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Y Combinator has invested in hundreds and hundreds of companies, and many of them have become quite successful. Reddit, Dropbox, Airbnb, Wufoo, Hipmunk, Loopt, Posterous, Heroku, and Scribd are just a...
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From small seeds grow mighty oaks. When a tree grows, at what point do you say it has achieved success? When it has reached its full height, and stopped growing? When it has dropped seeds of its own,...
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People on the Internet like to make big, disruptive announcements. It makes people take notice and it creates debate. Recently it seems fashionable to predict that something is going to die. Facebook....
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There is no shortage of inspiring places to find amazing web design on the Intenet. What there is a shortage of, however, is time. Your time. You want to be creating, not consuming, so how do you know...
View ArticleIs Google the most innovative tech company on the planet?
Innovation is often thought to be the life of the startup. The madcap entrepreneurs and fearless youngsters throwing themselves into changing the world, with faith and hope and a little craziness. The...
View ArticleFrom ASCII to streaming video: How the Internet created a multi-billion...
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View Article40 Mac apps with great, eye-catching designs
Many Mac apps are beautiful to look at — while other operating systems have beautiful apps, design is a bigger factor for the platform’s developers. And, a lot of the time, these apps are wonderful to...
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