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Why agencies get stuck at $50k MRR
Can we just keep adding more clients until at 150 clients we hit $300k MRR?
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 8,981 posts.
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What doomed MakerBot? The Osborne effect
On April 17, MakerBot laid off 20% of its staff . That's a big deal to me as I've been wondering what happened to the MakerBot I used to admire . Years ago, I looked up to the MakerBot team as a role model of how to run an open hardware company. Bre Pettis, MakerBot co-founder and former CEO, had given many talks and…
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Personal relations as a manager
I was reminded by a discussion with a friend why, as a manager, you should be cautious about the relations you develop with the people in your team.
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Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all
Names and emails (even Sumit’s) have been redacted to protect the innocent and the guilty. But you know who you are. Who is Sumit B? I...
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Code is cheap now, but software isn't
The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.
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If AT&T Had Managed the Phone Business Like Google
Imagine a Silicon Valley strategy implemented with the United States phone system 100 years ago. It's not a pretty picture.
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An Open Letter To Business People
So you have an idea for a startup? Awesome! The world needs more people like you. You’re going to have to start by finding a technical cofounder. This is hard because you’re not a programmer, so I’m going to teach you how to do it.
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HFT in the Banana Land
It’s beautiful outside Looks like it’s raining money Dr. Dre, For the love of money [Updated 1 on 01/27/2016 | Minor corrections + kmz file added] [Updated 2 on 01/27/2016 | This post w…
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What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?
Update, June 2020: I’ve sold BeardGuru.com, so I am no longer responsible for its content.
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Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk
My post Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” really took off. It sat at the top of Hacker News for a full day, and is …
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Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The Forgotten Yahoo Project That Inspired Two Recently Funded Startups
IFTTT and Zapier are getting a lot of attention but they're really just a reinvention of Yahoo! Pipes.
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The longer it has taken, the longer it will take (2015)
With fat tail, I.e. power law, project times, late projects are likely to be even later,
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Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games
Hi, I'm Kevin Fox. I've been blogging at Fury.com since 1998. I can be reached at .
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Launch an App
On May 14th, I launched Oh Bother — my first independent app in 7 years. I wrote a bit about my decision to build Oh Bother here, but now that my little app ...
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Strategy 101: An introduction to power
If you’re interested in strategy, this post will be valuable to you. It shares the the tools that I’ve found most valuable so far.
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Book Review: The Laws of Trading
Finalist #10 in the Book Review Contest
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Clever ideas that failed (2010)
The cleverness of an idea is proportionate to its odds of failure. Brian Kernighan once said that “debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” I have built many things that I wasn’t…
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The SaaS Metrics That Matter
Plus now you can easily generate them using our secret sauce SaaSGrid.
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If you build it, they won't come, unless...
A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt and cheese" isn't a recipe.
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What Comes After Zoom?
Zoom is the Skype of video - it turned a technology few people used much into a mass-market product. But next we’ll get the equivalents of Instagram and Snap - products that ask different questions. Zoom solved getting into a call, but why are you in the call?
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The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It
(Also see my follow-up post on getting organized, and sign up to my tiny letter to get contacted about fixing housing affordability in SF). San Francisco’s housing system is broken. The only way...
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Stop Building Closed Ecosystems
I'm sick of it. In the world of mobile development (though likely also elsewhere), we sink so much engineering talent into making tools that are great...