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VCs Are Not Your Friends
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times they confuse VC’s with their friends. Lets Go to Lunch At Rocket Scienc…
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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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Bonfire of the Vanities
When I was in my 20’s, I was taught the relationship between marketing and sales over a bonfire. — Over thirty years ago, before the arrival of the personal computer, there were desktop compu…
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The Scariest Company in Tech
The last few days have rocked the mobile world. HP is posturing itself as a major new player with WebOS. Nokia jumped from their burning platform into the sweet embrace of Microsoft (they are no do…
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Google & the Future of JavaScript
Simply stated, Google is absolutely committed to making JavaScript better, and we're pushing hard to make it happen.
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Entrepreneurship is an Art not a Job
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. George Bernard Shaw Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Ag…
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Steve at NeXT
Late in 1989 I opened my email one morning and there was one from sjobs@next.com saying “come see us.” So I went and spent the day and failed to make a sale, but so did Mr. Jobs.
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How Demand Media Used PR Spin to Have Google Kill Their Competitors
Media is all about profit margins . eHow was originally founded in 1998 & had $36 million in venture capital behind it. But the original cost structure was flawed due to high content costs. The site failed so badly that it was sold in 2004 for $100,000 . The original site owners had GoogleBot blocked. Simply by…
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Google's Social Strategy
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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When Smart People are Bad Employees
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Push Pop Press acquired by Facebook
Last year Push Pop Press set off to re-imagine the book. We created a new way of publishing and exploring text, images, audio, video and interactive graphics, then teamed up with Melcher Media and Al Gore to create a new kind of book. The result is Al Gore's Our Choice , which was released earlier this year. The…
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Look out for No. 1
In the late 1990s, eurozone wannabes squeezed and stretched to meet the criteria for accession, including low inflation and government deficits, and moderate levels of debt. The criteria were somew…
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The next operating system: building an OS for hundreds, thousands of cores
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance — and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
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