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My Pluralsight courses get pirated all the time. I used to have Google alerts for them but frankly, the flood of emails I’d get each day just didn’t justify the “return” I’d get by forwarding them on to the Pluralsight piracy folks. I ended up rationalising it
Readers of my blog know I’ve been going to Shenzhen for some time now. I’ve taken my past decade of experience and created a tool, in the form of a book, that can help makers, hackers, and entrepreneurs unlock the potential of the electronics markets in Shenzhen. I’m looking for your help to enable a print run of this…
As I was walking around Osaka with Sacha , we started talking about Hacker News and how there seem to be a lot of popular stories about Japan.
Uber’s disastrous failure in Japan was not caused by local competition, but by a uniquely American strategy that simply could not work in Japan. You see, Uber represents a new kind of startup. The very thing that makes them so successful in America dooms them to failure in Japan.
This past week has not been the first outbreak of independent developer angst over the app store, but it feels like it has been one of the more intense. The pump was primed by the news that Kim Kar…
On March 14, 2016 it has been 10 years since the launch of Amazon S3, the first AWS service. Here are some lessons learned in those 10 years
Updates: October 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , November 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 18 , 22 , 27 , December 2 , 5 , 12 , 13 , 27 , January 2 , 5 , 5 , 9 , 11 , 13 , 22 , February 2 , 19 , March 15 , 17 , 21 , 22 , 28 , April 3 , 5 , 6 , 12 , 20 , 23 , May 3 , 6 , 19 , June 4 , July 27 …
I’m delighted to finally be investing in Asana, which I’ve wanted to do for a long time. One of the things I’ve learned about companies is that 1) clear tasks and goals, 2) clearly communicated,...
A successful test for Appointment Reminder, and how you can get started testing more.
Andy Grove passed away the same day that Apple announced the iPhone SE. One of Grove’s best decisions reminds me of this launch.
Hot on the heels of my [CES Report](http://ideas.4brad.com/ces-2016-robocar-news) is the release of the latest article from Chris Urmson on [The View from the Front Seat of the Google Car](https://medium.com/@chris_urmson/the-view-from-the-front-seat-of-the-google-self-driving-car-chapter-4-d707b9e925d3#.6okyykxyq)…
The startup world is an interesting place. As cities around the US work to establish their own Silicon XYZ, the variables required to build…
All I did was put together a trivial web app to scratch my own itch, and it keeps scratching it, while I drink my free beer.
One sign that technology markets often exhibit at the tail end of a cycle is a fast diversification of the types of startups getting funded. For example, following the core internet boom of the late 90s (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, PayPal), in early 2000 and 2001 there was a sudden diversification and investment into P2P…
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist...
UPDATES Following some feedback I am going to rename my usage of “Time-Bomb” due to potential negative connotation on the words. I am going to call it “Eventually Open”. Also a …
Nikmati kemudahan menemukan berbagai permainan online dalam satu halaman di BECEKWIN dengan koleksi yang terus diperbarui dan akses yang praktis di berbagai perangkat.
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…
(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...
