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2026 · 3

09-08 184 Pull Requests and a Merge Button That Needed a Laptop
09-02 How I Work with Claude Code
08-15 How I Set Up Travel Mode

2015 · 1

10-24 Request For Startup: Personal CRM for Grown-up Friendships

2013 · 21

08-03 Embracing the Incrementality Mentality
05-18 The $3B+ Exit Tumblr Could Have Had
05-16 Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results
05-14 New 500 Startups Batch Announced. Who Has the Most Momentum?
05-13 New York Startup Index: 500+ Companies Ranked by Momentum
05-09 Revenue vs. Value
05-05 Startup Index: Y Combinator Companies Have More Than 2x the Momentum of 500 Startups, 3x Techstars
04-27 Thoughts On YC Interview Prep
04-24 Art Is Hard
04-20 Double Tap
04-10 Investor Index: Discover the Most Popular VC & Angel Blogs
04-05 Zombie VCs
04-05 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st
04-03 Startup Investment Hits 3.5 Year Low in December, Q1 M&A Slowest Since 1995
04-03 Indexing the Andreessen Horowitz Portfolio Companies – Pinterest, Twitter and Github on Top
03-28 Numbers in Action
03-26 Watsi and the Future of Patronage
03-20 The Y Combinator Startup Index
03-10 Zombie Startups
02-16 Solve the Problems Your Parents Have
02-09 I Don’t Do That Job Anymore

2012 · 9

12-18 Call the Shots & Stop Being So Nice
07-01 Don’t Break the Chain
06-21 Startup Metrics to Obsess Over
06-03 Don’t Waste a Single Moment
05-28 Saying No
05-17 Timeline: Starting Referly Took Me Three Years
03-19 500 Details: The Process of Mentoring Startups
03-11 Close the Loop on Your SXSW Campaign & Leads in 5 Steps
02-28 How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit

2011 · 4

2010 · 7

09-29 Congratulations TechCrunch
09-04 Startup Marketing: 2nd Class Citizen, 2nd Rate Results
08-28 TweetToCall is Becoming a More Social Phone Book
04-02 My Best Friend’s Wedding: The Startup
02-14 Reflecting on “Stuff”
02-10 We Launched – Check out Twilio SMS
01-15 Time to Say Goodbye Seattle, Hello San Francisco

2009 · 17

12-28 Stuff I Built: Simple International Calling Card with Twilio
12-14 Why I Won’t Touch LBS with a Ten Foot Pole
12-10 The Real Future of Sex – Humans not Robots
12-07 Handicapping LeWeb Startup Competition: First Impressions
11-20 SaaS, Supply Chain, PASCAL and Past Professional Lives
11-06 Yep, It’s Porn – StreamHer.com Takes 2nd Place at Entepreneur Idol
11-04 What I Want From Location Based Apps? Facebook.
09-05 What Were You Doing When…?
07-28 Is Google Wave the End of Email?
05-30 We Are Now Approaching the Futurama
04-20 Celebrities Who Treat Twitter Like Broadcasting Medium Miss the Point
04-10 Neophilia
04-08 Impressive Twitter.com Traffic in March
04-06 Startup Weekend SF or Bust!
03-29 Kevin Is Leaving Microsoft
03-07 Goodbye Whrrl, Hello World
01-30 Going Mobile – China

2008 · 2

12-29 “If” by Rudyard Kipling
12-23 We Are All Inventors of Our Own Lives