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The Paradoxes of Modern Life The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the...
5th Apr 2021
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The Paradoxes of Modern Life

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

5th Apr 2021
The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the vast majority of what you read. The Paradox of Writing: Great writing looks effortless. But because the ideas are so clear, casual readers don’t appreciate how much time it took to...
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COVID was bad for the climate William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled...
28th Mar 2021
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COVID was bad for the climate

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

28th Mar 2021
William Cho The standard narrative on COVID and the climate is: People worked from home, cancelled travel plans, cut down overall consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions fell drastically. It’s great for the environment! Let’s keep it up! With apologies to H. L. Mencken, I...
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The 80% energy principle As Westerners, we believe in pushing up against the limits, and going over them. We need to learn...
28th Mar 2021
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The 80% energy principle

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

28th Mar 2021
As Westerners, we believe in pushing up against the limits, and going over them. We need to learn the Okinawa Island secret: hara hachi bu.
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Understanding Distributed Systems 1.1 Coordination is expensive as it reduces the availability and performance of distributed applications...
25th Mar 2021
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Understanding Distributed Systems 1.1

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

25th Mar 2021
Coordination is expensive as it reduces the availability and performance of distributed applications (PACELC theorem). I have extended…
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The case of WOPR and the lost code... I got an email earlier this week from a guy reaching out after he read a post of mine on a gaming...
5th Mar 2021
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The case of WOPR and the lost code...

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

5th Mar 2021
I got an email earlier this week from a guy reaching out after he read a post of mine on a gaming forum that was posted over two decades ago! I couldn't for the life of me remember what I had said, but he reiterated that it was about a simulation that I wrote in BASIC that was...
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The 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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Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a...
1st Mar 2021
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Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts

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

1st Mar 2021
About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accounts were locked for unexplained reasons, causing them to lose all of their data, including years of...
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Distributed Capital In theory, the hard part about finding capital for unproven founders with unproven technologies in...
1st Mar 2021
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Distributed Capital

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

1st Mar 2021
In theory, the hard part about finding capital for unproven founders with unproven technologies in unproven markets should be that no one wants the risk. There was a time when that was true, but it isn’t anymore.[1] For a founder, the issue is different: venture capital is...
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Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 1 (Module Systems) Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 1 (Module Systems) All successful programming languages are alike;...
1st Mar 2021
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Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 1 (Module Systems)

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

1st Mar 2021
Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 1 (Module Systems) All successful programming languages are alike; every unsuccessful programming language is unsuccessful in its own way. The history of software is one that runs parallel to a simultaneous but separate conversation, and that is the...
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NFTs and A Thousand True Fans In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform...
27th Feb 2021
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NFTs and A Thousand True Fans

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Feb 2021
In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To…
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Adland is an island We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us more. We consider our...
24th Feb 2021
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Adland is an island

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

24th Feb 2021
We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us more. We consider our clients’ companies and the categories in which they compete. We visit the sites in which our products are produced and the stores in which they are sold. We analyse their adverts...
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Goodbye YC I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t...
12th Feb 2021
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Goodbye YC

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

12th Feb 2021
I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t many people around. PG and Jessica were still running things. We had offices in Mountain View, Palo Alto, and on Kearny street, but they were nearly always empty. The only meeting...
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How to build a simple HTML landing page using Tailwind CSS The easiest way to configure Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI so you can build a simple HTML site
12th Feb 2021
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How to build a simple HTML landing page using Tailwind CSS

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

12th Feb 2021
The easiest way to configure Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI so you can build a simple HTML site
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Testing and operating distributed systems I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally...
7th Feb 2021
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Testing and operating distributed systems

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

7th Feb 2021
I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…
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Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage Many articles written about the GameStop...
3rd Feb 2021
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Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage

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

3rd Feb 2021
Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage Many articles written about the GameStop story mark the event as a watershed moment in the markets and an epic tale of the establishment vs the little man. I won’t tell you these things. In fact I assert the GameStop...
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Reflections on 2020 I feel kind of conflicted writing this, because 2020 was a horror of a year for most people around...
14th Jan 2021
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Reflections on 2020

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

14th Jan 2021
I feel kind of conflicted writing this, because 2020 was a horror of a year for most people around the world. Instead, for me, and my family, it was somewhat of a start of new beginnings and some huge wins. I feel that I have finally stepped out of a decade long black tunnel,...
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How many units can you sell?
11th Jan 2021
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How many units can you sell?

