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Systematizing Sales with Software and Processes
How to move upmarket from a low-touch sales SaaS into a more rigorous sales process, without losing your sanity.
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Meta Meets Microsoft
Meta’s new hardware is more impressive than expected, and the Microsoft partnership makes a lot of sense. The question is if Meta will capture enough value to outweigh their costs.
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Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web
You’ve got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade. So we’re going to force you sell your car. What’s with the weird redirect? If …
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Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D
AI's biggest impact will come from broad labor automation—not R&D—driving economic growth through scale, not scientific breakthroughs.
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The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI
It seems that The New York Times Company (“The Times”) got fed up with the pace of its negotiations with Microsoft and OpenAI over their use of The Times’ content for training and…
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Chesterton's Fence: A lesson in second order thinking (2021)
A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.
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Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model?
Twitter is changing CEOs once again; what if the company changed its business model from ads to subscriptions?
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
The International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2020 report has found that, in most major countries, solar power is now cheaper than coal and gas.
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Rotten Apple
Apple are planning to kill mobile web apps. This is not an exaggeration. We must stop them.
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Choose Boring Technology
Analytics built for developers. Real user monitoring with page-load decomposition, Core Web Vitals, error tracking and conversion — cookie-free and without a tag manager.
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America has a tungsten problem
The US will need a lot more tungsten in the future. Where will it come from?
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Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023
Apple and Major League Soccer announced that the Apple TV app will be the exclusive destination to watch every live MLS match beginning in 2023.
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Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
We added a paywall to Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.com/], our video editing startup, two weeks ago. But to help ease the transition, we allowed users to skip the paywall if they wrote an good reason for why they couldn't pay. In this post, I'll share some of the apologies
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Why Do Companies Still Use Microsoft Windows For Displays?
As I was exiting Oxford Railway Station, I glanced at this screen showing the bus departure times. Notice anything odd about it? sigh Yet again someone has shoehorned Microsoft Windows into a product it is completely unsuitable for. Why does a screen which displays a fairly basic set of information need to be running…
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The Social Radar: What I Did at Y Combinator
Culture matters for startups. For a startup to succeed, it must have a culture that reflects what it wants to achieve. This is one of my areas of expertise. I've spent the past decade focusing on Y...
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Driving for Uber and Lyft
About two years ago, I switched from taking my personal car to the airport, to hailing Ubers and Lyfts. The math of it was pretty simple: Uber was cheaper than paying for my driving and parking*. A…
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OpenWrt Two Approval
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The Impending Cloud Reshuffle
A theory that cloud vendors will focus on the lowest layer of the infrastructure stack and startups will take over the software layer.
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Coursera is phasing out free certificates
Coursera’s free Statements of Accomplisments die a quiet death.
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Why YC
Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.
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