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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 226 posts.
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Life at a startup
As a child, I had read about the Homebrew Computer Club, where Osborne and Apple were born - and I wanted to be part of a big movement like that ever since. When I first heard about Y Combinator I thought here was something happening right now that might be looked back on in the same way. I worked my way through the…
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Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree
Braintree’s Bryan Johnson will answer your questions in the comments section. In 2003, Bryan Johnson (right) was hired for a commission-only job selling credit card services to businesses. “I was broke,” says Johnson. “The job was brutal. Business owners were tired of the industry’s decep…
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SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately
by Paul Hontz
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What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago
The year is 2007, and I had just left Microsoft to dive into the startup world. Like many first time entrepreneurs, I was very excited about the adventure. And like many first time entrepreneurs, I didn’t know where to start.
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What happens after Yahoo acquires you
Whether it’s Flickr, Delicious, MyBlogLog, or Upcoming, the post-purchase story is a similar one. Both sides talk about all the wonderful things they will do together. Then reality sets in. They get bogged down trying to overcome integration obstacles, endless meetings, and stifling bureaucra…
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Square Drops Per Transaction Fee
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A Visitor's Guide to Silicon Valley
If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combina…
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Are founders really 1000x more valuable than their employees?
Is it fair for founders to own about 100% of a startup while employee #1 only owns a few percent? Are founders 10-1000x more valuable than employees? The answers are Yes, it is fair. Value doesn…
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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.
As in stop being in stealth mode. Stop asking for advice. Stop doing your start-up. You’re not ready.
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How ThatHigh solved the chicken and egg problem and grew to 1 million pageviews
We've joined forces with Insight.io to add semantic code search (built on Elasticsearch) to our roadmap.
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How To Get Your First 1,000 Users
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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Startup America -- Dead on Arrival
For its first few decades Silicon Valley was content flying under the radar of Washington politics. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Japanese semiconductor manufacturer…
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Selling pickaxes during a gold rush
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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VCs Are Not Your Friends
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times they confuse VC’s with their friends. Lets Go to Lunch At Rocket Scienc…
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Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success
The recent WSJ article on the supposedly Chinese style of parenting has generated a lot of interesting discussion. The most amusing comment...
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