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Startups: The Very Beginning
This was the talk I gave at Y Combinator's Future Founders Conference for women. I've given a lot of advice to startups over the past 15 years, but today I'm going to focus on just the advice...
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The 13-Inch MacBook Air
It’s taken decades of iterative refinement to get to this point — a nearly perfect laptop for nearly everyone.
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How to buy a good car for $1000
Elite circles have their own cultural knowledge. So does the bottom 40%. Here's some of mine.
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Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done
I have found that the two biggest causes of having to fire an employee at an early stage startup are a lack of culture fit, and the inability to Get Shit Done. I don't care how smart someone is - if they are unable to work hard and crank out a large amount of high quality work, they will weigh down your startup.
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I believe in the 10x engineer, but
The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language.
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Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore
Rants and tips about software
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Apple’s Errors
Apple’s management made three errors that led to the restatement of revenue; those errors, though, suggest that the company’s business is in better shape than it appears.
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The future’s so bright, I gotta wear blinders
“This is only the beginning,” writes Kevin Kelly in an essay in Wired’s 25th anniversary issue. “The main event has barely started.” He’s talking about the inter…
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How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
Let's have fun, I'm now a salesperson and I have to convince customers to buy OpenBSD, here is how I would proceed.
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Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade
For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a ...
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NASA Is Worth Saving
Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government supported space exploration and technology devel…
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MCP is a fad
Model Context Protocol has taken off as the standardized platform for AI integrations, but this popularity will be short-lived.
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A Fundraising Survival Guide
August 2008 Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want: most startups that die, die because they didn't do that. But the second biggest cause of death is probably the difficulty of raising money. Fundraising is brutal. One reason it's so brutal is…
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The problem is with the product
Link to: https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/1UfNLdZAN4h
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Four Magic Words
Long ago, in a parallel universe three doors down and one to the left of our own, OpenAI headquarters found itself in chaos. A klaxon blared overhead as red lights began flashing. A message played over a loud-speaker: “Warning! Warning! This is not a drill! Artificial General Intelligence window
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Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market
500 years before Polymarket, the Vatican fought to stop gambling on papal affairs. Should we worry that it’s back?
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Job interviews go both ways (2011)
Note: this is a post from 2011. It used to be on the IndexTank blog which no longer exists, so I’m putting it up here. —
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The British Micro Behemoth
Or, how a precocious youth briefly conquered the UK
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R Passes SAS, but Python Leaves Them Both Behind
Examines market share or popularity of data science software by comparing the number of jobs available for each software package.
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Slashdot Burying Stories About SlashdotMedia Owned SourceForge
If you've followed any tech news aggregator in the past week (the week of the 24th of May, 2015), you've probably seen the story about how SourceForge is taking over admin accounts for existing projects and injecting adware in installers for packages like GIMP. For anyone not following the story, SourceForge has a…
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Patents: how and why to get them
Some of my points are a bit naughty. But I maintain that they're based in fact and fairly widely known. So well-known, in fact, that I'm surprised to have never read it somewhere else.
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The History of Microsoft Encarta
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