Have you ever heard of SEMA ? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about…

What do you do when you start a blog? Most people jump right in. They choose a theme, browse around for awesome plugins, set up Mailchimp and do all this other……

You should hire a polymath but you probably won’t find one. Originally published on JOTFORM.COM It was a meeting of the minds — three of the world’s most…

While working at Lockheed during the cold war, KellyJohnson was reported to have coined KISS (“keep itsimple, stupid”); a principle that suggests glibly…

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by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom It’s hard to win a battle you don’t realise you’re in. It’s even harder if you don’t know all of…

Yes, we have a new social network and I am a proud profile carrying member of the new elite created by an artificial scarcity of invites. A technique now pretty…

Demo Day for our Winter 2018 batch is a week from today. We’re largely focused on preparing companies for their on-stage presentations, but are also working…

The following is an adaption of a presentation I give to YC startups before we have them create their presentation slide decks for Demo Day. Here’s how to make…

Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling were originally tweeted by Emma Coats , Pixar’s Story Artist. Number 9 on the list – When you’re stuck, make a list of what…

The details of running a complex ticket ranking site for under a dollar a month on AWS Ok not quite $1… After the free-tier expires it will be less than $5,…

Stripe Atlas , which helps internet companies get up and running, frequently gets asked questions by software-as-a-service entrepreneurs on how to improve the…

That big presentation, report, or assignment isn’t going to write itself. And yet, you feel compelled to finish every non-essential task on your to-do list…

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This autumn the news spread that some websites had been making money by mining cryptocurrencies in their users’ browsers. We have been among the first to add…

A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve…

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Talk about what they are doing well and what they could improve. You can concentrate on their ongoing work and collaborations with other people. Here’s a good…