Startups
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It has been a crazy holiday weekend. In three days we went from relative obscurity to being the punching bag of the entire tech industry. I suppose some might envy me for all the media attention I’ve received for a side project I built in my underwear one night after waiting in line for a…
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This morning I put the finishing touches on, and launched, ReservationHop.com, a site where I’m selling reservations I booked up at hot SF restaurants this Fourth of July weekend and beyond. I built it over the weekend after waiting at Off the Grid for 30 minutes for a burrito from Señor Sisig, and realized that there’s…
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I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here’s why.
Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Internet, NSA, PRISM, Privacy, Product, Search, Search Engines, Startups, Technology
It was really hard to switch off of Google, and when I finally did it, I didn’t think I would switch back. In the past, whenever I’ve tried another search engine, I have failed. Searching is such a natural, compulsory thing to do on the internet, that whenever I have navigated to Bing or DuckDuckGo,…
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This is a layperson guide* for what the guy you meet on the plane to Vegas means when he tells you “I have a startup.” I’m building a Chrome plugin that lists all the parks in Salt Lake City on top of all Mormon-operated blogs using a proprietary Google search algorithm I work full time as a…
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Recently, I was putting together a project proposal for a client when I stumbled across a fairly common problem. Embarking on a new venture, for any startup, is risky, but for tech startups, perhaps, the risk is hedged by relatively little overhead and a short timeline to development. After all, a new website can be…
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