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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 913 posts.
Most common words unique to 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews
I wrote a script to crawl U.S. App Store customer reviews for the top 100 apps from every category (minus duplicates) and compute the most common words in 1-star and 5-star reviews, excluding words that were also common in 3-star reviews.
How much startup stock options are worth
Startup pay kind of sucks. This is not a well-kept secret. A great startup with a dozen or so people will typically pay its employees about a third less than a big company. Some will argue that that’s because of the value of the equity that startups give you. I argue that that’s the price of doing something that’s…
Collusion (Fred Wilson's thoughts on the Bin38 meeting)
Mike Arrington posted about a secret meeting of angels and super angels in San Francisco the other night. In the post he suggests that they are colluding to keep valuations down, terms intact, and traditional venture capital firms, such as ours, out of their deals. It's the kind of blog post that Mike has become […]
Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
Dear American Website Owner
Jan Rychter: Tech Consulting, Product Development, Data Science.
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
Raising money for StackOverflow
A few people heard me on This Week in Startups (starting at 15:45) asking Jason if we should take money from the first VC who fell into our laps, or spend time doing the Sand Hill Road rounds, meet…
Thank HN: Design for Hackers
Last week, I signed a contract to publish Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty with John Wiley & Sons. I still have plenty of work left to get this book onto shelves – and to exist at all – but I’m extremely excited about it, and wanted to share the news with everyone, especially visitors coming
1.0 Is The Loneliest Number
Many entrepreneurs idolize Steve Jobs. He’s such a perfectionist, they say. Nothing leaves the doors of 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino without a polish and finish that makes geeks everywhere drool. N…
Bringing Down a Copycat Site
Dec. 24, 2004: I received an e-mail from a former colleague in the shareware industry saying he had received an e-mail from a company selling our MailList King software and was surprised to hear we had sold it?
Introducing the New Profile
Learn about Meta: our mission, principles, leadership, who owns the company, apps (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads) and products like Quest.
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How to reject a job candidate without being an asshole
I used to send a job candidate an email like the following after the person failed a phone intervi...
Ten Steps To Ten Thousand Sign Ups Before We Even Launch Our Startup
Blueleaf is building the world’s first truly personal financial planning platform. It’s a complex product with a lot of features to meet all the different problems that our customer discovery has...