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

11th Jan 2021
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Notes on Trekonomics Notes on Trekonomics My holiday reading this year has been Manu Saadia's Trekonomics, which is a...
9th Jan 2021
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Notes on Trekonomics

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

9th Jan 2021
Notes on Trekonomics My holiday reading this year has been Manu Saadia's Trekonomics, which is a deeply fun and thought-provoking exploration of the economic philosophy of the Star Trek universe. Here's my review and reading notes for the book. The book's ultimate motivating...
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Beer Mode and Coffee Mode Creatives have two ways of working: beer mode and coffee mode.  Beer mode is a state of unfocused...
1st Jan 2021
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Beer Mode and Coffee Mode

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

1st Jan 2021
Creatives have two ways of working: beer mode and coffee mode.  Beer mode is a state of unfocused play where you discover new ideas. In contrast, coffee mode is a state of focus where you work towards a specific outcome.  The problem with traditional productivity advice is that...
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2020 year in review
29th Dec 2020
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2020 year in review

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

29th Dec 2020
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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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How distributed systems fail At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes,...
5th Dec 2020
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How distributed systems fail

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

5th Dec 2020
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
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After Minimalism It's time for us to move beyond minimalism. If we want a dynamic world, we should splash our...
1st Dec 2020
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After Minimalism

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

1st Dec 2020
It's time for us to move beyond minimalism. If we want a dynamic world, we should splash our buildings with enthusiastic colors, bold patterns, and visions of a better tomorrow. The post After Minimalism appeared first on David Perell.
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The costs of microservices An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page...
22nd Nov 2020
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The costs of microservices

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

22nd Nov 2020
An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page Javascript application, for example - it…
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The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS In this post I'll describe the tools and services I use to run my SaaS business. From programming...
22nd Nov 2020
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The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS

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

22nd Nov 2020
In this post I'll describe the tools and services I use to run my SaaS business. From programming languages to open source libraries to Kubernetes tools for easy deployments.
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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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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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Why you should go after a market with strong demand Building a new product is an enormous risk. You're risking your time, energy, and resources. Look...
2nd Oct 2020
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Why you should go after a market with strong demand

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

2nd Oct 2020
Building a new product is an enormous risk. You're risking your time, energy, and resources. Look for a evidence of demand!
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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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Resiliency patterns of distributed systems I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems : Resiliency Patterns. The...
6th Sep 2020
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Resiliency patterns of distributed systems

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

6th Sep 2020
I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems : Resiliency Patterns. The chapter is all about failures and their…
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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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How to conduct a system design interview The system design interview is a great way to assess the seniority of a candidate in an interview....
18th Aug 2020
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How to conduct a system design interview

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

18th Aug 2020
The system design interview is a great way to assess the seniority of a candidate in an interview. You can find a lot on the Internet on how…
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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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Raise less money Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves...
12th Aug 2020
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Raise less money

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

12th Aug 2020
Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves in their seed and A rounds. Counterintuitively, dilution seems to rise along with price. One would expect the opposite correlation. Strong founders who command high prices should...
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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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$250K books sold. $250K to save lives. 2023 UPDATE: see “$575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.” Six weeks ago I emailed my private...
6th Aug 2020
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$250K books sold. $250K to save lives.

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

6th Aug 2020
2023 UPDATE: see “$575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.” Six weeks ago I emailed my private email list with a secret link to buy my new books. I made 5000 limited edition hardcover copies of each, but those have sold out now. Then I thought about what to do with the...
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Forget about your heroes We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
29th Jul 2020
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Forget about your heroes

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

29th Jul 2020
We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
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The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at...
26th Jul 2020
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The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out

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

26th Jul 2020
In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at the heart of many distributed systems…
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What explains the rise of AMMs? Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run...
22nd Jul 2020
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What explains the rise of AMMs?

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

22nd Jul 2020
Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run a market making bot. I’ll always quote a price no matter who’s asking, and for my pricing algorithm I’ll use x * y = k. That’s pretty much it. Want to invest?” You’d run...
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I am writing a book I have released the first chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! "Wait, what? Weren't you...
21st Jun 2020
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I am writing a book

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

21st Jun 2020
I have released the first chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! "Wait, what? Weren't you working on a video class?" - I hear you…
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The pitfalls of purpose Purpose is polarising. There are those who promote it as a paragon of positioning and a...
19th May 2020
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The pitfalls of purpose

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

19th May 2020
Purpose is polarising. There are those who promote it as a paragon of positioning and a silver-bullet strategy for success. Then there are those who refute purpose’s power and dispute its capacity to connect with consumers. It is clearly a debate that divides. For every...
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Ideas aren't cheap
8th May 2020
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Ideas aren't cheap

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

8th May 2020
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Don't trust default timeouts Modern applications don't crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that...
3rd May 2020
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Don't trust default timeouts

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

3rd May 2020
Modern applications don't crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn't. When…
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I am back It's been three years since my last post on my old Wordpress blog! You can still find my earlier...
24th Apr 2020
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I am back

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

24th Apr 2020
It's been three years since my last post on my old Wordpress blog! You can still find my earlier posts there as I was too lazy to move…
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We've been exposed
3rd Apr 2020
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We've been exposed

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

3rd Apr 2020
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Why Decentralization Isn’t as Important as You Think If you’ve spent any time at all on crypto Twitter, you’re familiar with the web3 narrative. It goes...
31st Mar 2020
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Why Decentralization Isn’t as Important as You Think

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

31st Mar 2020
If you’ve spent any time at all on crypto Twitter, you’re familiar with the web3 narrative. It goes like this: in the beginning, the web was “truly decentralized.” Against all odds, the World Wide Web won against the corporatist designs of companies like Microsoft, and cyberspace...
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Asking questions Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly...
30th Mar 2020
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Asking questions

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

30th Mar 2020
Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. If you spend time with 2-5 year olds, you’ll find yourself answering a near infinite series of progressively more challenging questions. This is one of the main paths by...
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Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down. What a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And...
14th Mar 2020
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Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down.

