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Buy a home, get a US visa, Senators propose(bottomline.msnbc.msn.com)
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A great startup PR list - Blogs, Lists, Influencers(docs.google.com)
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For those who didn't find it right away: https://www.lytro.com/living-pictures Fun times. Too bad the science requires a deep back... would be awesome to have this technology in your cellphone... hopefully we're just a few years away. Tec
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1. Clever. You can probably build it yourself with some google voice hack. My computer (via googlevoice chrome plugin) tells me when someone has called or texted already, which is pretty useful in itself because there are often times when I
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by pitdesi 15y ago
Easier access to credit is a huge detriment to small businesses, in ways that we (startup-folks) don't think about... One example - the typical small business restaurant. It is a VERY different businesses than the startups that we create. Y
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Mary Meeker's Internet Trends for 2011 (10/18)(kpcb.com)
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How Science Can Teach You to Easily Spot a Liar(lifehacker.com)
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Dropbox Said No To “Nine-Digit” Acquisition Offer From Steve Jobs(techcrunch.com)
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Remember those faster-than-light neutrinos? Great, now forget 'em(engadget.com)
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Never a Lack for Communication, Everyone’s an Artist(nmehta816.tumblr.com)
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I am not at all a Groupon apologist (I think their base business is declining and doesn't make sense for most local businesses in the long-term), but you have gone way overboard by comparing Groupon to boo, webvan, and kozmo. For all its fa
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Quantum Levitation(youtube.com)
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Zestimates: Just How Bad Are Zillow's Home Price Estimates?(chicagonow.com)
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Is America's age of discovery over? (life.salon.com)
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The Tyranny of Silly Expense Control Rules (theatlantic.com)
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Other great free courses (many with video): Carnegie Mellon: http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses Michigan: http://open.umich.edu/ Berkeley: http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/cours
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The Email From Alexis Ohanian That Kicked Off Reddit. Seriously, Bro(fastcompany.com)
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Understanding Dilution, Start Up Edition(ritholtz.com)
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Steve Jobs to live on, virtually, in Apple University(articles.latimes.com)
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Is it actually true that there are founders of companies who haven't bought a domain name? I find that piece of this to be quite silly. GoDaddy buys superbowl ads - buying a domain is very mainstream. I have seen the "multiple startups in t
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New York Tops Massachusetts in U.S. Venture Deals for First Time(bloomberg.com)
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by pitdesi 15y ago
For all those who are criticizing this public posting, first note that it is publicly available in several dozen other locations, including some tech rags. More importantly, STEVE HIMSELF SAID IT'S OK TO REPOST - https://plus.google.com/11
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by pitdesi 15y ago
It now 404's so I've posted it here: Stevey's Google Platforms Rant I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression tha
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What's the best way to escape the police in a high-speed car chase?(quora.com)
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I too am curious and am no better at finding this logo online than you are, apparently ;) In case anyone is interested though, here are other logos that Paul Rand has designed: http://www.paul-rand.com/site/identity/ Amazing how many icon
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How to Pick a Great Designer(folyo.me)
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Can Anybody Be a Designer?(nytimes.com)
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One App To Rule Them All (Facebook)(techcrunch.com)
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Quick thoughts - Here's an ebook that might help folks understand the gateway/processor dynamic: http://feefighters.com/ebooks/what-is-credit-card-processing... (written with US audience in mind, but most of it holds true worldwide) To ge
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If you are indeed close to interchange, you shouldn't have an issue with many of those things (aside from Amex). Cybersource and Authorize.net are a source of your problems - they do their best to lock you in to terrible pricing and tack on

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