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There is a really good book out there on one person startups called the $100 startup by Chris Guillebeau - it gives loads of examples of startups around the world, which were start…

I would say it kind of depends on where you live. While this would be totally o.k. in the U.S. and pretty much no problem at all in the Silicon Valley, it would look fairly bad to …

thank you.. they look really good. Will give them a try.

I am looking for a translation service to help with the localization of riddle.com, where I can upload an Excel with 26 language columns and get just one Excel file back with all t…

My take on it: Growth hacking is building something users love and let the world know about it - it has been around for ever.

You should check out the Growth Hacking class at onemonth.com - I have taken the class and totally love it. It walks you through a full product launch from building a landing page,…

My CTO send me a link to a good article on HN

Love this article: http://andrewchen.co/the-highest-roi-way-to-increase-signups-make-a-minimal-homepage-guest-post/ on simple homepages and also the negatives comments to the artic…

After these awesome videos, you now know how to start a startup. Next up: grow the startup. There is lots of good reading on growth (like this post by Paul Graham from 2012, which …

This is terrible for anyone who relies on Flash to get any kind of interactivity going inside the FB timeline. It would have been better if FF would just display a warning and then…

I had to do this many times and the advice from steven2012 is gold. Do it personally, do it with dignity. It is important for those who stay as most likely you will be laying off s…

I believe any question that relates to your life outside work such as your marital status, your kids or how your relationship would endure a startup job can get you in trouble in t…

I am not sure I understand the reason for doing this? Why not set a calendar reminder, which then pops up at the desired time? I find mail more and more useless as all the importan…

Someone figuring out how many customers a bakery needs to survive and then guessing the number of people who live in New York and deducting the number of bakeries from that. Not ba…

Yes, I had it happen that people are great on paper and in the interview and did not work out. In each case it was a sales hire. The people in question were excellent sales reps. T…

I have hired hundreds of people throughout my career - both for startups hiring employee number 2 and also for big corporates. Also, I am normally hiring in Europe. Some of the stu…

Very interesting service. Does the personalization only work with Google or other traffic sources as well?

Google play will disable all games using the old revmob SDK. Revmob unfortunately does not provide any help on how to upgrade. A Google search only brings up a revmob support forum…

what is so great about introducing gadgets like car play into old and outdated technology like cars that need gas? Seriously, the big innovation in the car industry is coming from …

Like it. I do think there is a need for a site like eduhunt. Teachers are constantly on the prowl for good new tools (at least good teachers are). If the site becomes as big in its…

your post really does not want me to ever upgrade my MacBook Pro from 2012. What I really love about this machine is that a) you almost never need to reboot it (I do it out of habi…

I think this: >4. People will just stop using taxis more and more. Who wants to be driven by violent guys, and who already are usually bad drivers that even harass people who are n…

> Yes. Uber is violating the guidelines set out for classifying workers as independent contractors. Based on Uber's requirements, they should be properly categorized as employees, …

I think your view of horrible British food is a bit out of date. British restaurants are among the top in the world and to be honest, even Pub Food beats most casual eateries in ma…