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

14th Mar 2020
What a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And I expect that all startups in...
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Maintenance
6th Mar 2020
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Maintenance

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

6th Mar 2020
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Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to...
27th Feb 2020
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Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal

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

27th Feb 2020
Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to attack the margin trading protocol bZx, first in a $350K attack and later in a $600K copycat attack. These attacks were, in a word, magnificent. In each attack, a penniless attacker...
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Business is like surfing
21st Feb 2020
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Business is like surfing

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

21st Feb 2020
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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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Inside-out vs. outside-in: the adoption of new technologies There are broadly two adoption paths for new computing technologies: inside-out and outside-in....
17th Jan 2020
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Inside-out vs. outside-in: the adoption of new technologies

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Jan 2020
There are broadly two adoption paths for new computing technologies: inside-out and outside-in. Inside-out technologies are pioneered by…
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Another decade I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a...
6th Jan 2020
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Another decade

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

6th Jan 2020
I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a college dropout, and deeply unhappy. What did I believe I’d be doing a decade later? I don’t think I knew, only that I definitely wouldn’t be playing poker anymore. I’d be doing...
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2019 year in review
1st Jan 2020
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2019 year in review

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

1st Jan 2020
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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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Moving on
6th Dec 2019
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Moving on

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

6th Dec 2019
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How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today,...
2nd Dec 2019
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How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security

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

2nd Dec 2019
On-chain lending has become the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) application today, with over $600M in loans originated this year across MakerDAO, Compound, and dYdX. On-chain lending has the potential to disrupt traditional secured lending. But it seems it may do more...
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Experiments in music and life One approach to music is to do whatever you want. Absolutely anything goes. But to me, that’s too...
7th Nov 2019
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Experiments in music and life

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

7th Nov 2019
One approach to music is to do whatever you want. Absolutely anything goes. But to me, that’s too free. It’s anti-inspiring because having infinite options is overwhelming. So my favorite approach to music is in-between. You make up your own rules, and apply them to a piece of...
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Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ ‪Apple TV is a hardware device. ‪Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy...
2nd Nov 2019
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Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

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

2nd Nov 2019
‪Apple TV is a hardware device. ‪Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones). Apple TV is an app on iOS/iPadOS devices that...
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Why people buy software
1st Nov 2019
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Why people buy software

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

1st Nov 2019
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Building new worlds Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We...
15th Oct 2019
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Building new worlds

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

15th Oct 2019
Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism, by Aaron Bastani: To say the present era is one of crisis borders on cliché. We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages,...
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So you want to build a crypto startup? I’m a crypto VC. That means I spend my days talking to crypto entrepreneurs, hearing pitches, and...
4th Oct 2019
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So you want to build a crypto startup?

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

4th Oct 2019
I’m a crypto VC. That means I spend my days talking to crypto entrepreneurs, hearing pitches, and evaluating products. The first thing you realize working in this industry is that pretty much everyone is winging it. (That applies to me, but it especially applies to...
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$30k It's been 14 months since we launched.
4th Oct 2019
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$30k

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4th Oct 2019
It's been 14 months since we launched.
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Where to find the hours to make it happen When you experience someone else’s genius work, a little part of you feels, “That’s what I could...
1st Oct 2019
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Where to find the hours to make it happen

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

1st Oct 2019
When you experience someone else’s genius work, a little part of you feels, “That’s what I could have, would have, and should have done!” They fought the resistance. You gave in to distractions. They took the time. You meant to. You could let that part of you give...
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initialize I’m starting a podcast today. https://sive.rs/podcast.rss.
22nd Sep 2019
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initialize

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22nd Sep 2019
I’m starting a podcast today. https://sive.rs/podcast.rss.
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We sell saddles here
13th Sep 2019
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We sell saddles here

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13th Sep 2019
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Jason Fried wants to delete my backlog
2nd Aug 2019
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Jason Fried wants to delete my backlog

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2nd Aug 2019
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Bourdain on The Journey Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your...
22nd Jul 2019
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Bourdain on The Journey

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

22nd Jul 2019
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with...
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How to be more social at events and conferences People assume I've always been outgoing and confident. But I used to be the shyest kid in my class!
8th Jul 2019
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How to be more social at events and conferences

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8th Jul 2019
People assume I've always been outgoing and confident. But I used to be the shyest kid in my class!
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Doors and windows and what’s real Like everyone, I live in a little house with many doors and windows. One window looks out at the...
1st Jul 2019
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Doors and windows and what’s real

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

1st Jul 2019
Like everyone, I live in a little house with many doors and windows. One window looks out at the nature around me. I’m getting to know this one tree really well. I toss a little dog food out there each day, and watch the local birds and rodents come by to eat it. One door...
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Big questions for big data Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different...
26th Jun 2019
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Big questions for big data

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

26th Jun 2019
Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different article for every 100 people on earth. There are also 18 million videos on the topic. At 5 minutes each, it would take 170 years to watch them all. Then there’s the one million...
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The Freedom Ladder
7th Jun 2019
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The Freedom Ladder

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

7th Jun 2019
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How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast,...
4th Jun 2019
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How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront

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

4th Jun 2019
Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites. I host several sites using the method described below, and it costs me pennies per month. The only problem is that getting things set...
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One of the dumbest things I've ever published While I was reading through some of my older essays the other day, I came across a piece called...
30th May 2019
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One of the dumbest things I've ever published

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30th May 2019
While I was reading through some of my older essays the other day, I came across a piece called Privacy vs. User Experience, published in 2014. In the article, I argued that Apple’s then-nascent philosophical stance on the supremacy of user privacy was going to slow down its...
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How do I build something people want? As a founder, you want to build something people want. But how do we go beyond platitudes and...
2nd May 2019
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How do I build something people want?

