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If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.
By now, everyone is tired of hearing about the iPad, but the negative responses are so perfectly misguided that it would be wrong to waste t...
Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines
I've had this blog post in one form or another of draft for several years now. I hesitated to complete it, in part because at the best of times cultural observations can easily be misinterpreted and also in part because of the role I had in working with many
SQL is Agile
Thoughts about why relational databases are not a bad choice when starting a new project.
Want a killer product? Become more opinionated
I laugh at this tweet every time I remember it:
Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.
Things I don’t want to do to grow my side project
Life is to short to work on things you hate
Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served
SerpApi’s Google Search API results serves all the results Google serves to users…But the amount of searches are quite different than what is being told below the search bar.
Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship
Remember when Zuckerberg dared to wear a hoodie to his IPO party?The easiest way to be disappointed is to expect others to act contrary to their self-interest. So really, we shouldn’t be disappoint…
Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
Security audit of account and payment services
Assured AB were contracted to perform a security assessment of our account and payment services between 2022-11-07 and 2022-11-29.
OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown
"This is not a series of coincidences; it is a blatant, industrial-scale quid pro quo."
Facebook and Heroku
We're delighted to announce that Facebook and Heroku have teamed up to bring you the fastest and easiest way to get your own Facebook app up and running in
The future of undersea Internet cables: Are big tech companies forming a cartel?
Guest Post: Content providers are increasingly investing in new submarine cables. Are they forming a cartel?
Airbnb
obama_oj Originally uploaded by charmaine_cooper. When you walk into our conference room at Union Square Ventures, you see the box of cereal on the right on our conference room credenza next to a wifi router and a jar of Jolly Ranchers. It is there because we are big Obama fans? Nope. The cereal box is […]
How Nike sold its first shoes
The story of how Phil Knight and Jeff Johnson drove to track meets all over the Pacific Northwest and sold more shoes than you can imagine out of the boots of their car.
How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team
Steli Efti explains how to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team.
Did GoogleAI just snooker one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest minds?
Clever Hans and how corporate AI plays the media, in 2022