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On Succeeding Steve Jobs
A new Apple CEO would need credibility with two highly disparate factions: Apple’s rank-and-file employees, and Wall Street. The only candidates who could satisfy both factions, to any degree, already work at Apple.
Paul Buchheit: Angel investing, my first three years
I started investing in startups with the assumption that I don't know what I'm doing (which is always true), but that the only way to actual...
Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups
Photo by earthlightbooks This is a guest article by Saba Younus. Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo . When she’s not working to create the best experience for each and every user, she spends her time scouring the web for juicy details about the startup worl
Scaling GitHub's Employees
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Lessons from GitHub's First Year
The end of the year is a great time to sit down with a glass of your favorite beverage, dim the lights, snuggle up next to the fire and think about what you’ve learned over the past twelve months.
Google: Hide sites to find more of what you want
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Twitter’s Shit Sandwich
On Twitter’s just-annoucned pan to require third-party clients to use OAuth.
Apple Q&A on gathering and use of location data (Apple Press Release)
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than from Windows Phone
Microsoft gets $5 for every HTC phone running Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, who released a big report on Microsoft this morning. Microsoft is getting that money thanks to a p…
Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code
The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code wr…