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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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How I Found a Co-Founder, Built a Prototype, and Raised $5M in Less Than 4 Weeks
In 2007 I was 23 years old, working full time as a product manager at ZoomInfo while moonlighting on a number of entrepreneurial side projects. I had previously started a few companies with angel funding and a couple small exits, but certainly nothing of scale. In a whirlwind of
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Selling pickaxes during a gold rush
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Connecticut Killed Affiliate Marketing with Amazon.com
Connecticut killed affliate marketing with Amazon.com I just opened my amazon account and read this: Account Closed This account is closed and will not generate referrals. Access to this site is for historical purposes only. When I checked my email, I had this letter from Amazon.com: Hello, For well over a decade, the…
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How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings
Note: This flaw is different than the authentication flaw in Dropbox that Derek Newton recently published . Summary Dropbox , the popular cl...
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Daring Fireball: The Daily Wait
Waiting is death, so unless they fix their app, The Daily is dead.
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Airlines using reverse auctions to determine true seat pricing
Of this (via MR): It’s an auction conducted at the airport terminal. In this auction you are a seller and you are bidding to sell your ticket back to the airline. Optimists look at this and …
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Introducing the Google Translate app for iPhone
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Business ideas: proving ideas are a dime a dosen
Choose a memorable domain name. Professional, friendly customer support. Start using your domain right away.
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And so I'm giving up the Mozilla project - Jamie Zawinski (1999)
April 1st, 1999 will be my last day as an employee of the Netscape Communications division of America Online, and my last day working for mozilla.org.
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Old, but gold - "Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon"
Building a company? You’ve got one very important decision to make, because it affects everything else you do. No matter what else you do, you absolutely must figure out which camp you’…
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How to Price Software - Economics vs. Pyschology
You’ve just released your latest photo-organizing software. Through some mechanism which will be left as an exercise to the reader, you’ve managed to actually let people know about it. …
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The Wetware Crisis: the Thermocline of Truth : Bruce F. Webster
[Copyright 2008 by Bruce F. Webster. All rights reserved. Adapted from Surviving Complexity (forthcoming).]
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Beginner's Guide to SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
New to SEO? Looking for higher rankings and traffic through Search Engine Optimization? The Beginner's Guide to SEO has been read over 10 million times.
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JSMin isn't welcome on Google Code
Google’s Chris DiBona emailed me this morning to tell me that unless I removed a specific line from the license of my jsmin-php project (a PHP port of Douglas Crockford’s JSMin ), Google Code would no longer host the project.
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The Gervais Principle
A fully realized theory of management through the lens of The Office
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Idea to Paying Customers in 7 Weeks: How We Did It
Learn how paying customers in 7 days became an idea. This post is an overview the idea to paying customers in 7 weeks and how we did it.