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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 920 posts.
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The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
I know it’s bad form to mention your competitors, but I’ve been asked about Readability’s announcement enough today that it’s more of a charade not to talk about it, especially since a lot of people are under the wrong impression.
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We see a lot of metrics on web and mobile apps. Our portfolio companies share their metrics with us, which we keep confidential and do not share with anyone outside of our firm. And companies that are seeking investment from USV also share their metrics with us. We also keep these metrics confidential and do […]
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Google rolls out algorithm change in the US
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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A Stupid Idea, 1 Year After Launching on HN
iDoneThis had the humblest of beginnings, and in a year’s time, we’ve gone from a stupid idea to having helped people get over 500,000 things done. It’s been an incredible year. On December 17, 2010, Rodrigo wrote me the following email. The title of the email was “stupid idea”. A daily “what did you achieve [...]
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Apple is professional, the web is amateur
It’s common knowledge that Apple doesn’t get the web in general and social in particular. I’ve been thinking a lot about the social part recently and I think Apple’s failure to execute there can shed some light on their failure with the web in general.
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Djangy is shutting down
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A fall spring-cleaning - Google products getting shut down
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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How To Get Your First 1,000 Users
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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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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Google to offer for-pay Translate API
By Adam Feldman, APIs Product Manager UPDATE June 3: In the days since we announced the deprecation of the Translate API, we’ve seen the ...