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Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
This post describes how we successfully migrated our serverless offering from AWS US-East to OVHCloud North America, reducing our monthly spend from...
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2022 Letter
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Google Reneged on the Monopolistic Bargain
A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google – which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic – suddenly turned into a pile of shit.
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The Tragic Death of the Flip
The creators of the Flip resisted the urge to gunk it up with complexity. It was a wonderful device and getting better. Then Cisco killed it the day before a new one was supposed to ship.
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How Generalised Problems Kill Startups
It’s crazy how often I hear founders say ‘I think the problem we’re really solving is X’. Hang on a second… You ‘think’? The surprising…
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Most common words unique to 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews
I wrote a script to crawl U.S. App Store customer reviews for the top 100 apps from every category (minus duplicates) and compute the most common words in 1-star and 5-star reviews, excluding words that were also common in 3-star reviews.
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Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper
Using Anyscale Endpoints, we compared Llama 2 7b, 13b and 70b vs. OpenAI's GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 for accuracy and cost.
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1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month
The Newegg price charts on Camelegg sum this up illustratively:
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21 Months In: How to Manage a Remote Team
If you want some ideas on how one team has set up their team to be successful at remote work, then stick around. This chapter is for you. Read more.
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How much startup stock options are worth
Startup pay kind of sucks. This is not a well-kept secret. A great startup with a dozen or so people will typically pay its employees about a third less than a big company. Some will argue that that’s because of the value of the equity that startups give you. I argue that that’s the price of doing something that’s…
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There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work
Discover the latest software industry insights and trends with our blog. Keep up-to-date withBusiness Advice and our software experts and tips at lessacounting
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Counterfeit Game Sold on Apple's App Store
You may recall that two weeks ago we added Lugaru HD to the Mac App Store for $9.99 (the same price as on Steam, our own site, and all other…
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The Empty Promise of Data Moats
Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible force in building software businesses. So of course, we constantly hear about the combination of the two: “data…
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PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial
First participants safely dosed in Melbourne, Australia, on August 31, 2026, in the first-in-human trial of our broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001.
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How to Sell Your Startup
One year ago, my startup was acquired. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to run an acquisition process yourself.
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OpsGenie is joining Atlassian
We are delighted to announce that Atlassian has entered into an agreement to acquire Opsgenie.
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Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic
For an entrepreneur, the line between horrible mistake and runaway success can be so thin that even Kate Moss would be envious. I lived with Gravatar for nearly four years before that line even became thick enough to measure.
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Collusion (Fred Wilson's thoughts on the Bin38 meeting)
Mike Arrington posted about a secret meeting of angels and super angels in San Francisco the other night. In the post he suggests that they are colluding to keep valuations down, terms intact, and traditional venture capital firms, such as ours, out of their deals. It's the kind of blog post that Mike has become […]
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Nothing Is Agreed Yet – We Can Still Stop the TPP's Copyright Trap
Trade negotiators have a saying—that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. What that means is that despite all of the deals that has been struck in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations so far, they remain tentative until each country signs off on the final agreement. A...
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Is Europe just not good at innovating?
This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. Feedback is very welcome on bert@hubertnet.nl. I’d also like to thank the many proofreaders, but all mistakes remain mine! In the world of (high) technology, Europe is exceptionally weak at innovating. There are many ways to explain how this…