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How do I find customers for my SaaS? I think we need to stop trying to find customers for our products and start building solutions our...
21st May 2021
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How do I find customers for my SaaS?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st May 2021
I think we need to stop trying to find customers for our products and start building solutions our customers are already searching for.
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Managing people 🤯 I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps...
6th Feb 2022
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Managing people 🤯

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Feb 2022
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
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Introducing SPEAR: The Management Framework for AI The strong-start-weak-finish problem in AI is a process problem, not a model problem.
5th May 2026
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Introducing SPEAR: The Management Framework for AI

from Entrepreneur's Edge [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th May 2026
The strong-start-weak-finish problem in AI is a process problem, not a model problem.
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Facebook's plan to beat Google+ we will swallow sadness for every summer going forward if we do not move faster and smarter than the...
5th Oct 2025
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Facebook's plan to beat Google+

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Oct 2025
we will swallow sadness for every summer going forward if we do not move faster and smarter than the Google for these next 3 months.
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Las compañías de autos eléctricos quieren el litio de Argentina. Poco queda para sus ciudadanos. A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de...
1st Apr 2024
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Las compañías de autos eléctricos quieren el litio de Argentina. Poco queda para sus ciudadanos.

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Apr 2024
A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de generadores. El proyecto se frenó. Mientras tanto, las exportaciones de litio crecen.
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Monoids for analytics This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is...
16th Jan 2016
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Monoids for analytics

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Jan 2016
This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is a set that is closed under an…
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I, Token an origin story
25th Nov 2024
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I, Token

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Nov 2024
an origin story
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Don’t start a business until people are asking you to When you bake a cake, you need to do first things first. You need to get the ingredients before you...
13th Apr 2016
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Don’t start a business until people are asking you to

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Apr 2016
When you bake a cake, you need to do first things first. You need to get the ingredients before you turn on the oven. You need to bake it before you frost it and slice it. Most have an idea but no customers. For them I always say, “Don’t start a business until people are...
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The Prestige-Prosperity Gap We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up...
6th Jul 2024
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The Prestige-Prosperity Gap

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jul 2024
We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up proportionately, and vice versa. But the modern world is a lot messier. There can be bizarre mismatches between prestige and prosperity. Some people have social or professional status far...
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Entrepreneurship advice for high school students (what I wish I knew)
17th Oct 2025
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Entrepreneurship advice for high school students (what I wish I knew)

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Oct 2025
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Metabrand Has Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook, or rebranded VR? What is the metaverse? And can any...
7th Nov 2021
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Metabrand

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Nov 2021
Has Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook, or rebranded VR? What is the metaverse? And can any company decide to build the future anymore?
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that...
27th May 2017
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th May 2017
It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers, organizations — could access equally. Among other things, ...
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Why barcodes are about to go extinct QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
a week ago
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Why barcodes are about to go extinct

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

a week ago
QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
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Information is the (other) currency of venture capital Many seasoned entrepreneurs have had the following experience.  A VC eagerly wants to meet with you....
1st Sep 2009
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Information is the (other) currency of venture capital

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Sep 2009
Many seasoned entrepreneurs have had the following experience.  A VC eagerly wants to meet with you.  You have what seems like a very good…
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Sitting on the curb drinking a slurpee
7th Jul 2013
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Sitting on the curb drinking a slurpee

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2013
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We’re drowning Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a...
10th Mar 2022
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We’re drowning

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Mar 2022
Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, we’re drowning. We slap together rickety rowboats and toss them out on PyPI Ocean and npm...
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Flip it in your favor The old saying, “It’s all who you know,” used to feel so defeating. So when I heard, “It’s all...
29th Mar 2010
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Flip it in your favor

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Mar 2010
The old saying, “It’s all who you know,” used to feel so defeating. So when I heard, “It’s all who you know,” it felt like the rest of that sentence was, “and you don’t know anyone. So forget it.” On his way into class I overheard him say he was hungry. He had come...
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walk and talk Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days,...
12th Dec 2023
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walk and talk

from Derek Sivers [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Dec 2023
Kevin Kelly invited me to walk 100 kilometers (62 miles) through northern Thailand for seven days, ending in Chiang Mai. Walking with us were ten other smart interesting people, including five other authors whose work I’ve loved for years. It’s a “Walk and Talk”.
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My Year-End Playlist Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and...
20th Dec 2023
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My Year-End Playlist

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th Dec 2023
Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and got into. Most of these songs are under the radar which is my favorite kind of music. So I hope you find something new that you like in here.
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Switch strategies Life is like any journey. You need to change directions a few times to get where you want to...
27th Jan 2016
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Switch strategies

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Jan 2016
Life is like any journey. You need to change directions a few times to get where you want to go. Then when something is extra-rewarding, it’s time to switch strategies. Focus all of your energy on this one thing. Don’t be leisurely. Strike while it’s hot. Be a...
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I’ve Moved Onchain Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2...
2nd May 2024
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I’ve Moved Onchain

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2024
Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2 services anymore. So I am starting a series called “I’ve Moved Onchain” to explain this journey to everyone and today’s opening post is about blogging, naturally. I’ve blogged at...
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Warren Buffett and the Reading Unlock One Buffett lesson I'll share with my kid: read, read, read.
16th Jan 2026
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Warren Buffett and the Reading Unlock

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Jan 2026
One Buffett lesson I'll share with my kid: read, read, read.
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The person on the other side of the screen
22nd Aug 2014
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The person on the other side of the screen

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Aug 2014
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Subtract Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes us to add, because that...
5th Dec 2018
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Subtract

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Dec 2018
Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes us to add, because that benefits them. But the secret is to focus on subtracting. The adding mindset is deeply ingrained. It’s easy to think I need something else. It’s hard to look instead at what to...
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Why people buy software
1st Nov 2019
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Why people buy software

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Nov 2019
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Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors. You know that song you love that you wish you’d written? Copy it. Why? Because we’re imperfect...
2nd Feb 2014
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Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors.

