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By Ben Popper 4/14/11 7:36am

Start-up Inc.Uncategorized

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Joel Spolsky on Founder Equity: There Will Be Drama

With the saga of Twitter’s lost founder reverberating around the web, now seems like a good time to hear from some local heavyweights on how best to divvy up ownership of a start-up.  Read More

By Ben Popper 2/15/11 2:12pm

Tech Bubble Watch

Not government sanctioned.

Stack Overflow Will Now Make Search Smart, Less Spammy

Stack Overflow’s dedicated user base has made it the web’s best resource for questions on topics as far flung as computer programming, cooking and amateur photography.

Now this trove of knowledge will be integrated with upstart search engine Blekko, which is taking on giants like Google and Bing by offering users heavily curated results.

Blekko’s Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/25/11 11:03am

Q&A

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Forget Quora, New York’s Stack Overflow Is Killing It

As the tech blogosphere continues to gush and agonize over the question-and-answer site Quora, New York’s question-and-answer site Stack Overflow has been quietly catching fire.

Stack Overflow is primarily a message board where programmers can share tips and tricks and crowdsource solutions to problems they run into while coding. The name is Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/05/11 11:31am

Q&A

Man with the plan

Stack Overflow’s Joel Spolsky Talks Q&A, Grumps About Espresso

Question: Is Q & A just a fad?

Answer: Not at all. Q & A sites are a kind of social network and a solution to problems with the Google’s decreasingly-useful search engine. It’s a crowded space—Tech Observer has receivered press releases this week from Ask.com, ChaCha and Answers.com, the last of Read More

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