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

2nd May 2019
As a founder, you want to build something people want. But how do we go beyond platitudes and actually do that? Here's some actionable advice.
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How to run a mastermind group Thinking about starting a business mastermind group? Here are resources for finding members, running...
5th Apr 2019
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How to run a mastermind group

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5th Apr 2019
Thinking about starting a business mastermind group? Here are resources for finding members, running your meetings, and getting the most out of it.
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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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Magpie marketing We believe we work in turbulent times. A quick skim of the industry press and you’ll learn that...
13th Mar 2019
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Magpie marketing

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13th Mar 2019
We believe we work in turbulent times. A quick skim of the industry press and you’ll learn that ecommerce is upending retail. Social media is uprooting advertising. Private labels are replacing brands. Advertising is dying. And TV is dead. We believe change is the new...
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Making Sense of Martech In July 2021, I joined Juan Mendoza on the Making Sense of Martech podcast to discuss my recent...
11th Mar 2019
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Making Sense of Martech

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11th Mar 2019
In July 2021, I joined Juan Mendoza on the Making Sense of Martech podcast to discuss my recent article Adland is an Island.
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Not all products make good businesses You might fix a problem, but that doesn't mean people will pay for it.
1st Mar 2019
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Not all products make good businesses

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1st Mar 2019
You might fix a problem, but that doesn't mean people will pay for it.
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Passion needs rigor In modern society, we talk a lot about following our passion. But passion isn't enough. It needs to...
7th Feb 2019
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Passion needs rigor

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7th Feb 2019
In modern society, we talk a lot about following our passion. But passion isn't enough. It needs to be molded through deliberate practice.
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A model that’s mental Maybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This...
3rd Feb 2019
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A model that’s mental

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

3rd Feb 2019
Maybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This creeping imposter syndrome jus...
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Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals You know those people whose lives are transformed by meditation or yoga or something like...
28th Jan 2019
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Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals

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

28th Jan 2019
You know those people whose lives are transformed by meditation or yoga or something like that? After 20+ years of doing this, here’s what I do and recommend: A daily diary If digital, use only plain text. It’s a standard format not owned by any company. It will be...
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Listicle of Buddhist Lists Listicle of Buddhist Lists Buddhism has more lists than a Buzzfeed article. Inspired by the List of...
15th Jan 2019
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Listicle of Buddhist Lists

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

15th Jan 2019
Listicle of Buddhist Lists Buddhism has more lists than a Buzzfeed article. Inspired by the List of Buddhist Lists, here are the Buddha's teachings as millennial listicles. Plus or minus some bad puns. Mindfulness: Noticing your brain is completely bonkers right now, and being...
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Who will control the software that powers the Internet? Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over...
4th Jan 2019
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Who will control the software that powers the Internet?

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Jan 2019
Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually shifted from open source protocols maintained by non-profit communities ...
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Cynicism kills progress
2nd Jan 2019
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Cynicism kills progress

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

2nd Jan 2019
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The ageism in advertising The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and possessed. We crave it in our...
21st Dec 2018
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The ageism in advertising

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

21st Dec 2018
The advertising industry is addicted to youth. We are obsessed and possessed. We crave it in our agencies and we covet it in our audiences. We believe younger staff are more creative and younger consumers are more valuable. But this is nothing more than received wisdom....
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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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Can you bootstrap a startup on the side?
9th Dec 2018
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Can you bootstrap a startup on the side?

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9th Dec 2018
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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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The art of selfishness David grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with five brothers and sisters. But his mother was on...
18th Nov 2018
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The art of selfishness

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

18th Nov 2018
David grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with five brothers and sisters. But his mother was on her death bed. An undiagnosable illness seemed like it was going to take her at any time. All of her children were visiting her every day. He was very conflicted and felt...
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What are Elementary Particles? What are Elementary Particles? In primary school we're taught the naive intuition of particles as...
11th Nov 2018
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What are Elementary Particles?