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Feb 2014
You know that song you love that you wish you’d written? Copy it. Why? Because we’re imperfect mirrors. When a musician covers someone else’s song, they reveal their own warped perspective, since we know what the original sounds like. Because of this, performing a cover...
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How do you know when to stop designing?
1st Mar 2012
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How do you know when to stop designing?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2012
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Understanding science funding in tech, 2011-2021 For those who sit between science and tech, it’s hard not to notice the proliferation of new...
2nd Mar 2022
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Understanding science funding in tech, 2011-2021

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Mar 2022
For those who sit between science and tech, it’s hard not to notice the proliferation of new initiatives launched in the last two years, aimed at making major improvements in the life sciences especially. While I don’t have a science background, nor any personal relationship to...
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Thoughts on Free Will My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will....
12th Jul 2021
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Thoughts on Free Will

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Jul 2021
My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will. When it comes to living in it, assume you have no free will.” Here’s an example: I lost my love of working out during the pandemic. Before it started, I worked out at a nice,...
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Interactive navigation in embedding space tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today:...
23rd Jan 2025
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Interactive navigation in embedding space

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Jan 2025
tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today: interactive navigation in embedding space. Right now, you prompt most generative models with human language. That works, but it’s imprecise and coarse. If you’re generating an image of an...
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I got 12 job interviews in two weeks Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
29th Jul 2024
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I got 12 job interviews in two weeks

from Anthony Castrio's Official Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Jul 2024
Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
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Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem, discovered by Radu Diaconescu in 1975, reveals a...
5th Aug 2024
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Diaconescu's Theorem

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Aug 2024
Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem, discovered by Radu Diaconescu in 1975, reveals a fascinating and surprising connection between two fundamental principles in mathematics: the Axiom of Choice and the Law of Excluded Middle. In simple terms, the theorem states that if you...
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I made a mistake. Indie Worldwide build in public update 2023
8th Dec 2023
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I made a mistake.

from Anthony Castrio's Official Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Dec 2023
Indie Worldwide build in public update 2023
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Proudly exclude most people We love when someone hates the same thing we hate — especially if that thing is popular. You can...
2nd Feb 2000
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Proudly exclude most people

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Feb 2000
We love when someone hates the same thing we hate — especially if that thing is popular. You can use this to attract your future fans. You can say, “Don’t listen to this if you’re happy with your life.” Then people who hate all that happy crap will be intrigued. You can...
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The case of WOPR and the lost code... I got an email earlier this week from a guy reaching out after he read a post of mine on a gaming...
5th Mar 2021
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The case of WOPR and the lost code...

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Mar 2021
I got an email earlier this week from a guy reaching out after he read a post of mine on a gaming forum that was posted over two decades ago! I couldn't for the life of me remember what I had said, but he reiterated that it was about a simulation that I wrote in BASIC that was...
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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch...
11th Dec 2023
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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Dec 2023
This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II...
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Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 1 (Module Systems) Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 1 (Module Systems) All successful programming languages are alike;...
1st Mar 2021
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Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 1 (Module Systems)

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2021
Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 1 (Module Systems) All successful programming languages are alike; every unsuccessful programming language is unsuccessful in its own way. The history of software is one that runs parallel to a simultaneous but separate conversation, and that is the...
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Anything You Want — third edition for 2022 In 2011, I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. “Derek. It’s Seth Godin.” “I’m...
25th Aug 2022
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Anything You Want — third edition for 2022

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Aug 2022
In 2011, I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. “Derek. It’s Seth Godin.” “I’m starting a new publishing company, so I want you to write a book. Short, like a manifesto. Will you do it?” “Great. I look forward to it.” Over the next eleven days, I...
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The AI Demand Bubble If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a...
4th Aug 2026
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The AI Demand Bubble

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
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Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly. As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most...
19th Feb 2014
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Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly.

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Feb 2014
As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most common mistakes is how people...
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Utopia Bets / Apocalypse Bets I think that it is nearly impossible to figure out the exact changes that new technologies will...
3rd Mar 2016
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Utopia Bets / Apocalypse Bets

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Mar 2016
I think that it is nearly impossible to figure out the exact changes that new technologies will create in the world. That's problematic because investing in startups is largely about figuring out whether or not a team with a new technology - or application of existing technology...
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Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian... It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot...
8th Apr 2022
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Here’s What Happened When Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks visited Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Apr 2022
It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.  (Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Chief Operating Officer of a company – but in this case the company has 3 million...
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Steve Jobs on iPod and DRM Guys – We need to make sure that when Music Match launches their download music store they cannot...
26th Oct 2024
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Steve Jobs on iPod and DRM

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Oct 2024
Guys – We need to make sure that when Music Match launches their download music store they cannot use iPod. Is this going to be an issue?
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GenAI’s adoption puzzle Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that...
25th May 2025
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GenAI’s adoption puzzle

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th May 2025
Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that can replace all software, but so far, most of its users only pick it up every week or two, and far fewer have made it part of their lives. Is that a time problem or a product...
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they… “If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
30th Jul 2016
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they…

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Jul 2016
“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said a decentralized network of information nodes that are ...
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Summer Hack There is nothing I love more than when a moment or inside joke lands so perfectly that it unites a...
7th Aug 2025
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Summer Hack

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Aug 2025
There is nothing I love more than when a moment or inside joke lands so perfectly that it unites a group of people.
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The Bluesky exodus, one year later The company has 40 million users and big plans for the future. So why don't its users seem happy?...
4th Nov 2025
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The Bluesky exodus, one year later

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Nov 2025
The company has 40 million users and big plans for the future. So why don't its users seem happy? PLUS: The NEO Home Robot goes viral + Ilya Sutskever's surprising deposition
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Please Build More Silly Things Hacking on fun things with curious co-conspirators is a superpower
3rd Feb 2023
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Please Build More Silly Things

from Varun's Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Feb 2023
Hacking on fun things with curious co-conspirators is a superpower
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Enterprise Eldritch Horrors Enterprise Eldritch Horrors Sure the Lovecraftian horrors are cosmicly horrific, but as all of us...
9th May 2021
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Enterprise Eldritch Horrors

