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The Bad Board Member
Over the last 40 years the U.S. has evolved an entrepreneurial ecosystem with two of the most unlikely partners – venture capital investors and technology entrepreneurs. This alliance has led to an…
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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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Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Jonathan's Card shut down
Get a coffee, give a coffee - Jonathan's Card
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Standing Up For Android
It seems these days you don’t have to go far to find people that want to belittle Android, often for reasons they feel are perfectly objective and valid. I’d call out Marco Arment and J…
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The Next Bubble - Don't Get Fooled Again
My friend, Ben Horowitz, and I debate the tech bubble in The Economist. This post originally appeared as part 1 of 3 ———————————…
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Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO
News is going around that Yahoo! is looking for a new CEO . I have no idea if this is true or not, but if it is, I would like to announce that I’m ready, willing, and insane enough to go long and go big with Yahoo! as your new CEO. Yahoo! showed glimmers of hope when it bought Flickr and Delicious. It’s been a bastion…
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There is no such thing as a CEO of pre-product startup. Get off of it.
Just chatted with an entrepreneur that has gotten himself into a bit of trouble. When he started his company, all of his cofounders took C titles. He was CEO, his best friend and co-founder was CTO, and their marketing friend became CMO. That was 2 years ago.
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Sortfolio for sale
Sortfolio, our visual directory of web designers, has been helping companies find web design firms (and helping web design firms find clients) since October of 2009. Sortfolio works It’s been working quite well for people. In a recent survey we conducted, 45% generated new business th…
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Apple’s Magnum Opus
It’s been a few days now since Apple’s epic WWDC keynote, I have been sick everyday since that keynote so I have been passively following all the reactions from my RSS reader. Here̵…
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Introducing Asana: The Modern Way to Work Together
We’re thrilled to announce that, starting today, Asana is openly available to everyone.
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The “walled garden” becomes a prison for reality
A British tabloid revealed today that Apple has filed for a patent on a system for disabling the video camera on an iPhone or iPad when its user attempts to film a concert or other interdicted live event. This is a much more threatening development than most may realize.
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The obsession with next
The tech world is obsessed with what’s next. It has become so used to the constant flow of new products and new companies that newness itself has been placed on a pedestal. But outside of a few breakthroughs here and there, most things that are good are good because they got there slowly. …
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Finance for Geeks
Summary: Eric Sink provides a geek-oriented overview of accounting and company funding.
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The Conclusion: A 6 Figure Business That Fell Apart When I Was 16
Hi Mat, Its “there are 23 paragraphs”, theirs means someone possesses it. their bike. there is a bike is different.
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An open letter to Mike Arrington: Please stop investing in startups
Hi Mike, I’m one of your customers. We don’t really know each other. We’ve chatted at a few events, you’ve covered some of my antics, but I’m mostly just a guy who reads TechCrunch a lot. I find it’s a pretty good place to see what’s important in the industry. And you and your team do some damn fine reporting on…
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Google+ launches ‘Ripples’ visualisation
After what appears to be have been a rapid and widespread take-up of its Google+ social media service, Google has now launched details of its 'Ripples' feature. Significantly, news of the release was made by Fernanda Viegas, one of the most prominent names in the field and co-leader, with Martin Wattenberg, of…
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Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin
These past days, I have done a lot of thinking about bitcoin that ended up with me investing all of the money I had...
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Matt Cutt's thoughts on Google Bing Debate
Earlier this week I was on a search panel with Harry Shum of Bing and Rich Skrenta of Blekko (and moderated by Vivek Wadhwa) and the video now live. It’s forty minutes long, but it covers a l…