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State Sponsored Innovation FAILS Without an Existential Threat

Peter Thiel’s National Review article on the decline of innovation in 1 sentence. America / Western Civ can no longer innovate because it has no internal or external enemies, only threat of annihilation can overcome human nature’s aversion to the … Continue reading

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Building an Online Startup in 3 Easy Steps

Obsess over these goals and nothing else, and you won’t need a business plan, because instead you’ll be building a business, and then you can raise money at much more attractive valuations (or just raise it, period), after you’ve proved out product-market fit and sales. Continue reading

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What(son) Happened to Google

Google is getting paid so much by a market where humans do all the search. Will it recognize that technology has just moved on? Continue reading

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Google’s Top 14 Websites Worldwide

The top 14 Google Domains, ranked by the number of root domains linking to each.

      Google.com
      Google.de
      Google.co.jp

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Publishing is a tough biz…

Circulation exceeded five hundred thousand in every issue in 1954, rose to six hundred thousand the following year, and climbed steadily through most of its history (to more than three million a week in 2009). It quickly established itself as … Continue reading

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