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Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Transparency is Bunk
Adapted from an impromptu rant I gave to some people interested in funding government transparency projects.
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The Best Deal In Startup Land
Sarah Lacy has a post up on Techcrunch about Paul Graham and Y Combinator. In the post, she says: I’ve been a bit hard on Paul Graham and Y Combinator in the past. It’s not that I think he hasn’t been a great mentor to young entrepreneurs– he has. But that’s a lot of equity […]
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Mockingbird, Cappuccino, and what really matters
What makes an app an app?
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The most important question to ask before taking seed money (from VCs)
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Figuring out what your company is all about
What is your company about? Recently I got inspired by Kathy Sierra, whose blog Creating Passionate Users and Head First series of books revolutionized developer education. She kept saying the same…
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Some people like to pay. Let them.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan
Minimum steps necessary to give business investors confidence in the United States
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In which I stomp on some of our glorious “green shoots”
These are apparently America’s top under-25 entrepreneurs. Allow me to summarize: they are: A guy who rents airplanes to wealthy bored people. Not a bad idea, but … being the Avis of av…
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What I learned from screwing up my first ebook launch
JavaScript Performance Rocks! is my first ebook, written by me and my husband, Mr. Scriptaculous (legal alias: Thomas Fuchs).
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Google Checkout still unfit for business: I got my money, but would you?
After my rant about my Google Checkout fiasco and its subsequent mass exposure, Google has restored my Checkout account. I received two emails: one, a very ‘typical Google’ form letter:
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Having Co-founders Is Valuable But Not Crucial
Many experts, including my personal hero Paul Graham, strongly advise against founding a company on your own: All investors, without exce...
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IPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store
I think it would be good for everyone — Apple, developers, and iPhone users — if unrestricted web apps became a serious alternative to the restricted App Store. But it isn’t credible to argue that they already are.
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Anatomy of a bad search result
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Indie games: Still Too Cheap. Getting Cheaper.
I wrote a couple of articles not long ago about how the expected price for Indie games is becoming really cheap. Too cheap to support a th...
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Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to
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Gruber: The OS Opportunity
These PC makers are lacking in neither resources nor opportunity. What they’re lacking is ambition, gumption, and passion for great software and new frontiers.
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You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When They Offer You a Job
In 1985 Ardent Computer was determined to create a market niche for personal supercomputers. To understand our potential markets, we started by analyzing the marketing literature from Cray Research…