founders, try a service-first business instead.
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The Y Combinator Startup Index
In a former life I served as Editor of Seattle 2.0, and one of the most popular pieces of content we produced was the Seattle 2.0 Index – a monthly ranked...
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Zombie Startups
My greatest fear as a startup founder isn’t to fail, it is to become a zombie startup.
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What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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How to negotiate the long, slow, SaaS ramp of death [video]
One of Gail Goodman's legacies to the software industry has been proving you can build a profitable business in the SMB space.
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Shutting down my side project of two years
I started blaster.fm in late 2010 with only a vague idea of what I wanted to do with it. Over the next two years …
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Solve the Problems Your Parents Have
WTF is getting old, our generation wonders. I think ageism runs deep, especially among the tech set who assume older people must be Luddites and by extension lower life forms. I’m not joking, I know people who feel this way – and when was the last time you had a conversation with tech with someone over 50?
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PushBullet: From 0 to 15,000 users in 2 weeks
I launched Pushbullet on January 20 of this year. Since then, over 15,000 people have signed up and have pushed over 25,000 things.
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UX Design for Startups
A must read for any startup or grown-up company that wishes to keep its startup spirit and conquer the world with stunning UX Design.
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