“Happy Birthday, Kickstarter!” published in Kickstarter by Yancey Strickler

Medium Daily Digest Most recommended by People you follow Kickstarter Happy Birthday, Kickstarter! Today Kickstarter turns seven. We'll be celebrating tonight in Brooklyn with our friends, families, backers, and creators. On past birthdays we've posted a Project Update on the company itself. Today we're continuing the tradition by sharing what's happened at Kickstarter this past year. ¶ The Team ¶ We're 137 people… in Kickstarter, by Yancey Strickler 5 min read M.G. Siegler Carcinoma of Undifferentiated Primary It took a long time to get a finalized report on my pathology slides. The way Pathologists determine cancer type (if it's not visibly… in Season of the Witch, by Ted Rheingold 4 min read Buffer We're Growth-Hacking LinkedIn. Here's How. As a B2B startup, we've found LinkedIn really powerful in pin-pointing new potential customers. Where LinkedIn falls down is actually… in We Did it — $1000 Per Month Reached, by Ed Moyse 3 min read M.G. Siegler To Bot or Not to Bot It's not about the Bot, it is about a Great Service. in Slack Platform Blog, by Amir Shevat 5 min read Buffer How Our Side Project Hit $1000 MRR Last summer Harry and I were essentially broke. We'd spent 5 months working on Hey Press, a searchable database of startup journalists. It… in We Did it — $1000 Per Month Reached, by Ed Moyse 6 min read Published by Authors and publications you follow The Psychology of Side Projects: How Creative Projects Improve Our Performance at Everything By Kevan Lee At any given time, I have a side project running. ¶ It's often a new blog or a Tumblr or a book or a newsletter. Sometimes I try to design WordPress themes. Other times I try photography. This ethos… in The Queue, by Buffer 6 min read Beyond Acceptance and Rejection Or, Why Rejection Might Be The Best Thing That Happens To You in On Eudaimonia, by umair haque 5 min read Optimizing Latency and Bandwidth for AWS Traffic AWS Startup Spotlight: Datapath.io in AWS Startup Collection, by AWS Startups 6 min read An Intelligent Argument for Intelligent Design From someone who doesn't care who wins the debate in Words of Tomorrow, by Martin Rezny 13 min read Recommended by Medium Staff It's The Life I've Been Dealt 20 years ago, my father went to prison. We laid there, my brother and I, underneath a bed upstairs. We were being as quiet as we possibly could, not just because we skipped school and didn't want to get caught, but because there was a… Jason Flamm 5 min read Top stories in culture The Crossroads of Should and Must This is a story about two roads — Should and Must. It's a pep talk for anyone who's chosen Should for far too long — months, years, maybe a lifetime — and feels like it's about time they gave Must a shot ¶ There are two paths in life: Should and Must. We arrive at this crossroads over and over again. And each time, we get to choose. ¶… in Medium Daily, by elle luna 16 min read When Apu Meets Raj — The Real Story Behind Why Indians Aren't "Cool" It's Time To Stand Up. in Life Learning, by Jasky Singh 11 min read Top stories in virtual-reality What's Next in Computing? The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing… lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes wildly. The product cycle by comparison gets relatively… in Software Is Eating the World, by Chris Dixon 11 min read From product design to virtual reality Personal experience and intro to VR. in Google Design, by Jean-Marc Denis 12 min read Top stories in bitcoin The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment I've spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I've written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of… developers, and the talks I've given have led directly to the creation of several startups. I've talked about Bitcoin on Sky TV and BBC News. I have been repeatedly cited by the Economist as a… Mike Hearn 18 min read Bitcoin is the Sewer Rat of Currencies Andreas Antonopoulos on the future of blockchains in Urgent Futures, by Mark Frauenfelder 26 min read Top stories in satire Here are the Top Tech Companies' Secrets to Hiring the Best People Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, Amazon. These top tech companies each receive over a quadrillion resumes per year (source needed)… . So it's safe to say they have a good process for choosing the best job candidates. But what is it? ¶ No, it's not that list of popular Google interview questions you Googled on Google. In fact… in The Cooper Review, by Sarah Cooper 5 min read Briefing The Photographer Of My Author Photo For My Non-Existent Book Jacket Here's what I'm thinking. I'm sitting at, nay, hunched over, my mid 17th-century British bureau. It's old and worn down from all my writing… in Slackjaw, by Amanda Rosenberg 2 min read Read more on Medium Connect with us on:

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