The rise of the "successful" unsustainable company
We're funding too many unsustainable companies.
Too Many Pivots, Too Little Passion
What’s wrong with today’s entrepreneurism
Quizzes are free data mining tools for brands - Marketplace
An online Game of Thrones quiz got a million online hits for HBO.
Traction PDF Summary - Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares | 12min Blog
Traction PDF Summary by Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares pinpoints how startups can climb the ladder at lightning speed and learn how to expand your company.
30 Useful Tools for Growth Hackers and Startups
I’m a startup product growth guy with a social gaming background. I currently work as VP of Growth at Relcy, a mobile search engine. A few companies I’ve worked with on growth in the past (HIRED $702…
Lessons learned from scaling a product team
There's lots written about how you should build software, but few concrete examples of the messy reality as implemented by startups. Here's our process.
50+ super useful Linux Commands
✧ Beginner to Pro, for everyone ✧ ↓ — Swapna Kumar Panda (@swapnakpanda)
All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces
Since Benchmark’s investment in Ebay 15 years ago, we have been fascinated by online marketplaces. Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the…
Spreading Slow Ideas
We yearn for frictionless technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way that norms and standards change.
The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen
It’s Zuora’s, and it’s brilliant. Here’s why.
Constructive Pessimism - SKMurphy, Inc.
Many entrepreneurs are naturally optimistic and discouraging pessimistic thinking, but the clever use of constructive pessimism is key to success
20 Questions To Ask Before Joining A Startup
book-notes/never-split-the-difference.markdown at master · mgp/book-notes
Notes from books and other interesting things that I've read. Table of contents at the end 👇 - mgp/book-notes
5 Tricks When AB Testing Is Off The Table
An applied introduction to causal inference in tech
Email Marketing Metrics, Part 2: Advanced Topics
In "Email Marketing Metrics, Part 1: The Basics," my article last month, I addressed the primary measurements for email marketing: delivery rate, open
Dinner Parties Are No Longer About Showing Off
Hold the fancy china—it's time to get comfy.
Can Planting a Trillion New Trees Save the World?
To fight climate change, companies and nonprofits have been promoting worldwide planting campaigns. Getting to a trillion is easier said than done.
The James Webb telescope had 344 'single point failures' before launch. The
Bill Ochs, the project manager for the James Webb telescope shares the trials and tribulations of the launch and what it's like having the images out in the world.
Kurt Vonnegut on the 8 "shapes" of stories
Before fame, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a master's thesis on the shapes of stories for the anthropology department at the University of Chicago.
The American Amusement Park's Wild Ride
From the trolley parks of the early 20th century to the theme parks of today, these spaces of shared pleasure have been both a reflection of urban life, and an escape from it.
America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach
Taking the kids to a baseball game, a movie, or Disneyland is a bigger financial commitment than it used to be for middle-class families.
'The Bear's' Jeremy Allen White Has a Crush on Carmy, Too
In FX’s surprise hit, the 31-year-old actor plays a tormented culinary genius who returns home to run his family’s Chicago sandwich shop. We caught up with White in his native Brooklyn to learn what it took to get in the kitchen.
What Is HDMI?
Get crystal-clear video and pristine audio with a single cable.
How Do You Know if You’re Actually Humble?
There are ways to figure out how aware you are of your own limitations—and to cultivate intellectual humility.
5 successful B2B AdWords best practices for any company
For B2B businesses in competitive markets, AdWords can be difficult to manage effectively. Columnist Todd Saunders provides some tips that will keep costs low and boost Quality Scores.
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Justin Timberlake And The AC/DC Rule
A lesson from the Australian classic rockers explains why the pop star's newest album, which hasn't generated glowing reviews or massive radio hits, still had an explosive opening sales week.
Why T-Shirts Matter
During my tenure at LinkedIn, I’ve held a wide variety of roles and responsibilities within the company. Some are fairly public (as described on my LinkedIn profile). Others are the the typ…
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The Sanaa Palimpsest: A truly fascinating Quranic manuscript
The Sanaa Palimpsest has a number of unique characteristics, not least as an enduring artefact of Quranic scribal methods and of Islamic heritage within Yemen. Yet deciphering the text poses theological quandaries surrounding Quranic tradition.
List of television networks by country
This is a list of television networks by country. For lists of television stations by country, see Lists of television channels (sorted by continent and country) or Lists of television channels by country.
List of United States radio networks
The following is a list of commercial radio broadcasters and radio networks in the United States.
List of international radio broadcasters
International radio broadcasters are legally licensed stations that broadcast from a host nation to another nation or nations. Such stations are operated both as non-commercial enterprises such as the BBC World Service, and commercial operations such as WWCR. The following is a…
West Virginia-Pitt’s renewed Backyard Brawl a reminder of toll realignment
"For your fans, what’s important to them?” said West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons of scheduling rivals after realignment.
PostgreSQL 14 Internals
Postgres Professional is a PostgreSQL company delivering Postgres Pro DBMS and all kinds of PostgreSQL professional services worldwide
Deep Convolutional GAN — How to Use a DCGAN to Generate Images in Python
An overview of DCGAN architecture with a step-by-step guide to building it yourself
How Artists Get Paid From Streaming
We explain how your money gets from you to a streaming platform, and finally to an artist.
Nearly a third of new subscribers to some news publications cancel in the first 24 hours
The same-day cancellation rate likely includes subscribers who only wanted access to one article, or who felt the full paid experience was lacking after a quick look around. New data suggests some just really hate the idea of auto-renewal.
Build Complex Time Series Regression Pipelines with sktime
How to forecast with scikit-learn and XGBoost models with sktime
githublog/2022/6/15/rolling-your-own-crypto-aes.md at main · francisrstokes/githublog
I'm sick of complex blogging solutions, so markdown files in a git repo it is - francisrstokes/githublog
How to Sell a $300 Chocolate Bar
Follow the wine playbook.
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Overview, Definition, and Architecture
The final goal of all industrial machine learning (ML) projects is to develop ML products and rapidly bring them into production. However, it is highly challenging to automate and operationalize...
Book Release: Go For DevOps #go #golang #sre #devops #terraform #kubernetes
Go for DevOps: Learn how to use the Go language to automate servers, the cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, Packer, and Terraform [Doak, John, Justice, David] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Go for DevOps: Learn how to use the Go language to automate servers, the…
CSRF, XXE, and 12 Other Security Acronyms Explained
Acronyms are shortcuts, and we love using them, specially the catchy ones! Let's decipher some...
Understanding Self-Organising Map Neural Network with Python Code
Brain-inspired unsupervised machine learning through competition, cooperation and adaptation
Giving a Shit as a Service
A mental model for service businesses.
A Guide to Barbecue Around the World—in All Its Tangy, Spicy, and Charred Glory
A roadmap for exploring tasty traditions in more than 20 countries.
New working speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling
Both companies are rolling out mitigations, but they add overhead of 12 to 28 percent.
After Nearly 30 Years, This New Plasma Weapon Just Might Work
After decades of promise and failure, a new plasma weapon emerges.
A Beginner-Friendly Introduction to Kubernetes
With a hands-on MLFlow deployment example