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th May 2021
Enterprise Eldritch Horrors Sure the Lovecraftian horrors are cosmicly horrific, but as all of us who work in software know, the true horrors are closer to home. Look not in forgotten tombs, but within the flickering, non-Euclidean interfaces of your corporate mandated software....
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Joining hypergrowth startups 😬 I am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I...
21st Jun 2021
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Joining hypergrowth startups 😬

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Jun 2021
I am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I wrote it as bullet points as...
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There’s no speed limit Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or a parent, I think you’ll appreciate this story of how one...
1st Dec 2009
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There’s no speed limit

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Dec 2009
Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or a parent, I think you’ll appreciate this story of how one teacher can completely and permanently change someone’s life in only a few lessons. I called a local recording studio with a random question about music typesetting. Graduate...
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The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning,...
11th Nov 2025
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The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Nov 2025
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).  The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performance to delivering advanced weapons at speed. Taking decades to deliver weapons is...
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Content negotiation considered harmful Matilda, 1996 Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers...
24th Mar 2023
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Content negotiation considered harmful

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

24th Mar 2023
Matilda, 1996 Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers return, different content types based on the request’s Accept header. Sounds great, right? Well, no. Content negotiation is the classic example of an idea that sounds good in theory, but...
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Moderate people, not code Dixit / Marie Cardouat The scope of the fediverse has been hotly debated recently. Are we a big...
22nd Jan 2024
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Moderate people, not code

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Jan 2024
Dixit / Marie Cardouat The scope of the fediverse has been hotly debated recently. Are we a big fedi? Or a small fedi? Are instances just nodes? Or networked communities? Which Camp of Mastodon are we in? How far should our replies travel? How about our blog posts and Bluesky...
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Second Encounters Firsts are overrated
10th Mar 2024
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Second Encounters

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Mar 2024
Firsts are overrated
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Put a billion dollars on red
9th Mar 2016
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Put a billion dollars on red

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Mar 2016
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Understanding the Importance of Operating Leverage in the Age of Efficiency Amazon grew it's revenue per employee from $50K to $1M over its first fifteen years.
2nd Apr 2023
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Understanding the Importance of Operating Leverage in the Age of Efficiency

from Entrepreneur's Edge [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Apr 2023
Amazon grew it's revenue per employee from $50K to $1M over its first fifteen years.
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Ultimate validation
10th May 2015
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Ultimate validation

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th May 2015
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🤠 Democratize Luxury
9th Sep 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Sep 2024
🤠 Democratize Luxury
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Pro skater Chad Muska went broke. Now he's a bootstrapper.
5th Jun 2024
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Pro skater Chad Muska went broke. Now he's a bootstrapper.

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Jun 2024
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class...
6th Feb 2024
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Feb 2024
We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class –part of Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and...
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Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s...
17th Mar 2026
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Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Mar 2026
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true. You need to stop coding, building, recruiting, fund raising, etc., and take stock of what changed around you. Or your company...
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Intellectual Loneliness I have a confession to make: I leave most parties early because I’d rather read a book. That’s not...
2nd Sep 2021
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Intellectual Loneliness

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Sep 2021
I have a confession to make: I leave most parties early because I’d rather read a book. That’s not what I tell people though. Usually, I make up an excuse. Something like “Oh, I have early plans in the morning.” I don’t like being deceptive, but there’s no socially acceptable way...
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Does intelligence need a hard cap? Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
3 days ago
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Does intelligence need a hard cap?

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 days ago
Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
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Working notes for Summer of Protocols I participated in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It was...
27th May 2023
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Working notes for Summer of Protocols

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th May 2023
I participated in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It was an 18-week program, funded by the Ethereum Foundation, that aimed to catalyze a wider exploration of protocols and their social implications. I decided to focus on protocols as...
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Relax for the same result A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach. So a few times a week,...
2nd Oct 2015
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Relax for the same result

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Oct 2015
A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach. So a few times a week, I’d get on my bike and go as fast as I could for the fifteen-mile loop. I mean really full-on, 100 percent, head-down, red-faced sprinting. After a few months, I noticed I was...
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Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much...
5th Dec 2025
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Premium: The Ways The AI Bubble Might Burst

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Dec 2025
I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much recently and because, if I'm honest, things aren't really making a lot of sense. NVIDIA claims to have shipped six million Blackwell GPUs in
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Why Build Toys I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I...
12th Jul 2021
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Why Build Toys

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Jul 2021
I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I decided to re-publish it here. One thing that's bothered me in the time since I wrote it is the way in which toys, which are meant to be harmless and fun can become companies capable...
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000 A Sci-Fi Short Story
13th Jun 2023
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000

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jun 2023
A Sci-Fi Short Story
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Regulatory hacks A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up...
10th Oct 2012
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Regulatory hacks

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Oct 2012
A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up front, and the players follow the rules…
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Ads, privacy and confusion Privacy is coming to the internet and cookies are going away. This is long overdue - but we don’t...
27th Aug 2021
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Ads, privacy and confusion

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Aug 2021
Privacy is coming to the internet and cookies are going away. This is long overdue - but we don’t know what happens next, we don’t have much consensus on what online privacy actually means, and most of what’s on the table conflicts fundamentally with competition.
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Owning equity in your company should be as common as owning equity in your home What belongs in common to the most people is accorded the least care: they take thought for their...
12th Sep 2011
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Owning equity in your company should be as common as owning equity in your home

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Sep 2011
What belongs in common to the most people is accorded the least care: they take thought for their own things above all, and less about…
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How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives? summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is...
1st Mar 2024
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How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives?

