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Customer churn can kill your startup
<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html">Startups are about growth</a>, and of all the different possible metrics, s...
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One Year After ‘The Big Hack’
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Bloomberg’s publication of a story about Chinese intelligence intercepting the supply chain of Supermicro, a company which has built and sold servers to Amazon, Apple, the U.S. Department of Defense, and dozens of other companies. Apparently, they developed a chip that looked…
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Study: Focus will shape the future of distributed work
The shift to working from home has mostly been positive for knowledge workers, but the challenges reveal a $1.2 trillion opportunity.
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Scroogled (2007)
Cory Doctorow wrote this Creative Commons-licensed fiction story for Radar Online magazine .
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Starting The Web App Challenge: From Zero to $5,000/month In 6 Months
My last two projects, both books, have been insanely successful. Selling more than $80,000 worth in just over 3 months. The connections I’ve made, marketing lessons learned, and financial freedom I now have make a huge difference. There is only one problem: those were all one time sales. Note: Do you design software?…
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A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads
Two years of nightmarish smiles and makeup before anyone laid hands on Mimic Systems' actual product.
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The right way to position against competition
Most startup founders either claim there is no competition (because they're soooo unique) or define themselves as a combination of the best traits of their competitors. Neither is a good strategy; here's what to do instead.
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macOS Sierra Leaks Image of MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar
Welp, it is real. These images are straight out of System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PassKitUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources on my Mac running 10.12.1: There’s a lot to parse here. Clearly, the rumors of a Magic Toolbar are all correct, as well the inclusion of Touch ID to the right of the Toolbar. It looks like…
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Gox.com Domain Name Acquired by Mt. Gox Parent Company
It appears that Tibanne Co. Ltd. the company that operates the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange has acquired the Gox.com domain name from Andy Booth.
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Principles of good data analysis
Good, thorough data analysis is difficult. Throughout my work, I've found it useful to follow these principles in order to ensure quality and consistency.
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How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries
Big media groups like the MPAA and the RIAA have historically targeted college campuses with “anti-piracy” measures, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) — the blacklist bill they’re trying to push through Congress — is no exception. The bill’s supporters insist that it targets only “rogue”...
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California Considers Doubling Its Taxes
Practically doubling state taxes—even if the burden is partially offset through state-provided health coverage—could send taxpayers racing for the exits.
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Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization
Recent events have made me reflect on a few things in my life I was already thinking about for a while. Also, responses on social media have made me realize that people have strange expectations from me, and what my role in the Bitcoin Core project is.
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Is there a housing shortage or not?
The housing shortage in the US is a perennially popular topic of conversation for the urbanist crowd (which online includes basically everyone.) The basic argument is that housing starts collapsed after the financial crisis and have never truly recovered.
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The Future of Web Startups
October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) There's something interesting happening right now. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. It's a pattern we see over and over in technology. Initially there's some device that's very…
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People are realizing that degrowth is bad
The mad schemes degrowthers advocate are a fantasy that distracts us from real efforts to save the planet
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A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant
Just a few negative online restaurant reviews can determine early on how many reviews a restaurant receives long-term, a new study has found. The study, published earlier this month in the journal Papers in Applied Geography, also found that a neighborhood’s median household income affected whether restaurants were…
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Vision Pro
What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500? Check back in 2025.