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Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox (2013)
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Dead Games
You know when people spend 2 years making games and when they release, they don't sell anything, so they stop selling it...
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The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz
Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct.
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AT&T, Time Warner, and the Need for Neutrality
It is no surprise that a judge allowed the AT&T-Time Warner acquisition to proceed given the government’s poor case; the question is if a better case could have been made. What is ultima…
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Readability's new service
I’ve always been a huge fan of Arc90’s Readability bookmarklet, which performs an article-text parse of any web page and displays the results in a highly readable, adjustable format. (It’s like Instapaper’s text view, but nicer and applied in place, instantly, to the web page you’re viewing.)
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From idea to revenue in 5 working days, thanks to HN
I needed to ship something. I was stuck in the midst of several larger projects, both for clients and myself, with no end in sight, and to keep going I needed the confidence boost that only shipping code can provide. So I spent part of my weekend, shifted some priorities around, and got to work on Kismet .
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Chris Dixon Joins Andreessen Horowitz
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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When to Copy Ideas, When to Steal Ideas
ALEXISTOGEL menyediakan slot gacor situs resmi terpercaya yang emang sudah terbukti kasih kemenangan besar tanpa ribet. dan fokus pada pengalaman main yang asyik dan adil, ditambah transaksi online secepat kilat.
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Why inflation is not a threat
I have just posted this thread on inflation on Twitter. It will feature in 'Money for nothing and my Tweets for free' in due course: Current debate about inflation isn’t really about whether it’s likely: it isn’t. Instead it’s about whose vision of the future is going to win. Is it...
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AI isn’t good enough
On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again.
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Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part III – the nuclear navy
This week we conclude our look at nuclear power construction costs. So far we’ve looked solely at conventional nuclear power stations that supply electricity to the grid for residential and commercial use. But civilian power stations aren’t the only sort of nuclear reactor that the US builds. The US Navy has been…
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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
Understanding “extend and pretend”
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The madness of the bailout in Cyprus
Last night the finance ministers of the eurozone decided on a bailout package for Cyprus. The small country with around 1 million inhabitants has an overstretched banking sector that is in dire straits. The primary reason for this is that the Cypriotic banks hold a lot of Greek sovereign debt – debt that took a…
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Nvidia’s AI supremacy is only temporary
Nvidia is an amazing company that has executed a contrarian vision for decades, and has rightly become one of the most valuable corporations on the planet thanks to its central role in the AI revol…
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Amazon Is Becoming the New Microsoft
Amazon.com is hugely dominant in cloud computing and behaving like Microsoft did in the 1990s
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Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?
Social media companies have moderation SNAFUs on a near daily basis. Inevitably, the public and the tech press reacts with incredulity, “This company has so much money. How can they still be so bad…
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I can't pay rent because devs just don't care
Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid. I don't set up standing orders, got burned once with unarranged overdraft fees, that wasn't a good mont...
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What to do if a bubble is starting
Maybe now we’re actually in the early stages of a startup bubble. Valuations are trending up again. And no one is talking about a bubble anymore, so it could be happening. Many companies still...
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Why don’t we have a strategy?
The problem isn't that people can't think strategically.
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Dylan: the harsh realities of the market
So, this is a little case study. I did everything for Dylan. And when I say everything, I mean everything . Here's my resumé: I got e...
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When the cheap one is the cool one
Apple and Porsche both figured out the same secret that the cheapest product in the lineup can be the most exciting. It just takes a little intention.
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LotusNotes
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of digital computing, the military was a key customer, and fundamental concepts of modern computing arose in universities and laboratories serving military contracts. Of course, the war would not last forever, and…
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How to Pay Programmers Less (2016)
Programmers are expensive and difficult to control; here are a few tricks to keep them underpaid and happy, for a while.
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Elsevier steps up its War On Access
I thought Elsevier was already doing all it could to alienate the authors who freely donate their work to shore up the corporation’s obscene profits. The thousands of takedown notices sent to…