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

11th Nov 2018
What are Elementary Particles? In primary school we're taught the naive intuition of particles as tiny, solid spheres propagating along well-defined trajectories collapses under the weight of quantum phenomena. Then in high-school we're taught that wave–particle duality shows...
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Why geeks should speak
2nd Nov 2018
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Why geeks should speak

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2nd Nov 2018
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I have a new website
26th Oct 2018
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I have a new website

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

26th Oct 2018
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The hidden cost of bootstrapping
7th Sep 2018
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The hidden cost of bootstrapping

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7th Sep 2018
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The digital dark side The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously...
3rd Sep 2018
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The digital dark side

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

3rd Sep 2018
The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously swayed by advertising alone. The internet would enable them to research products. Social media would allow them to share their experiences. And ecommence would provide the power...
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Why many products struggle, and only a few succeed
17th Aug 2018
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Why many products struggle, and only a few succeed

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17th Aug 2018
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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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Your business isn't about finding a great idea
21st Jul 2018
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Your business isn't about finding a great idea

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21st Jul 2018
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Unit Economics The old joke describes a lot of companies at the moment - “I’ll sell at a loss but make it up on...
10th Jun 2018
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Unit Economics

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

10th Jun 2018
The old joke describes a lot of companies at the moment - “I’ll sell at a loss but make it up on volume.” Pilloried in the press, startups burn through vast sums of capital before spectacularly imploding. Let’s go back to 2012-13. The world was finally emerging from a punishing...
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Don't sell to beginners
2nd Jun 2018
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Don't sell to beginners

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2nd Jun 2018
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About this book In my first book, Anything You Want, I told the story of how I started, grew, and sold my...
1st Jun 2018
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About this book

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

1st Jun 2018
In my first book, Anything You Want, I told the story of how I started, grew, and sold my company. I thought a lot about what’s worth doing, fixing faulty thinking, and making things happen. For the next ten years, I wrote for hours a day in my private journal, asking myself...
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What would you do differently?
26th May 2018
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What would you do differently?

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26th May 2018
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Derivative Zoo Derivative Zoo There are many types of operators that we call derivatives. Classical...
1st May 2018
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Derivative Zoo

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

1st May 2018
Derivative Zoo There are many types of operators that we call derivatives. Classical Derivative One-Sided Derivative Higher Order Derivative Implicit Derivative Complex Derivative Partial Derivative Directional Derivative Covariant Derivative Lie Derivative Exterior...
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When you're building a product, whose opinion should you listen to?
21st Apr 2018
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When you're building a product, whose opinion should you listen to?

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

21st Apr 2018
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The Millennial myth It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the headlines exposing the...
16th Mar 2018
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The Millennial myth

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

16th Mar 2018
It seems that a day doesn’t pass without another article hitting the headlines exposing the shortcomings of the Millennial generation. It seems we are obsessed with the concept of demographic cohorts. Or, to put it more specifically, we are obsessed with the idea that...
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Why I'm building a new SaaS in 2018
7th Mar 2018
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Why I'm building a new SaaS in 2018

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

7th Mar 2018
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Keep in touch When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good...
5th Mar 2018
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Keep in touch

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

5th Mar 2018
When I was promoting myself as a musician, I noticed an interesting pattern. If I had a good conversation with somebody in the music business, then quite often they would send an opportunity my way within a day or two. Yes I just said this twice to emphasize it. This is...
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What affects customer motivation?
23rd Feb 2018
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What affects customer motivation?

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

23rd Feb 2018
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Why decentralization matters The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the...
18th Feb 2018
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Why decentralization matters

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

18th Feb 2018
The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were…
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Shed your money taboos Everyone has weird mental associations with money. But after knowing thousands of musicians for...
5th Feb 2018
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Shed your money taboos

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

5th Feb 2018
Everyone has weird mental associations with money. But after knowing thousands of musicians for over twenty years, I’ve learned this: The happiest musicians are the ones who develop their value, and confidently charge a high price. There’s a deep satisfaction when you know...
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Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Ever tried manually figuring out the perfect...
1st Feb 2018
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Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming

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

1st Feb 2018
Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Ever tried manually figuring out the perfect schedule for your team or planning delivery routes? Enter Google OR-Tools, a free Swiss Army knife of a toolkit that tackles these headache-inducing optimization challenges. From...
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Repeatedly follow-up to show you care I knew a music publicist in New York City when she was at the peak of her success. A few of her...
14th Jan 2018
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Repeatedly follow-up to show you care

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

14th Jan 2018
I knew a music publicist in New York City when she was at the peak of her success. A few of her clients had hits, so everyone wanted to work with her. She was flooded with new music. Whenever someone sent their music, it would go into an inbox. That inbox was completely...
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Building software for podcasters –\_Josh Nielsen from Zencastr Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still...
6th Jan 2018
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Building software for podcasters –\_Josh Nielsen from Zencastr

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

6th Jan 2018
Josh started out trying to build a "GitHub for music." When that idea didn't pan out, he still wanted to do something with Web Audio and WebRTC. So he started building Zencastr, which gives podcasters the ability to record "double-ender" interviews in the browser.
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Finish the year strong
12th Dec 2017
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Finish the year strong

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

12th Dec 2017
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Unlikely places and untangled goals I once went without food for ten days, and that was fine. But the two things I can’t do without for...
11th Dec 2017
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Unlikely places and untangled goals

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

11th Dec 2017
I once went without food for ten days, and that was fine. But the two things I can’t do without for long are solitude and silence. (Freedom from people and their noises.) An Irish friend suggested that I stay at Mount Melleray Abbey, home of the Cistercian Trappist monks,...
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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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How an NBA player ruined my life
18th Oct 2017
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How an NBA player ruined my life

