Every few days, I get an email or a Facebook message asking me if I know anyone who’s looking to be their technical co-founder. This post is an aggregation of responses and tips I give to college star
It's no secret that I'm a fan of bootstrapping. I like to retain 100% founder control of a business that I'm in. There are some circumstances where I'd consider raising capital (as a springboard, not
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Online retailer Zappos has long been known to do things its own way. The customer-service obsessed company calls its executives “ monkeys ,” has staffers ring cowbells to greet guests, and offers new
I don't care about your code challenge. I've recently been doing some interviews for front-end and JavaScript-relatedpositions at local tech companies here in the bay area. One thing I did notexpect as part of this interview process (at a company which shall remainnameless) was to be presented with…
The Disrupters | The Attention Grabber The Meanings of the Selfie Credit... James Franco Selfies are something new to me, but as I have become increasingly addicted to Instagram, I have been accused o
A few minutes ago I came across a Hacker News post that detailed a method of adding search to your static site. As you probably know, adding search to a static site is a bit tricky, because you can’t just send the query to a server and have the server process it and return the results. If you want…
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4 reasons I use large type The type on this site is totally unorthodox and it’s easier to read. If you don’t believe me, here’s why… I’m sick and tired of cramped websites that have tiny type and don’
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português Automattic employs 225 people. We’re located all over the world, in 190 different cities. We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it op
This is perhaps one of the most striking passages I have read for a while. It describes the modern world with startling accuracy. In our fear of an increasingly authoritarian rule, we have allowed a f
Biz Stone’s much anticipated mobile app “ Jelly ” officially launched today, and since it marries some of my core interests — mobile and marketplaces (Q&A) — I thought I’d jot down some quick, unpolished reactions to the app — which at a high-level, is very well-designed — because it brought…
Recently I wrote about wannabe and first-timer entrepreneur symptoms. I did include cures, but the reality is it is often hard to self-medicate. A longer lasting cure is to get a couple of good mentors. The mentors are there to call you on all your bullshit. You have to be open to being called out,…
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich visits Kanzi, a 25-year-old Bonobo, at Great Ape Trust of Iowa in 2005. (Steve Pope/Associated Press) In November, Mischa Fisher took to this space to criticize the
It's a question that's been asked since time immemorial: Could a woman create an online dating profile "so loathsome that no man would message it"? Cracked 's crack investigative reporter Alli Reed de
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just made her first announcement onstage during her Consumer Electronics Show keynote — that the company has acquired Aviate , a startup that taps the apps on your smartphone t
Did you invent it? Did you come up with it? Did you start it? Really? Then where is it? Show it to me. You can’t can you? Because that’s all you did. You thought, you talked, and you dreamed. These are all good things, all very, very important things but you forgot the most important step. You…
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 7 min read · Jan 4, 2014 -- Yesterday I wrote a post about “ the politics of startups ” in which I asserted that all companies have politics, which in its purest
January 2, 2014 “Vacations are for the weak” We all understand the absurdity of that old adage “sleep is for the weak”. That attitude has been put to rest by a bevy of studies empirically showing that
December 15, 2013 I want The best way to predict the future is to think about desire. The problem with desire is that it tends to be bounded by what’s actually possible; as we grow older, our imaginat
It would be an understatement to say that America has an ambivalent relationship with marijuana. The United States is in the world’s top five per-capita consumer of the drug, yet it treats possession
Every time I tell someone about OpenStreetMap, they inevitably ask"Why not use Google Maps?". From a practical standpoint, it's areasonable question, but ultimately this is not just a matter ofpractic
Despite the vastness of the sky, airplanes occasionally crash into each other. To avoid these catastrophes, the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) was developed. TCAS alerts pilots to
It takes a few days for things to return to normal, but we’re officially back! First of all, we owe a big thanks to Google for being fair and transparent and allowing us back onto their results pages.
BBS (1993-1995). Ran a BBS out of my bedroom. Forgot the name. Yes, people would call into it in the middle of the night and it would make that modem sound. The best feature was I scheduled anonymous chats with my Dad, who is an ID doctor covering HIV/AIDS. Silkscapes (1995-1996). Made an online…
Author and philosopher Noam Chomsky (Screen shot) The world faces two potentially existential threats, according to the linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky. “There are two major dark shado
Image Credit: Hallie Bateman for Pandodaily “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” - Warren Buffett “Hypocrisy is the only modern
Unfortunately, thinking big is easier advised than explained. It's hard to explain because thinking big is one of those things that you don't know you're doing wrong until you're doing it right. It's kind of like a high-school relationship vs a good marriage, which I realize is an analogy that also…
Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: there’s a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world. So it was with my first “real” computer, my Mac Plus, when I decided to brin
A Detroit-area woman who was allegedly trying to "protect" her dog from a stray cat went about it in the worst possible way — by kicking snow in its face. The cat, being a cat, responds by pouncing in
We owe many of the innovations that we use every day — from our favorite longstanding websites to the latest mobile applications — to the existence of underlying highly technical protocols. Endusers d
December 13th came by and it was this past Friday. No coins ever came in, the only thing CoinBase did was lock in a price for me @ $868.91. Again, they locked in a price and didn’t give me coins on the day they told me they would deliver the coins.Ever since the 13th, my transaction page has been…
Bitcoin just crashed 50% today, on news that the Chinese government has banned local exchanges from accepting deposits in Yuan. BtC was trading over $1000 yesterday; now it's down to $500 and still fa
Counting the rapper Nas among your investors undoubtedly carries cool points for any startup. But is there much value beyond dropping a famous name? Nas, and his manager Aymen Anthony Saleh , are work
(Photo via ) Indian nuclear scientists haven't had an easy time of it over the past decade. Not only has the scientific community been plagued by "suicides," unexplained deaths, and sabotage, but thos
How to make your YC application stand out Oct 14, 2010 in startups ycombinator As a YC alum ( COLOURlovers.com , W10), I had a great time seeing some old YC friends and meeting a lot of new faces at t
There’s been a lot of discussion in the last few days about those annoying “Rate This App” dialogs in far too many iOS apps today, initiated by John Gruber , summarized nicely by Chris Gonzales , and
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