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I am evaluating AI tools. How should I use this research to interpret a tool's vulnerability profile as part of the selection process? Using LangFuse as an example, since that is o…

Technically "microblogging" is the generic term for Twitter's service, as I'm sure you know, but given how quickly they dominated the space it's a bit obscure (like saying "ice pop…

Jon - really enjoyed failing to stump you the other day at the Urban.Us dinner and love what you are doing. Question: "The target tenant earns between $50,000 and $100,000 — the te…

Has anyone done a YCR interview that can share what it was like? I got an email this week that said it's a 5-minute Skype call, with no further context. What can you do in a 5 minu…

Spam does not mean unsolicited marketing. Door-to-door sales, direct mail, telemarketing, billboards - even the guy who in every tourist trap in the world who begs you to come eat …

I've worked with teams at Lean Startup Machine who have done this, but you have to be careful not to get shut down by Twitter as a spammer. I like how dools did it: only targeting …

I agree that this was egregious. I wonder if they wrote this headline as linkbait despite knowing that they didn't have the guy's name.

It's very hard for media - even specialist media - to be as well versed in the technical knowledge of the practitioner. You see it all the time in financial journalism as well wher…

If I recall correctly from my AP Journalism class a billion years ago, mainstream journalists - we didn't have such a distinction then but I'm imagining that would be the equivalen…

The founders in YC are hardly naive innocents who are undervaluing their startups. A) the empirical evidence shows that they get the highest valuations for their seed rounds; and b…

Etsy is considered to have one of the top engineering teams in NY - their CEO was originally brought in as CTO to solve what was at the time a technology mess - and they have a str…