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

18th Oct 2017
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Stop by for coffee I live in the interior of BC, Canada, surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's not easy getting here....
14th Aug 2017
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Stop by for coffee

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

14th Aug 2017
I live in the interior of BC, Canada, surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's not easy getting here. If you make the trip, I'll try to meet with you.
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The Y-Combinator in Python The Y-Combinator in Python Lambda calculus holds a revered place as a foundational system in...
10th Aug 2017
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The Y-Combinator in Python

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

10th Aug 2017
The Y-Combinator in Python Lambda calculus holds a revered place as a foundational system in computation theory, influencing programming languages and paradigms. One fascinating application of lambda calculus is Church encoding, which allows representing data and operators using...
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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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What are the odds of that? Three true stories: In 2008, I was in London for a few days. I wondered if Masako still lived...
3rd Jul 2017
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What are the odds of that?

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

3rd Jul 2017
Three true stories: In 2008, I was in London for a few days. I wondered if Masako still lived there, sixteen years later. “Masako!” In 2007, my band was on tour in Oslo for a few days. I was sitting in a park, wondering if Lucia ever moved there. “Lucia!” I...
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How to create a membership website
17th Jun 2017
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How to create a membership website

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

17th Jun 2017
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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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What Is Not Art? What Is Not Art? The quest to define "art" is a notoriously fraught endeavor, one that has occupied...
15th Jun 2017
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What Is Not Art?

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

15th Jun 2017
What Is Not Art? The quest to define "art" is a notoriously fraught endeavor, one that has occupied philosophers, artists, and critics for centuries, often culminating in throwig up one's hands in frustration and an admission of its inherent elusiveness. Nevertheless, various...
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Crypto token roundup Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred...
6th Jun 2017
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Crypto token roundup

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Jun 2017
Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred Wilson — ICOs and VCs here, Ethereum in 25 minutes, Polychain Joel Monegro ...
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that...
27th May 2017
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th May 2017
It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers, organizations — could access equally. Among other things, ...
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Don't stand still
2nd May 2017
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Don't stand still

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

2nd May 2017
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Fooled by experts Experts are generally right until they're wrong. Unfortunately, it's very easy to get fooled into...
24th Apr 2017
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Fooled by experts

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

24th Apr 2017
Experts are generally right until they're wrong. Unfortunately, it's very easy to get fooled into thinking that experts are always right. This is because they are...experts. They are authoritative and knowledgeable. This is especially true when it comes to trying new things in...
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Adam Wathan's $100k product launch
17th Apr 2017
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Adam Wathan's $100k product launch

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

17th Apr 2017
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Art is useless, and so am I Art is useless by definition. If it was useful, it would be a tool. That question served me...
10th Mar 2017
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Art is useless, and so am I

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

10th Mar 2017
Art is useless by definition. If it was useful, it would be a tool. That question served me well but had its downsides. It kept me from playing and doing things just for me. It’s no coincidence that I stopped making music twenty years ago. It didn’t qualify as the most...
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How Aristotle Created the Computer The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world....
20th Feb 2017
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How Aristotle Created the Computer

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20th Feb 2017
The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world. Originally published by The Atlantic…
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Why most product ideas aren't that good
11th Feb 2017
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Why most product ideas aren't that good

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

11th Feb 2017
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Gadgets and Computers From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you...
16th Jan 2017
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Gadgets and Computers

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Jan 2017
From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you start with a product that has a few electronic functions added, and ...
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Watch for mind gremlins
12th Jan 2017
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Watch for mind gremlins

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

12th Jan 2017
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A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect...
15th Dec 2016
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A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms

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

15th Dec 2016
If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect various measures of Firefox performance…
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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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Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate) Motivation is delicate. An hour outside my city, there’s a little mountain range. The other side...
5th Dec 2016
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Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate)

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

5th Dec 2016
Motivation is delicate. An hour outside my city, there’s a little mountain range. The other side is gorgeous. But the road that crosses the mountains is very twisted, with sharp turns every few seconds. The first two times I drove across, my kid threw up in the back...
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Fundraising isn't predictable I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying...
16th Nov 2016
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Fundraising isn't predictable

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

16th Nov 2016
I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying conversations with investors. The founder's company was growing well, had crossed $1mm ARR, but still couldn't raise money. According to conventional wisdom, that should have been enough to...
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We all want progress
10th Nov 2016
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We all want progress

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

10th Nov 2016
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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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As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally… As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally...
25th Sep 2016
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As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally…

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Sep 2016
As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally hampered by the fact that there was no competitive advantage for any car company in using ...
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Why are you doing? It’s crucial to know why you’re doing what you’re doing. Social norms are powerful. The inputs...
5th Sep 2016
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Why are you doing?

