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The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO
Spotify's direct listing IPO filing reveals how monthly churn fell from 7.7% to 5.5% as personalization and family plans drove subscriber retention at scale.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,897 posts.
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E-mail is the Universal Platform
Contactually is permanently shutting down on March 31.
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You are not Google. You are not Netflix
You are also not Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or one of several other big tech companies I could mention here. If I have excluded anybody reading this - I am sorry.Maybe you will still enjoy the read. For everyone else: This article is probably for you. To give you...
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Asshole Driven Development
[Since this was originally posted commenters have added 100+ addition methods – see the comments below. There’s more commentary on reddit] The software industry might be the world’…
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The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Robot Turtles Kickstarter midmortem at $250k
Robot Turtles has been an amazing ride. From a goofy idea in the shower, to some clipart, to a print on demand game for my family… to a $250,000 wild ride that doesn’t seem to be done yet! As of this writing I’ve just crossed the halfway point (12 days down, 11 to go) and wanted to catch my breath and write up some…
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Where Are the Customers' Yachts? Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street (2012)
Once in the dear dead days beyond recall, an out-of-town visitor was being shown the wonders of the New York financial district. When the party
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Update: The agenda-driven edits of Philip Cross and Wikipedia's response
A look at a Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners and journalists
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Licenses Over Data: A Case Study with Github v BitBucket
Our Commercial Lawyers deliver legal solutions to businesses in Brisbane and across Australia to meet their commercial targets.
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Paint.net is now available on the Windows Store
Version 4.0.18, which I just announced, is now available on the Windows Store! The standard price is currently $8.99, but I’ve put it on sale for $5.99 $4.99 until the end of October. You can also …
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Why we fall for cons
There may be times and places where it’s a good idea to talk back to a military officer — but Germany in 1906 wasn’t one of them. So the young corporal didn’t. The corporal — let’s call him Muller …
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YC Fall 2015 College Tour
How do you come up with an idea? What makes a great founding team? How do you raise money from investors? Join YC partners and alumni at colleges around the country. Hear their stories and find out what it’s really like to start a startup. You’ll also have the chance to sign up for one-on-one office hours. 9/19: Hack…
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Google update on China
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Google buys Wildfire
With Wildfire, we’re looking forward to creating new opportunities for our clients to engage across all social services.
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Creating a New Business Model for Cartoonists
TL;DR - I spent five years earning a side income by drawing and selling cartoons to magazines, mostly of various animals in business suits. I found the cartooning industry to be old-fashioned and inefficient. So I’m building a product to disrupt the industry and help cartoonists make more
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The Law of Conservation of Complexity
"Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?" Larry Tesler's original law regarding complexity in software applications, and links to articles and pap
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A Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft
Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. But all too often, ransomware victims fail to grasp that the crooks behind these attacks can and…
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What Is Amazon?
What exactly is Amazon? This is the question that has consumed me for the last ten years. I have sold to and bought from Amazon in about as many ways as one person can; I built an auto parts brand …
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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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Iamelgringo's first big project using Mechanical Turk
I just finished my first big project using Amazon's Mechanical Turk service. I'm in love. I had a list of over 6000 business names, addresses and url's of dubious quality that I needed to make sure was accurate. For a brief moment, I thought about checking them myself. But after doing several dozen by hand, I realized…