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What Is a Startup?(werd.io)
2 points by benwerd 7y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 7y ago
The ACLU, because our civil rights are seemingly continuously under attack. The Southern Poverty Law Center, because hate groups are enjoying a resurgence under the current administration, and I want to live in an inclusive society. Planned
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by benwerd 7y ago
ForUsAll | Front End, Back End, Dev Ops Engineers | San Francisco, cA | Onsitee | Full-time, Salary + Options + Benefits ForUsAll (forusall.com) is a financial wellness startup that aims to help everyone build a stronger financial future -
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If Not Venture Capital, Then What?(werd.io)
1 points by benwerd 8y ago|0 comments
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It's time to flare(medium.com)
2 points by benwerd 8y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 8y ago
Yes to all, and I think it’s our responsibility as democratic citizens to be aware of them. What’s the point of having the right to vote and having people represent us if we’re not aware of what they should be dealing with wrt foreign polic
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by benwerd 8y ago
Did you read the report? The 6 journalists were the 4 slain in Annapolis and the 2 killed by a falling tree. Khashoggi was killed in Istanbul, not the US.
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Open APIs and the Facebook Trash Fire(werd.io)
2 points by benwerd 8y ago|0 comments
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The Trolls from Olgino, the Sabateurs from Menlo Park(werd.io)
1 points by benwerd 8y ago|0 comments
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With RAD, podcasters can finally learn who's listening(werd.io)
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Examining the degrees of Fortune 500 tech CEOs(werd.io)
1 points by benwerd 8y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 8y ago
I'm not so sure - I don't necessarily think it'll be federal straight away, but I think there's real possibility of state-by-state rules, which will eventually give way to federal.
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by benwerd 8y ago
This is how I know I would suck in a company like this. Yeah, it's Steve Jobs - but I find the level of reverence on show in this piece to be a little hard to take. It's certainly revealing of the culture there at the time. > A
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by benwerd 8y ago
> This stands in stark contrast to the meeting I attended on Tuesday with Amazon's general counsel regarding their Rekognition service. And I think that cuts to the core of this: this is an anti-Amazon move. Nonetheless, I do also t
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Persuading people to use ethical tech(werd.io)
1 points by benwerd 8y ago|0 comments
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Exposing the Nitty Gritty Details of Our Seed Round(indiehackers.com)
1 points by benwerd 8y ago|0 comments
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Facebook's monopoly is harming consumers(werd.io)
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Asking permission to be heard is an idea that needs to die(werd.io)
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Keeping it small is okay too(werd.io)
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How machine learning can reinforce systemic racism(werd.io)
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by benwerd 8y ago
And in fact, we're seeing some great open source companies, including Elastic, which just had an IPO last month. Modern decentralization has yielded the promise of valuable assets that actually become more valuable through being open
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by benwerd 8y ago
This is a lot of the underlying motivation behind the indieweb community, which is growing (and holding an event in NYC this weekend): https://indieweb.org If it's important to your reputation, professional or otherwise, yo
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by benwerd 8y ago
Anecdotally, I'd say that the issues outlined here led to an even worse problem: the experience of founders pitching to them was poor.
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by benwerd 8y ago
It's pretty high, I'll grant you - but 1/3 that of San Francisco. And the rent is correspondingly lower. Chico etc are significantly lower than that, of course, but they're a longer drive away - Santa Rosa is just an hou
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Ethical OS Toolkit(ethicalos.org)
5 points by benwerd 8y ago|1 comments
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by benwerd 8y ago
If I ever found another startup, I'll do it somewhere with significantly lower rents but proximity to a startup hub. For example, the Santa Rosa area fits the bill in SF, and there are areas of New York that are significantly outside o
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by benwerd 8y ago
> What's happened is that most of the major social networks only hire and promote people who make decisions primarily based on analytics. As a result these sites no longer have any real communities or organic content, and have been
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by benwerd 8y ago
Hey! Cofounder here. The GitHub link is what many of you will really want: https://github.com/idno/known
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Personality Tests and the Downfall of Democracy(words.werd.io)
6 points by benwerd 9y ago|1 comments
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Sequoia Capital plans $8B global fund, eyes China investors(reuters.com)
78 points by benwerd 9y ago|13 comments

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