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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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Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and Google
Watching the recent product retraction of Google Wave convinced me that Google is fully infected with the same protracted, end-stage wasting...
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Blameless post-mortems and a just culture (2012)
Last week, Owen Thomas wrote a flattering article over at Business Insider on how we handle errors and mistakes at Etsy. I thought...
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Thoughts on OnLive
Today OnLive officially launched. If you haven't heard of it, OnLive is an ambitious new gaming service with a unique proposition: instead…
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What Business is Wall Street In?
My last two posts were designed to stimulate discussion. But lets talk the real problem that regulators, public companies, investor/shareholders and traders face. The problem is that Wall Street doesn’t know what business it is in. Regulators don’t know what the business of Wall Street is. Investor/shareholders don’t…
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Paul Buchheit: Evaluating risk and opportunity (as a human)
Our lives are full of decisions that force us to balance risk and opportunity: should you take that new job, buy that house, invest in that ...
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Build your own Startup Death Clock
Here's a simple, powerful trick for focussing your mind on one of the most important things about your startup: The date that you run out of money.
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Sid Meier's Rules
The following was published in the January 2009 issue of Game Developer magazine… Most game developers are familiar with Sid’s dictum that “a good game is a series of interesting choice…
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The best unknown activist investment of 2009
In keeping with our penchant for stories about idiosyncratic investors who trade in odd securities found off the beaten track, we bring you perhaps the best unknown activist investment of 2009. Wit…
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How do you process credit cards?
Matt asks: In my experience, credit card processing has been one of the major hurdles in starting an online business. Especially recurring/subscription charges. You’ve got PayPal, which seems a little unprofessional (and is a pain in the a*), and an absurd number of 3rd party vendors …
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Why I haven’t been blogging as much
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Flightcaster (YC S09) and the Future of Asymmetric Intelligence as a Product
When John Paulson bet against the real estate markets, he knew something that other people didn’t. By applying his models against purchased real estate databases, he perceived an opportunity where others saw folly. Fifteen billion in profit later, people are understandably a bit curious as to how he pulled it off…
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