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Product-market fit for a B2B company
Some big cloud earnings this week
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Mac App Store Ransomware
This App Store app [My Metronome - Tempo Keeper] immediately asks you for money and then disables the “Quit” option so that you can never close it!
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Leaving Twitter
Yesterday was my last day at Twitter. I left to start my own company. What I'll be working on is v...
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Solving the cash problems from self-funding rapid growth
“If you grow too fast it can kill the business.” After spending years fighting for even a tiny bit of growth, ConvertKit was now facing a totally different kind of problem: more growth than we could support. In October, November, and December we were averaging growing 40% per month. Recurring revenue went from $25,000…
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Your idea sucks now go do it anyway
Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.
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Marginalia Search Receives FUTO Grant
I’m happy to announce that the generous people at FUTO have granted the project $15,000 with no strings attached to help the search engine out with some more server power. FUTO is a young Austin, TX-based organization “dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that…
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We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand
While the German economy is stagnating, Digital-Mittelstand may offer a solution.
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The operating cost of adult and gambling startups
In adult and gambling markets, even routine work gets harder: hiring, payments, ads, fundraising, and explaining what you do.
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Sora Update #1
We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups. We of course spent a lot of time discussing this before...
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Beware Centralization
Imagine merging three public firms, by making each firm into a division of a single new firm with one new boss.
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,"
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
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Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles
Apple and Amazon are approaching the tablet territory from opposing sides.
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Interview: Vitalik Buterin
In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.
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If it isn't going to work, just shut it down
Don’t build the startup ship of Theseus.
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Delegative Democracy – a scalable voting model
In between representative democracy , where voters elect politicians to make decisions on their behalf, and direct democracy , where voters directly decide the issues, lies a third model that deserves more consideration. In this model, people have the choice of either voting directly on a decision, as in direct…
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An Economic Analysis of Ethereum
Originally published: January 2021 The anonymous founder of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, solved the hard problems associated with digital scarcity with a white paper in 2008, and launched Bitcoin in 2009. After that invention, numerous other projects came in its wake. There are now over 8,000 separate digital assets…
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Taking money off the table
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The $150k Solution
An article was published yesterday in one of Austin's local papers about Austin's tech talent shortage . I was job hunting just a couple months ago and get a lot of calls from recruiters and hear about friends' companies who are hiring and I think it's pretty damned accurate. And by accurate I mean that it points out…
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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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My Guide to Software Engineering Contracting in UK
My experience and tips for being a software developer contractor, in the UK
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The Growth of Administrative Staff in Universities
This is a post loosely based on an article appearing today in the German newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” by Axel Brennicke and me. The raw data for our analysis is available. Please do let us know if you find a […] <a class="more-link"…
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It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass iPhone App
The best 25 books I’ve read since the last time I did one of these book roundups way back in 2024.
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Urban highways destroy wealth
Infrastructure investment is often seen as a good way to stimulate the economy and to provide facilities to allow the economy to grow. It's...
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