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2024
summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is customer-centric - someone who has a rich mental model for what customers want and is able to step into the customer's shoes. I theorize that beyond a culture of being customer-centric it's the...
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Saying no to everything else Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a...
23rd Sep 2015
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Saying no to everything else

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Sep 2015
Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a book. Eventually, the psychological pain of not finishing kept building until he couldn’t stand it anymore. He decided to finally beat the devil he calls “The Resistance”. He said, “I...
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Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds A few years ago, the trend of companies raising smaller seed rounds combined with the emergence of...
2nd Apr 2012
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Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds

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2nd Apr 2012
A few years ago, the trend of companies raising smaller seed rounds combined with the emergence of new seed funds caused many big VCs to…
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Ten years of experience in one hour From 1998 to 2008, I had this wild experience of starting a little hobby, accidentally growing it...
1st Jul 2011
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Ten years of experience in one hour

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2011
From 1998 to 2008, I had this wild experience of starting a little hobby, accidentally growing it into a big business, and then selling it for $22 million. So now people want to hear my thoughts. People ask my advice on how to approach situations in their lives or businesses,...
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The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS In this post I'll describe the tools and services I use to run my SaaS business. From programming...
22nd Nov 2020
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The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS

from anthonynsimon.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Nov 2020
In this post I'll describe the tools and services I use to run my SaaS business. From programming languages to open source libraries to Kubernetes tools for easy deployments.
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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early...
29th Aug 2026
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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Aug 2026
The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early internet. It was slow, ugly, unreliable, and full of cranks, a strange world of wheezing dial-up modems, Usenet flamewars, <marquee> tags, and dancing babies. It was also...
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You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news:...
27th Jun 2025
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You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Jun 2025
First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news: Politicians will create a solution that won’t be useful for founders and investors – unless we stay actively involved in the details. We need your help!
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How many units can you sell?
11th Jan 2021
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How many units can you sell?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jan 2021
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
15th Jan 2023
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Jan 2023
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The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup As grandiose as the title of this article might sound, I should clarify we’re talking about a...
7th Apr 2021
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The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup

from anthonynsimon.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Apr 2021
As grandiose as the title of this article might sound, I should clarify we’re talking about a low-stress, one-person company that I run from my flat here in Germany.
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AI-driven content is a nightmare Giving people a never-ending stream of content designed to keep them on a centralized platform...
13th Sep 2022
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AI-driven content is a nightmare

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Sep 2022
Giving people a never-ending stream of content designed to keep them on a centralized platform longer where the algorithm is controlled by some megacorp (and its shareholders) isn’t my idea of a great future. It’s fucking dystopian.
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Simulating Qubits with Python (Classically) Simulating Qubits with Python (Classically) Ever wondered what it would be like to play with a...
28th Apr 2022
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Simulating Qubits with Python (Classically)

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Apr 2022
Simulating Qubits with Python (Classically) Ever wondered what it would be like to play with a quantum computer? While we can't all have a supercooled quantum processor in our basement (yet), we can do the next best thing—simulate one with regular Python code. Sure, it's...
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Startups should make money
29th Jul 2015
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Startups should make money

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Jul 2015
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Building a standing desk
20th Feb 2011
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Building a standing desk

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th Feb 2011
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Where Are the Good AI Products? On waiting for AI's Godot.
16th Feb 2024
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Where Are the Good AI Products?

from Varun's Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Feb 2024
On waiting for AI's Godot.
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Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is...
1st May 2024
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Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2024
With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is convincing people to have their irises scanned at Worldcoin Orb centers.
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Collective Experiences | Theory No. 8 On the value of creating shared context in the age of personalized, on-demand media.
22nd Feb 2023
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Collective Experiences | Theory No. 8

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Feb 2023
On the value of creating shared context in the age of personalized, on-demand media.
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FTC's case against Amazon is misunderstood The case makes a nuanced argument about how Amazon abused monopoly power through anti-discounting...
3rd Oct 2023
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FTC's case against Amazon is misunderstood

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Oct 2023
The case makes a nuanced argument about how Amazon abused monopoly power through anti-discounting measures and tying in Prime with Fulfilled by Amazon
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The security of no security If you’re a full-time musician, you’ll never have a job, a boss, a salary, or insurance. You’ll...
1st Jun 2009
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The security of no security

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jun 2009
If you’re a full-time musician, you’ll never have a job, a boss, a salary, or insurance. You’ll bootstrap everything yourself. You’ll always struggle against apathy and gate-keepers. And you’ll have to be one-in-a-million to achieve this incredibly difficult goal. Someone...
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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story...
29th Aug 2023
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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Aug 2023
I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that from mid-1940 to mid-1942 it was Vannevar Bush (and his number 2, James Conant, the president of...
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Nike’s Marketing Blindspot What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
4th Aug 2023
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Nike’s Marketing Blindspot

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2023
What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
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When you can't win
15th Jul 2014
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When you can't win

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Jul 2014
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Andrej Karpathy announced that he’s building an AI + education company.
23rd Jul 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Jul 2024
#1 💡 Andrej Karpathy announced that he’s building an AI + education company.
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Spec-driven development Documentation first, SQL second
4th May 2026
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Spec-driven development

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th May 2026
Documentation first, SQL second
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Keep in touch When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good...
5th Mar 2018
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Keep in touch

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Mar 2018
When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good conversation with somebody in the music business, then quite often they would send an opportunity my way within a day or two. Yes I just said this twice to emphasize it. This is...
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What would you do differently?
26th May 2018
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What would you do differently?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th May 2018
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Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a...
16th Apr 2024
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Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Apr 2024
One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a potential customer is, “We’re excited. When can you come back and show us a prototype?” This can be the beginning of a profitable customer relationship or a disappointing sinkhole of...
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Pitch competitions as a measure of success In our early days of my startup, I would try to enter as many pitch competitions as was feasible,...
21st Aug 2023
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Pitch competitions as a measure of success

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Aug 2023
In our early days of my startup, I would try to enter as many pitch competitions as was feasible, just to try and get our project in front of as many eyes as possible and get our names mentioned in the popular startup press. I used to give everything in these competitions, and we...
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Predicting AI job exposure Many people would like to analyse which jobs, companies and industries are most exposed to AI, and...
24th May 2026
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Predicting AI job exposure

