Enlarge Thirty years ago, on May 29, 1992, Apple announced its most groundbreaking and revolutionary product yet, the Newton MessagePad. It was released to great fanfare a year later, but as a product
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . August 2010 When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998,it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be thenex
This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. We are about to witness a culling of heroes. The brightest minds in America have gone West over the
In my early attempts to make friends, I tried inviting people with shared interests to activities like sailing or grabbing brunch, but I constantly felt exhausted by the interaction for reasons I coul
On the flip side, there are managers who want to maximize the return to their career. At every company I've worked at that wasn't a startup, doing that involves moving up the ladder, which is easiest
The last company I worked for was a mid-stage startup with growing pains. What had started out as a nimble organization able to create impressive software now felt stuck. Everything was high priority,
Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure motivated Tim and me to make an epic pivot leap , from bootstrapping to a VC-backed startup. I began thi
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(Image credit: Sony) Smartphone cameras and DSLRs have been moving in opposite directions for the past few years, and image quality from phones will finally trump that of their single-lens reflex riva
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A year ago we wrote “ Sex & Startups .” The premise was this: The current technology and venture capital structure is broken. It rewards quantity over quality, consumption over creation, quick exits o
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . October 2010 (I wrote this for Forbes, who asked me to write somethingabout the qualities we look for in founders. In print they had to cutthe las
On a small table in Thomas Peterffy’s office stands a bronze statuette: Salvador Dalí's rendition of Alice in Wonderland, the bemused literary invention of Lewis Carroll. The founder of Interactive Br
Innovation ETF, had lost roughly half of its value over the prior year, as its aggressive bets on hot companies from Coinbase to Robinhood and Tesla had melted down amid a bear market in tech stocks.
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Photo by the v lovely @olivia 2 min read · Dec 10, 2012 -- I didn’t think I’d learn anything building Bootstrap. Actually, I was pretty confident I wouldn’t learn anything. As a technical challenge, B
(Image credit: Canon) I haven’t got my hands on the newly announced Canon EOS R7 yet, but I’m already convinced I need it in my life. I’ve been a Canon girl pretty much from the start of my photograph
Guido van Rossum, the inventor of Python, works together with Eric Snow and Mark Shannon at Microsoft to make CPython faster. His overview slides are available on GitHub since last week. What is CPyth
(Image credit: Canon) Canon 's new mirrorless stars, the Canon EOS R7 and EOS R10, will probably be the biggest camera launches of the year. Not because they're the best ones it's ever made, but becau
My son has been teaching me to play a Very Popular Video Game. As anyone with kids knows, screen time is premium — plus bedtime was coming — so I set a limit of 45 minutes. That would have been plenty
If you suffer from back pain , you’ve probably heard that strengthening your core can bring you some relief. But is this always true? And if so, how do you do it? Physical therapist Patti Mariano Kopa
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A few months ago, I wrote about how you can use system fonts in the browser using the built-in keywords that work with the font shorthand property (see Using System Fonts in the Browser ). These keywo
Python generators are mighty, but they lack a couple of useful features. One of them is peeking the next item without consuming the generator. Even better, what if we could peek any number of items? A
Watching Kai Lenny surf at Pe‘ahi, a big-wave spot off the north coast of Maui, is slightly heart-stopping. You may have seen it on video , but that doesn’t prepare you for the velocity, the impossibl
The first version of Marp was released at almost 3 years ago. At first, it was started from a simple tool for personal usage called "mdSlide". And now, Marp has been used by a lot of users who would r
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