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Why are people looking at your website?
9th Jan 2011
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Why are people looking at your website?

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

9th Jan 2011
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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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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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Reading the Bible start to finish I like going to the source. Like finding musicians’ influences, and getting to know that music too....
27th Jan 2023
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Reading the Bible start to finish

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

27th Jan 2023
I like going to the source. Like finding musicians’ influences, and getting to know that music too. Same with film, art, philosophy, and technology.
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to...
17th Oct 2015
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony.

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Oct 2015
One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to write a symphony.” The man said, “You…
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Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
17th Oct 2023
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Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust

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

17th Oct 2023
why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
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Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO This post previously appeared in Fast Company. How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO)...
20th Jun 2022
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Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO

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

20th Jun 2022
This post previously appeared in Fast Company. How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? How not to waste your first six months as a new CTO thinking you’re making progress when the status quo is working...
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Test Coverage Won't Save You Forestwalk’s CTO Jenn Cooper shares what she’s been learning about tests, after a couple years of...
8th Jun 2026
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Test Coverage Won't Save You

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

8th Jun 2026
Forestwalk’s CTO Jenn Cooper shares what she’s been learning about tests, after a couple years of increasingly coding with agents: Most discussions about AI-native development jump from this problem – agents’ tendency to accumulate tech debt – directly to tests. … Tests verify...
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Google is Grounded and Needs to Learn How to Soar Here’s the punchline - I think Google is missing the mark with their AI search efforts. In this post...
21st Mar 2025
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Google is Grounded and Needs to Learn How to Soar

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

21st Mar 2025
Here’s the punchline - I think Google is missing the mark with their AI search efforts. In this post I have a concrete proposal and a prototype you can try yourself that shows a different approach for the future of search. An approach that’s better for users and in a way that’s...
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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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Hypothetical Divine Signatures Hypothetical Divine Signatures The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews famously claimed that "faith...
14th Jan 2026
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Hypothetical Divine Signatures

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

14th Jan 2026
Hypothetical Divine Signatures The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews famously claimed that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," which was a perfectly serviceable theological patch for an era where the average person’s greatest...
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Some thoughts on when to raise money, and the current financing environment A key question for founders is when they should try to raise money. More specifically, they often...
2nd Jun 2012
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Some thoughts on when to raise money, and the current financing environment

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2012
A key question for founders is when they should try to raise money. More specifically, they often wonder whether to raise money now or wait…
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You Should Watch More Canceled TV Shows An argument against the Lindy Effect. How can we sample from the long tail?
26th Oct 2022
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You Should Watch More Canceled TV Shows

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

26th Oct 2022
An argument against the Lindy Effect. How can we sample from the long tail?
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2025 year in review
2nd Jan 2026
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2025 year in review

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

2nd Jan 2026
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Hello World... Meet Devin. If you’re anything like me — you can think back to countless memories of coding sessions running...
11th Dec 2024
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Hello World... Meet Devin.

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

11th Dec 2024
If you’re anything like me — you can think back to countless memories of coding sessions running deep into the night.
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What happened to Paul Jarvis? I hadn't heard from my friend Paul Jarvis in a while, so I sent him a message.
4th Aug 2023
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What happened to Paul Jarvis?

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

4th Aug 2023
I hadn't heard from my friend Paul Jarvis in a while, so I sent him a message.
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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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New job, hello climate tech I have a new job! I’m doing climate tech at NCX (née SilviaTerra), using satellite imagery to...
31st May 2021
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New job, hello climate tech

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

31st May 2021
I have a new job! I’m doing climate tech at NCX (née SilviaTerra), using satellite imagery to prevent deforestation and sequester more carbon in trees. A few years ago, I looked around for a side project on the climate crisis. Nothing big, maybe 5-10 hours a week, but I was ready...
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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
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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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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of...
11th Jan 2022
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

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

11th Jan 2022
This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. We just had our final session of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to give our students insights on how commercial technology (AI, machine...
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The Self Is The Platform On Consumer AI, and why individual leverage is eating collective coordination.
18th Sep 2025
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The Self Is The Platform

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

18th Sep 2025
On Consumer AI, and why individual leverage is eating collective coordination.
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musk twitter quitter, bitter? I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a...
1st Nov 2022
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musk twitter quitter, bitter?