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

24th May 2026
Many people would like to analyse which jobs, companies and industries are most exposed to AI, and assign scores, build charts, and map that against the progress of LLMs. I think this is mostly impossible: you don’t know how the jobs will change, you don’t know what else...
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Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Aesthetic Authorship) Culture wars are won through aesthetics.
7th Feb 2025
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Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Aesthetic Authorship)

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Feb 2025
Culture wars are won through aesthetics.
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The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech Silicon Valley, once a beacon of technological optimism and...
1st Nov 2023
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The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Nov 2023
The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech Silicon Valley, once a beacon of technological optimism and innovation, is undergoing a troubling transformation. The region that once embodied the ideals of humanism, progress, and the pursuit of a better world has become a far different place...
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What if you didn’t need money or attention? You know that feeling you have after a big meal? When you’re so full that you don’t want anything...
19th Mar 2014
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What if you didn’t need money or attention?

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Mar 2014
You know that feeling you have after a big meal? When you’re so full that you don’t want anything more? We do so many things for the attention, to feel important or praised. But what if you had so much attention and so much praise that you couldn’t possibly want any...
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The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations...
11th Nov 2022
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The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Nov 2022
My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement...
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Thinking rationally about emotion In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case...
20th Aug 2024
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Thinking rationally about emotion

from Articles - Alex Murrell [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th Aug 2024
In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
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AIVC I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog...
4th May 2023
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AIVC

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th May 2023
I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog posts I have written here at AVC. There are 9059 of them for those that are counting. They wanted to offer me a chat bot called “ask Fred.” I told them no thanks. Let me […]
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🤫 Business Brainstorms is back! ... and has a new name
2nd Jun 2025
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🤫 Business Brainstorms is back!

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2025
... and has a new name
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The pipeline problem
21st Sep 2024
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The pipeline problem

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Sep 2024
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Thoughts on thinking I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I...
16th May 2025
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Thoughts on thinking

from Dustin Curtis [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th May 2025
I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation because nothing I...
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After fifteen years of practice Since the age of fourteen, I was determined to be a great singer. But my pitch was bad, my tone was...
15th Jun 2010
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After fifteen years of practice

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Jun 2010
Since the age of fourteen, I was determined to be a great singer. But my pitch was bad, my tone was bad, and everyone said I was just not a singer. At eighteen, I started touring, performing two to four shows a week, always as the lead singer. Often they were outdoor shows,...
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The Internet is for snacking Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s...
14th Sep 2013
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The Internet is for snacking

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Sep 2013
Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s popular social sites are spin outs of…
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From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that...
25th May 2024
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From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey

from Roberto's blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th May 2024
I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that all I need is Markdown rendering. Trying to update Gatsby and its dependencies to the latest version was painful enough to motivate me to jump ship. After looking at what’s out...
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A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect...
15th Dec 2016
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A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Dec 2016
If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect various measures of Firefox performance…
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How I’ve Studied the Bible Years ago, I realized that the Bible is the foundational book of Western civilization. If I was...
28th Dec 2023
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How I’ve Studied the Bible

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Dec 2023
Years ago, I realized that the Bible is the foundational book of Western civilization. If I was going to be an educated person, I needed to know what it said. The post How I’ve Studied the Bible appeared first on David Perell.
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"It's pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years" Larry Page: When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused....
6th Jul 2014
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"It's pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years"

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jul 2014
Larry Page: When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused. Imagine you're running Exxon, what do you…
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Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing....
4th Mar 2023
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Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Mar 2023
As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing. However, it’s essential to understand that money is not wealth. Wealth is stuff we want and by that logic, people can be wealthy even if they don’t have a lot of money. In fact,...
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retention > distribution, fun > discipline, ClickBank-core software, pricing sweet spots Hey, On the menu this week: keeping people around, why fun > discipline, the return of...
7th Jul 2025
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retention > distribution, fun > discipline, ClickBank-core software, pricing sweet spots

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2025
Hey, On the menu this week: keeping people around, why fun > discipline, the return of ClickBank-core software, and pricing sweet spots.
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App store shenanigans I’ve downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps.  One thing that I’ve noticed is that...
1st Apr 2011
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App store shenanigans

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Apr 2011
I’ve downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps.  One thing that I’ve noticed is that many of the top rated and ranked apps…
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The 2013 revenue stats I didn't want to share
1st Jan 2014
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The 2013 revenue stats I didn't want to share

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jan 2014
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Idea machines Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their...
12th May 2022
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Idea machines

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th May 2022
Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished? One of the most visible ideologies in tech is effective altruism (or EA), a...
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He's Only in Field Service The SCC gets designed into the Mac
31st May 2023
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He's Only in Field Service

from Folklore.org: Stories about the Original Macintosh [alt+shift+b] in startups

31st May 2023
The SCC gets designed into the Mac
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Justin's world
13th Aug 2008
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Justin's world

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Aug 2008
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
5th Feb 2023
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Feb 2023
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Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
1st Nov 2024
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Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Nov 2024
It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
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I sold two startups in two weeks. Indie Worldwide and Bot Eat Brain have been acquired.
30th Apr 2024
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I sold two startups in two weeks.

from Anthony Castrio's Official Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Apr 2024
Indie Worldwide and Bot Eat Brain have been acquired.
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CDO stories #4 Why Data orgs thrive or struggle depending on whether they live in EnterpriseLand or ProductLand
3rd Nov 2025
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CDO stories #4

from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Nov 2025
Why Data orgs thrive or struggle depending on whether they live in EnterpriseLand or ProductLand
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Mexico’s $100-billion auto parts industry is reinventing itself for the EV era Behind the excitement around electrification, Mexican manufacturers are figuring out what their own...
3rd Apr 2023
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Mexico’s $100-billion auto parts industry is reinventing itself for the EV era

