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Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor
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Congratulations on IE10: from Mozilla with cake
Back when Firefox 2 was released (six years ago this week!), the Internet Explorer team started a friendly tradition of sending Mozilla a cake as congratulations. This continued for Firefox 3 and Firefox 4 . After Firefox switched from major releases once or twice a year to incremental updates every six weeks, they…
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The New Funding Landscape
October 2010 After barely changing at all for decades, the startup funding business is now in what could, at least by comparison, be called turmoil. At Y Combinator we've seen dramatic changes in the funding environment for startups. Fortunately one of them is much higher valuations. The trends we've been seeing are…
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Your Credentials Are Worthless Here
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You shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important work
I envy economists. Unlike computer scientists, they seem to be able to publish best-seller books with innovative research. One such book is Piketty's Capital. The book is reminiscent of Marx's capital in its scope. If you haven't heard about the book yet, it has a simple message: the yield on capital is higher than…
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Marketing to Engineers (2001)
I am a chemical engineer and have been writing copy designed to sell products and services to engineers for 10 years. Here’s what I know about appealing to this special audience:
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The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
A 4-year study of 100 successful blogs reveals how Google's updates and AI transformed blogging. See which sites survived and which disappeared.
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Dogecoin and the Appeal of Small Numbers
Dogecoin is a unique phenomenon in the fascinating world of cryptocurrencies. It’s barely six weeks old, and as I write this post its network has more computing power than any other cryptocurrency except for Bitcoin. It made headlines this weekend when its community raised enough money to send the Jamaican bobsled…
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Forstall Out; Ive Up
Scott Forstall is leaving Apple; Jony Ive is taking over software design.
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What Is a Tech Company?
The question of “What is a tech company” comes down to how much software and its unique characteristics affects the company’s core business.
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How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time
From August 2014 to December 2015, I manually tracked all of my work time, minute-by-minute, and analysed the data in R.
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Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness
Microsoft have released a beta of Internet Explorer 9. This much is good, they’re back in the game. The engine supports modern standards—and for the first time Internet Explorer now renders this website (which has been HTML5 since early 2008 ).
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So You Want to Compete with Steam
I get a lot of pitches for "Steam competitors." 99% of them are doomed to failure, but the vast majority are doomed before they even start.
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Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses
Why being popular is not the goal of most small businesses
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XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
-> Updated June 22, 2018 – Three 16GB/FHD configs added to the line up in the US -> Updated Jan 26, 2018 – Added list of countries that offer the XPS 13 developer edition offline.…
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Do high interest rates fix high inflation?
Published: June 2023 In prior articles and newsletters, I’ve explored the causes of consumer price inflation over time. In short, the rate of consumer price inflation in an economy comes from a combination of 1) money supply growth and 2) significant changes in productivity and/or resource abundance. -Periods of fast…
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Shorting Tether
The trials and tribulations of betting against crypto's biggest stablecoin.
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No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
I personally find the people who are in the software startup game just for the money to often be nearly delusional about their chances of success and the likely magnitude of it when it happens. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. If you are in it for the money and…
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How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer
Jump ahead • Timeline • Meeting the extraordinary ability criteria • How much does it cost? • Should you work with a lawyer?
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Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare Is Dead
At the very least, let’s stop the egregiously deceptive advertising. Only Medicare should be able to call itself “Medicare.”
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Companies may be losing millions due to emails buried in collapsed Gmail threads
Disclaimer: The events depicted in this story are purely factual and described to the best of my memory. Prelude Many years ago, in the City of London… The Expedia empire reigns. Having conqu…
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Financial Misstatements
First-time startup CEOs make a lot of mistakes, mostly due to ignorance. One particularly bad one is misunderstanding or misusing basic financial terms. I started noticing this in Y Combinator...
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A Traditional City Primer
The Traditional City simply refers to the pattern of development that human civilization has built in for millenia.
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Chrome, the perfect antitrust villain?
Note: I wrote this post on Thursday, and then Friday night, news dropped that the US DOJ is preparing an antitrust investigation against Google. Wow-ee. So, this post may either look better and/or …
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The Textbook Industry & Greed: My Story
Written in college after watching textbook salesmen work the faculty hallway: how custom editions and access codes squeeze students, and why it keeps getting worse.