2 days ago
Anil : Details of Execution - Sometimes if you do something very difficult, and you do it really well, the end result is that your achievement becomes completely invisible. I mentioned a year and a half ago that I like Twitter. That was a little bit less common a position to take b
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7 days ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How To Launch Software - How To Launch Software: I wish more people understood this!
deusx : How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - "Instead what happens when software developers try the Hollywood Launch, and I've seen this many times, is that users indeed do flood to your site on launch day but... Tomorrow, hardly any of those users come back. Your traffic graphs look like
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12 days ago
Anil : Details of Execution - Sometimes if you do something very difficult, and you do it really well, the end result is that your achievement becomes completely invisible. I mentioned a year and a half ago that I like Twitter. That was a little bit less common a position to take b
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Anil : Details of Execution - Sometimes if you do something very difficult, and you do it really well, the end result is that your achievement becomes completely invisible. I mentioned a year and a half ago that I like Twitter. That was a little bit less common a position to take b
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1 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund - Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund: "A web-based Excel/database hybrid." Please make it versioned and multi-user
Linkorama : Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund - a combination of relentless predator upon the obsolete and benevolent solver of the world's problems. As ways of making money go, that's pretty good. Startups are often ruthless competitors, but they're competing in a game won by making what people want.
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5 month ago
deusx : Why There Aren't More Googles - "If you want to get all that value, don't destroy the startup after you buy it. Give the founders enough autonomy that they can grow the acquisition into what it would have become."
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5 month ago
nelson : Startups and acquisition - Well known VC points out that startups almost always suffer after an acquisition. Is a liquid private equity market the solution?
deusx : A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity - "But who am I to complain? We got paid right? So sit down and shut up. Except I am also a user of these services. I see what happens when a company gets purchased."
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism - I work with young startup founders in their twenties. They're geniuses, and play by their own rules. Oh... you haven't founded a company? You suck.
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Paul Graham says You Weren't Meant to Have A Boss - big companies and junk food both scale, but they're unhealthy in similar ways
deusx : You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss - "The restrictiveness of big company jobs is particularly hard on programmers, because the essence of programming is to build new things."
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Meebo raising round, valued up to $250 million. Bear Stearns sold for $236 million - headline of the day
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6 month ago
Linkorama : A Couple of My Rules for Startups - Blog Maverick - Coffee is for closers -- Mark Cuban
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6 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) - How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips): jason has some good stuff here
Linkorama : How to save money running a startup - tip #3: # Buy everyone lunch four days a week and establish a no-meetings policy.
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plasticbag : Dopplr have announced integration with Fire Eagle which fills me with joy! - It's a pretty lightweight interaction right now, but they're keen to think of things they could do with it.
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Linkorama : How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million - Good Angel networking story
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7 month ago
WillPate : Who Cares If Corporate Valuations Are Crazy?
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7 month ago
WillPate : Canada Needs to Realize The Technology Business is a Race | StartupNorth
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Will it fly? - I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that.
Andy Baio : Ev's guide to evaluating new product ideas - for me, "personally compelling" is the only one that matters, since I can't build something I won't use myself
WillPate : Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Fan website buys soccer team - In a landmark for English football, members will vote on player selection, transfers and all major decisions.
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11 month ago
Linkorama : Web Startups Are A Commodity - VCs are a commodity too
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11 month ago
plasticbag : If you have an e-mail address from any of these 100 companies you can get yourself a Dopplr invitation straightaway... - Very classy idea, oh Dopplr central. I'll be circulating this around Yahoo straight away...
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13 month ago
deusx : uncov / Nobody Gets Laid At BarCamp (barcamp) - "Basically you sign up to come pitch your useless startup to a bunch of other jerkoffs who are pitching their useless startups, and it doesn't stop until everyone gets a full release."
Linkorama : Nobody Gets Laid At BarCamp - BarCamp is a conference sort of thing that revolves around a Wiki. Basically you sign up to come pitch your useless startup to a bunch of other jerkoffs who are pitching their useless startups, and it doesn't stop until everyone gets a full release.
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13 month ago
Simon Willison : Top 10 dotcoms to watch - Top 10 dotcoms to watch. From the Guardian—Dopplr and Moo both get a mention.
plasticbag : Top 10 UK dotcoms to watch as captured by Guardian Unlimited (not sure I understand why they hide half of their bloody articles with javascript though) - Nice to see the cool people from Dopplr on the list. Nicer still to see the Moo chaps. Big fans of both. Many of the other ones are new to me.
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16 month ago
Linkorama : The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth - The principal asset a young tech entrepreneur has is that they don’t know a lot of things.
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17 month ago
Linkorama : Introducing FoundRead - While there are some excellent resources such as Reddit-powered YCombinator start-up site, Startupping, Venture Hacks ... what I envisioned was a digital salon – where the conversations were started, experiences shared, questions asked and answered –
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