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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Be Vulnerable
Shame on me. I haven’t watched Jack Dorsey present before (live or on video), and I had made certain assumptions about him because of his business success (co-founder of Twitter, founder and CEO of Square) and because he was (in)famous … Continue reading
Can I explore your API in a browser address bar?
I like this best practices guide to designing APIs by Vinay Sahni. In it he offers some excellent advice, but one particular design principle is worth heeding and has lots of implications, namely the API should be “explorable via a … Continue reading
Hire people you would be willing to work for
The Y Combinator Startup School 2013 videos are online! I started with Paul Graham’s interview with Zuckerberg. There’s not a ton of new info in that video IMHO, but there are a couple of gems, such as: “One of the … Continue reading
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