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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

There’s a good chance I’ve missed something — if you feel that way, by all means, please share your point of view on Twitter (or email) and link to the post. And, this goes well beyond the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Then 2018 arrived.

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How to Think Like a Hacker, Even if You Can’t Code

David Teten

What do Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Page all have in common? I haven’t been an active coder since I was in my late 20s, but there’s no question that my experience learning how to code when I was 12 and teaching children and adults how to program has changed the way I think about every aspect of my life.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> Anyway, the way to manage that is still to execute better. Our idea is boring and not revolutionary.

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Startup = Growth

paulgraham.com

But I also mean startups are different by nature, in the same way a redwood seedling has a different destiny from a bean sprout. Writing software is a great way to solve (b), but you can still end up constrained in (a). Your niche both protects and defines you. And even if they did the barbershop couldnt accomodate them. [

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Even though the names of the preceding companies are less than ideal, they clearly did not stand in the way of these organizations’ success. The telephony company Vonage suffers from a name that is both difficult to pronounce and challenging to spell (the proper accent is on “VON”). infoChachkie. What Works?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They start out frozen so they can’t be smushed up and reformed, and the thawing machine is so tightly integrated with the cooking machine that there’s no way to intercept it between the two. The list goes on and on. But it was the quickest way of building a speech recognition prototype.

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The Decade in Tech

Start Up Blog

The weird part is that USA and China both surveil their citizens, though the Chinese government isn’t making a secret of tracking their citizens, while the USA is pretending it’s about security when clearly it’s not. What happened: Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations + Facebook goes public with IPO.