Raising funding as a first-time founder
I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I can really feel the passion and determination they have, and I know that if they will just continue there is every chance that eventually they will be very successful.
How VCs get paid
[4.7.12 Addendum: Many of the management company details are now available on a SEC web site. More details here .]
Experimental Python 3 support in Django
Posted by Aymeric Augustin on Aug. 19, 2012
Python internals: how callables work
[The Python version described in this article is 3.x, more specifically - the 3.3 alpha release of CPython.]
The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives
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What 10gen nailed with MongoDB
When my co-founders and I first started on our startup a little over a year ago, we asked other startups about what to database they were using. Nine out of ten people all had the same response: “Just go with Mongo.”
What's new in Firefox 10 (shipping this week)
Check out whats new and known issues for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
Where the fuck is my Ari Gold?
Software development is its own unique thing. It is not a profession that can be directly equated to any other. This tends to frustrate people who try to understand the profession. This is true even for software developers, who would like an established model to follow. This is why you see some software companies run…
On CPU backdoors - Trusting hardware
So, you're a decent paranoid person, running only open source software on your box: Linux, GNU, etc. You have the feeling you could, if you ...
R programming for those coming from other languages
Things a programmer coming from another language needs to know about R, especially those things that might be most surprising
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…
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…
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: