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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,603 posts.
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Jason Calacanis: What to do if your startup is about fail
Find your domain name at HugeDomains. Start using this domain right away.
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The Value of the Y Combinator Experience
I'm often asked about my Y Combinator experience so I thought I would take the time to blog about it.
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How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year
“Lean startups are built from the ground up for learning about customers.” – Eric Ries I recently sat in on Eric Ries’ presentation on lean startups at Berkeley. The slides and audio ar…
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Heroku: Why Instant Deployment Matters (YC W08)
How much better are two steps than three? Does it matter if something takes five minutes instead of twenty? When it comes to software deployment and...
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Startups in 13 Sentences
February 2009 One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy. I was saying recently to a reporter that if I could only tell startups 10 things, this would be one of them. Then I thought: what…
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Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08)
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous....
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Matt Mullenweg's 12 Rules to Move from 1 User to 100k
Printer-Friendly Flyer One-Page Flyer (PDF) for your bulletin board. (Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader .)
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Want To Be A Startup CEO? Better Learn How To Code.
I decided to start a company after graduating from business school at MIT Sloan. After taking courses with industry leaders like Jack Welch and learning the fundamentals of solid management practic…
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The 37signals Effect
Super-fantastic-caveat : Despite the title, this post isn’t really about 37signals, in particular. I’ve used them as an example, only. I probably could have called it the “Joel on Software” effect, too. This post is about all of us who aren’t 37signals, or Joel, and the dangers we face when trying to incorporate…
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Overnight success takes a long time
For some reason, this weekend has seen a lot of talk about what FriendFeed is/isn't/should be doing (see Louis Gray and others ). One pers...
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Balsamiq - A look back at 2008
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Mibbit: One year old, and profitable
Mibbit is a fully featured IRC Client. Allowing you to interact realtime with your friends. Chat, play games, colaborate on projects together and more.