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Dwolla Begins PayPal-Style Account Suspensions for Bitcoiners
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It's easy to underprice your product (2009)
What’s the right price for your product? According to Steve Blank, it’s apparently $0. And it’s also $1 million. What? Listen to this wonderful story to learn how Steve uses these…
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The Story of Playdate
I recently posted the sixth episode of the Panic Podcast — a wide-ranging look into the creation of Playdate , our upcoming hand held video game system, based on over nine hours of conversation. It’s a really special listen. But I’m told not everybody listens to podcasts (outrageous), so I’ve made it a (long) blog…
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My self published book made $11,000 before I finished writing it
That is what I earned on my book for software team leaders before it was even finished. This august I finished writing and publishing my first self-published book. Last month I got done adding a print and an audio…
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Start with a Niche
The most popular products don’t become mass popular overnight. It’s a process. Usually they popularity is uneven, they are unknown in some niches, but very popular in another niches.
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The Lives of China’s Art Factory Workers
Hidden on the outskirts of the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen lies a warren of narrow buildings that once produced two thirds of the world’s oil paintings. The suburb of Dafen – now officially named Dafen Oil Painting Village – grew in the late 1980s after Huang Jiang, an enterprising master art copier from…
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VC Insanity, Explained
…or, why VCs do what they do (Note: this post also appeared as a guest post on Techflash) VC behavior sometimes looks insane, but generally it’s just sound economics. It’s crazy but true: if you know how a VC gets paid, you can pretty much read their mind. Here’s a few examples: VCs don’t actually seem to want to take…
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Quantifying the Adpocalypse
Someone is off sides - advertising revenue in the time of COVID
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Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn
Exclusive analysis of business spend on Brex and fresh finance insights.
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Killing Your Startup By Listening to Customers
The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It’s understanding who to listen to and why. Five…
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In Response to Google
Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable. Here is my response. (1) On the March 2019 core update claim in the piece: This is baseless speculation. The March 2019 core update was designed to improve the quality of our search
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Zurb Acquires Forrst
It's with great excitement that we announce our big news today: we've acquired Forrst!
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Brittleness comes from “One Thing”
Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.
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NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open
The Nim Team is happy to announce the next instalment of NimConf! NimConf 2026 will happen June 20, 2026 in the traditional online format where the talks are pre-recorded and revealed as premiers on YouTube while the viewers can ask questions and the presenter can answer them in the live chat.
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Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis
This isn’t a joke, and it’s becoming a big problem
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I'm not a "curator"
Curator’s Code is an attempt to codify and standardize “via” links and attribution from link blogs and aggregators with two new symbols:
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Sales Hiring Guide For B2B Startup Founders
Everything you need to know about sales hiring for startups: the stages, a 5-step recruiting process, and strategies to build a top team.