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

5th Sep 2016
It’s crucial to know why you’re doing what you’re doing. Social norms are powerful. The inputs that influence you are powerful. A great talk, book, or video can instantly change how you think. For example, if you want to make a lot of money, you need to admit that. If...
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How to make money from your tiny podcast
3rd Sep 2016
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How to make money from your tiny podcast

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

3rd Sep 2016
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“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the… “Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the...
7th Aug 2016
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“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the…

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Aug 2016
“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the next big thing — to listen for the footsteps. He tried video, ...
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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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When you’re extremely unmotivated Like everyone, I get those times when I’m unmotivated to do anything. Brain dead. No...
2nd Aug 2016
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When you’re extremely unmotivated

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

2nd Aug 2016
Like everyone, I get those times when I’m unmotivated to do anything. Brain dead. No energy. Everything feels like, “Why bother? What’s the point?” Like everyone, I have a list of boring chores that need to be done but that I’ve been putting off for years. I never do them...
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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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Don’t add your two cents “My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion. The boss says, “Good...
25th Jul 2016
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Don’t add your two cents

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

25th Jul 2016
“My two cents” is American slang for adding a small opinion or suggestion. The boss says, “Good job. Maybe just change the blue to gold, change the word ‘giant’ to ‘huge’, and get rid of the border. Other than that, it’s great!” But there’s a big downside: The employee no...
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How to review a data analysis Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to...
18th Jul 2016
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How to review a data analysis

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

18th Jul 2016
Writing good code is hard, writing a good analysis is harder. Peer-review is an essential tool to fight repetitive errors, omissions and…
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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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Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms In the last blog post,...
11th Jul 2016
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Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms

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

11th Jul 2016
Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms In the last blog post, we Parsing Renaming Typechecking Desugaring Simplification Code Generation Passes The following functions are the main passes are that are used inside of the HscMain . -- Parse a module. parseModule :: GhcMonad m =>...
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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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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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Carts without horses Investing in emerging markets such as India, Kenya, and Nigeria isn’t quite what I naively thought...
2nd Jun 2016
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Carts without horses

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

2nd Jun 2016
Investing in emerging markets such as India, Kenya, and Nigeria isn’t quite what I naively thought it would be. Before I started, I thought that finding a good company in an emerging market would just mean copying models that worked in developed markets. All I’d have to do is...
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“The typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions I’ve never heard of it. I’ve heard of it but don’t understand it. I understand it, but I don’t see...
11th May 2016
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“The typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th May 2016
I’ve never heard of it. I’ve heard of it but don’t understand it. I understand it, but I don’t see how it’s useful. I see how it could be…
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Don’t start a business until people are asking you to When you bake a cake, you need to do first things first. You need to get the ingredients before you...
13th Apr 2016
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Don’t start a business until people are asking you to

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

13th Apr 2016
When you bake a cake, you need to do first things first. You need to get the ingredients before you turn on the oven. You need to bake it before you frost it and slice it. Most have an idea but no customers. For them I always say, “Don’t start a business until people are...
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Counting at scale How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a...
12th Apr 2016
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Counting at scale

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

12th Apr 2016
How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a new feature? One way to answer that…
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Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude The Haskell Prelude is the default import into all Haskell...
7th Apr 2016
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Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude

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

7th Apr 2016
Building a Better Custom Haskell Prelude The Haskell Prelude is the default import into all Haskell modules, it provides -XNoImplicitPrelude language extension. There are two philosophies on building new Preludes: Big Vehicle Prelude - Fix most of the deficiencies in the Prelude...
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Comma.ai I wrote a blog post last month highlighting some of the exciting trends in the computing industry....
2nd Apr 2016
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Comma.ai

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Apr 2016
I wrote a blog post last month highlighting some of the exciting trends in the computing industry. One trend I discussed is the rapid…
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The Internet Economy We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook,...
13th Mar 2016
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The Internet Economy

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Mar 2016
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far beyond their original product lines ...
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Put a billion dollars on red
9th Mar 2016
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Put a billion dollars on red

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

9th Mar 2016
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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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Happy, Smart, and Useful There are three things to consider when making life-size decisions: What makes you...
3rd Mar 2016
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Happy, Smart, and Useful

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

3rd Mar 2016
There are three things to consider when making life-size decisions: What makes you happy What’s useful to others We have a tendency to forget one of these. For example: This is the stereotype of the strict parent who says, “You will go to the best school, get perfect...
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Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming Haskell Generics are a somewhat misunderstood...
3rd Mar 2016
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Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming

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

3rd Mar 2016
Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming Haskell Generics are a somewhat misunderstood topic but are an extremely Source for examples code is available . Generics are a form of datatype-generic programming, which although the sum of . A sum type, is a data structure used...
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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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Don't focus on the NASDAQ While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the...
11th Feb 2016
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Don't focus on the NASDAQ

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

11th Feb 2016
While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the world started relative to NASDAQ. At first, I thought I'd find no correlation between how well the index was doing and when successful companies were founded. I love...
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If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of… If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of...
11th Feb 2016
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If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of…

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Feb 2016
If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of spectacular superorganisms to choose from…
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Business is like a game of Frogger
4th Feb 2016
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Business is like a game of Frogger

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

4th Feb 2016
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From Newton to Einstein and Back From Newton to Einstein and Back One of my favourite proofs from undergraduate physics is the...
1st Feb 2016
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From Newton to Einstein and Back