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Apr 2023
Behind the excitement around electrification, Mexican manufacturers are figuring out what their own transition will look like.
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20 Years Later Twenty years later, I can’t remember what I saw and what I think I saw. I remember listening to the...
12th Sep 2021
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20 Years Later

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Sep 2021
Twenty years later, I can’t remember what I saw and what I think I saw. I remember listening to the news with my mom, Judah, and Mimi as the anchors casually mentioned that a small plane seemed to have hit a tower. We were on I-95 - or maybe the Garden State - headed south to...
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ADHD 🧠 I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any...
22nd Dec 2020
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ADHD 🧠

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Dec 2020
I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any medication. I get regularly asked about...
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Technology predictions For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past...
6th Apr 2013
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Technology predictions

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Apr 2013
For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what…
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Your Name is an Ad Creative that is Everywhere, All at Once Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
16th Jan 2023
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Your Name is an Ad Creative that is Everywhere, All at Once

from Entrepreneur's Edge [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Jan 2023
Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
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No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But...
13th Oct 2025
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No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Oct 2025
Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What do they do? And more importantly, why should anyone (outside of universities) care?...
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My first ever app I made and sold... I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially...
30th Nov 2021
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My first ever app I made and sold...

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Nov 2021
I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially flabbergasted that I still had a copy on hand, but that soon gave way to feelings of nostalgia that took me back 30 years (yes, that is 3 decades) to when I first created this. It...
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The Apple Vision Pro: A Review I’ve spent a lot of time with the Vision Pro, turning my experience into both the newsletter you’re...
12th Feb 2024
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The Apple Vision Pro: A Review

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Feb 2024
I’ve spent a lot of time with the Vision Pro, turning my experience into both the newsletter you’re reading and one of the first two episodes of my upcoming iHeartRadio podcast Better Offline. I wrote the majority of this newsletter on the Vision Pro itself, though
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Size markets using narratives, not numbers Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case...
3rd Apr 2010
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Size markets using narratives, not numbers

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Apr 2010
Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case that you’re addressing a possible billion…
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Some things I've been thinking about - This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -”...
4th Aug 2026
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Some things I've been thinking about -

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Aug 2026
This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -” post on Twitter & LinkedIn.
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The Buyer’s Pyramid, Unreasonable Hospitality, Boring Stuff that Works Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
11th Sep 2023
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The Buyer’s Pyramid, Unreasonable Hospitality, Boring Stuff that Works

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Sep 2023
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Has anyone made a good AI tool yet where I can load in...
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Bedrock programming “Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code...
6th Feb 2012
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Bedrock programming

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Feb 2012
“Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code from the ground up versus reusing…
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We need more calm companies
5th Apr 2024
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We need more calm companies

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Apr 2024
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I assume I’m below average Ninety-six percent of cancer patients claim to be in better health than the average cancer...
1st Jul 2010
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I assume I’m below average

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2010
Ninety-six percent of cancer patients claim to be in better health than the average cancer patient. Ninety percent of students think they are more intelligent than the average student. When I learned this, it shook my soul. At first, like almost everybody, I thought, “Yes,...
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Ways to think about AGI How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the experts agree only...
4th May 2024
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Ways to think about AGI

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th May 2024
How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the experts agree only that they have no idea?
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Reference checks as a service, the need for more competition everywhere, GPT travel planning,... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
10th Apr 2023
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Reference checks as a service, the need for more competition everywhere, GPT travel planning, leaving work broken, ...

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Apr 2023
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Business idea: Reference checks as a service. Do...
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Passive investing fueled a bull market — and could bring it down The growth of passive investing, through index funds found in the 401(k) accounts of average...
7th Nov 2025
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Passive investing fueled a bull market — and could bring it down

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Nov 2025
The growth of passive investing, through index funds found in the 401(k) accounts of average Americans, has propped up the stock market while also potentially setting it up for a nasty fall.
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Training with GRPOTrainer Training with GRPOTrainer DeepSeek's impressive new reasoning model is powered by a key innovation...
7th Feb 2025
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Training with GRPOTrainer

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Feb 2025
Training with GRPOTrainer DeepSeek's impressive new reasoning model is powered by a key innovation called Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). This clever variant of PPO not only improves the model's training convergence but also uses less memory than traditional...
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Hanging on to 'stuff' Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on...
3rd Jan 2023
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Hanging on to 'stuff'

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jan 2023
Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on old pieces of furniture and belongings that are just cluttering our life and no longer needed. But this is a surprisingly difficult task. Almost every time we go to get rid of a...
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VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've...
20th Jul 2022
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VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th Jul 2022
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the markets. Most of that advice focuses on how founders need to adjust to survive the...
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Drafting your first investment round. The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders...
6th May 2013
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Drafting your first investment round.

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th May 2013
The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
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How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with...
3rd Dec 2024
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How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Dec 2024
A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with suggestions from leaders across the Department of Defense and Venture Capital community. BLUF: In WW II, the U.S. outsourced advanced weapons systems development to civilians. The...
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How I've run major projects My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:”...
16th Mar 2025
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How I've run major projects

from benkuhn.net [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Mar 2025
My few most productive individual weeks at Anthropic have all been “crisis project management:” coordinating major, time-sensitive implementation or debugging efforts. In a company like Anthropic, excellent project management is an extremely high-leverage skill, and not just...
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Startup Series Part 1: Interviewing Engineers There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and...
20th Sep 2013
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Startup Series Part 1: Interviewing Engineers

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th Sep 2013
There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and philosophies. This is a positive thing for the ecosystem - just as new software tools mean it’s simpler and cheaper to start a company, these methodologies allow first-time entrepreneurs...
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Big questions for big data Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different...
26th Jun 2019
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Big questions for big data

from Articles - Alex Murrell [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Jun 2019
Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different article for every 100 people on earth. There are also 18 million videos on the topic. At 5 minutes each, it would take 170 years to watch them all. Then there’s the one million...
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No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol In 2022, I used to get calls from journalists asking,...
2 weeks ago
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No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

2 weeks ago
No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol In 2022, I used to get calls from journalists asking, with great sincerity, what our lives would look like in the metaverse. How would we work, socialise, buy property, and fall in love once we had all moved there? The crypto...
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Maggie Appleton on Gas Town and Coding Agent Orchestration Maggie was already perhaps the best writer on the intersection of engineering and design, but now...
13th Feb 2026
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Maggie Appleton on Gas Town and Coding Agent Orchestration

from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Feb 2026
Maggie was already perhaps the best writer on the intersection of engineering and design, but now that she’s joined Github Next, she’s also extremely keyed in to where tools for coding are going. Her piece on Gas Town and orchestrating coding agents is sharp and worth reading in...
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Building a better mousetrap? It had better catch more mice.
6th Apr 2012
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Building a better mousetrap? It had better catch more mice.

