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At least one startup's doing just fine vs. Blackboard. Instructure Canvas just closed series B, is CEO'd by former Mozy founder and is LMS of choice for a growing number of schools…

tl;dr Contractor develops psyops backend for the cloud. Creates fake persona pool. Uses anonymizer/chameleon for IP obfuscation, vmware/virtualbox instances for each persona, enabl…

Amazon is sending me a copy. I hope it's as helpful as the classic "If You Want to Write" by Brenda Euland -- which was written in 1938, but has aged very-very well. Originally fou…

Joe Ades -- passed away last year after many years selling on the streets of NYC. He was profiled a few times, but this article sheds more light on his life and business: http://ww…

Looking forward to following behind the scenes on this. Saw the initial tweets about WPEngine and mighty interested in the 'lessons learned' re: using social for first block of cus…

Mark Bittman, food writer at NYT strikes a balance between food hyperbole and science that appeals to me. (e.g. full appreciation of health, weight, environment, pleasure trade-off…

Good post. Another way to put it? "Hitched to Someone Else's Dream" http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080901/hitched-to-someone-else... "I got sucked into his enterprise -- our livelih…

Ok, Colbert (and smart MSFT product-placers) - I'll bite. Today is officially "Bing for a Day" here. I just set my Chrome default engine to Bing for the first time. Should be fun -…

"gets engineers to prioritize stuff" Yes. And jives with Kayak.com founder's Big Red Phone tactic: "About a year ago, I bought a red telephone with a really loud ringer for the off…

Another way of saying same. If employees are in your future, focus on revenue per employee (RPE). Napkin math: sub-$100k RPE and your wee company is nominally profitable after sala…

Room for profit is the key. Comments from local folks in-the-know seem to say this has been investigated here in the ATX, and there isn't room for profit. Alas, your garage idea mi…

Just celebrated my 1-year anniversary here in Austin, Texas. Took 8 years to convince wife to make the move. Been fantastic so far. Article is right-on in many regards: Business/st…

Wow -- kudos to the team. Per twitter, looks like Redis on the backend? Pubsub? Also, that is one heck-of-a demo video. Any production notes and/or team that created the vid? Reall…

Regarding #1 -- "educational capacity to train the people needed". One of the additional benefits to source article's proposal: There's a large, highly trained base of Navy 'nukes'…

Here goes... Seattle is a fantastic town, water everywhere, gorgeous vistas and when the weather cooperates (August) there's no better place (I've found) in the entie-ree world. Th…

Article says 5500 average per year fall into current estate tax. Estates taxed at 45% beyond the $3.5 million threshold (2009). 2010, tax is 15% of all assets without further actio…

Article was interesting. Finding Readability... fantastic. Thanks, callahad.

Without hearing both sides of the story, an instructional video came to mind: Chris Rock's: How not to get your a$$ kicked by police http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8 Hope…

Confirmed on my MyTouch (worst phone name evar - though very happy with the beast). App works fantastic in practice in my tests, though choked on one case tonight. Had kids in car,…

Longevity, yes: 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' a popular children's book has sold 29 million copies, and according to Newsweek, does $50 million in licensing deals a year. (yes, ye…

Postful is one I've used in the past. Does have API: http://www.postful.com/help/integration And, PostalMethods is one I've been meaning to try -- again with API: http://www.postal…

I've had success with the approach of Jon Kabat-Zinn -- see his talk @ Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc ... his book, Full Catastrophe Living is a good read as we…