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I feel like many great solutions for small businesses started out as founders solving their own small biz problems, but found a more lucrative market in the enterprise, leaving the same problem in the SMB space unsolved…

If real estate brokers charge 6% to sell a house, and home ownership over a long period of time averages about 6% growth a year, is it possible real estate agents are the real reason/problem with out of control real…

I am curious if founders are acting on the warnings from VCs about the resetting valuation expectations and maximizing cash. I am specifically curious if anyone is taking immediate action to cut costs everywhere they…

I am in middle of reading "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, and he is discussing cognitive ease and cognitive strain. Long story short, if you want to earn trust and familiarity, make sure it can be processed…

Larry was a savage. A vagrant pauper living in a mud hut in the outskirts of town in a village in eastern Europe. The year was 1468 and King Augustus was a fair and generous leader. Larry was so used to hunting and…

Do you remember as a kid spending hours and hours building a lego fortress and having your big brother stomp through it godzilla-like destroying your masterpiece? Even if you haven't, certainly you've encountered the…

When the printing press was invented 93% of the population was illiterate. The first guy to own a fax machine, what did he do with it? Smart people will look at the world around them and think your idea has no place in…

When you are both a freelancer and an entrepreneur, you end up hiring the cheapest person possible to do the work. Who is the cheapest person to hire? You Are! If you want to build a company that is larger than yourself…

I come across these great companies with products many of my clients would jump on using and than we find out they want $30k+ upfront to even get started. Is this a reflection the value they create, or is there very…

The first thing I would do is ask webmasters to remove all unnatural links, and any link that doesn't drive referral traffic. Than I would disavow any links that can't be removed. I would than submit a reconsideration…

I was reading through the discussions here on HN about Buffer's open salaries. The two sides are. a)open is good and creates a fair environment. or b) open is bad because human nature will get involved and things will…

From Reddit: "When you are calling a utility/customer service number, and you need to speak to someone but receive an automated menu prompt, choose the Spanish option, then press "0". Multiple benefits here. More often…