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Apr 2012
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
7th Jun 2023
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

from Paul Graham: Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jun 2023
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Berries are America’s top-selling fruit — and every parent’s grocery bill nightmare Berry spending topped $12B in the last year. Many parents felt like their own kids accounted for all...
3rd Oct 2025
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Berries are America’s top-selling fruit — and every parent’s grocery bill nightmare

from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Oct 2025
Berry spending topped $12B in the last year. Many parents felt like their own kids accounted for all of it.
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Unlikely places and untangled goals I once went without food for ten days, and that was fine. But the two things I can’t do without for...
11th Dec 2017
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Unlikely places and untangled goals

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Dec 2017
I once went without food for ten days, and that was fine. But the two things I can’t do without for long are solitude and silence. (Freedom from people and their noises.) An Irish friend suggested that I stay at Mount Melleray Abbey, home of the Cistercian Trappist monks,...
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Own It Mentality My goal is simple: Be a man of my word. Do what I say I'm going to do, when I say I'm going to do...
23rd Jun 2023
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Own It Mentality

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Jun 2023
My goal is simple: Be a man of my word. Do what I say I'm going to do, when I say I'm going to do it. That means showing up on schedule, communicating clearly, and getting things done on time. The post Own It Mentality appeared first on David Perell.
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Don’t add your two cents “My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion. The boss says, “Good...
25th Jul 2016
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Don’t add your two cents

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Jul 2016
“My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion. The boss says, “Good job. Maybe just change the blue to gold, change the word ‘giant’ to ‘huge’, and get rid of the border. Other than that, it’s great!” But there’s a big downside: The employee no...
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The giant basket case countries More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves.
1st Nov 2025
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The giant basket case countries

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Nov 2025
More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves.
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The last mile
25th Sep 2015
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The last mile

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Sep 2015
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2020 year in review
29th Dec 2020
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2020 year in review

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Dec 2020
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From Adjunctions to Monads From Adjunctions to Monads I thought I would share one of my favorite constructions in A Functor in...
29th Aug 2013
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From Adjunctions to Monads

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Aug 2013
From Adjunctions to Monads I thought I would share one of my favorite constructions in A Functor in Haskell maps objects and morphism (i.e. functions) Hask to objects and morphisms of another class Functor f where fmap :: (a -> b) -> f a -> f b And satisfies the functor...
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Notes on 'Founder Mode' Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
2nd Sep 2024
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Notes on 'Founder Mode'

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Sep 2024
Most founders are in “founder mode” — and most of them fail.
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I got booted from one of my own company’s Slack channels... So, last week I got removed from one of my company’s Slack channels… and it was probably the best...
1st May 2023
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I got booted from one of my own company’s Slack channels...

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2023
So, last week I got removed from one of my company’s Slack channels… and it was probably the best thing that could have happened for me, and my company. You see, like most companies, we have ‘global’ chat channels that everyone participates in, plus each team has distinct...
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About this book In my first book, Anything You Want, I told the story of how I started, grew, and sold my...
1st Jun 2018
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About this book

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jun 2018
In my first book, Anything You Want, I told the story of how I started, grew, and sold my company. I thought a lot about what’s worth doing, fixing faulty thinking, and making things happen. For the next ten years, I wrote for hours a day in my private journal, asking myself...
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Should my SaaS try to get enterprise customers?
24th Jul 2021
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Should my SaaS try to get enterprise customers?

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

24th Jul 2021
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Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic. I’ve been noticing recently that...
13th Jul 2024
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Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly

from benkuhn.net [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jul 2024
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic. I’ve been noticing recently that often, a big blocker to teams staying effective as they grow is trust. “Alice doesn’t trust Bob” makes Alice sound like the bad guy, but it’s often completely appropriate for people...
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The Microwave Economy America has become a Microwave Economy. We’ve overwhelmingly used our wealth to make the world...
1st Mar 2021
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The Microwave Economy

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2021
America has become a Microwave Economy. We’ve overwhelmingly used our wealth to make the world cheaper instead of more beautiful, more functional instead of more meaningful. The post The Microwave Economy appeared first on David Perell.
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Saturday I write this sentence down, and then spend ten minutes sitting here, thinking about it.
8th Jun 2026
1

Saturday

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Jun 2026
I write this sentence down, and then spend ten minutes sitting here, thinking about it.
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17 Takeaways from Mary Meeker's AI Deck PLUS: Elon vs. Trump, Taylor Swift, Moncler's $17B Secret Sauce and Ukraine Drone Tech.
6th Jun 2025
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17 Takeaways from Mary Meeker's AI Deck

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jun 2025
PLUS: Elon vs. Trump, Taylor Swift, Moncler's $17B Secret Sauce and Ukraine Drone Tech.
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Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift "humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
19th Jan 2026
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Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Jan 2026
"humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
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i hated coding, but i learned to love it again I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that...
14th Jan 2025
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i hated coding, but i learned to love it again

from Shilin typing [alt+shift+b] in startups

14th Jan 2025
I quit my software job in October, two years ago. I was tired and extremely frustrated. Things that I enjoyed in the past no longer satisfied me. Those things were mostly related to coding. But like any fire, I started as a slowly burning dumpster until I hit a critical point and...
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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet...
3rd Jan 2010
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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Jan 2010
One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks from the list ten…
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Taking Blogging Seriously It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies...
27th Jun 2025
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Taking Blogging Seriously

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Jun 2025
It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies blink around us like an external reflection of the neurons firing in our brains as the conversation sparks.
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Musk v. Altman begins This is a bait and switch
2nd May 2026
3

Musk v. Altman begins

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2026
This is a bait and switch
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The Deep Research problem OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it...
18th Feb 2025
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The Deep Research problem

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Feb 2025
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.
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AngelList is the NASDAQ of our generation. It’s fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before...
5th Dec 2013
41

AngelList is the NASDAQ of our generation.

