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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,603 posts.
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The only two ways to build a $100m business
With tens of thousands of new start-ups being created every year, the potential of a company to truly scale and become a large, stand-alone business is more crucial than ever before. A great product is always the foundation but a clear distribution strategy becomes essential to cut through the noise. So most…
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To start a billion dollar startup, start looking for problems
Yes! You read that right. If you want to start a billion dollar startup and you are looking for ideas to work on then most probably you are...
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Employee #1: Kickstarter – AMA and Interview
Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies. Cassie Marketos [https://twitter.com/cassmarketos] was the first employee at Kickstarter [http://kickstarter.com]. Discussed: Meeting Yancey, Setting Kickstarter’s Tone Through Community Management…
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A Visitor's Guide to Silicon Valley
If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combina…
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How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend
Noah Kagan built three multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28. He also looks great in green. (Photo: Brandon Wells) I first met Noah Kagan over rain and strong espressos at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View, CA. It was 2007. We were both in hoodies, had a shared penchant for the F-bomb and burritos…
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The Benefits of Thinking Small (2010)
In previous posts I wrote about visionary entrepreneurs, and how to constantly ask how you can 10X your business. However, many startups fail because the founding team thinks *too big* from day one, and doesn't take the time to really define the short term, immediate value their product or business provides.
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Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch
At YC, founders decide when they want to announce that they’re part of the program. Meet 16 of the companies who recently announced that they’re part of the YC Summer 2018 batch. See more companies from the S18 batch here [https://blog.ycombinator.com/15-companies-s2018/], here…
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Vinod Khosla: I believe 70% of VCs reduce the potential of a company
Read insights from cutting-edge research by Stanford GSB faculty and global industry leaders on topics like management, entrepreneurship, and careers.
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Perl Startups: Lacuna Expanse
Lately while there's been discussions of various new (for varying definitions of 'new') companies who have chosen Perl, there's not been a huge amount of discussion about how they use Perl. I contacted JT Smith of Plain Black Corporation and he graciously agreed to talk about The Lacuna Expanse , a MMORPG with a Perl…
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I Eliminated the Free Plan from my Web App for a Month: Here’s What Happened.
Background In January 2010 I launched Preceden, a free web-based timeline tool. In May I migrated to a freemium plan, where users could add a certain number of events for free but had to upgrade to…
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Ten million users is the new one million users
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution
Posted on Friday 27 Sep 2024. 748 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
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Why you should continue working on your bad idea
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!" - Randy Pausch
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The Journey of Launching My First Product, “To Do Cal”
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