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In 2013, Amazon had 65% market share of online book sales [1]. It wouldn't surprise me if this was 20% higher now. When customers walk into a Barnes and Noble (or any bookstore) an…

Stealth mode company | San Mateo, CA | Full Time We're looking for our first non-founder engineer to join a small team backed by leading VCs and angels. We're working on something …

I worked at Nest on their professional distribution channel for some time. The thermostat market is dominated by professional sales (80-90% are sold and installed by professional H…

Not to keep harping on the subject (see my comments above), but pre-warming or pre-cooling houses is actually a really great solution to solving our energy problems with algorithms…

Wasting/saving energy is not as simple a calculation as that. When energy is at peak use (say in the winter, around 5:30/6:00 when everybody returns from work), it becomes more exp…

I would be extremely cautious about #1 (replacing PNGs with CSS3 transforms and drop shadows). Your page load time may decrease but your website performance will suffer. For exampl…

This can turn out not to be a problem if the startup hits some reasonable growth (growth is usually a solution to such ails as long as it continues). This is the important line in …

Mountain View, CA - Full-time iOS/iPhone/iPad developer on-site only Origami.com (formerly known as Everyme) is a YC-backed (S11) startup building an online home for families. We a…

I don't think it's fair to bunch all 400+ Y Combinator companies together like this. You'll probably find good and bad benefits packages with the same frequency across all small st…

This won't work on Github's subdomain, but you'd do it like this: function sort(data) { $('body').append(' "); return data.sort(); }

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pM6hJG6Wo&feature=youtu... I was stunned by how fast the blind can "speed listen" in the linked video. Is this something anyone can learn?

Sales - depends on how many domains you own and how good they are. I make 5-10x returns on every sale though. For the exchange, I usually transfer within registry and only after re…

Not extortion, usually just a lease to own contract. Say you have a $150,000 domain and a startup wants it, they can lease for $4k/month and pay off the rest when they've raised th…

It's not my primary income, it's something I do on the side. Once you've bought a domain, you don't need to do much work after the initial parking setup, which takes about 5 minute…

I sell through domain marketplaces like sedo/afternic/flippa/dnforum. I also reach out to startups directly that correlate to domains I own, it's a very effective way to sell domai…

Domains - have my portfolio at hackernames.com. It's a good way to exercise your hacker knowledge and you can always use them yourself if you aren't able to find a buyer.