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Indeed. What a deep cut

His PC magazine column was the first thing I read when I was able to get hold of old PC Magazines. Even in the fast cycle of PCs in the 90s, you could learn something reading yeste…

There is no “Chinese LLM”. Each “lab” is distinct and their models behavior is as unique as those from OpenAI and Anthropic

I'm not sure if identifying pain is the opposite of creating need. The pain here was fast foods need for cheap fish that has a reliable supply. The need was created when he was abl…

the like/share/repin/rate/review buttons are a form of natural curation built into the fabric of the social web.

A work/travel-program for knowledge professionals to travel the world and work a set number of hours a week on projects to pay their way. Air tickets, budget, airbnbs/apartments al…

the irs would hit any partners you use to transfer funds very quickly with deep audits at the very minimum if this gets even a little traction, i'd think

This is a bridge round led by an outside investor. Not uncommon, especially between Series A and B. I don't get much of the hard decision here, seems pretty common. I do appreciate…

The problem with such advice is that some of it is always right. But you just don't which part. And you can't do it all.

You're probably right, FB prices went up for Zynga more so than others because they saturated their market (which just took longer cause it was bigger). However, anecdotally, I've …

I think this misses the point entirely. Zynga is not failing because their products are cheap to recreate. Plenty of companies, in tech and beyond, have easily recreatable products…

A lot more tech companies are started now than maybe, 3 years ago. Also, it takes companies time to reach $100M in revenue.

I always wondered why everything related to my computing devices seems to follow some variation of Moores law but the battery. This explains it.

I think a fundamental assumption in this article is flawed: "The most popular games are still pretty simple, but mid-core games like strategy simulator War Commander are gaining st…

Shoedazzle pioneered this but had to get rid of the subscription and flip to a per-item charge because of scam complains.

Red Herring used to be a major tech magazine back in the day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Herring_(magazine)

Why does Apple warn users that they must be at least 17 to download a browser. Or for that matter say that Axis may contain: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor Infrequent/Mil…

This is way too generic. There can be no one best place for entrepreneurs because the natural ideal location is where your customers are (as a startup, you'll more often than not t…

Wrong. Social games are not regular media. What is a media company? Media companies deal in information - it could be the news, analysis, up-to-the-second stock information or cele…

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