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Gruber: The OS Opportunity
These PC makers are lacking in neither resources nor opportunity. What they’re lacking is ambition, gumption, and passion for great software and new frontiers.
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Joel on Software: Exploding Offer Season
If you’re a college student applying for jobs or summer internships, you’re at something of a disadvantage when it comes to negotiation. That’s because the recruiter does these negotiations for a l…
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A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Persistent patterns in long-lived online groups.
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Why People Don’t Install Firefox - Part III
In Part I we discussed a framework around understanding the Firefox user experience at the moment a person installs Firefox. In Part II we walked ...
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You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When They Offer You a Job
In 1985 Ardent Computer was determined to create a market niche for personal supercomputers. To understand our potential markets, we started by analyzing the marketing literature from Cray Research…
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How did we geeks become experts on macroeconomics?
There are certain topics that are certain to incite the internet. Emacs vs vi. Programming language holy wars. When it comes to programming geeks, though, I’ve got one that will get them to break out the flamethrowers . All you have to do is bring up topics like fiat currency, the gold standard, money creation, the…
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YC Terms are Poor
I love Y Combinator. They are scrappy, innovative, entrepreneur-friendly, and created a model that VCs originally laughed at but are now copying. I love Paul Graham’s essays and I like him pe…
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Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step
If you want to build an online service, and you don't test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, you're crazy. That's the conclusio...
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How To Put Invite Codes on Business Cards
We build the best deployment and testing tools money can't buy. There's no prohibition on performance!
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7 Reasons Why My Social Music Site Never Took Off
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