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www.zeet.co 3y ago

Create self-service developer platforms for your cloud(s)

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www.cnet.com 5y ago

Reinventing privacy: How one startup is building anew from a phone flop

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www.julian.com 8y ago

Running an agency

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Justin Kan’s new startup Atrium is raising to disrupt the legal industry

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backchannel.com 9y ago

How Google is remaking itself as an ML company

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medium.com 10y ago

Scaling Airbnb with Brian Chesky – Notes from CS183C

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medium.com 10y ago

Stanford CS183C Session 14: Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos

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medium.com 10y ago

Scaling Google with Eric Schmidt – Class 8 Notes CS183C

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

Former Twitter COO Ali Rowghani to Lead Y Combinator’s $700M Growth Fund

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medium.com 10y ago

Interview with Sam Altman and John Lilly – Stanford CS183C Course

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www.techinasia.com 10y ago

China’s startups are lying to you, and there’s not much anyone can do about it

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medium.com 10y ago

Internet of Things (IoT) Market Ecosystem Map

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medium.com 11y ago

Virtual Reality market ecosystem map

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medium.com 11y ago

Building a Growth Model for Your Company

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ibnlive.in.com 12y ago

Why Twitter's VP of Engineering gets paid more than CTO, CFO, and COO.

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skipwalter.net 12y ago

Whiteboarding: Designing a software team

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

FBI Can Remotely Activate Android Smartphone And Laptop Mics

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politix.topix.com 13y ago

Should the Director of National Intelligence Be Impeached for Lying to Congress?

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venturebeat.com 13y ago

Richard Branson, Peter Thiel join in $100M campaign for international startups

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Beware SXSW Networking Syndrome

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mccannatron.com 13y ago

What characteristics make up a quality group?

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www.linkedin.com 13y ago

Connect to Human Networks To Find Breakout Opportunities

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mccannatron.com 13y ago

Why getting involved in groups matter

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mccannatron.com 13y ago

US Small Business Administration’s Offerings for Startups

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www.forbes.com 13y ago

The Quiet End to Facebook's Democratic Experiment

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mccannatron.com 13y ago

Dear Governments, how you can help your entrepreneurial ecosystem

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www.godaddy.com 13y ago

GoDaddy is down.

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mccannatron.com 13y ago

How to get distribution for a new product

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mccannatron.com 13y ago

The Science of Habit

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mccannatron.com 13y ago

The Principles of Distribution

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Yeah no problem.

We stayed here: Silverback Lodge > https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g319722-d2045553-Re... - and set up our trekking through the hotel. They only allow small groups at a time and limited number of treks (for the gorillas to not be overwhelmed) so its best to just book through the hotel.

A few other things to keep in mind:

- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is quite far from the main airport. So I'd suggest staying near the airport for the night and leaving the next morning. Although even if you do that you might not get in till pretty late at night, and its really remote so hard to get directions. Try to have whatever hotel you stay at arrange transportation, I wouldn't suggest driving yourself.

- As the name implies - Bwindi "Impenetrable" National Park - the hike can be pretty strenuous. The guide will scout out where the gorillas are before you leave but it depends where they are - can easily be a 3hr+ hike through steep inclines so prepare for that.

- One option you can do is to use a porter, we did just because of how much camera equipment I had. Although even if I didn't have much stuff it was still nice to have stuff.

If anyone else has any specific questions happy to answer them here as well.

It's an amazing experience to see the mountain gorillas up close. Here is a portrait I took of one of the silverbacks: https://chrismccann.com/uganda#king

We went through the Uganda side, was quite the adventure and hike to get there but was definitely worth it. Happy to share more tips or the company we used if anyone is interested.

Medium Raises $57M 11 years ago

I've been using Medium for writing, recently with the notes from the Stanford 183C class taught by Reid Hoffman > https://medium.com/notes-essays-cs183c-technology-enabled-bl...

From the writer's perspective: 1) interface is clean and easy to write on - easy to format things, embedd video, embedd pictures, etc 2) easy to share drafts and get edits from others 3) 5%-10% of traffic comes internally from medium.com, so helps with distribution 4) SEO's well and works out of the box without me having to set anything up.

PS - I work at Greylock Partners which invested in Medium but I didn't have any say with the investment decision nor do I have to use Medium. I just like writing on there.

I love this concept. Your app seriously needs a few things though.

1) You have to be able to message people on a dating site, none of this coming soon button. 2) You have to be able to have some rudimentary search/filter. People want to find people of the gender they are interested in, location, etc.

You've probably thought of both of these already but a dating site really has to have both of those.

geekdat.es jobshoots.com nextdigest.co onsd.co entrepreneurialactivism.com powerapplejuice.com powerorangejuice.com startupconfederation.com startupwaffles.com academyofcreation.com adventureclub.me startupcoconut.com sanfranciscopartylist.com societyofknowledge.com nextdigest.com

Willing to sell any domain for a reasonable offer. Contact info is in my profile.

2 comments on usability if the site owner is reading this.

1) On the payment screen you have Paypal has an option but I can't actually click on it to allow the paypal option. I'm using the newest version of Chrome.

2) I went through the whole registration with credit card details and everything and I got an error message back saying "We're closed" and to come back 9-5pm. It would be much easier for me and probably for you just to take down all my information and process it when you're open or let me pre-pay for a wash or something. It's a little frustrating that I will have to do that all over again.

This is freaking awesome. Congrats on releasing the project Gordon!

Just played till level nine and even paid for unlocking the rest of the levels. Some feedback:

1) The game needs music. It's a little quiet after awhile, would be much better with music. 2) On a lot of the levels you don't need to do anything and you'll "win" by just pressing play. 3) Totally understand why you have the ads on in the game but sometimes on the cloud levels it gets in the way of placing blocks. 4) Sometimes the game gets stuck at the end and doesn't count up all of the points 5) Counting up the points on level with a ton of items in it takes forever 6) You should also explain the different birds and which ones are coming. Noticed some had dynamite strapped to them but didn't expect that at all. 7) On replay I really wish I had the previous blocks stay where they were.

Overall an awesome game but wanted to give you some feedback on it after I played around with it for awhile.

I went to one of the classes taught by Singularity University today and my mind was completely blown about whats going on in the world of cybercrime. Happy to answer any questions or relay them to Marc Goodman who gave the talk.

I would never normally submit anything political and I have not even been active in the Occupy Movement at all. But I saw this on twitter and couldn't believe it hasn't been covered anywhere else. This is literally happening in Berkeley and one of the school professors was taken to the hospital because of it

Author of the post here. We just made a huge change at our company (effectively killing ~40% of our readership base) and I wanted to get my thoughts out there on making a tough decision and the hard part of "focus"

thanks for posting this, just installed Ghostery and it's the best thing I've done. very eye opening into what some sites are doing

The media in general loves to fit stories into archetypal stories that are easily digested by audiences. The 20 year old scrappy kid fits right into the "David vs. Goliath" archetype, people love to hear stories about someone winning against all odds.

I read a lot of their articles and my take on it is, it's a huffpo style mismash. Some of the authors are awesome and very high quality and some seem like day traders. I always check the authors leaderboard reputation before reading the article and usually only check the macro-economic section