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Dec 2013
It’s fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before they launched syndicates, earl...
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MLIR Part 9 - A Python Frontend for MLIR A Python Frontend for MLIR Last time we took MLIR through a GPU backend and looked at what it takes...
1st Mar 2026
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MLIR Part 9 - A Python Frontend for MLIR

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2026
A Python Frontend for MLIR Last time we took MLIR through a GPU backend and looked at what it takes to launch the resulting code. We now need something at the other end of the compiler: a way to describe tensor computations in Python and construct the IR which those backends...
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Nine reasons screenshots are awesome By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots...
13th Nov 2015
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Nine reasons screenshots are awesome

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Nov 2015
By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots back into any app that imports photos…
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The mirror: It’s about you, not them. If you see a gorgeous painting that fascinates you, does it matter if you find out the artist didn’t...
7th Jul 2009
1

The mirror: It’s about you, not them.

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2009
If you see a gorgeous painting that fascinates you, does it matter if you find out the artist didn’t pay her taxes? Would you stop enjoying the painting? When I buy a book that has a picture of the author on the cover, I rip off and trash the cover before I even leave the...
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Comma.ai I wrote a blog post last month highlighting some of the exciting trends in the computing industry....
2nd Apr 2016
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Comma.ai

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Apr 2016
I wrote a blog post last month highlighting some of the exciting trends in the computing industry. One trend I discussed is the rapid…
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Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds. Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
23rd Dec 2024
184

Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds.

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Dec 2024
Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
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Your idea needs a passionate believer
4th Jan 2012
10

Your idea needs a passionate believer

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jan 2012
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The Blackbird Platform The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends...
5th Apr 2023
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The Blackbird Platform

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Apr 2023
The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends and family program at a restaurant in Williamsburg Brooklyn called Gertie. Blackbird wrote about it today on their excellent Supersonic blog: Throughout, when you tap Gertie’s...
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This is a classy move
6th Dec 2010
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This is a classy move

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Dec 2010
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Y Combinator W23 batch, AI value chain and startup trends YCombinator (YC), the renowned Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, recently announced their...
1st Jul 2023
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Y Combinator W23 batch, AI value chain and startup trends

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2023
YCombinator (YC), the renowned Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, recently announced their Winter 2023 cohort and, unsurprisingly, ~31% of startups have a self-reported AI tag.
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Hong Kong politicians are making a splash on Chinese social media – and finding mainland fans. Users have responded enthusiastically to their selfies, food pics, and Father’s Day updates.
1st Aug 2023
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Hong Kong politicians are making a splash on Chinese social media – and finding mainland fans.

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2023
Users have responded enthusiastically to their selfies, food pics, and Father’s Day updates.
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Imagining lots of tedious steps? Or one fun step? If we hate doing something, we think of it as hard. We picture it having many annoying steps. If...
12th Sep 2009
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Imagining lots of tedious steps? Or one fun step?

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Sep 2009
If we hate doing something, we think of it as hard. We picture it having many annoying steps. If you ask someone who hates running how to do it, they’ll say, “Ugh… First you put on running clothes. Then you have to stretch. Then you put on your shoes. Then you go...
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The limits of conventional wisdom All bits of wisdom have limits, boundaries, thresholds.
10th Dec 2021
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The limits of conventional wisdom

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Dec 2021
All bits of wisdom have limits, boundaries, thresholds.
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Mapping out the tribes of climate Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent...
30th Nov 2022
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Mapping out the tribes of climate

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Nov 2022
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer? With many peers in tech now working on climate issues, I tried...
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Slopulism is taking over America Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological...
2nd Aug 2026
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Slopulism is taking over America

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Aug 2026
Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological reasons.
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Power Cut A week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred...
3rd Mar 2025
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Power Cut

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Mar 2025
A week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred MWs," with "at least two private data center operators across multiple US markets." The report also details how Microsoft "pulled back on converting negotiated and signed...
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Is a $100 Million Enough? Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a...
5th Mar 2024
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Is a $100 Million Enough?

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Mar 2024
Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups,...
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Helium Mobile USV has been an investor in the Helium network since 2019. I have always loved the idea of using...
6th Aug 2023
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Helium Mobile

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Aug 2023
USV has been an investor in the Helium network since 2019. I have always loved the idea of using web3 technologies to let consumers to “peer produce” a communications network creating a people-powered network. Helium started out powering communications between low-power “Internet...
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Does your SaaS actually save your customers from doing more work? A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our...
11th Jun 2023
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Does your SaaS actually save your customers from doing more work?

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jun 2023
A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our early days of launching my SaaS. You see, In 25 years of consulting to small businesses, I had learned that business owners and managers were faced with the challenge of recording...
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Book Review: Capitalist Realism Book Review: Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is 81 pages long and will rearrange...
5th Aug 2023
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Book Review: Capitalist Realism

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Aug 2023
Book Review: Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is 81 pages long and will rearrange your brain. It is the most important political book of its generation, and it was published by a tiny press, written by a further education lecturer, and reads like a blog post...
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How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
13th Jun 2024
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How to do the jhanas

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Jun 2024
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
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Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire...
6th Mar 2023
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Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Mar 2023
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something else? And what does that mean for Google?
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