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Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users
Within the last 30 days, Telegram was used by 200 million people. This is an insane number by any standards. If Telegram were a country, it would have been the sixth largest country in the world.
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So you want to compete with Roblox
My inbox is stuffed with pitches from start-ups wanting to compete with Roblox, that plucky Lego-ish multiplayer game-creation platform currently valued at 41 billion dollars. They shouldn't try, but here's how to maybe not fail if they insist anyways.
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Blogwashing
Blogwashing is a scammy SEO tactic which involves changing an old blogs publish date to a more current date to fake freshness to a search engine.
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Black Swan Seed Rounds
I started seed investing in 2010 (and much more actively in 2012) before becoming a full-time YC partner. In this period, I invested in about 40 companies. So far, five of them are in the “really...
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A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm
You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker.
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Heroes of Might and Magic V – Hammers of Bait and Switch
This documents my process of finding a fix for the “Original game not found” problem when installing Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate from Ubisoft. For the actual fix, pleas…
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Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M
Parsecs technology allows creators to work together remotely and leverage high performance processing from anywhere Unity (NYSE: U), the worlds leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the high performance remote desktop…
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Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016
I have been doing angel investing since 2012 after the Facebook IPO. Since then I have invested in more than 150+ startups. 50+ of them…
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Trello is now half million strong
Research, expert perspectives, and product announcements from Atlassian on how teams can work smarter with AI. Subscribe for monthly insights on the future of teamwork.
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Nonprofit boards are weird
With great power comes, er, unclear responsibility and zero accountability.
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An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
The following article, and the two addenda that follow, were written by an investment manager who works with very wealthy clients. I knew him from decades ago, but in 2011 he e-mailed me with some concerns he had about what was happening with the economy. What he had to say was informative enough that I asked if he…
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How to price your SaaS product
Guest post by Patrick Campbell, CEO of ProfitWell
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How I make $400 a month in Passive Income by Self-Publishing
I’m the author of Behind the Ivy Curtain: A Data Driven Guide to Elite College Admissions :
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Monotype font licencing shake-down
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Subject: [Urgent] Font Software Licensing Review Hi Ameel I hope you
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The "Wash my Ferrari" Problem: A Meditation on Risk
The Setup Let’s pretend for a moment that you own a car wash. For $5, customers can drive in for a hand wash and wax. One day, in the midst of the stream of Hondas and Subarus, a customer pul…
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Shopify Raises $100 Million
Shopify has raised $100 million in Series C funding from OMERS Ventures and Insight Venture Partners to ou
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How I Ran An Ad on Fox News via Google TV Ads
All stories about Video
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Modern Portfolio Theory: A Case Study on Turnips
And how having friends makes the stalk market a lot more profitable.
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Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in
Engineers optimize for efficiency by working in parallel, creating waterfall regardless of Scrum. True agile means fixing stakeholder queues.
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How much do construction costs matter to the price of housing?
One of the goals of this newsletter is to figure out ways to improve construction productivity and reduce the costs of construction, particularly residential construction (ie: housing) - if you could reduce the costs of construction, housing costs would fall as well.
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Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro
When you think Microsoft you probably don't think sense of humor. And yet, I'm convinced that Microsoft is going to do a very specific *very* funny thing within our lifetimes.