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

1st Nov 2022
I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a net-positive effect on my life. But now with Elon’s takeover, Twitter is in the hands of a man whose behavior I find reprehensible.
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The Tyranny of the Marginal User why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
14th Sep 2023
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The Tyranny of the Marginal User

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

14th Sep 2023
why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
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First-time fundraising is hell - maybe this helps 💰 Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I...
2nd Dec 2022
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First-time fundraising is hell - maybe this helps 💰

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

2nd Dec 2022
Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I try to give a few mental models and a bit tactical advice.
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The art of selfishness David grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with five brothers and sisters. But his mother was on...
18th Nov 2018
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The art of selfishness

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

18th Nov 2018
David grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with five brothers and sisters. But his mother was on her death bed. An undiagnosable illness seemed like it was going to take her at any time. All of her children were visiting her every day. He was very conflicted and felt...
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On risk taking The real risk takers are not who you think they are
1st Dec 2025
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On risk taking

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

1st Dec 2025
The real risk takers are not who you think they are
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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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Book Review: Cochrane, Britannia's Sea Wolf As a military history buff, I’ve always found Hollywood action movies of the Die Hard or James Bond...
23rd May 2025
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Book Review: Cochrane, Britannia's Sea Wolf

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

23rd May 2025
As a military history buff, I’ve always found Hollywood action movies of the Die Hard or James Bond ilk hard to watch.
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Warren Buffett emails Microsoft exec I prefer to structure investing as a no-called-strikes game and just wait for the fat one
4th Jan 2026
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Warren Buffett emails Microsoft exec

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

4th Jan 2026
I prefer to structure investing as a no-called-strikes game and just wait for the fat one
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You don’t have to be local You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re global, you make things for the whole...
2nd Dec 2012
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You don’t have to be local

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

2nd Dec 2012
You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re global, you make things for the whole world. But this means you have less time to be part of your local community. I lived in Woodstock, New York for three years. There I started my company, entirely online. I never...
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Business lesson: less research, launch small
17th Oct 2010
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Business lesson: less research, launch small

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

17th Oct 2010
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Progressives need to learn to take the W Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
1st Sep 2024
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Progressives need to learn to take the W

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Sep 2024
Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
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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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Loving what I used to hate Be careful when you say you like or dislike something, because you could change your mind...
18th May 2014
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Loving what I used to hate

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

18th May 2014
Be careful when you say you like or dislike something, because you could change your mind soon. David Letterman, I thought it was so horrible that it must be a joke. Even years later, when I heard him again, I hated his music passionately. But then I heard his cover version of...
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Industry roundup #13 When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
7th Sep 2026
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Industry roundup #13

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

7th Sep 2026
When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
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Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down. What a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And...
14th Mar 2020
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Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down.

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

14th Mar 2020
What a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And I expect that all startups in...
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A hundred actors on stage Imagine you’re in the audience of a play, and there are a hundred actors on stage. It’s not...
5th Mar 2000
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A hundred actors on stage

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

5th Mar 2000
Imagine you’re in the audience of a play, and there are a hundred actors on stage. It’s not necessarily the loudest or most hyperactive. Maybe you’d be drawn to the woman with the long black hair, half-hidden, standing silently at the edge of the stage. Would you stand...
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Book Review: What We Can Know Book Review: What We Can Know Ian McEwan has described What We Can Know as "science fiction without...
2nd Apr 2026
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Book Review: What We Can Know

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

2nd Apr 2026
Book Review: What We Can Know Ian McEwan has described What We Can Know as "science fiction without the science," which is both a fair warning and a precise advertisement. The novel is set in 2119. Rising seas and a cascade of nuclear wars (including a misfired Russian warhead in...
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Heads down
6th Jun 2013
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Heads down

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

6th Jun 2013
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We've been exposed
3rd Apr 2020
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We've been exposed

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

3rd Apr 2020
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Sensitivity Isn’t Static The sensitivity of our senses ebbs and flows. If you’re looking to be more perceptive, start by...
30th Mar 2023
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Sensitivity Isn’t Static

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

30th Mar 2023
The sensitivity of our senses ebbs and flows. If you’re looking to be more perceptive, start by changing your environment. The post Sensitivity Isn’t Static appeared first on David Perell.
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Godot Isn't Making it Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I...
3rd Dec 2024
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Godot Isn't Making it

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

3rd Dec 2024
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title. What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present? What
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About the “other” Startup Hubs. There is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know -...
21st Nov 2012
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About the “other” Startup Hubs.

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

21st Nov 2012
There is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know - “Can we become the next Silicon...
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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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Some will always say you’re wrong Some people are into money. Some aren’t. Some people are inspired by helping the needy. Some...
3rd Jun 2013
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Some will always say you’re wrong

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

3rd Jun 2013
Some people are into money. Some aren’t. Some people are inspired by helping the needy. Some aren’t. Some people are into fame, power, and prestige. Others are into anonymity and freedom from responsibility. You have to know your preferences well because no matter what you...
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How Pakistan can join the South Asia growth boom A guest post by Murtaza Hussain
2nd May 2023
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How Pakistan can join the South Asia growth boom

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd May 2023
A guest post by Murtaza Hussain
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The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right...
15th Jun 2014
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The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Jun 2014
If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right now and describe what we were going to…
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Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude The Haskell Prelude is the default import into all Haskell...
7th Apr 2016
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Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude

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

7th Apr 2016
Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude The Haskell Prelude is the default import into all Haskell modules, it provides -XNoImplicitPrelude language extension. There are two philosophies on building new Preludes: Big Vehicle Prelude - Fix most of the deficiencies in the Prelude...
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Building an Interactive Blog Map I love a good diagram. So a while back I made a “blog map” for my website homepage that looked a bit...
3rd Apr 2023
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Building an Interactive Blog Map

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

3rd Apr 2023
I love a good diagram. So a while back I made a “blog map” for my website homepage that looked a bit like this:
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
8th Aug 2023
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

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

8th Aug 2023
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Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program! Fun!!
4th Oct 2024
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Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program!

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Oct 2024
Fun!!
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The Rebrand I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company...
7th Feb 2023
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The Rebrand

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Feb 2023
I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company during their lifetime. It is not hard to understand why. Founders start out with an idea and not much more. By the time they have built a product, built a team, and found product...
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The 80% energy principle As Westerners, we believe in pushing up against the limits, and going over them. We need to learn...
28th Mar 2021
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The 80% energy principle

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

28th Mar 2021
As Westerners, we believe in pushing up against the limits, and going over them. We need to learn the Okinawa Island secret: hara hachi bu.
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How to conduct a good demo of your SaaS Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash Frequently, when we finish a demo session of our HR app,...
20th Apr 2021
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How to conduct a good demo of your SaaS

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

20th Apr 2021
Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash Frequently, when we finish a demo session of our HR app, customers will tell us “Wow, that was a great demo!” when signing off. I never really thought about it, other than the fact that I usually had a good time showing them around, and that...
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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 bowling pin strategy A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem: attracting...
21st Aug 2010
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The bowling pin strategy

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Aug 2010
A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem: attracting users and contributors when you are…
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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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Five ways of thinking about Moltbook What a social network for AI agents tells us about the future. PLUS: Elon consolidates the X empire
3rd Feb 2026
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Five ways of thinking about Moltbook

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Feb 2026
What a social network for AI agents tells us about the future. PLUS: Elon consolidates the X empire
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AI Engine - The Hack If this article was sent to you and you'd like to receive the latest posts directly, subscribe here.
20th Feb 2025
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AI Engine - The Hack

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

20th Feb 2025
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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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Slouching Towards Innovation A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a...
13th Sep 2022
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Slouching Towards Innovation

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

13th Sep 2022
A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a concept video. A lot of innovation projects never see the light of day.
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Things I've been thinking about - I can’t believe it's the end of March.
26th Mar 2025
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Things I've been thinking about -

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

26th Mar 2025
I can’t believe it's the end of March.
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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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Meta Earnings, Meta’s Timing Problems, The Financial Tail Meta's earnings were a bit disappointing; future promises about AI products were more disconcerting.
3rd Aug 2026
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Meta Earnings, Meta’s Timing Problems, The Financial Tail

from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Aug 2026
Meta's earnings were a bit disappointing; future promises about AI products were more disconcerting.
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The Granny Hobby Protocol And the hands-on, thumbs-off economy
3rd Apr 2024
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The Granny Hobby Protocol

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

3rd Apr 2024
And the hands-on, thumbs-off economy
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Passion needs rigor In modern society, we talk a lot about following our passion. But passion isn't enough. It needs to...
7th Feb 2019
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Passion needs rigor

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

7th Feb 2019
In modern society, we talk a lot about following our passion. But passion isn't enough. It needs to be molded through deliberate practice.
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Why we buy from winners
14th Jun 2016
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Why we buy from winners

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

14th Jun 2016
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Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
26th Jun 2023
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Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Jun 2023
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
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OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT,"...
3rd Oct 2025
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OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

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

3rd Oct 2025
What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked that it was or would be. No, really,
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Advice for time management as a manager This post was adapted from an internal doc I wrote at Wave. Welcome to being a manager! Your...
1st Apr 2025
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Advice for time management as a manager

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

1st Apr 2025
This post was adapted from an internal doc I wrote at Wave. Welcome to being a manager! Your time-management problem just got a lot harder. As an IC, you can often get away with a very simple time-management strategy: Decide what your one most important thing is. Work on it until...
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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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How does DocuSign have 7,000 employees? And other thoughts about B2B SaaS in the age of AI coding agents.
13th Feb 2026
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How does DocuSign have 7,000 employees?

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

13th Feb 2026
And other thoughts about B2B SaaS in the age of AI coding agents.
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Policing misinformation Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the...
1st Jul 2023
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Policing misinformation

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

1st Jul 2023
Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the demarcation problem: in the general case, there’s no shortcut to determining objective truth. It’s similar to the halting problem in computer science: if we want to know whether a...
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Repeatedly follow-up to show you care I knew a music publicist in New York City when she was at the peak of her success. A few of her...
14th Jan 2018
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Repeatedly follow-up to show you care

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

14th Jan 2018
I knew a music publicist in New York City when she was at the peak of her success. A few of her clients had hits, so everyone wanted to work with her. She was flooded with new music. Whenever someone sent their music, it would go into an inbox. That inbox was completely...
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Mapping digital worlds I gave a talk at The Stoa in February about “Mapping digital worlds to understand our present and...
17th Apr 2023
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Mapping digital worlds

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

17th Apr 2023
I gave a talk at The Stoa in February about “Mapping digital worlds to understand our present and future.” You can watch the video here; the following is a transcript of that talk. Peter Limberg asked me to talk about an analysis I did late last year, where I mapped out all the...
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If you work with pixels you should be thankful
17th Aug 2012
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If you work with pixels you should be thankful

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

17th Aug 2012
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My first kiss
2nd Oct 2013
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My first kiss

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

2nd Oct 2013
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The Newest Members of the USV Team Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our...
6th Mar 2023
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The Newest Members of the USV Team

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Mar 2023
Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our tradition at USV. When someone starts at USV, we ask them to write a post on the USV blog introducing themselves. This helps founders who come to talk to us about their companies...
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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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Is "sales" a dirty word?
1st Feb 2014
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Is "sales" a dirty word?

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

1st Feb 2014
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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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Of Termites & Tokens Maybe the future of work is… termites? Let me explain.
8th Jun 2026
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Of Termites & Tokens

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

8th Jun 2026
Maybe the future of work is… termites? Let me explain.
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We Can Do Hard Things Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business. You see,...
30th Apr 2026
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We Can Do Hard Things

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

30th Apr 2026
Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business. You see, back then the most frustrating thing about mobile dev was the final step: getting your app on actual phones. Builds, provisioning, and code signing made for a harrowing trial,...
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COVID was bad for the climate William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled...
28th Mar 2021
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COVID was bad for the climate

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

28th Mar 2021
William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled travel plans, cut down overall consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions fell drastically. It’s great for the environment! Let’s keep it up! With apologies to H. L. Mencken, I...
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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 weeks ago
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Does intelligence need a hard cap?

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 weeks ago
Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
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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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Is ChatGPT the next big startup platform? The risks of building your startup on ChatGPT or other AI platforms
25th Mar 2023
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Is ChatGPT the next big startup platform?

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

25th Mar 2023
The risks of building your startup on ChatGPT or other AI platforms
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Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an...
1st Dec 2025
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Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI

from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Dec 2025
OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI's chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.
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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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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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2026 predictions It’s that time again—as 2025 comes to a close, it’s time to drop 2026 predictions. I think 2026 is...
29th Dec 2025
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2026 predictions

from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups

29th Dec 2025
It’s that time again—as 2025 comes to a close, it’s time to drop 2026 predictions. I think 2026 is going to surprise, both to the upside and to the downside. Organized by category: Macro / Chains $BTC is > $150K by year-end, but BTC dominance decreases in 2026. Despite the...
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Possible futures for Bridgy Fed Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support...
1st Nov 2024
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Possible futures for Bridgy Fed

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

1st Nov 2024
Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
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Platform Risk Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with...
3rd Feb 2023
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Platform Risk

from XO Capital - Field Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Feb 2023
Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with Twitter's enforcement of a policy they claim had been around for a while. Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients | Engadget Twitter has quietly updated its...
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Everything is downstream of ambition Everyone wants to build the one person billion dollar company. But how many people you need used to...
10th Aug 2026
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Everything is downstream of ambition

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Aug 2026
Everyone wants to build the one person billion dollar company. But how many people you need used to be a decision you made last, not first.
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South Park and The Greatest TV Contract Clause Ever Matt Stone and Trey Parker became billionaires by making 27 seasons of the funniest shows ever (and...
14th Aug 2025
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South Park and The Greatest TV Contract Clause Ever

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

14th Aug 2025
Matt Stone and Trey Parker became billionaires by making 27 seasons of the funniest shows ever (and signing a first TV deal with an improbable clause).
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Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to...
27th Feb 2020
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Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal

from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Feb 2020
Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to attack the margin trading protocol bZx, first in a $350K attack and later in a $600K copycat attack. These attacks were, in a word, magnificent. In each attack, a penniless attacker...
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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 costs of microservices An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page...
22nd Nov 2020
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The costs of microservices

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

22nd Nov 2020
An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page Javascript application, for example - it…
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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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Welcome to The Future This time it arrived right on schedule.
1st May 2025
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Welcome to The Future

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2025
This time it arrived right on schedule.
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A framework for choosing what to do A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure...
28th Feb 2022
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A framework for choosing what to do

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

28th Feb 2022
A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure they knew what I should do. But...I didn't and most of their suggestions didn’t excite me. As I thought through my possible paths, I realized that I didn't have a useful framework...
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$250K books sold. $250K to save lives. 2023 UPDATE: see “$575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.” Six weeks ago I emailed my private...
6th Aug 2020
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$250K books sold. $250K to save lives.

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

6th Aug 2020
2023 UPDATE: see “$575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.” Six weeks ago I emailed my private email list with a secret link to buy my new books. I made 5000 limited edition hardcover copies of each, but those have sold out now. Then I thought about what to do with the...
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Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
1st Jul 2025
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Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2025
Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
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Mexico’s new tariffs hit Shein — and millions of local resellers The government hopes the 19% tax will push Asian e-commerce giants to grow their operations in...
3rd Mar 2025
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Mexico’s new tariffs hit Shein — and millions of local resellers

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

3rd Mar 2025
The government hopes the 19% tax will push Asian e-commerce giants to grow their operations in Mexico, and make up for 79,000 textile jobs lost to fast fashion.
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"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed" Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth...
13th Mar 2015
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"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed"

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Mar 2015
Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth graders, and they had a whole classroom full…
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SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
22nd Apr 2023
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SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process

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

22nd Apr 2023
How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
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Steve Jobs and hiring | Anthropic cofounder's cold email We would have a problem if it is related to cell phone handsets, etc.
22nd Aug 2026
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Steve Jobs and hiring | Anthropic cofounder's cold email

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

22nd Aug 2026
We would have a problem if it is related to cell phone handsets, etc.
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How do I build something people want? As a founder, you want to build something people want. But how do we go beyond platitudes and...
2nd May 2019
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How do I build something people want?

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

2nd May 2019
As a founder, you want to build something people want. But how do we go beyond platitudes and actually do that? Here's some actionable advice.
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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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#fyi: How founders can avoid drive-by-management Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be...
17th Mar 2019
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#fyi: How founders can avoid drive-by-management

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

17th Mar 2019
Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions...
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Adam Wathan's $100k product launch
17th Apr 2017
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Adam Wathan's $100k product launch

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

17th Apr 2017
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Aim for the edges An amazing shift has happened in the last few decades. remarkably unusual. Our culture is now...
7th May 2008
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Aim for the edges

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

7th May 2008
An amazing shift has happened in the last few decades. remarkably unusual. Our culture is now split into niches. In 1948, Milton Berle’s TV show had 80% of all viewers, because it was one of only three choices! When the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan in 1964, they had 60% of...
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When tech says ‘no’ The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does...
24th Aug 2023
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When tech says ‘no’

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

24th Aug 2023
The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does any industry. They always say that! The trouble is, sometimes it’s true, and some laws are (or would be) disasters. So which is it? Well, there are three ways that people say...
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An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart An interview with Jason Del Rey about Amazon versus Meta, which is a continuation of the oldest...
4 weeks ago
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An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart

from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups

4 weeks ago
An interview with Jason Del Rey about Amazon versus Meta, which is a continuation of the oldest battle in retail between Amazon and Walmart.
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I launched a mobile app. Mobile development has always felt like the holy grail of engineering.
13th Apr 2026
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I launched a mobile app.

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

13th Apr 2026
Mobile development has always felt like the holy grail of engineering.
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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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What are Elementary Particles? What are Elementary Particles? In primary school we're taught the naive intuition of particles as...
11th Nov 2018
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What are Elementary Particles?

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

11th Nov 2018
What are Elementary Particles? In primary school we're taught the naive intuition of particles as tiny, solid spheres propagating along well-defined trajectories collapses under the weight of quantum phenomena. Then in high-school we're taught that wave–particle duality shows...
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How can I help? For starters: don't be a prick
6th Apr 2026
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How can I help?

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

6th Apr 2026
For starters: don't be a prick
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The Engine Room We’re launching a new program!!
14th Oct 2025
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The Engine Room

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

14th Oct 2025
We’re launching a new program!!
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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 Brains of the Operation One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has...
30th Sep 2026
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The Brains of the Operation

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

30th Sep 2026
One of the many problems computers have blessed us with is an abundance of information. Software has long been great at storing, retrieving, and sharing a company’s knowledge. This is most SaaS apps, from Slack to GitHub to Notion. But as easy as it is to store information, it’s...
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What Will Happen In 2023 I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because...
1st Jan 2023
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What Will Happen In 2023

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jan 2023
I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been...
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How to review a data analysis Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to...
18th Jul 2016
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How to review a data analysis

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

18th Jul 2016
Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to fight repetitive errors, omissions and…
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The Season Finale of TBPN On the show, the meta-show, and stocking up on cultural power.
14th Apr 2026
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The Season Finale of TBPN

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

14th Apr 2026
On the show, the meta-show, and stocking up on cultural power.
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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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The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat against efficiency and accountability
28th Jun 2025
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The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat

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

28th Jun 2025
against efficiency and accountability
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I hate work. The piercing sound of my alarm shatters the stillness of my room at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, and...
4th Dec 2023
34

I hate work.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Dec 2023
The piercing sound of my alarm shatters the stillness of my room at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, and I reluctantly drag myself out of bed. It’s the same daily grind, a routine I’ve been stuck in for years, first as a sound engineer, then as a tech exec, and now as an indie...
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Why barcodes are about to go extinct QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
4 weeks ago
3

Why barcodes are about to go extinct

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

4 weeks ago
QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
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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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Life is like high school When you’re in high school, it’s all about popularity, cliques, and being cool. Many people get...
1st Jun 2000
1

Life is like high school

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

1st Jun 2000
When you’re in high school, it’s all about popularity, cliques, and being cool. Many people get out of college thinking the world will be like that — like the harder you work, the more you’ll be rewarded. But it’s not. But you can make this work in your favor. You can...
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WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world...
3rd Jul 2023
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WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal

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

3rd Jul 2023
For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world of collaboration across the industry.
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An Ode to Skype PLUS: Erewhon's $19 Strawberry, Citi's UX Problem.
8th Mar 2025
62

An Ode to Skype

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

8th Mar 2025
PLUS: Erewhon's $19 Strawberry, Citi's UX Problem.
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A Haskell Reading List A Haskell Reading List Here is a list of papers and writings of what I consider are essential...
15th Aug 2012
1

A Haskell Reading List

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

15th Aug 2012
A Haskell Reading List Here is a list of papers and writings of what I consider are essential Haskell reading. Haskell 2010 Language Specification Typeclassopedia The Essence of Functional Programming How to make ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc Monads for functional...
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Tesla and Storytelling Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no...
14th Oct 2024
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Tesla and Storytelling

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

14th Oct 2024
Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, that can walk and has fully functioning hands and feet. Both of these products have been depicted in...
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Are better models better? Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have...
22nd Jan 2025
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Are better models better?

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

22nd Jan 2025
Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these models can’t do that. So what does ‘better’ mean, how do we manage these things, and should we change what we expect from...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp messages I’m not going to say it’s my personal main focus when I have a number of other areas I’m more...
19th Jun 2026
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Mark Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp messages

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

19th Jun 2026
I’m not going to say it’s my personal main focus when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse
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Constraint Solving with MiniZinc Constraint Solving with MiniZinc MiniZinc is a powerful constraint modeling language that allows you...
21st Apr 2023
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Constraint Solving with MiniZinc

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

21st Apr 2023
Constraint Solving with MiniZinc MiniZinc is a powerful constraint modeling language that allows you to express complex problems declaratively and solve them efficiently. First, install MiniZinc from the official website. You can use the MiniZinc IDE for an integrated environment...
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Why seed investors don’t like convertible notes A popular option in seed round financing is a convertible note instead of setting a valuation in an...
12th Aug 2009
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Why seed investors don’t like convertible notes

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Aug 2009
A popular option in seed round financing is a convertible note instead of setting a valuation in an equity financing.  A convertible note is…
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How many pets do you have? I used to have too many pets. My house was overflowing. But it didn’t feel that way at the...
13th Aug 2021
1

How many pets do you have?

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

13th Aug 2021
I used to have too many pets. My house was overflowing. But it didn’t feel that way at the time. In each moment, I was giving just one pet my full attention. My life was full of so many loves. I sadly realized this was unfair. The situation was hurting them. No pet was...
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Describe your music like a non-musician When describing your music, don’t use musician language. For most people, listening to music is...
1st Jul 2000
1

Describe your music like a non-musician

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

1st Jul 2000
When describing your music, don’t use musician language. For most people, listening to music is like a cat watching cars go by. “That one was blue.” Only an expert or mechanic would be able to describe the technical details of the passing car. Think what one...
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So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish Well, it’s come to this. Twitter is burning, a billionaire owes money, an API will soon get...
4th Apr 2023
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So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish

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

4th Apr 2023
Well, it’s come to this. Twitter is burning, a billionaire owes money, an API will soon get lobotomized, so Bridgy‘s Twitter support will die within the month is dead. Granary‘s and twitter-atom too. The Twitter API may now be effectively unmaintained, but they still managed to...
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Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals You know those people whose lives are transformed by meditation or yoga or something like...
28th Jan 2019
1

Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals

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

28th Jan 2019
You know those people whose lives are transformed by meditation or yoga or something like that? After 20+ years of doing this, here’s what I do and recommend: A daily diary If digital, use only plain text. It’s a standard format not owned by any company. It will be...
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Progressives need to embrace progress Stasis won't lead to a prosperous or equitable society.
22nd Mar 2023
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Progressives need to embrace progress

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Mar 2023
Stasis won't lead to a prosperous or equitable society.
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Contribution and abundance Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent:...
4th May 2021
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Contribution and abundance

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

4th May 2021
Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everything else is mostly noise. The two things are contribution and abundance. Contribution is basically...
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Vibes vs. data It's asymmetric warfare out there.
3rd Dec 2023
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Vibes vs. data

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Dec 2023
It's asymmetric warfare out there.
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The joke that changed my life Growing up in America, I didn’t know much about other cultures. When I was 25, my band got some...
19th Jun 2022
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The joke that changed my life

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

19th Jun 2022
Growing up in America, I didn’t know much about other cultures. When I was 25, my band got some gigs in Europe — my first time there. It was 1995. The European Union was new. I heard a street performer in Copenhagen tell this joke: “The EU will be a success if … “The...
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Get traffic for your content
15th Mar 2014
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Get traffic for your content

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

15th Mar 2014
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Some mistakes I made as a new manager This post was adapted from a “management roundtable” I gave at Anthropic. I had an unusually hard...
23rd Apr 2023
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Some mistakes I made as a new manager

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

23rd Apr 2023
This post was adapted from a “management roundtable” I gave at Anthropic. I had an unusually hard time becoming a manager: I went back and forth three times before it stuck, mostly because I made lots of mistakes each time. Since then, as I had to grow my team and grow other...
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11 Best Things of 2025 My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
19th Dec 2025
1

11 Best Things of 2025

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

19th Dec 2025
My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
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Experiments in music and life One approach to music is to do whatever you want. Absolutely anything goes. But to me, that’s too...
7th Nov 2019
1

Experiments in music and life

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

7th Nov 2019
One approach to music is to do whatever you want. Absolutely anything goes. But to me, that’s too free. It’s anti-inspiring because having infinite options is overwhelming. So my favorite approach to music is in-between. You make up your own rules, and apply them to a piece of...
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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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Useful is forever
17th Feb 2012
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Useful is forever

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

17th Feb 2012
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Pricing to the demand curve Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students...
4th Jul 2012
42

Pricing to the demand curve

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jul 2012
Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students an imaginary trip to Hawaii, and asks…
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How to get people to choose your product Anything you build has to compete for attention with the other available options. If someone can...
3rd Dec 2022
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How to get people to choose your product

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

3rd Dec 2022
Anything you build has to compete for attention with the other available options. If someone can just as easily buy a similar product from a more trusted brand for the same price, why would they choose you? To compete with established brands, you’ll need to figure out how to...
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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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The hot round fallacy I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on Feb 16. Here's a fun...
3rd Mar 2022
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The hot round fallacy

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

3rd Mar 2022
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on Feb 16. Here's a fun little paradox in fundraising: Founders and the media love to talk about how quickly funding rounds happen these days—think about the big, rapid-fire raises...
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9 Years on the Road October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I...
4th Jan 2024
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9 Years on the Road

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

4th Jan 2024
October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I write a set of reflections about this strange and magical journey.
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If you're in Tokyo this Friday, come to my hanami! An annual tradition.
1st Apr 2026
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If you're in Tokyo this Friday, come to my hanami!

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Apr 2026
An annual tradition.
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Ten SaaS marketing principles for 2024
16th Dec 2023
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Ten SaaS marketing principles for 2024

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

16th Dec 2023
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
15th Jan 2023
49

Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

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

15th Jan 2023
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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
1

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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Scott Forstall emails Steve Jobs | Elon Musk on tweeting He mentions third party developers. I do think at some point we will want to enable third parties to...
19th Apr 2022
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Scott Forstall emails Steve Jobs | Elon Musk on tweeting

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

19th Apr 2022
He mentions third party developers. I do think at some point we will want to enable third parties to write apps for P2.
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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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Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to be a decent, maybe even good startup mentor. How to be the perfect startup mentor? I don’t know. But following the best practices mentioned in...
4th Dec 2012
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Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to be a decent, maybe even good startup mentor.

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

4th Dec 2012
How to be the perfect startup mentor? I don’t know. But following the best practices mentioned in this article I got personally at...
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Jarrod Drysdale's advice for starting
15th Feb 2013
13

Jarrod Drysdale's advice for starting

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

15th Feb 2013
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What's happening with founders over 40
14th Dec 2024
22

What's happening with founders over 40

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

14th Dec 2024
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Watch for mind gremlins
12th Jan 2017
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Watch for mind gremlins

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

12th Jan 2017
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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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Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos Enter a Room In December 2000, the founders of Apple and Amazon were invited to critique a demo of the Segway. It...
6th Sep 2024
105

Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos Enter a Room

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

6th Sep 2024
In December 2000, the founders of Apple and Amazon were invited to critique a demo of the Segway. It was a wild two-hour session filled with gem quotes and business insights.
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Do I look dumb?
2nd Nov 2014
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Do I look dumb?

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

2nd Nov 2014
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Vibecoding a production app TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m...
21st Mar 2025
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Vibecoding a production app

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

21st Mar 2025
TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m a startup founder turned investor. I taught myself (bad) PHP in 2000, and picked up Ruby on Rails in 2011. I’d guess 2015 was the last time I wrote a line of Ruby professionally....
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The thin edge of the wedge for virtual reality Pius Uzamere argues that virtual reality will succeed first in business applications instead of...
1st Jan 2015
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The thin edge of the wedge for virtual reality

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jan 2015
Pius Uzamere argues that virtual reality will succeed first in business applications instead of gaming: The most interesting virtual reality…
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Ben Kihnel I just got the call from the super-connected Alex Steininger that our mutual friend Ben Kihnel died...
28th Mar 2024
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Ben Kihnel

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

28th Mar 2024
I just got the call from the super-connected Alex Steininger that our mutual friend Ben Kihnel died in his sleep. He was only 48.
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A Legacy of Speaking Up A tribute to my late father in honor of being named an inaugural Centennial Alumni Catalyst by the...
6th Oct 2025
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A Legacy of Speaking Up

from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Oct 2025
A tribute to my late father in honor of being named an inaugural Centennial Alumni Catalyst by the Stanford Graduate School of Business
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It might never go away When you click "publish" thousands of copies are generated and sent to individual inboxes. Once...
17th Sep 2021
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It might never go away

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

17th Sep 2021
When you click "publish" thousands of copies are generated and sent to individual inboxes. Once you've sent an email, people can keep a copy of it in their archive, forever. You can't take it back.
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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
1

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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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
1

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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A model that’s mental Maybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This...
3rd Feb 2019
26

A model that’s mental

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

3rd Feb 2019
Maybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This creeping imposter syndrome jus...
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Smart people don’t think others are stupid The woman seemed to be making some pretty good points until she stopped with, “Ugh! Those people are...
16th May 2012
1

Smart people don’t think others are stupid

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

16th May 2012
The woman seemed to be making some pretty good points until she stopped with, “Ugh! Those people are just so stupid!!” There are no smart people or stupid people, just people being smart or being stupid. Being stupid means avoiding thinking by jumping to...
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Hiring a geo-guesser, change merchants, one distribution channel is all it takes Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
7th Aug 2023
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Hiring a geo-guesser, change merchants, one distribution channel is all it takes

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

7th Aug 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 “request for service: roast my onboarding for SaaS...
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Please Build More Silly Things Hacking on fun things with curious co-conspirators is a superpower
3rd Feb 2023
52

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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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I...
6th Jan 2026
1

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jan 2026
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
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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
69

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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The FTC versus tech M&A The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and...
2nd Aug 2022
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The FTC versus tech M&A

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

2nd Aug 2022
The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and big tech buying startups. The FTC’s attempt to block Meta from buying Within is a test case for all of this. So, how many interesting problems can we count?
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My rant on customer support for web apps
23rd Sep 2011
10

My rant on customer support for web apps

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

23rd Sep 2011
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How I build and run behavioral interviews This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral...
25th Feb 2024
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How I build and run behavioral interviews

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

25th Feb 2024
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral interviews were basically useless, because it was too easy for candidates to bullshit them and too hard for me to tell what was a good answer. I’d end up grading every candidate as an...
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How I price products
15th Jul 2016
13

How I price products

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

15th Jul 2016
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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
1

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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Apple is propping up a fundamentally broken payments industry Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of...
12th Sep 2014
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Apple is propping up a fundamentally broken payments industry

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

12th Sep 2014
Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of breathless pronouncements on a “revolution" in mobile payments. To be clear - Apple Pay is a step forward in terms of end user experience - but it simply entrenches a...
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Optimising bank working hours Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash This is probably an out of date concept these days, however if...
14th Jun 2021
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Optimising bank working hours

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

14th Jun 2021
Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash This is probably an out of date concept these days, however if you ever ran a traditional business back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s as I did, one of the most frustrating things ever was trying to get my banking done over the counter. Almost...
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Asking questions Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly...
30th Mar 2020
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Asking questions

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

30th Mar 2020
Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. If you spend time with 2-5 year olds, you’ll find yourself answering a near infinite series of progressively more challenging questions. This is one of the main paths by...
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Customer churn can kill your startup Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user...
10th Jul 2014
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Customer churn can kill your startup

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

10th Jul 2014
Startups are about growth, and of all the different possible metrics, startups often focus on user growth - if people aren’t using your new product or service in greater and greater numbers, it’s a good sign that you’re not on the right track. And, as long as your business-model...
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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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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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The Limitations of RAG The Limitations of RAG Retrieval-Augmented generation or RAG is the future of enterprise search. In...
2nd Nov 2024
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The Limitations of RAG

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

2nd Nov 2024
The Limitations of RAG Retrieval-Augmented generation or RAG is the future of enterprise search. In short it's the art of grinding your documents into a fine, high-dimensional vector slurry, sifting through the high-dimensional slurry for chunks, and then piping the chunks...
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After Minimalism It's time for us to move beyond minimalism. If we want a dynamic world, we should splash our...
1st Dec 2020
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After Minimalism

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

1st Dec 2020
It's time for us to move beyond minimalism. If we want a dynamic world, we should splash our buildings with enthusiastic colors, bold patterns, and visions of a better tomorrow. The post After Minimalism appeared first on David Perell.
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Lean Meets Wicked Problems This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College...
25th Jul 2023
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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

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

25th Jul 2023
This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where...
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I love AI. Why doesn't everyone? Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.
1st Dec 2025
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I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Dec 2025
Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.
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Stuff I would tell my younger self A collection of advice I'd give to my younger self, if I could.
28th Feb 2024
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Stuff I would tell my younger self

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

28th Feb 2024
A collection of advice I'd give to my younger self, if I could.
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Surrendering to Your Nature A mark of maturity is surrendering to the person you actually are instead of the one you wish you...
3rd Apr 2023
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Surrendering to Your Nature

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

3rd Apr 2023
A mark of maturity is surrendering to the person you actually are instead of the one you wish you were. The post Surrendering to Your Nature appeared first on David Perell.
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