June 2012
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep...
blakemasters:
He is an essay version of class notes from Class 17 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine.
Three guests joined the class for a conversation after Peter’s remarks:
D. Scott Brown, co-founder of Vicarious
Eric Jonas, CEO of Prior Knowledge
Bob McGrew, Director of Engineering at Palantir
Credit for good stuff goes to them and Peter. I have tried to be accurate. But...
Wensing, M.: The Anatomy of Profitable Freemium →
wensing:
Choosing the freemium business model can be brilliant or deadly. The difference lies not only in the execution of the marketing, but also in the nature of your product and the design of your business. Can you coordinate all three to become sustainably freemium by making a profit?
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A blog from the mind of falicon: gawk.it analytics... →
falicon:
gawk.it really serves two audiences.
The primary audience is the readers of blogs and core idea of the system is focused on helping them to find quality conversations and content.
But there is a second audience that gawk.it actually serves, the blog owner.
Beyond just giving the blog owner a…
shelby.tv: A Note To Tomorrow's TechStars... →
reecepacheco:
Tomorrow, 13 companies will take the stage at Webster Hall to show the world what they’ve been working on the last few months during TechStars. I’ve been back to TechStars a bunch recently, and I can say that this class has been pushing their limits to work hard on showing…
New Foursquare →
parislemon:
bijan:
Earlier today, Foursquare announced and released the #allnew4sq. You can read all about the many and vast improvements on their blog post.
Short version: It’s awesome.
A day into using it, I agree that new Foursquare is a significant improvement in a lot of ways. There’s always been a lot more data than check-ins flowing through Foursquare, but much of it was hidden...
mraleph: Explaining JavaScript VMs in JavaScript →
mraleph:
I have a thing for virtual machines that are implemented in the language (or a subset of the language) they are built to execute. If I were in the academia or just had a little bit more free time I would definitely start working on a JavaScript VM written in JavaScript. Actually this would not be…
