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How to Raise Money
September 2013 Most startups that raise money do it more than once. A typical trajectory might be (1) to get started with a few tens of thousands from something like Y Combinator or individual angels, then (2) raise a few hundred thousand to a few million to build the company, and then (3) once the company is clearly…
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Stripe Checkout
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Never Trust Facebook
I stopped using Facebook a long time ago, but I didn’t want to remove my account and have no visibility on how or what Facebook might be showing about me or someone using my name. So I decide…
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PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds
[ Update: PayPal have unfrozen the account, for now at least. Thank you for your support!]
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The Internet Is a Surveillance State
Polish translation I’m going to start with three data points. One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same network infrastructure they used to carry out their attacks…
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An Apology to my European IT Team
In 2008 when we were opening the US office for a European maker of membrane production equipment, we had all of the early IT choices someone has to make when first opening a business. How should we…
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42
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the number 42 is the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”. But he didn’t say wha…
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Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer
At Buffer, we have the concept of "Open Salaries." We have a simple formula to calculate salaries and we share this with the whole team--and with you, too.
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Happy 20th birthday Debian
Today is Debian's 20 anniversary. This anniversary would have been impossible without a strong community of users and developers. That's why for its commemoration, we asked the Debian community what Debian meant to them. Below you have a...
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Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched
Stack Overflow officially launched on September 15, 2008. In five short years, you've answered over 5 million questions on more than 100 sites , and helped hundreds of millions of people find the answers they needed. Today, we want to celebrate how, together, we changed one small corner of the Internet for the better…
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How Money Moves Around The Banking System
Twitter went mad last week because somebody had transferred almost $150m in a single Bitcoin transaction. This tweet was typical: There was much comment about how expensive or difficult this would …
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Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes
Paul Graham YC partner (and lawyer) Carolynn Levy has created a new alternative to convertible notes, called a safe, that has the advantages of convertible debt without some of the disadvantages. We’re publishing a standard safe document for all startups to use, and we expect most future YC startups will use this when…
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Use "Amazon 1 Button" Chrome extension to sniff all HTTPS websites
A blog on security, malware, cryptography, pentesting, javascript, php and whatnots
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How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage
Most people don't know that you can ship stuff to Amazon's warehouse and have them simultaneously store it and offer it for sale to their customers. — Sounds cool, right?