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Our very real liability as Twitter app developers 19 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
Last week Carl Icahn sent out a tweet that raised the market cap of Apple by $17Bn. Carl was under no illusions as to the significance of his disclosure, and filed with the SEC before doing so to stat...
"Instead of cures for cancer we got Angry Birds" 30 Jul 2013 | 03:26 pm
“The Valley’s brightest minds once invented things of immense significance like the first PC. But then came the internet and the pursuit of big ideas was eclipsed by a scramble for quick profits. The ...
How we built a pre-launch, customer-development pipeline for Copyin 15 Jul 2013 | 09:05 pm
When we first started building Copyin we had a problem. We found it extremely useful but our earliest users did not. It was useful to us because it turned our email into our knowledgebase and both bou...
The UK Needs An Acquisition Culture If It’s To Have a Sustainable Startup Culture | TechCrunch 8 Jul 2013 | 07:43 pm
The UK Needs An Acquisition Culture If It’s To Have a Sustainable Startup Culture | TechCrunch: … a post I wrote on TechCrunch talking about how incredibly essential exits are to any startup scene. ...
Beware your project's Schwarzschild radius 27 Jun 2013 | 10:21 pm
A good physicist knows that every gravitational mass has an associated escape velocity. The escape velocity is the speed which an object needs to have to get away from the mass’ gravitational field. I...
Absolute knowledge 14 Jun 2013 | 05:41 pm
I’m the type of person who needs to understand why I feel what I feel. I want to understand what drives me and what drives the people around me. I’m emotional but I like to be aware of what’s behind t...
First world demons 24 May 2013 | 06:00 am
An increasingly fashionable position on Hacker News is to invoke the “First World Problems” objection to a new startup. The First World Problem objection says that the founders of a particular startup...
Dear Apple, let’s talk about photos 8 May 2013 | 05:01 pm
We’ve been managing our photos together for almost a decade now. Things were nice and simple at the start and we both knew what to expect from each other - I pulled my photos off my camera on the comp...
Why does "I pencil" keep falling through Hacker News? 5 Apr 2013 | 01:47 am
I Pencil is by any standards a deeply interesting essay. It looks at how incredibly specialised our jobs and roles have become and reflects on the astonishing and powerful fact that no single person i...
Where lean ends 26 Mar 2013 | 04:16 pm
And so we come to the end of Eric’s talk and a gaggle of entrepreneurs are shepherded onstage to discover why they haven’t yet fulfilled their recurring-revenue destiny. One sheepish fellow tells us ...
