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Employee benefits at Basecamp
Our headquarters in Chicago. I’m often asked about the benefits we offer at Basecamp. Potential employees are obviously curious, but most of the questions I get are from fellow business owners…
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Who really gets hurt when startups blow up, and what to do about it
Yesterday, Theranos announced that it would void two years of diagnostic test results from its Edison blood-testing device. Pulitzer…
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EU expands copyright to furniture and extends term by a century
The UK has just changed its copyright-and-patent monopoly law to extend copyright to furniture and to extend the term of that copyright on furniture with
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Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Second Quarter Results
Commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate exceeds $9.4 billion; Windows 10 active on over 200 million devices
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On the Exponential View
The following is the text of a talk I gave in San Francisco on December 1st, 2016.
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FOIA Improvement Act Signed into Law
President Obama signed into law the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Improvement Act of 2016 yesterday. The Act places a 25 year limit on the use of the deliberative process exemption, codifies a presumption of openness, and makes various procedural improvements in the FOIA. The Department of Justice summarized its…
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Using Graph Databases to Stop E-commerce Fraud in Real Time
Discover how to detect and deter e-commerce fraud – before fraudsters inflict significant damage – when you harness the power of graph database technology.
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Zen Magnets Wins CPSC Case
TL;DR: Zen Magnets won the 2014 hearing. Judge concludes proper use of magnets creates no danger. Some recalls . Still no Zen Magnets to sell.
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Welcome x 11
We have a lot of new additions to the team to announce. Tim Brady is joining YC as a Partner. Previously, he was a Partner at ImagineK12. Tim was Yahoo’s first employee and spent 8 years as the company’s Chief Product Officer. Tim was also the CEO of QuestBridge, an educational startup that helps bright low-income…
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ArangoDB Closes 2.2M Euro Investment Led by Target Partners
The only enterprise AI data platform that cuts complexity, reduces costs, and gets you to production faster.
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How Coderwall grew over 50% with an A/B test
Turn SEO rankings into revenue. RankScience drives growth across Google, ChatGPT, and AI platforms for startups.
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Google Cloud to Join .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group
In tomorrow’s enterprise, developers and IT professionals work in an environment characterized by technological choice: open, cross-platform development where the best tools are easily within reach. As enterprises adopt public and hybrid cloud at an accelerated pace, Google Cloud is committed to fostering an open…
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Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle
SendGrid's trusted email API and marketing campaigns platform is now available through Twilio.com.
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 Released
Hi everyone, Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. At Build 2016 last week, we shared new experiences and new opportunities we’re creating for developers with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update which we will be releasing for free to all Windows 10 customers…
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How to Leverage Technical Debt
“There ain’t no good debt, only different types. A cunning hacker is one who leverages some debt, in some circumstances, to create good…
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Guide to Demo Day Pitches
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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After Mac?
So, there are new MacBooks and many people are unhappy . Tl;dr: Apple thinks thin-and-light is more important than well-equipped-and-powerful.