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Universities and Economic Growth
Value of $120,000 spent at Emerson College: I hired a summer intern, who had finished three years studying film and video production at Emerson College, to work with me on a series of videos for people learning to fly helicopters. He brought his own equipment to the first day of filming, including some "work lights"…
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Balsamiq hires 2nd empoyee
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition
At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? He didn’t answer it in his presentation, but if I rememb
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What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned [with video]
Larry (@lhalff) and I have been recording a podcast for the past year called Citizen Garden that covers various topics related to the web, technology, and social networking. Well, given Ma.gnolia&#…
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Daring Fireball: Pound the Quality
Is the App Store popular because the iPhone is great? Or is the iPhone great because the App Store is popular?
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Daring Fireball: Android Opportunity Addenda
Follow-up points and observations regarding ‘The Android Opportunity’.
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The Value of the Y Combinator Experience
I'm often asked about my Y Combinator experience so I thought I would take the time to blog about it.
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What is the minimum viable product?
Eric Ries and I recently sat down to talk about minimum viable products: the product with just the necessary features to get money and feedback from early adopters. The minimum viable product (MVP)…
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What MySQL Founder Michael Widenius said about Oracle acquiring Sun
Tonight at 4:30 AM, USA Pacific time, my phone started to ring; it was a call from a Sun employee saying that Oracle has bought Sun and he w...
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A very clever idea to enforce copyright with minimal lawsuits.
One reason the record industry's strategy of suing online infringers ran into trouble is that there are too many infringers to sue. If the industry can only sue a tiny fraction of infringers, then any individual infringer will know that he is very unlikely to be sued, and deterrence will fail. Or so it might seem …
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