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by softdev12 12y ago
This is interesting because it's the first time I've heard about 21 and they have raised $116 million pre-launch. Given that companies who've raised an order of magnitude less are all over the news, it's surprising they
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by softdev12 12y ago
I read a bunch of different tech sites, but it my opinion, the most relevant stuff is on HN. It basically aggregates all the best stuff from all the tech publications anyway, so you are probably just as well off in the end. Of course, if yo
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At Startups, People Are ‘New Infrastructure’(wsj.com)
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by softdev12 12y ago
I now use a quick test whenever I hear about a new startup: I ask myself what's the "trick" they are proposing. If the trick is sufficiently clever, then I raise the odds of the startup getting initial traction. Here are a fe
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by softdev12 12y ago
It was a good read. The most interesting parts were the backstory behind how MySpace got started. In particular, how the company pivoted a number of times before getting the social network idea to really catch on. It was fascinating to see
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Google Snubs Robotics Rivals, Pentagon(wsj.com)
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The Back Story of Meerkat: A Side Project That Took Off(blogs.wsj.com)
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Online Crafts Marketplace Etsy Files for IPO(wsj.com)
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Uber just bought a mapping startup(businessinsider.com)
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Are Glowing Reports of New Solar Cell Material Mostly Hype?(scientificamerican.com)
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by softdev12 12y ago
right. 7) a great team is probably even more important than luck.
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I think this article has it backwards. I think that the default state for a startup is to fail. That even if you do almost everything right, you still have a high probability of failing. And that there should be a list of all the things tha
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by softdev12 12y ago
Summary of this article: 1) Barry Silbert's BIT has beat the Winklevoss' (or Winklevii) bitcoin fund to market by using a backdoor listing technique. 2) Finra granted its request for a permanent ticker symbol, GBTC, and that “is
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BIT Poised to Become Publicly Traded Bitcoin Fund(wsj.com)
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This is awesome. When I read the previous post by OP that hit the number one spot (called Consulting), I immediately wished that there was a post-mortem on the failed startup. This is important for many reasons, but the least of which is th
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The Disease That Killed “Spock”: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(scientificamerican.com)
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by softdev12 12y ago
There is a weird phenomenon going on now that relates to design. i agree that the page is super simple looking and agree that this is a turnoff for most people. But for some reason people now think that design is even more important than th
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Snapchat Is a Giant Threat to Google, Facebook, and TV(businessinsider.com)
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i agree completely with your first sentence. Having distribution is just as important as the core use case of the product. In the beginning, it may actually be more important. One of the most fascinating things about the recent explosion of
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Amazon’s Twitch Site Bets on Poker(wsj.com)
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Strippers Go Undercover on Snapchat(nytimes.com)
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by softdev12 12y ago
This is interesting and seems to indicate that there is a small edge case for people who want as much privacy as possible. The larger topic for me is that webRTC has to make tradeoff for developers. And, I for one, love what it does. If you
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by softdev12 12y ago
I agree. For the vast majority of use cases, this doesn't seem to be an exceptionally big issue. Almost all major websites collect IP addresses and don't explicitly prompt the user that this is happening. It seems the OP is really
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Giant Asteroid Collision May Have Radically Transformed Mars(scientificamerican.com)
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Researchers Find Way to Harness Brain to Control Bionic Hands(wsj.com)
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What Clever Robots Mean for Jobs(wsj.com)
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Technology Bubble? Ask Waffle House(wsj.com)
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The Smartest Questions to Ask About Intelligence(wsj.com)
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Can an App Be Too Successful? Ask ‘Trivia Crack’(wsj.com)
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To Revive Wallet, Google Tries to Wrangle Unruly Partners(wsj.com)
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