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Ben Horowitz: A Good Place to Work
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Lying with pictures: Smartphone manufacturer share by OS
As steer and drplokta pointed out yesterday , the Nielsen diagram was grossly out of proportion, so it looked like RIM and MS were better than they were. I passed the data to steer, who then played around with R (code is in the other post), and produced the second diagram. I've tried to line them…
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Caller ID Made Simple
I'm building OpenCNAM with friends: a simple API that returns caller ID names for phone numbers, with a free tier of 60 queries an hour, no account needed.
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Tarsnap now takes credit cards (switching from Paypal to Stripe)
I've been excited about Stripe ever since one of the founders, Patrick Collison, emailed me in 2009 to say that he was "trying to build a credit-card processor that doesn't suck". My immediate reaction: "I think that might be the most ambitious plan I've ever heard from someone associated with YC ". When Patrick went…
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What Has Changed
As I read this post in the WSJ about the changing nature of VC funding of consumer web companies, I thought that we may be looking at the symptoms and not the disease. As the WSJ notes, VC funding of consumer web and mobile companies is down 42% in this first nine months of 2012 […]
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Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch
Right after our TC press post we were onto showcasing Cucumbertown to the HN community and taking feedback. Things were looking fine for sometime until Murphy decided to play spoilsport and we hit ocean bottom when we showed up on the front page. 1 hour on the HN homepage and we were out. Pretty saddening experience…
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Daring Fireball: App.net
Link to: https://join.app.net/
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Apple Broke My iPhone, and Their Policies Prevent Them from Fixing It
Hello. I’ve been an otherwise happy iPhone user since 2008. I use my iPhone with an MVNO carrier in the U.S. called Straight Talk, which runs over AT&T’s network. This is my story.
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Silicon Valley Is Filled With Liars
Have you been caught telling one of these lies?
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The Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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I'm calling this Bubble 2.0, and it's ready to burst
The smart, fashionable startup-people these days are all trying to come up with brilliant and innovative new business models that disrupt struggling industries and synergize for break-out growth potential forming new markets. (Ahem. At least that's what they say.)
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When to kill your startup
I’m Ryan Carson, and I’ve been a Founder CEO for 20 years, building, scaling and selling three companies.
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The default state of a startup is failure
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups