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The giant basket case countries More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves.
1st Nov 2025
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The giant basket case countries

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Nov 2025
More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves.
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Subtract Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes us to add, because that...
5th Dec 2018
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Subtract

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

5th Dec 2018
Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes us to add, because that benefits them. But the secret is to focus on subtracting. The adding mindset is deeply ingrained. It’s easy to think I need something else. It’s hard to look instead at what to...
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Why 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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Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem, discovered by Radu Diaconescu in 1975, reveals a...
5th Aug 2024
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Diaconescu's Theorem

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

5th Aug 2024
Diaconescu's Theorem Diaconescu's Theorem, discovered by Radu Diaconescu in 1975, reveals a fascinating and surprising connection between two fundamental principles in mathematics: the Axiom of Choice and the Law of Excluded Middle. In simple terms, the theorem states that if you...
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How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents US parents toilet train their kids much later than they used to. And that trend is a sales bonanza...
6th Mar 2026
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How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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

6th Mar 2026
US parents toilet train their kids much later than they used to. And that trend is a sales bonanza for Pampers and Huggies.
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There Are No (Absolute) Red Flags in Venture Capital Let’s accept, for the purposes of this essay, that founders and venture capitalists are engaged in a...
22nd Feb 2023
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There Are No (Absolute) Red Flags in Venture Capital

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

22nd Feb 2023
Let’s accept, for the purposes of this essay, that founders and venture capitalists are engaged in a simple trade. Founders sell business risk for the cash they need to take bigger risks; venture capitalists buy that risk hoping it will one day transmute into reward. Each side...
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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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Building products from improvised user behaviors For a long time, there were niche communities of “lo-fi” camera enthusiasts: people who shared...
2nd Jan 2012
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Building products from improvised user behaviors

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jan 2012
For a long time, there were niche communities of “lo-fi” camera enthusiasts: people who shared photos taken on old cameras that had…
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Do you want it the most? Figure out what you actually want. Find a game that's worth winning. Then be honest with yourself:...
3 weeks ago
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Do you want it the most?

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

3 weeks ago
Figure out what you actually want. Find a game that's worth winning. Then be honest with yourself: are you going to be the person who wants it the most?
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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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Space-time Algebra in Python Space-time Algebra in Python Geometric Algebra is a very cool alternative formulation of linear...
21st Apr 2013
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Space-time Algebra in Python

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

21st Apr 2013
Space-time Algebra in Python Geometric Algebra is a very cool alternative formulation of linear algebra that provides a succinct framework for representing geometric transformations and physical phenomena. One of my favourite books is Geometric Algebra for Computer Science by Leo...
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom,...
21st Mar 2013
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage

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

21st Mar 2013
The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom, the CEO and VP of a hugely-funded Silicon Valley online music company contacted me, saying they wanted to fly out to New York to meet me. I said OK, and we met a week later for...
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Technology predictions For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past...
6th Apr 2013
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Technology predictions

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Apr 2013
For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what…
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The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech Silicon Valley, once a beacon of technological optimism and...
1st Nov 2023
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The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech

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

1st Nov 2023
The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech Silicon Valley, once a beacon of technological optimism and innovation, is undergoing a troubling transformation. The region that once embodied the ideals of humanism, progress, and the pursuit of a better world has become a far different place...
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Don’t be a donkey Are you trying to pursue many different directions at once? The problem is thinking short term —...
8th Jun 2011
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Don’t be a donkey

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

8th Jun 2011
Are you trying to pursue many different directions at once? The problem is thinking short term — assuming that if you don’t do all the things now, they won’t happen. You may have heard this story: Buridan’s donkey is standing halfway between a pile of hay and a bucket of...
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iPad in 2020 A couple of months ago, I switched entirely to an iPad Pro for about two weeks. I did not use my...
28th Jan 2020
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iPad in 2020

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

28th Jan 2020
A couple of months ago, I switched entirely to an iPad Pro for about two weeks. I did not use my MacBook Pro at all, and forced myself to do everything on the iPad. After that experience, I planned to write some kind of review, but it turned out that my conclusions were pretty...
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Yes! Apple TV!
17th Nov 2008
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Yes! Apple TV!

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

17th Nov 2008
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MLIR Part 13 - Running GPT-2 Running GPT-2 We now have a Python tensor language, an MLIR builder, a transformation pipeline and a...
19th Jun 2026
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MLIR Part 13 - Running GPT-2

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

19th Jun 2026
Running GPT-2 We now have a Python tensor language, an MLIR builder, a transformation pipeline and a native execution boundary. The remaining task is to connect those pieces to the pretrained model and check that the result agrees with our original NumPy implementation. The...
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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
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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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Building a standing desk
20th Feb 2011
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Building a standing desk

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

20th Feb 2011
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"People need my product!" (But do they want it?)
6th Jul 2017
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"People need my product!" (But do they want it?)

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

6th Jul 2017
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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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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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A Haskell Implementation Reading List A Haskell Implementation Reading List A reading list for those interested in the implementation...
14th Dec 2014
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A Haskell Implementation Reading List

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

14th Dec 2014
A Haskell Implementation Reading List A reading list for those interested in the implementation internals of Haskell more , these are simply Typeclass Inference A Theory Of Qualified Types Type Inference For Parametric Type Classes Type Reconstruction For Type Classes Constraints...
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Doing old things better vs doing brand new things New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could...
19th Oct 2020
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Doing old things better vs doing brand new things

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Oct 2020
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because…
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Imitate, then Innovate Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill.  It’s counterintuitive, but the more...
15th Feb 2022
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Imitate, then Innovate

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

15th Feb 2022
Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill.  It’s counterintuitive, but the more we imitate others, the faster we can discover our unique style. The post Imitate, then Innovate appeared first on David Perell.
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Why barcodes are about to go extinct QR codes are here. Barcodes should be very afraid.
4 weeks ago
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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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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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Coinbase One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press...
12th Dec 2013
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Coinbase

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Dec 2013
One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press and how it is understood by…
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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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What the People of Wal-Mart want
4th Jan 2013
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What the People of Wal-Mart want

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

4th Jan 2013
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Dive into GHC: Pipeline Dive into GHC: Pipeline After reading Simon's I'm by no means an expert on GHC internals, but I have...
21st Jun 2016
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Dive into GHC: Pipeline

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

21st Jun 2016
Dive into GHC: Pipeline After reading Simon's I'm by no means an expert on GHC internals, but I have worked with them a fair So begins a multipart writeup on the structure of GHC structured around several Official Commentary GHC core developers have actually spent a great deal of...
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F1, Sport and Reality TV It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi...
15th Dec 2021
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F1, Sport and Reality TV

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

15th Dec 2021
It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi with my sons. Full disclosure, we are all team Hamilton fans here, and were excited to watch the final deciding race as to who would take out the 2021 World Driver’s...
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Notes on raising seed financing Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how...
9th Jun 2011
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Notes on raising seed financing

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Jun 2011
Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how to raise a seed round.  After a long…
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How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost) It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
1st Aug 2023
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How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2023
It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
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Building AI products How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things...
8th Jun 2024
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Building AI products

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

8th Jun 2024
How do we build mass-market products that change the world around a technology that gets things ‘wrong’? What does wrong mean, and how is that useful?
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Second Encounters Firsts are overrated
10th Mar 2024
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Second Encounters

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

10th Mar 2024
Firsts are overrated
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Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift "humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
19th Jan 2026
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Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift

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

19th Jan 2026
"humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
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How much more software do we really need? Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
2nd Jun 2026
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How much more software do we really need?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2026
Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
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Pro rata is a bad term For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade...
11th Oct 2021
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Pro rata is a bad term

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

11th Oct 2021
For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade and was comfortable with it. As a partner at YC, I thought it made enough sense that I helped design an entire programmatic pro rata system that covered every investment YC made....
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Network State, or a Network of States? An idea for a new global Hanseatic League.
1st Oct 2025
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Network State, or a Network of States?

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Oct 2025
An idea for a new global Hanseatic League.
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Call the destination, and ask for directions Most of us don’t know what to do next. We know where we want to be, but we don’t know how to get...
1st Aug 2000
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Call the destination, and ask for directions

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

1st Aug 2000
Most of us don’t know what to do next. We know where we want to be, but we don’t know how to get there. Work backwards. Just contact someone who’s there, and ask how to get there. If you want to play a concert at the biggest club in town, show up on a weekday...
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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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Who are you stealing from?
1st Oct 2016
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Who are you stealing from?

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

1st Oct 2016
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Scuba, panic, empathy I used to scoff at those people who had panic attacks. “The cake is late! Oh no! I’m freaking out!...
26th Jul 2022
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Scuba, panic, empathy

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

26th Jul 2022
I used to scoff at those people who had panic attacks. “The cake is late! Oh no! I’m freaking out! I can’t breathe!” Ridiculous. Hysterical. Over-reacting. learning scuba diving, and went on my first practice dive. While I was 15 meters underwater, I felt a sudden need to...
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Unbendable Arm as Test Case for Religious Belief a hyperstition you can try at home
14th Apr 2025
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Unbendable Arm as Test Case for Religious Belief

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

14th Apr 2025
a hyperstition you can try at home
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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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I flew to China to visit a robot butler Site visit to Prosper Robotics field lab in Shenzhen
15th Nov 2023
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I flew to China to visit a robot butler

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

15th Nov 2023
Site visit to Prosper Robotics field lab in Shenzhen
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Bubble Trouble As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street...
4th Apr 2024
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Bubble Trouble

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

4th Apr 2024
As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street Journal piece from this week has sounded the alarm that some believe AI models will run out of "high-quality text-based data" within the next two years in what an AI researcher called...
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Deploying Django with Kamal In this post I'll walk you through my template to deploy a Django monolith using Kamal, but you...
11th Sep 2023
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Deploying Django with Kamal

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

11th Sep 2023
In this post I'll walk you through my template to deploy a Django monolith using Kamal, but you could also adapt it for Rails or Laravel.
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How I price products
15th Jul 2016
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How I price products

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

15th Jul 2016
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The Future of No Code is Low Code Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
4th Aug 2022
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The Future of No Code is Low Code

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

4th Aug 2022
Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
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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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This is what starting small looks like
13th Dec 2016
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This is what starting small looks like

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

13th Dec 2016
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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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Nike’s Marketing Blindspot What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
4th Aug 2023
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Nike’s Marketing Blindspot

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

4th Aug 2023
What can we learn from Nike losing Lionel Messi and Stephen Curry?
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How I’ve Studied the Bible Years ago, I realized that the Bible is the foundational book of Western civilization. If I was...
28th Dec 2023
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How I’ve Studied the Bible

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

28th Dec 2023
Years ago, I realized that the Bible is the foundational book of Western civilization. If I was going to be an educated person, I needed to know what it said. The post How I’ve Studied the Bible appeared first on David Perell.
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How to raise investment Update: I am no longer personally angel investing - I’m focussed on other things at the moment....
11th Sep 2021
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How to raise investment

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

11th Sep 2021
Update: I am no longer personally angel investing - I’m focussed on other things at the moment. Please don’t ask me to invest in your company! 🙂 I started angel-investing in 2021, and a large proportion of the companies I put money into asked for help raising an investment...
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How to make a podcast (and submit it to Spotify and Apple Podcasts) in 2024 Here's a guide that will help you get started with podcasting: gear, hosting, submitting to Spotify...
7th May 2024
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How to make a podcast (and submit it to Spotify and Apple Podcasts) in 2024

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

7th May 2024
Here's a guide that will help you get started with podcasting: gear, hosting, submitting to Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Utopia Bets / Apocalypse Bets I think that it is nearly impossible to figure out the exact changes that new technologies will...
3rd Mar 2016
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Utopia Bets / Apocalypse Bets

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

3rd Mar 2016
I think that it is nearly impossible to figure out the exact changes that new technologies will create in the world. That's problematic because investing in startups is largely about figuring out whether or not a team with a new technology - or application of existing technology...
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Heads down
6th Jun 2013
12

Heads down

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

6th Jun 2013
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I, Token an origin story
25th Nov 2024
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I, Token

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

25th Nov 2024
an origin story
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Bill Gates is Angry Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past...
8th Aug 2020
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Bill Gates is Angry

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

8th Aug 2020
Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line between antagonizing the Trump administration and promulgating real science. But now he appears to be...
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From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that...
25th May 2024
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From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey

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

25th May 2024
I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that all I need is Markdown rendering. Trying to update Gatsby and its dependencies to the latest version was painful enough to motivate me to jump ship. After looking at what’s out...
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Product vs. Production | Theory No. 9 HQ Trivia, TikTok Trivia, & the not-so-subtle art of creating compelling live media.
7th Mar 2023
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Product vs. Production | Theory No. 9

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

7th Mar 2023
HQ Trivia, TikTok Trivia, & the not-so-subtle art of creating compelling live media.
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ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment The wave of enthusiasm around generative networks feels like another Imagenet moment - a step...
14th Dec 2022
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ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment

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

14th Dec 2022
The wave of enthusiasm around generative networks feels like another Imagenet moment - a step change in what ‘AI’ can do that could generalise far beyond the cool demos. What can it create, and where are the humans in the loop?
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The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now...
2nd May 2025
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The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model

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

2nd May 2025
Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now other ride-hailing apps are rethinking their strategy.
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How to build a better Canadian neighborhood
28th Dec 2011
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How to build a better Canadian neighborhood

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

28th Dec 2011
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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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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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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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8 Lessons from "Curb Your Enthusiasm" What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
2nd Feb 2024
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8 Lessons from "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

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

2nd Feb 2024
What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
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The Best Companies Are Dictatorships Everyone wants democracy until they see what it builds
1st Aug 2025
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The Best Companies Are Dictatorships

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

1st Aug 2025
Everyone wants democracy until they see what it builds
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
20th Jul 2023
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp

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

20th Jul 2023
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The idea maze for AI startups An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need...
1st Feb 2015
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The idea maze for AI startups

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Feb 2015
An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need to make: A good founder is capable of…
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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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Publish your ebook as PDF, MOBI, and ePub all at the same time
3rd Aug 2016
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Publish your ebook as PDF, MOBI, and ePub all at the same time

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

3rd Aug 2016
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I wrote a book: Read Write Own I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them –...
22nd Jun 2023
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I wrote a book: Read Write Own

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

22nd Jun 2023
I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them – typically called crypto or web3 – provide the…
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Can you bootstrap a business if you have young kids?
5th May 2023
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Can you bootstrap a business if you have young kids?

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

5th May 2023
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Bill Gates: "The quality is giving us a bad name" I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it...
21st Apr 2024
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Bill Gates: "The quality is giving us a bad name"

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

21st Apr 2024
I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it works is still less than 50%.
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1-Node ClickHouse in Production In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including...
21st Aug 2022
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1-Node ClickHouse in Production

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

21st Aug 2022
In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including backups and basic monitoring.
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Cultivating agency I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
23rd Aug 2022
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Cultivating agency

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

23rd Aug 2022
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
3rd Feb 2025
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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams

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

3rd Feb 2025
China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
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Richard Bartlett on the Art of Hosting we get very detailed and autistic about social dynamics in this one
a week ago
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Richard Bartlett on the Art of Hosting

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

a week ago
we get very detailed and autistic about social dynamics in this one
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Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market A guest post by Coby Lefkowitz
2nd Mar 2024
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Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Mar 2024
A guest post by Coby Lefkowitz
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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
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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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How many trials should I be getting for my SaaS? One misconception I see from new SaaS founders: they need more trials than they think they do.
15th Aug 2020
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How many trials should I be getting for my SaaS?

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

15th Aug 2020
One misconception I see from new SaaS founders: they need more trials than they think they do.
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How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with...
3rd Dec 2024
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How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense

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

3rd Dec 2024
A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with suggestions from leaders across the Department of Defense and Venture Capital community. BLUF: In WW II, the U.S. outsourced advanced weapons systems development to civilians. The...
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OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this...
14th Apr 2025
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OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry

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

14th Apr 2025
Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up
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ADHD 🧠 I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any...
22nd Dec 2020
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ADHD 🧠

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

22nd Dec 2020
I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any medication. I get regularly asked about...
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Going Deep on DeepSpeed Going Deep on DeepSpeed Getting started with training modern AI models on multi-GPU hardware can...
5th Jun 2023
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Going Deep on DeepSpeed

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

5th Jun 2023
Going Deep on DeepSpeed Getting started with training modern AI models on multi-GPU hardware can feel quite daunting. So let's break down the key concepts and how to get started with the Microsoft DeepSpeed library. Here's a short DeepSpeed tutorial, this is a deep (har har)...
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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story...
29th Aug 2023
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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush

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

29th Aug 2023
I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that from mid-1940 to mid-1942 it was Vannevar Bush (and his number 2, James Conant, the president of...
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Aquatic Achievements Enough to get one's feet wet
21st Jul 2025
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Aquatic Achievements

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

21st Jul 2025
Enough to get one's feet wet
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Saying no to everything else Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a...
23rd Sep 2015
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Saying no to everything else

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

23rd Sep 2015
Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a book. Eventually, the psychological pain of not finishing kept building until he couldn’t stand it anymore. He decided to finally beat the devil he calls “The Resistance”. He said, “I...
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How to build a Shopify app – Björn’s journey to $300k in profits Björn started a side-business on the Shopify apps platform 6 years ago. Now he’s making $275,000 in...
19th Nov 2017
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How to build a Shopify app – Björn’s journey to $300k in profits

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

19th Nov 2017
Björn started a side-business on the Shopify apps platform 6 years ago. Now he’s making $275,000 in profit per year
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Staring into the abyss as a core life skill Recently I’ve been thinking about how all my favorite people are great at a skill I’ve labeled in my...
22nd Dec 2022
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Staring into the abyss as a core life skill

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

22nd Dec 2022
Recently I’ve been thinking about how all my favorite people are great at a skill I’ve labeled in my head as “staring into the abyss.”1 Staring into the abyss means thinking reasonably about things that are uncomfortable to contemplate, like arguments against your religious...
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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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How to select your angel investors I’ve seen a number of situations recently that are something like the following.  A VC firm signs a...
3rd Nov 2009
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How to select your angel investors

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Nov 2009
I’ve seen a number of situations recently that are something like the following.  A VC firm signs a term sheet with an early stage company…
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🛳️ Cruise hustles
5th Aug 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

5th Aug 2024
🛳️ Cruise hustles
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Not Everything is About ROI Those who choose to try to optimize life by calculating the costs and benefits of every decision,...
2nd Aug 2025
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Not Everything is About ROI

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

2nd Aug 2025
Those who choose to try to optimize life by calculating the costs and benefits of every decision, are ultimately only cheating themselves.
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Actions, not words, reveal our real values I told my old coach that I really wanted to start my new company. I said, “Yes, I do! This is...
16th Jun 2017
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Actions, not words, reveal our real values

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

16th Jun 2017
I told my old coach that I really wanted to start my new company. I said, “Yes, I do! This is really important to me!” I said, “You can’t ignore what I’m saying. I know myself well. I’m telling you what’s important to me.” I thought about that, but it sounded wrong to...
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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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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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NFT Art CDMX We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the...
21st Nov 2022
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NFT Art CDMX

from AVC [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Nov 2022
We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the premier NFT art “gallery” in the world. I use that term in parentheses because Bright Moments is much more than a gallery but that word is well understood. USV is a member of the...
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Revenue grew from $14,143 to $32,470, but not much profit yet. UPDATES: money stuff, got an apartment in NYC, & gave a talk at Fractal Tech.
9th Dec 2024
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Revenue grew from $14,143 to $32,470, but not much profit yet.

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

9th Dec 2024
UPDATES: money stuff, got an apartment in NYC, & gave a talk at Fractal Tech.
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The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations...
11th Nov 2022
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The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation

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

11th Nov 2022
My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement...
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Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one...
16th Jan 2026
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Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble

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

16th Jan 2026
Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one word kept coming up: bullshit.  LG, a company known for making home appliances and televisions, demonstrated a robot (named “CLOiD” for some reason) that could “fold laundry”
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The Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream has a water problem Tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital...
4th Aug 2025
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The Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream has a water problem

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

4th Aug 2025
Tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital ambitions.
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The Buyer’s Pyramid, Unreasonable Hospitality, Boring Stuff that Works Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
11th Sep 2023
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The Buyer’s Pyramid, Unreasonable Hospitality, Boring Stuff that Works

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

11th Sep 2023
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Has anyone made a good AI tool yet where I can load in...
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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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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🪄 Growth Magic
12th Aug 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Aug 2024
🪄 Growth Magic
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Volatility Surface Volatility Surface We're going to use Python to generate an implied volatility surface for a family...
1st Mar 2024
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Volatility Surface

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

1st Mar 2024
Volatility Surface We're going to use Python to generate an implied volatility surface for a family of options contracts. This is an extremely common tool for analyzing options and is a key component of many quantitative trading strategies. The Black-Scholes model is like a...
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Can you have child safety and Section 230, too? The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s...
1st Apr 2026
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Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Apr 2026
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
3rd Apr 2023
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Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp

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

3rd Apr 2023
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Hanging on to 'stuff' Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on...
3rd Jan 2023
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Hanging on to 'stuff'

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

3rd Jan 2023
Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on old pieces of furniture and belongings that are just cluttering our life and no longer needed. But this is a surprisingly difficult task. Almost every time we go to get rid of a...
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How Urban Company built an empire of female gig workers By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare...
2nd May 2023
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How Urban Company built an empire of female gig workers

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

2nd May 2023
By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare opportunity for social mobility. Now, they want more.
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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a...
13th May 2025
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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

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

13th May 2025
This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from...
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Quit trying to attract a crowd and just help people
17th May 2013
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Quit trying to attract a crowd and just help people

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

17th May 2013
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Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
7th Jul 2025
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Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels

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

7th Jul 2025
But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they… “If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
30th Jul 2016
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they…

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Jul 2016
“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said a decentralized network of information nodes that are ...
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Relax for the same result A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach. So a few times a week,...
2nd Oct 2015
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Relax for the same result

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

2nd Oct 2015
A few years ago, I lived in Santa Monica, California, right on the beach. So a few times a week, I’d get on my bike and go as fast as I could for the fifteen-mile loop. I mean really full-on, 100 percent, head-down, red-faced sprinting. After a few months, I noticed I was...
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Speaking of starting small
1st Apr 2014
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Speaking of starting small

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

1st Apr 2014
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Paralyzed by the Perfect Resume Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
3rd Sep 2026
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Paralyzed by the Perfect Resume

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

3rd Sep 2026
Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
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Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes. A new day begins when I wake up, not at midnight. Midnight means nothing to me. It’s not a turning...
30th Dec 2019
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Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes.

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

30th Dec 2019
A new day begins when I wake up, not at midnight. Midnight means nothing to me. It’s not a turning point. Nothing changes at that moment. I can understand using moments like midnight and January 1st as coordinators, so cultures and computers can agree on how to reference...
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AI is Coming for Software Engineers (I'm a Software Engineer) There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should...
21st Mar 2023
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AI is Coming for Software Engineers (I'm a Software Engineer)

from Throwable [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Mar 2023
There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should worry as much as software engineers.
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The forecasting fallacy Marketers are prone to a prediction. You’ll find them in the annual tirade of trend decks. In the...
14th Sep 2020
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The forecasting fallacy

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

14th Sep 2020
Marketers are prone to a prediction. You’ll find them in the annual tirade of trend decks. In the PowerPoint projections of self-proclaimed prophets. In the feeds of forecasters and futurists. To understand the extent of our forecasting fascination, I analysed the websites...
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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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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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Not voting as a form of protest Sometime at the end of last year, I wondered about what it would look like to have a mass-organized...
4th Sep 2020
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Not voting as a form of protest

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

4th Sep 2020
Sometime at the end of last year, I wondered about what it would look like to have a mass-organized abstention campaign. My interest in this topic was mostly casual, but in a moment of enthusiasm, I shared these thoughts on a mailing list with a bunch of creative...
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Cultivating agency I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
23rd Aug 2022
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Cultivating agency

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

23rd Aug 2022
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
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High-paying tech jobs are fueling a mini baby boom in Taiwan’s chip hub As Taiwan’s fertility rate plummets and young women increasingly choose to remain single, the...
3rd Sep 2025
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High-paying tech jobs are fueling a mini baby boom in Taiwan’s chip hub

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

3rd Sep 2025
As Taiwan’s fertility rate plummets and young women increasingly choose to remain single, the island’s Silicon Valley is bucking the trend.
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50 conversations in Bangalore and Chennai February 13 through 21, 2023, I went to Chennai and Bengaluru, India. My sole purpose was to meet...
2nd Mar 2023
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50 conversations in Bangalore and Chennai

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

2nd Mar 2023
February 13 through 21, 2023, I went to Chennai and Bengaluru, India. My sole purpose was to meet new friends. I’m an “Overseas Citizen of India” and my son is half-Indian (Tamil). I will always have ties to India. I wanted to deepen those ties and make new connections.
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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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The sex and cash theory
11th May 2011
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The sex and cash theory

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

11th May 2011
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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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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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How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices Finding a customer for your product in the Department of Defense is hard: Who should you talk to?...
17th Sep 2024
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How To Find Your Customer In the Dept of Defense – The Directory of DoD Program Executive Offices

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

17th Sep 2024
Finding a customer for your product in the Department of Defense is hard: Who should you talk to? How do you get their attention? How do you know if they have money to spend on your product? It almost always starts with a Program Executive Office. The Department of Defense (DoD)...
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Try patriotism A repost, with some updates.
1st Apr 2024
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Try patriotism

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Apr 2024
A repost, with some updates.
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Token Anxiety Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
13th Feb 2026
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Token Anxiety

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13th Feb 2026
Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
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The Coddling of the Tech Mind We built daycares for adults
22nd May 2026
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The Coddling of the Tech Mind

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22nd May 2026
We built daycares for adults
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Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and...
30th Jul 2024
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Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It

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

30th Jul 2024
Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and government agencies as many of their existing systems have now been leapfrogged. How an organization reacts to this type of disruption determines whether they adapt or die. I’ve...
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The "Warp Drive" Equations The "Warp Drive" Equations The Alcubierre drive is a speculative idea based on a solution of...
1st Feb 2013
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The "Warp Drive" Equations

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

1st Feb 2013
The "Warp Drive" Equations The Alcubierre drive is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein's field equations in General Relativity. It describes a method of bending space-time in a way that allows for faster-than-light travel. This involves creating a "warp bubble"...
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Complexity Opportunity & the Complexity Equilibrium Why jobs aren’t going anywhere
23rd Sep 2026
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Complexity Opportunity & the Complexity Equilibrium

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23rd Sep 2026
Why jobs aren’t going anywhere
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Poker. I didn’t realize being a venture investor would also mean becoming a full-time event planner.
4 weeks ago
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Poker.

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

4 weeks ago
I didn’t realize being a venture investor would also mean becoming a full-time event planner.
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9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding...
4th Oct 2024
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9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh

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

4th Oct 2024
Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding Off-White and leading menswear at Louis Vuitton.
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Linking CUDA Kernels into Python Linking CUDA Kernels into Python Gaussian blur is a common image processing operation that smooths...
18th Nov 2022
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Linking CUDA Kernels into Python

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

18th Nov 2022
Linking CUDA Kernels into Python Gaussian blur is a common image processing operation that smooths images using a Gaussian kernel. While it's straightforward to implement on CPU, it can be quite slow for large images. Let's explore how to implement this efficiently using CUDA and...
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Owning equity in your company should be as common as owning equity in your home What belongs in common to the most people is accorded the least care: they take thought for their...
12th Sep 2011
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Owning equity in your company should be as common as owning equity in your home

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

12th Sep 2011
What belongs in common to the most people is accorded the least care: they take thought for their own things above all, and less about…
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VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in...
3rd Jun 2025
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VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech

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

3rd Jun 2025
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.
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Business development: the Goldilocks principle Background: At Hunch, we switched our focus (“pivoted“) about 14 months ago from B2C to B2B. Over...
28th Nov 2011
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Business development: the Goldilocks principle

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

28th Nov 2011
Background: At Hunch, we switched our focus (“pivoted“) about 14 months ago from B2C to B2B. Over that time, we pitched over 500 potential…
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AI Doesn't Have ROI If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a...
2nd Jun 2026
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AI Doesn't Have ROI

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

2nd Jun 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
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Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic Last Friday was my last day as CTO at Wave, capping an incredible ~8 years filled with more...
1st Feb 2023
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Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic

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

1st Feb 2023
Last Friday was my last day as CTO at Wave, capping an incredible ~8 years filled with more professional and personal growth, joy, and meaning than I could have hoped for. This was the hardest decision I’ve made. I’m still just as excited about Wave’s mission and trajectory. And...
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I got 12 job interviews in two weeks Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
29th Jul 2024
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I got 12 job interviews in two weeks

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

29th Jul 2024
Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
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The pipeline problem
21st Sep 2024
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The pipeline problem

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

21st Sep 2024
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Some ideas for native bitcoin apps Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin...
4th Oct 2014
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Some ideas for native bitcoin apps

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Oct 2014
Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin "native Bitcoin apps". Most of the…
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Shortest date, and ketchup Here’s a story about my shortest date, and ketchup. I suggested we meet at a bar at 35th Street...
12th Sep 2022
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Shortest date, and ketchup

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

12th Sep 2022
Here’s a story about my shortest date, and ketchup. I suggested we meet at a bar at 35th Street and 8th Avenue. Although she’s from New York, she didn’t know where that is. She said, “No.” OK, now I’m judging. Miserable voice. Doesn’t know the basic layout of the city...
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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

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1st Sep 2024
Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
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We don’t need to use what we make For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like...
11th Nov 2024
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We don’t need to use what we make

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

11th Nov 2024
For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like attending concerts. I liked making music more than listening to music. I felt I must be in the wrong line of work, creating something that I don’t consume. I never reconciled this...
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"It's pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years" Larry Page: When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused....
6th Jul 2014
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"It's pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years"

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jul 2014
Larry Page: When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused. Imagine you're running Exxon, what do you…
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The Great Movie Theory Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
2nd Mar 2025
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The Great Movie Theory

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

2nd Mar 2025
Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
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Burst Damage Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in...
5th Aug 2024
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Burst Damage

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

5th Aug 2024
Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the boundaries of good sense,...
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initialize I’m starting a podcast today. https://sive.rs/podcast.rss.
22nd Sep 2019
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initialize

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

22nd Sep 2019
I’m starting a podcast today. https://sive.rs/podcast.rss.
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A Script for Mark Zuckerberg A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call.
7th Jul 2026
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A Script for Mark Zuckerberg

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

7th Jul 2026
A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call.
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Socket activation I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks reading about the various *nix init systems: venerable...
5th Jul 2021
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Socket activation

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

5th Jul 2021
I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks reading about the various *nix init systems: venerable SysV, interim replacement Upstart, controversial monolith systemd, Apple’s proprietary launchd, and niche variants like runit and Epoch. Lots of history, lots of flame wars. One...
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Drafting your first investment round. The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders...
6th May 2013
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Drafting your first investment round.

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

6th May 2013
The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
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What’s this about? This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective...
12th Dec 2025
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What’s this about?

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

12th Dec 2025
This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective that’s useful to you right now, whether or not it’s universally true. This narrow definition is important because whatever you consider true is closed. No questioning. But when...
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Nobody knows the future, so focus on what doesn’t change At every music conference, with a panel of experts on stage, the moderator always asks, “What’s the...
17th Oct 2008
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Nobody knows the future, so focus on what doesn’t change

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

17th Oct 2008
At every music conference, with a panel of experts on stage, the moderator always asks, “What’s the future of the music business?” The guy selling intelligent playlists will say that intelligent playlists are the future. We have a desperate need for certainty, so we want...
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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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It is link winter on X We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without...
5th Dec 2024
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It is link winter on X

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

5th Dec 2024
We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without telling you, and by a lot—and it makes the experience there worse. Without links, information on X is headlines without stories, commentary without context, magic without the...
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A Broken Heart You always know it’s a good bug when your first reaction is, “How could this even happen?” The other...
31st Jan 2026
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A Broken Heart

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

31st Jan 2026
You always know it’s a good bug when your first reaction is, “How could this even happen?” The other day, I was refining the dashboard of a web app we’re working on – as you do – and I noticed it was taking forever to load. Like, it had been loading in a single second, but now it...
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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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retention > distribution, fun > discipline, ClickBank-core software, pricing sweet spots Hey, On the menu this week: keeping people around, why fun > discipline, the return of...
7th Jul 2025
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retention > distribution, fun > discipline, ClickBank-core software, pricing sweet spots

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2025
Hey, On the menu this week: keeping people around, why fun > discipline, the return of ClickBank-core software, and pricing sweet spots.
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Can We Build Scenius From Scratch? On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.
8th Sep 2022
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Can We Build Scenius From Scratch?

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

8th Sep 2022
On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class...
6th Feb 2024
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up

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

6th Feb 2024
We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class –part of Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and...
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The value of software in a Fable world What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?
11th Jul 2026
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The value of software in a Fable world

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

11th Jul 2026
What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?
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We Are Golden Asians in America are having a moment in sports, entertainment and business
3rd Nov 2025
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We Are Golden

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

3rd Nov 2025
Asians in America are having a moment in sports, entertainment and business
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The war over wine Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon...
5th Dec 2025
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The war over wine

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

5th Dec 2025
Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon for once-overlooked Ontario wineries.
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Roundup #87: Technology BAD!! The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The...
1st Sep 2026
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Roundup #87: Technology BAD!!

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Sep 2026
The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The Electric Revolution
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Deep piano Roberto Chignoli I started playing piano again recently, after a 20 year hiatus. Our 6 year old...
12th Nov 2020
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Deep piano

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

12th Nov 2020
Roberto Chignoli I started playing piano again recently, after a 20 year hiatus. Our 6 year old Brooke started learning, and we suddenly had a keyboard in the house again, so I joined her. It’s been great! I’m playing scales and exercises, diving into Rachmaninoff and Debussy,...
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Steve Jobs and Palm This is not satisfactory to Apple.
15th Dec 2024
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Steve Jobs and Palm

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

15th Dec 2024
This is not satisfactory to Apple.
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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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The Sphere's $4B Business, explained The eye-catching Las Vegas attraction cost James Dolan $2.3B to build. After an uncertain start, the...
6th Mar 2026
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The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

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

6th Mar 2026
The eye-catching Las Vegas attraction cost James Dolan $2.3B to build. After an uncertain start, the recent success of "The Wizard of Oz" has created a clear playbook for global domination.
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Managing Remote Teams - A Crash Course Hey folks, I haven’t been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i...
10th Dec 2018
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Managing Remote Teams - A Crash Course

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

10th Dec 2018
Hey folks, I haven’t been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i thought this article might be u...
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Ten million users is the new one million users Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few...
3rd Aug 2012
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Ten million users is the new one million users

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Aug 2012
Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few years. But there are signs this is ending…
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The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how...
23rd Sep 2026
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The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same

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

23rd Sep 2026
This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught. The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide and helped launch thousands of startups. But this past summer, I got thinking about...
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Google cuts off an $83 million ghost labor contract Outsourced workers are the first to go when the company looks to reduce costs.
1st Feb 2024
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Google cuts off an $83 million ghost labor contract

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

1st Feb 2024
Outsourced workers are the first to go when the company looks to reduce costs.
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The Microwave Economy America has become a Microwave Economy. We’ve overwhelmingly used our wealth to make the world...
1st Mar 2021
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The Microwave Economy

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

1st Mar 2021
America has become a Microwave Economy. We’ve overwhelmingly used our wealth to make the world cheaper instead of more beautiful, more functional instead of more meaningful. The post The Microwave Economy appeared first on David Perell.
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Lifting Alone Gyms were once communal places. Nobody wore headphones. People helped each other out and talked...
6th Aug 2021
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Lifting Alone

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

6th Aug 2021
Gyms were once communal places. Nobody wore headphones. People helped each other out and talked between sets.  Today, things have changed. Everybody is plugged into their own virtual reality world where they craft their desired mood and intensity level, which definitely gives...
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Why you will skim this article Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then...
23rd Jul 2023
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Why you will skim this article

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

23rd Jul 2023
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then you’re likely to scan through a few paragraphs in this article and then give up. (Unless, you’re a long-time reader and trust that my writing is worthy of your time. More on this...
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🤠 Democratize Luxury
9th Sep 2024
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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

9th Sep 2024
🤠 Democratize Luxury
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ChatGPT's 2025 strategy | Peter Thiel | Apple exec meeting ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
15th Jun 2025
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ChatGPT's 2025 strategy | Peter Thiel | Apple exec meeting

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

15th Jun 2025
ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
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Introducing SPEAR: The Management Framework for AI The strong-start-weak-finish problem in AI is a process problem, not a model problem.
5th May 2026
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Introducing SPEAR: The Management Framework for AI

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

5th May 2026
The strong-start-weak-finish problem in AI is a process problem, not a model problem.
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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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There’s no such thing as data Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own...
31st May 2022
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There’s no such thing as data

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

31st May 2022
Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own our data, and be paid for it. But really, there is no such thing as data, it’s not yours, and it’s not worth anything.
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Why I don’t want stuff About once a month, someone asks for my mailing address because they want to send me...
16th Feb 2016
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Why I don’t want stuff

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

16th Feb 2016
About once a month, someone asks for my mailing address because they want to send me something. They liked something I wrote, and want to send me a gift in return. I’m very thankful, but have to say no. Here’s why. I just moved into this place a few weeks ago. I’ve moved...
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Be independent. Here’s how to live: Be independent. All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent...
1st Dec 2021
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Be independent.

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

1st Dec 2021
Here’s how to live: Be independent. All misery comes from dependency. If you weren’t dependent on income, people, or technology, you would be truly free. The only way to be deeply happy is to break all dependencies. People think we live in a world of politics, society,...
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Selling pickaxes during a gold rush There is a saying in the startup world that “you can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes.” This...
5th Feb 2011
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Selling pickaxes during a gold rush

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Feb 2011
There is a saying in the startup world that “you can mine for gold or you can sell pickaxes.” This is of course an allusion to the…
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🤫 Business Brainstorms is back! ... and has a new name
2nd Jun 2025
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🤫 Business Brainstorms is back!

from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Jun 2025
... and has a new name
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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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How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
13th Jun 2024
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How to do the jhanas

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

13th Jun 2024
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
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You don’t need confidence, just contribution. Years ago, I was so confident and so naive. I was sure I was right and everyone else was...
6th Aug 2018
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You don’t need confidence, just contribution.

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

6th Aug 2018
Years ago, I was so confident and so naive. I was sure I was right and everyone else was wrong. sold my company, I felt ready to do something new, so I started to learn. But the more I learned, the more I realized how little I knew and how dumb-lucky I had been. I’d start...
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