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Hey Twitter, buy Embedly
Embedly totally rules. The service takes a URL pointing to another site, and returns some embeddable content. This has completely transformed my Twitter experience. When I go to a tweet page, I would...
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A new way to hire: skip the interview. Check code samples and references
Earlier this year we had to let someone go. This person had been working for us for less than a month. When someone isn’t a fit at a startup, you need to part ways and move on. In a small team, a...
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Tech Companies Family Tree. Links between company founders and acquisitions...
via mashable.com Honored to be on this list, and a tiny part of the history of the tech industry. Tagged: popular, startups
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Steve Jobs on startups
The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it. That’s somewhat understandable, because there are many...
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Dave McClure on why seed-stage startup valuations have been increasing
price-insensitivity by 2 types of investors: newly-minted / n00b angel investors, who have more money than experience, and/or are in it primary for fame more than fortune… in my first few years after...
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We blink two-thirds less often when we’re looking at a computer screen
If you work in an office, chances are you’ve experienced eye irritation, including eyestrain, dry eyes, burning, and light sensitivity. While there are many contributing factors to “tired eyes”, the...
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Why you need a “product guy”
[There's] a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to do product. It is not code for a person who doesn’t really know how to do anything but thinks he can boss engineers around. It doesn’t refer...
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Cutting features is hard
One of the interesting conversations coming out of my last post about Product Guys is the need to cut features. It seems like everyone in Silicon Valley likes to blog about how “a good product should...
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Startup Impossible
On the Food Network television show “Restaurant Impossible”, celebrity chef Robert Irvine takes a failing business and turns it out around in two days on a $10,000 budget. Unlike other Food Network...
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Raising money from the best investors is more important than getting the...
In the summer of 2008, Posterous was a part of Y Combinator Demo Day in Boston and Mountain View. After one of our demos, an investor pulled me aside: “I love what you are doing. How much do you want?...
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