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The Current Thing
If businesses are subject to Aggregation Theory, then so are ideas: this is the root of the “The Current Thing” meme, and it should drive a re-evaluation of how we think about moderatin…
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Finshots Money Resolution #7 - Make Your One Page Financial Plan
An explainer on how to meet your financial goals
Finshots Money Resolution #6 - Get Set Go(al)
An explainer on how to find goals and set them
Finshots Money Resolution #5 - Buy Protection!!!
How to sort out your insurance plan?
Finshots Money Resolution #4 - Axe your tax
How to effectively plan your tax-saving strategy
Finshots Money Resolution #3 - Breaking the income barrier
An explainer on how to grow your income so that you can save more money in the long run
Finshots Money Resolution #2: Budget + You = BFF
Getting started with your money resolutions - Part 2
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Getting started with your money resolutions
startup failures by stage
WeWork has been posing as a tech company (albeit unsuccessfully) since its inception, and given their recent troubles, it’s a good time to step back and evaluate what makes a company tech. Today, tech = SaaS, and gross margins tell the story. Real software margins float anywhere from 70-90%, while WeWork’s sit at 20%. The truth is companies should be valued based on these margins, not whether or not they’re “tech.”
Founders generally think about exiting their startups in two ways: building and selling the company for millions, or building and taking it public for billions. But they don’t have to strive for these “get rich quick” plays—an increasingly popular alternative is to build and extract cash from a business over time. Basecamp CEO Jason Fried is a big proponent of the idea and believes founders should be creating companies that are like mom and pop Italian restaurants: they have longevity, a sustainable business, and aren’t gunning to be the next Olive Garden.
Small packages – Six Colors
Why does the iPad mini exist? Let me count the ways. It’s for kids, people with small hands and good eyesight, people who want a pocketable(-ish) iOS device that doesn’t compromise on f…
1947 Tech 🇮🇳: 188
Indian startups raised $3.56 Bn in Feb! 1947 Tech 🇮🇳: 188 Indian startups raised $3.56 Bn in Feb!shiva singh sangwanMar 21.
Money Stuff: Nickel Is Canceled
NickelIn the stock market, short sellers are often people who are betting against the price of a stock. They hope the stock will go down. If Nickel In the stock market, short sellers are often people who are betting against the price of a stock.
Laying the Frontend Foundations with a Platform Team
How we built the Platform Frontend Core team to lay the foundations and build our 2 pillars: Design System and Frontend Infrastructure.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Tested TAM tips, no-code tech survey, writing crypto white papers
For most products, TAM is presented in nine figures or more, but when you're planning to disrupt a billion-dollar market, these numbers can create a lot of cognitive dissonance.
GitHub Isn't About Code
Only 3 of the top 10 repositories on GitHub actually contain real code. The rest are either landing pages for learning how to code, navigating a career in software development, or marketing for all of the above. 1. freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp [https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp] [learn to code] 341,877 stars 2. 996icu/996.ICU [https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU][political] 261,290 stars 3. EbookFoundation/free-programming-books [https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-
Environment Parity
> Well, it works on my machine. A class of tough-to-debug bugs come from something called development-production parity. You can test and validate everything locally, or in recreated test environments, but the application ultimately fails or misbehaves when deployed to the production environment. For a long time, I've thought that the way to ultimately solve this is to share a common runtime platform between production and development – namely, Kubernetes. I wrote about this in Kubernetes Maxi
How big is YouTube’s impact on India’s GDP?
An explainer on how YouTube is affecting the Indian economy
Feeds Are The Future · Arttu Viljakainen
On creating digital tools and human-computer interactions in them
Inoreader vs Feedly, and the ultimate feed reader (in 2020) · Arttu Viljakainen
On creating digital tools and human-computer interactions in them
Substack Launches App, Substack and the Four Bens, In-App Purchase and the Substack Bundle – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Substack launched an app, which isn’t a surprise given their VC model, but which portends change all the same.
Amazon Has a Secret Weapon Known as "Working Backwards"--and It Will Transform the Way You Work
Selling to developers is no longer a sure path to insane valuation multiples
Product-led growth is a big deal these days as startups are trying to find ways to grow without spending all their capital on advertising and sales staffing. But it's no panacea.
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Substack & Crossroads for a Revolution
All revolutions start with a rebel, and in the world of writing, blogging and newsletters, Substack, the online newsletter platform, is Silicon Valley’s new favourite disobedient child. High on its recent explosion in the writing community, it now finds itself at an interesting crossroads that will dictate the path for its future growth. This is […]