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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 Principles of Product Development Flow
If you've ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean ...
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A student's guide to startups (2006)
October 2006 (This essay is derived from a talk at MIT.) Till recently graduating seniors had two choices: get a job or go to grad school. I think there will increasingly be a third option: to start your own startup. But how common will that be? I'm sure the default will always be to get a job, but starting a startup…
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Heroku: Announcing Huge Growth and New CEO
Big things are happening at Heroku, so we felt it was time for an overall update. I’m happy to say that not only has the platform doubled in size over the.
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Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks
Sequoia Capital’s “R.I.P. Good Times” deck made the rounds on the web last week. It’s Sequoia’s take on what happened with the economy and what their portfolio companies should do to weather the storm. Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturnView SlideSh…
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StackOverflow.com : the new venture from Joel Spolsky
What is stackoverflow.com? Nothing, yet. But here’s the concept: Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number…
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How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice
Insights on how to price software from the book by Neil Davidson.
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Presenting Founder Collective
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Balsamiq, a bootstrapped startup featured here some time ago, makes $10k in 6 weeks
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don't tell you
Can you imagine we confident bloggers fretting, wringing hands, wondering how we're going to make payroll, second-guessing our choices, wondering if maybe we should have added some feature, or frightened that a price-change could completely destroy the revenue stream? Well that's it. I'm coming out of the closet. It's…
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The End of Innocence
Remember when the days were long And rolled beneath a deep blue sky Didn’t have a care in the world With mommy and daddy standin’ by But “happily ever after” fails The End o…
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Start a business, not a startup
Startups can bring new ideas to market. They can give people a chance to change the world on their own terms. They can create something where nothing existed before. There is no doubt that they are exciting things to be a part of. But, as much as the tech world tries to treat them as special, we…
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Commoditize your complements (2002)
When I was in college I took two intro economics courses: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macro was full of theories like “low unemployment causes inflation” that never quite stood u…
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RethinkDB looking for a technical cofounder
Looking for a technical cofounder for RethinkDB.
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