tech, startups, internet
Chatbots: what happened?
The “next big thing of 2016” never happened. Dave Feldman, former design manager of Facebook’s Messenger bot platform, offers his insights into why. | learn more
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tech, startups, internet
A nutrition label for internet privacy.
Hunter Walk, partner at seed stage vc Homebrew, makes a call for a standardized, human-readable privacy policy format. I love this idea! | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Russia breaks the internet trying to ban Telegram.
The Russian government asked for the encryption keys to be able to read users’ private messages. Telegram replied with a hard no. So, the Russians blocked all of their IP addresses. Telegram started hosting on Amazon and Google. Then Russia […]
tech, startups, internet
The top 20 reasons startups fail.
CB Insights analyzed over 100 failure post-mortems to identify the top reasons startups fail. | learn more
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What does insurance data say about Tesla’s safety?
Sam Korus from ARK Invest has a very neat analysis of the raw data, including fun charts! |learn more
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FTC tells companies their ‘warranty void if removed’ stickers are bullshit.
They sent a note to “six major companies” telling them that the policy is unenforceable and could be considered deceptive under the FTC Act. | learn more
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The death of the newsfeed.
This is yet another great post by Benedict Evans of a16z. “What do we do now that there’s more in the newsfeed than we can possibly read? Can the algorithmic sample ever actually work, or do we swing back to […]
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How a Silicon Valley start-up launched satellites without government permission.
“In January 2018, Swarm [Technologies] launched the first satellites into space unauthorized by any government. People familiar with the business of launching satellites into space consider the situation odd, troubling and even dangerous: Access to space is supposed to be […]
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Why entrepreneurs start companies rather than join them.
Steve Blank summarizes and discusses the findings of a new research paper titled “Asymmetric Information and Entrepreneurship, that explains a new theory of why some people choose to be entrepreneurs. The authors’ conclusion — Entrepreneurs think they are better than […]
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There’s a new DNS in town.
Cloudflare launched 1.1.1.1, a new privacy-first DNS resolver. This is the service that you never think about that translates domain names (like hipavel.com) into IP addresses (like 104.24.96.129). “Your ISP, and anyone else listening in on the Internet, can see […]