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Ten Years' Worth of Learning About Pricing
Discover proven SaaS pricing frameworks from 10 years of startup investing. Learn 3 key strategies and 4 components to optimize your revenue model.
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The Orange Juice Test (1985)
The key to hiring quality employees is with using the Orange Juice Test, which is designed to sort through candidates based on how they can handle difficult situations and tasks.
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So You Want to Compete with Steam
I get a lot of pitches for "Steam competitors." 99% of them are doomed to failure, but the vast majority are doomed before they even start.
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XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
-> Updated June 22, 2018 – Three 16GB/FHD configs added to the line up in the US -> Updated Jan 26, 2018 – Added list of countries that offer the XPS 13 developer edition offline.…
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A note to our employees
Today, our CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to Google employees about changes we’re making to better support our employees.
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Wage Theft is a Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)
Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberies, street and highway robberies, and gas station robberies. Employers steal billions of dollars from their employees…
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GitHub and Jira Software Integration
New integration enables software teams to connect their code on GitHub.com to their projects on Jira Software Cloud
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An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
Customer service has improved little in the last fourty years. This story demonstrates the high standards that once existed in one of our leading Department Stores.
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Microsoft announces Surface Go
Today, Microsoft announces Surface Go: the most portable and affordable Surface product yet.
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Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge
TL;DR Looking at job postings, Rails is more popular than Django, Laravel or Express. By a lot. If you specifically measure startup cities…
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Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery
Since 2014 this blog has extensively covered the wireless networks built by high-frequency trading (HFT) firms or network providers to reduce latencies between the different exchanges around the wo…
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Tech’s Two Philosophies
Google and Facebook represent one philosophy, and Microsoft and Apple represent another; tech needs both, but ultimately platforms are more important than aggregators.
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Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Qualcomm, National Security, and Patents
The Trump administration blocked Broadcom’s acquisition of Qualcomm, and I think it was the right move. Understanding why means understanding Qualcomm and Broadcom’s plan for the compan…
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Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepare Taxes
GnuCash makes it easy to keep track of your money and it creates reports that will make your accountant happy.
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Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change
Nikon losing the leadership position to Canon in the market for professional photography 30 year technology transition story.
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It’s called Stack Overflow. As of
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Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted
Disruption is simple to say but there many factors at play. Disruption is never one feature, but a full set of assumptions that go into a…
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Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
Does the WordPress Block Editor deliver on its promise of heralding an exciting future for WordPress development?
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Evolving the Firefox Brand
Say “Firefox” and most people think of a web browser on their laptop or phone, period. TL;DR, there’s more to the story now, and our branding needs to evolve. With ...
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Lessons from Spotify
Spotify has a marginal cost problem, but while the cause is unique to Spotify, the challenges are more applicable than it seems.
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It can all go to zero
Perspective can be a useful thing. Cryptocurrencies have had a bad 24 hours. Last night Amy and I watched The Big Short for the second time. If you’ve never seen
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