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An article about 10 million iphone app downloads and counting – the traction games interview.
An article about a physical app store for a software product – the podio story.
The story behind a practice run that made it big – wunderlist.
April 4, 2011 Online 'ads', as we've known them for the past decade, are dead. The brain of every internet user has been trained to ignore banner ads, and web browser adblock technology has ensured th..
The story behind an email client that achieved 20,000 downloads in a day: sparrow.
An article about an interview with techstars graduate fullcontact.
An article about the art of launching: how to make your startup launch count.
An article about beam – our interview with a company that is reinventing the toothbrush.
An article about bizbrag – interview with a social platform extending the reach of content.
An article about building a college startup – the fampus story.
An article about building a company around email – the inboxfever interview.
An article about building a startup in london – the top10 interview.
March 27, 2011 Your startup is social. Local. Mobile. Viral. Paradigm-shifting. Minimalist. Disruptive. Stealth. Scalable. Agile. .. (continue the summary here)
An article about carpooling the right way – the zimride story.
An article about creating a startup around a domain name – an interview with get.com.
June 3, 2011 [Posterous](https://posterous.com/) is a Y Combinator startup that launched in mid-2008, and has since grown into one.. (continue the summary here)
An article about don’t think of non-paying users as a burden, but as an advertising expense.
An article about fantastical mac calendar giveaway.
An article about flow is an all-new app for collaborative task management.
May 20, 2011 Raising capital has almost become the new 'must-do' step in launching a startup. Just about every new founder seems to think it's required, but is it really? (continue the summary here)
An article about the freemium model: when it works and when it doesnt.
An article about hiring the wrong person is far worse than waiting for the right person – the zocdoc interview.
An article about how changing the name of my webapp quadrupled signups.
June 10, 2011 Decreasing the price of your software product doesn't necessarily mean you will sell more copies, and increasing it doesn't always mean you'll sell less. (continue the summary here)
An article about how my startup launched to 50,000 daily pageviews with just a few emails.
An article about how tiny wings outflew angry birds.
An article about how to succeed in a crowded market.
An article about icloud lets you pirate all the music you wish – for $24.99 a year.
An article about is it impossible to succeed in a crowded software market?.
An article about launching a hardware startup – an interview with basis.
An article about localscope tells you whats close by.
An article about make sure your software knows what platform its for.
An article about monetization is the best way to validate the worth of your product.
An article about naming your product – the bugsense interview.
An article about not failing should be the central aim in the first six months of any startup.
An analysis of the current state of online video advertising and the opportunities for innovation in this space.
An article about present.me makes recording and sharing presentations easy.
An article about products that solve problems market themselves: the instagram story.
An article about profile.io is an about.me for developers.
An article about profitability vs growth: the startup dilemma.
An article about the road to entrepreneurship – an interview with dan shipper.
An article about saving your customers $75 million – the feefighters story.
An article about spaaze is a virtual corkboard to organize your projects.
An in-depth interview about stay inspired, not on auto-pilot – with fantasticals founder.
An article about tagmask lets programmers share posts in a personalized feed.
An article about the dropcam story – building a surveillance startup.
An article about the hipmunk story – an interview with adam goldstein.
An article about the road to entrepreneurship – an interview with dan shipper.
An article about the solution to airbnbs woes – imitate ebay.
The success of the Apple logo, and This article explores why your startup needs to copy it.
An in-depth interview about think small, start small – with stephen ou.
An article about toolkitcafe – interview with toolkit cafe, a comprehensive library of it tools, templates, and training for small businesses.
An article about try out the windows 8 tile interface right now on windows 7.
The story behind turning down $250,000 for your startup – crate .
An article about why building an api should be a top priority.
Why Color will fail (and This article explains how your social startup can succeed).
An article about why getting noticed is the most important step in startup success.
An in-depth interview about why gumroad is next billion dollar startup – developer.
An article about why online video advertising desperately needs an overhaul.
An article about why windows phone 7 would have failed as a startup.
An article about why you should earn revenue from user #7.
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An article about wunderlist – task management at its best.
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