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Fixing Venture Capital (2003)(joelonsoftware.com)
1 points by tapp 12y ago|0 comments
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Replacing The User Story With The Job Story(medium.com)
5 points by tapp 12y ago|0 comments
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Look for Cancer, and Find It(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by tapp 12y ago|0 comments
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by tapp 12y ago
> How could they destroy hundreds of small businesses, if they themselves were not profitable? The same way venture funded startups destroy bootstrapped, profitable startups: by massively outspending them. Venture backed companies can g
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Zappos creates social network “Zappos Insiders” to evaluate potential hires(online.wsj.com)
1 points by tapp 12y ago|0 comments
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by tapp 12y ago
I'd start by highlighting the truth at every opportunity, which is this: Medical mistakes kill an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 Americans every year[1], making it the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer[2]. &quot
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by tapp 12y ago
I apologize in advance for potentially thread-jacking, but this story reminds me of an issue on which I'd really like to get other HN readers advice: I'm seeing more and more stories online including animated GIFs by default like
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by tapp 12y ago
Interesting - I didn't know that as I haven't been following the story closely. For others who may be in the same boat, I found some additional details here: "Alibaba will not own most of its Chinese assets, including Taobao
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by tapp 12y ago
FWIW - it can be done. What you describe is very similar to the situation I faced some years back. Similar feelings motivated me to make a change, which is how I ended up working day-to-day with the late stage cancer patients I mentioned u
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by tapp 12y ago
"It is often argued that life-threatening illness imbues its victims with a new vigor for life. I’ve always found this notion sort of idiotic..." In recent years, I've spent a lot of time working with late stage cancer patien
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by tapp 12y ago
"One of the most important characteristics of a successful business is that it's growing." I hope this doesn't come across as nitpicking, but the lead sentence of the article is incorrect. It should be: One of the most
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The FCC changed course on network neutrality. Here is why you should care.(cyberlaw.stanford.edu)
3 points by tapp 12y ago|0 comments
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The days of failure behind it, Slack forges onwards with $42.75M(pando.com)
3 points by tapp 12y ago|0 comments
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Create a Culture of Prospecting in Your Startup(medium.com)
2 points by tapp 12y ago|0 comments
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Surveillance is the Business Model of the Internet: Bruce Schneier(securityweek.com)
31 points by tapp 12y ago|3 comments
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Google Apps (GMail) misfiled messages(pastebin.com)
1 points by tapp 13y ago|0 comments
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Did Big Internet Companies Handicap Startups in FISA Rule Changes?(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by tapp 13y ago|0 comments
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by tapp 13y ago
I've heard this statement used frequently to shut down debates re using market dynamics to improve the healthcare system in this country. However, the substantial majority of healthcare services provisioned are non-emergency. It is abs
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by tapp 13y ago
Yes, they were private enterprises... funded in large part by government bonds (e.g. Google "Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.") Your example doesn't contradict the author's point, it supports it.
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WellPoint fined $1.7 million for exposing health data on Internet(reuters.com)
2 points by tapp 13y ago|0 comments
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by tapp 13y ago
The article's statement is misleading, but arguably true if you parse it the right way. Medicare very likely does not allow for the prices featured on their online price menu. You could therefore say that it "won't allow f
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by tapp 13y ago
Potentially. I've been thinking recently about what keeps my company on Google Apps (roughly a dozen people) despite the appallingly bad customer support and several major nagging and unresolved bugs. The single biggest factors are gm
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Cloud-based event management company Cvent files for up to $100M IPO(thenextweb.com)
1 points by tapp 13y ago|0 comments
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Dying startup blogs its collapse(money.cnn.com)
2 points by tapp 13y ago|1 comments
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Inside Pocket: how a startup beat its rivals to build the 'DVR for everything'(theverge.com)
5 points by tapp 13y ago|0 comments
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by tapp 13y ago
Really? The polio vaccine made my body better without adverse effects, and there are literally hundreds of other examples. Evolution is a process, not an endpoint - - it seems highly unlikely that no further improvements to the human body
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SoftBank launches new non-seed, NYC-specific, $51 million fund(pandodaily.com)
1 points by tapp 13y ago|0 comments
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DoD passes on VistA, resumes plans to procure commercial EHR(fiercegovernmentit.com)
2 points by tapp 13y ago|0 comments
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The cult of design dictatorship (2012)(alexcabal.com)
68 points by tapp 13y ago|43 comments
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by tapp 13y ago
I have to disagree - Google Apps has the absolute worst support of any business application/suite I've ever used. If Google provides meaningful support for Wallet going forward, I hope they consider extending it to Apps - it's desperately n

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