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

1st Feb 2016
From Newton to Einstein and Back One of my favourite proofs from undergraduate physics is the derivation of the classical kinetic energy formula from Einstein's energy-momentum relation. Specifically, we'll see how the classical expression for kinetic energy emerges as a...
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Switch strategies Life is like any journey. You need to change directions a few times to get where you want to...
27th Jan 2016
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Switch strategies

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

27th Jan 2016
Life is like any journey. You need to change directions a few times to get where you want to go. Then when something is extra-rewarding, it’s time to switch strategies. Focus all of your energy on this one thing. Don’t be leisurely. Strike while it’s hot. Be a...
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Monoids for analytics This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is...
16th Jan 2016
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Monoids for analytics

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

16th Jan 2016
This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is a set that is closed under an…
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Product traction is like waiting in line at the grocery store
15th Jan 2016
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Product traction is like waiting in line at the grocery store

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

15th Jan 2016
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When to join a startup Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to...
14th Jan 2016
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When to join a startup

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

14th Jan 2016
Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around the time the Social Network movie came out - perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but part of me imagines a group of MBAs sitting around watching...
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Exceptionalism Startups that do well often follow a set of common principles. These principles influence how they...
4th Jan 2016
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Exceptionalism

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

4th Jan 2016
Startups that do well often follow a set of common principles. These principles influence how they develop products, build teams, raise money, and get customers. The most successful startups, though, are exceptional and often seem to go against these principles in various ways....
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Monads to Machine Code Monads to Machine Code Just-in-time or JIT compilation is compilation done by dynamically generating...
4th Jan 2016
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Monads to Machine Code

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

4th Jan 2016
Monads to Machine Code Just-in-time or JIT compilation is compilation done by dynamically generating executable code. It's a common technique used in many language runtimes to generate optimized code for hot code paths as well ahead of time compilation for So let's build a small...
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Documentaries you should watch this holiday
23rd Dec 2015
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Documentaries you should watch this holiday

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

23rd Dec 2015
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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower...
13th Dec 2015
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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups

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

13th Dec 2015
I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower of Paul Graham and the YC camp of startup wisdom. There’s now a great deal of literature laying out the unbreakable rules for startups. Despite studying this literature, I’ve...
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Nine reasons screenshots are awesome By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots...
13th Nov 2015
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Nine reasons screenshots are awesome

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Nov 2015
By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots back into any app that imports photos…
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Things that aren't progress A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to...
12th Nov 2015
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Things that aren't progress

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

12th Nov 2015
A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to founders doing these things, I started thinking about why they were happening. I realized that the behaviors were largely a function of bad goal setting. When founders choose bad...
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Getting Shit Done I was recently talking to a handful of successful startups founders about issues they were facing as...
8th Nov 2015
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Getting Shit Done

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

8th Nov 2015
I was recently talking to a handful of successful startups founders about issues they were facing as they scaled up their companies. Unanimously, hiring and retaining people who “get shit done” seemed to be their biggest problem. I’ve been thinking about this for the last few...
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You're lucky
1st Nov 2015
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You're lucky

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

1st Nov 2015
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to...
17th Oct 2015
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony.

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

17th Oct 2015
One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to write a symphony.” The man said, “You…
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3 things I learned from my book launch
17th Oct 2015
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3 things I learned from my book launch

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

17th Oct 2015
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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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I and We Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego...
30th Sep 2015
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I and We

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

30th Sep 2015
Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego component is even larger. This is a good thing. Ego is what gives the founder the confidence to create something new. Ego powers the belief that the new thing the founder creates will...
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The last mile
25th Sep 2015
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The last mile

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

25th Sep 2015
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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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Startups should make money
29th Jul 2015
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Startups should make money

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

29th Jul 2015
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Spark best practices Spark execution model Spark's simplicity makes it all too easy to ignore its execution model, and...
30th Jun 2015
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Spark best practices

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

30th Jun 2015
Spark execution model Spark's simplicity makes it all too easy to ignore its execution model, and still manage to write jobs that eventually…
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Keep making things
13th Jun 2015
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Keep making things

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

13th Jun 2015
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The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital "How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The...
7th Jun 2015
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The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jun 2015
"How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can…
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Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also...
12th May 2015
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Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden

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12th May 2015
"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The core growth process in the…
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Ultimate validation
10th May 2015
14

Ultimate validation

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

10th May 2015
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Proprietary services vs open protocols
12th Apr 2015
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Proprietary services vs open protocols

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12th Apr 2015
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"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed" Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth...
13th Mar 2015
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"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed"

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13th Mar 2015
Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth graders, and they had a whole classroom full…
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No marketing unicorns
7th Feb 2015
17

No marketing unicorns

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

7th Feb 2015
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Getting out of a bad state of mind The last time I was in really bad state of mind, I used these five steps to get out of it. I’ve...
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Getting out of a bad state of mind

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

1st Feb 2015
The last time I was in really bad state of mind, I used these five steps to get out of it. I’ve shared this with a few friends in a similar situation, and they said it helped. I hope it works for you too. 1. Ask myself what’s wrong in this very second. Am I in physical...
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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...
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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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