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Intuit + Mint made my life surprisingly easier
When Intuit purchased Mint I was pretty worried that one of the most useful web apps was going to stop evolving and gradually get absorbed into the Quicken/TurboTax behemoth. So far, to my surprise,...
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Viral, Open, and Consumable - Twitter Annotations and the Social API
Twitter's big announcement this week about annotated tweets and the new metadata that developers will be able to attach to tweets is a welcome one. This means that tweets about music will now be able...
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The Nontechnical Founders Series
Do I need a technical co-founder, and where can I find one?How long will it take to launch a product?How do I recruit and interview developers? How do I know what programming language to build my...
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Do I need a technical co-founder?
This post is part of the Nontechnical Founders Series - a set of posts aimed at helping would be nontechnical startup founders get answers to their questions around the technology side of starting a...
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How to find a technical co-founder
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What technology should I use to build my product?
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How long until my prototype is ready?
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Who I want to work with
Things over at JumpPost have been moving very quickly, and we're excited to be making our first full time hire. We're looking for a lead product designer, and the full job post can be found over at...
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Why hacker angels is a great idea
I was really excited to hear recently about a new collective of investors known as hacker angels. Their simple web site describes the group as:an informal association and not a fund. If inclined, we...
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Key takeaways from The Facebook Effect
I recently read David Kirkpatrick's new book The Facebook Effect, which chronicles the history of Facebook from the pre-creation days in a Harvard Dorm Room to the 400 million user platform and...
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The internet never sleeps
When people ask me to describe my regular workday, I usually start off by mentioning that I spend from about 7:15-7:45am "catching up with the internet."You see, it seems as if this post-web-2.0...
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Quora as a blog subsidy
There's been a lot of buzz lately about Quora, the question and answer startup from ex-facebook employees Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo. The site has done an amazing job of quickly building up a...
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Making a POST request to a Rails API Endpoint
Here's a rare super-technical blog post. I spent enough time struggling with this seemingly simple problem today, that I felt I should share the answer.The problem: You're designing a REST API for...
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Advice for college computer science students interested in entrepreneurship
This past Friday I took part in a panel at Penn's computer science department designed to help students figure out what options are available to them career-wise post graduation. The panel was...
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Heroku Support Saved My Launch Day
The last 72 hours have been a wild ride leading up to the launch of my new site, Hyperpublic.com. I'd say that I got about 3 hours of sleep last night, 0 hours on Sunday, and maybe I was lucky to get 4...
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What is Hyperpublic?
As an entrepreneur you frequently get asked what you do, what you're working on, and what your big idea is. Even your closest friends don't always know, since over the years they've observed all of the...
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The Hyperpublic Developer Challenge
Over the past couple of days the team at Hyperpublic has been working on the Hyperpublic Developer Challenge. It's a simple programming contest consisting of two problems: an easy problem, and a...
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Hyperpublic Developer Challenge Stats and Recap
Last Thursday over at Hyperpublic we launched The Hyperpublic Developer Challenge. It consisted of two programming problems, one of easy/medium difficulty, and one which was slightly harder. We built...
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What Happened To JumpPost?
I frequently get emails from people looking to use the JumpPost product that we launched a year ago to help find a new apartment. This post explains what happened to JumpPost and why we aren't running...
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Prologue Profiles
My friend Dan Feld, who I've known since I was about 6 years old, is working on a really interesting project called Prologue Profiles. It's tagline is "Twenty-somethings onto something" and its current...
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