Apple's revenue has pretty much stopped growing. This chart shows the quarterly revenue the company has reported - a series of ever larger spikes upward around new product launches, but with a flatten
One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google’s project managers. All of them. It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the middle of the night with a vision. In it, he somehow managed to download the entire Web and by examining the…
In 2007, at a public forum at Coe College, in Iowa, Presidential candidate Barack Obama was asked about net neutrality. Specifically, “Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to rein
These Upworthy Titles Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity. But You Won’t Believe What Happens Next. Clickbait is bad. Clickbait is ruining journalism. Everyone knows this. Everyone hates the formulaic
Yesterday I wrote about how the design of the Weather.com illustrates the negative influence of advertisers on the site : the experience is degraded almost to the point of ridiculousness. Pages regula
Cool URIs don't change What makes a cool URI? A cool URI is one which does not change. What sorts of URI change? URIs don't change: people change them. There are no reasons at all in theory for people
As the number of Homebrew companies grow, some are preparing for a Series A in 2014 (we’ve backed more teams than are currently public on our website). While very few people start companies simply bec
It has now been 150 days since Fab completed its 2013 restructuring which saw us cut our operating expenses by two-thirds and go from more than 750 employees to around 300 today. Since then, armed with tens of millions of dollars, a great brand, loyal customers, a passion for design, an amazing…
Hey team, Our next team meeting is dedicated to Core Values, which are essential to building our culture. It occurred to me that before this meeting, I should write you a short letter on why culture i
Fresh out of Stanford Business School, I started a software company, T/Maker, with my brother Peter. He was the software architect and I was, well, everything else. Our little company was among the fi
The evolution of Buffer’s core scheduling Published in Buffer Stories · 6 min read · Mar 3, 2014 -- At the core of how Buffer schedules posts is one line of a cronjob configuration that hasn’t been to
Startup employees often donot get treated very well when it comes to stock compensation. New ideas float around occasionally, butlawyers are usually averse to trying new things, and investors don’t fe
By the end of their dinner at a small Italian restaurant in New York’s West Village, Leah is getting antsy to part ways with her boyfriend Ryan, so that she can go meet up with her boyfriend Jim. It’s
Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come Greenland's immense ice sheet is melting as a result of climate change. Credit... Kadir van Lohuizen for The New York Times YOKOHAMA, Japan — Cli
The best part of the iPhone’s small screen is its one-handed capabilities. Navigating with only one hand allows for an entirely different use-case than that of a larger-screened phone or tablet.
Navigating with swipes is my favourite method of working through an iOS application. Buttons need a level…
When we think about the spectacular collapses of once untouchable Internet properties, companies like MySpace and Pets.com come to mind. The rise and fall of AOL Instant Messenger rivals them all. Onc
The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it’s started getting angry. I’ve noticed it in my text messages and online chats, where people use the period not simply to
In 2009, when Robert H Richard IV, an unemployed heir to the DuPont family fortune, pled guilty to fourth-degree rape of his three-year-old daughter, a judge spared him a justifiable sentence – indeed
In the early days of Olark, we took a very traditional approach to customer service. We did what most companies do and hired someone smart to handle it. Andrew did such an amazing job of handling issues that we hardly heard from our customers. In the Fall of 2009, Andrew decided to go back to…
Disclaimers I'm not a citizen of a country where "getting more people to code" is a widely shared concern. While my proposal seems to me like a simple solution to a simple problem, this is merely an o
Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images On March 19, 2000, the New York Times published a Q&A with Matthew Johnson, the chief Nasdaq trader for Lehman Brothers. It had been a mixed week in the markets
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I’ve noticed how seemingly small things like font and the spacing between letters can impact how I feel when reading online. The right font choice along with the absence of sidebars and popups makes everything feel easier and better to read. Websites like Medium , Signal vs. Noise , and Zen Habits…
When Molly Graham joined Facebook in 2008 , the company still felt scrappy. With 400 employees serving 80 million users, people were so busy “moving fast and breaking things” that the culture still ne
Contributor Contributor More posts by this contributor The dinner that destroyed Gawker Author Ryan Holiday on “the nature of world-altering success” Editor’s note: Bill Aulet is the managing director
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2014-04-07 People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: This is a worrisome trend for the web. Mobile is the future. What wins mobile, win
Jordan Crook Contributor There is a special milestone in each significant relationship that is rarely celebrated. There’s no holiday, no dinner, and no party. It just happens – one day you’re stranger
APRIL 7--When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday, one of the invited partygoers was a former paid FBI Mafia inf
Anthony Rose is co-founder and CTO of zeebox , the social network for TV. So, you have a mobile app where there are more pages or sections than can fit on a mobile screen at once. Your first thought m
Chris Dixon, in a piece titled “ The Decline of the Mobile Web ”, citing stats from ComScore and Flurry : People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop. And more oftheir mobile time using apps, n
Of all the many high-profile Internet companies, perhaps none has attracted more speculation than Square. It makes sense. The payments company has a well-known CEO and founder in tech star Jack Dorsey
We were taken by surprise by a lemon law claim recently filed against Tesla by a Wisconsin lawyer, describing himself as the "Lemon Law King", who says that we ignored his client's three demands for a
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Ephemeral Apps Ephemeral messaging apps such as Snapchat, Wickr and Frankly, all of which advertise that your photo, message or update will only be accessible for a short period, are on the rise. Snap
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Yesterday Sam Altman published a short post containing his thoughts on Secret, and also anonymity in general—namely that it breeds meanness, and that anonymous social networks are destined to decay an
One of my friend’s startups recently had 3x growth in average revenue per customer from January to February. They went from earning an average of $230 per customer per month to just over $600 per cust
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