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Do VCs really add value? Founders say sometimes
NOTE: If Hacker Noon & Medium allowed multiple authors, this post would carry 2 other important names. The study referenced below, its…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 817 posts.
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How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
Sam Altman [https://twitter.com/sama], President of Y Combinator, shares his thoughts on how you can succeed with a startup. Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/
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Apple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Future of Video Codecs
MediaKind – Simplified video streaming, powering the world’s most iconic brands Simplified video streaming, powering the world’s most iconic brands.
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Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible
I think Lisa Jackson’s presentation at the September 2018 iPhone launch event was perhaps the most interesting and most profound. Lisa Jackson is Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy…
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What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub
According to Bloomberg Microsoft is said to have agreed to buy GitHub . GitHub which reportedly has been losing money being acquired is a major development because of its central role in the development of many open and closed source projects.
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Why Personas Fail
Personas are useful tools for UX work, so why do they often fail? Find out what pitfalls cause personas to fail, and how to avoid and overcome them.
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Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners
Now that we’ve wrapped up the Anniversary Event, I wanted to give you all a couple updates.
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How YC Has Changed
As YC grows, founders are wondering how it’s improved over time. This is a valid line of questioning – clearly much has changed about YC over 13 years. We have new leadership [http://www.ycombinator.com/people/], much larger batch sizes [https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/batch-stats/], we invest more money…
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The Cult of the Root Cause
“Why?” is my favorite question because it illuminates relationships between cause and effect. And when we ask this question more than once we expose even deeper causal relationships. Unfortunately,…
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Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV
Get the skills to land a job in the tech industry in BloomTech’s online programs. Learn about our Tuition Refund Guarantee!
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EFF to Texas AG: Epson Tricked Its Customers with a Dangerous Fake Update
If you've ever bought an inkjet printer, you know just how much the manufacturers charge for ink (more than vintage Champagne!) and you may also know that you can avoid those sky-high prices by buying third-party inks, or refilled cartridges, or kits to refill your own cartridges.The major printer...
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TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: built differently for time-series data
Get an in-depth look at how two leading time-series databases stack up. We compare data models, query language, reliability, performance, and more.
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The iPhone Franchise
The iPhone is a franchise, a product that will make money in well-defined ways; Apple understands that and is exploiting it more than ever before with the iPhones XS and XR.
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The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses
Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement.
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Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money?
The hardest conversation I have to have with a founder is when they’ve spent their 1-2 million dollar angel round but haven’t found product market fit [https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-real-product-market-fit/]. Unfortunately, I have to ask them a very unforgiving question: why does your company deserve more money?…
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Dropbox and Google Cloud integrations
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Java is still available at zero-cost
The Java ecosystem has always been built on a high quality $free (zero-cost) JDK available from Oracle, and previously Sun. This is as true...
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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
Apple reported its third quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Tuesday, July 31, 2018.
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On Cash
What happened was, I was walking through a train station on the way to work with the buds playing randomly on shuffle and a knifeblade of Real Music came in from outside so I had to pull them out of my ears, there was this young dude getting great electric sound out of a teeny amp doing a slow take on Little Wing with…