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Pattern Recognition for Success: Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt

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May 7, 2014

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You know how you keep dating the same type of jerk and wondering why it never works out? Well, you’re failing to use Pattern Recognition—recognizing patterns or regularities in the data. Pattern recognition can also be used to evaluate startups, and their founders, to determine the potential success (or otherwise) of the venture. From the personality traits of founders, to the objective of the startup, to the importance of solving your own problems, there seem to be some commonalities that you can try to check off if you want to truly make it as a startup. Solve Large & Real […]

Are Social Sharing Buttons a Valuable Addition to Your Website?

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May 7, 2014

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No sensible person would deny that social media networks are a prodigious source of web traffic. Almost everyone has a Facebook account, whether they like it or not, and many of the most influential sharers on the web regularly tweet. Google+ may or may not have a positive impact on SEO, but a tighter integration with Google certainly isn’t going to hurt. And then there’s Pinterest, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and more. It might seem foolish to even ask the question “Should I have social media sharing buttons on my site?” because the answer seems self-evident. I’m a firm believer that every component […]

5 Lessons from Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt NY

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May 6, 2014

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TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off yesterday at the Manhattan Center in Midtown New York. The day was packed full of techie goodness. At the risk of revealing my own ignorance, I’m going to share the top 5 things I learned on Day 1. 1) Bitcoin is based on something called a block chain architecture, which allows for trustless transactional activity. Right now you need someone to be the arbiter of identity—either Facebook, Twitter, or Google—somebody who developers can use for login and other information sharing. I think you could do the same thing with a block-chain architecture, where there is no […]

Learn Something New, Every Day

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May 6, 2014

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A couple of weeks ago, John Resig wrote an article entitled Write Code Every Day. Resig is the creator of the jQuery library, among other open-source projects. In the post, Resig discusses a shift in the way that he works on open source projects. He went from writing code whenever he had time on nights and weekends, to contributing valuable code every day—though individual contributions were a little more concise. Resig set some ground rules for himself, such as keeping projects open source on GitHub, and writing code before midnight, but generally stuck to the “write code every day no matter what” […]

Automattic Raises $160 Million in Venture Funding

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May 5, 2014

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It’s confirmed, Automattic has officially hit the billion dollar mark! The company just raised $160 million in venture funding, placing its new value at $1.16 billion. A blog post by Matt Mullenweg reported that the financing round was led by Deven Parekh of Insight Ventures, with other investors including Chris Sacca, Endurance, Tiger, and Iconiq. Mullenweg indicated that several other investors expressed a high-level of interest, but he focused on finding the best partners. The new funding is further validation of Automattic’s future plans for growth. Mullenweg said: This is obviously a lot of money, especially considering everything we’ve done so far has been built on […]

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