robbiea

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• Mind Management, Not Time Management (Design for Hackers Author)

  by robbiea on 10/27/2020, 7:47 PM with 6 comments

• Want to Buy a Nest Thermostat? Think Again

  by robbiea on 10/2/2020, 8:53 PM with 0 comments

• The Engineering Startup Dilemma: Build It the “Right Way” Now, or Later?

  by robbiea on 4/11/2019, 7:22 PM with 0 comments

• One year after my first self-published book: 11,000 copies sold – $3,000 profit

  by robbiea on 1/22/2019, 7:52 PM with 0 comments

• Is Self-Publishing Worth it?

  by robbiea on 1/22/2019, 3:59 PM with 0 comments

• How to resign from a company

  by robbiea on 6/15/2018, 4:24 AM with 0 comments

• How this bootstrapped protein bar company got acquired for $600M in 4 years

  by robbiea on 3/2/2018, 3:46 AM with 0 comments

• Takeaways from KotlinConf 2017

  by robbiea on 1/11/2018, 6:29 PM with 25 comments

• A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing

  by robbiea on 7/7/2017, 2:44 PM with 0 comments

• Developers are wrong about LinkedIn

  by robbiea on 6/29/2017, 3:53 PM with 0 comments

• I'm a quick learner

  by robbiea on 6/9/2017, 8:19 AM with 0 comments

• Fire Me I Beg You (2012)

  by robbiea on 6/4/2017, 6:54 PM with 0 comments

• How a Broke Trip to Aldi Changed My Life

  by robbiea on 6/4/2017, 12:44 AM with 0 comments

• Google vs. Apple – The Smartphone Race Is Over, and a New One Begins…

  by robbiea on 10/27/2016, 2:24 PM with 69 comments

• Microsoft Finally Created a Launch Video Better Than Apple

  by robbiea on 10/26/2016, 6:16 PM with 0 comments

• The New Instagram Logo Is Amazing, and Nobody Is Happy

  by robbiea on 5/12/2016, 4:17 PM with 1 comments

• How to get your iOS app featured in the App Store

  by robbiea on 3/9/2016, 9:00 PM with 0 comments

• How to get a job at any tech company in the world

  by robbiea on 10/29/2015, 7:29 PM with 0 comments

• If Elon Musk Ruled the World

  by robbiea on 10/13/2015, 5:59 PM with 0 comments

• Tesla's new dashboard (design concept)

  by robbiea on 10/1/2015, 8:54 PM with 0 comments

• Conceptualizing Virgin America’s Mobile App

  by robbiea on 9/15/2015, 5:42 PM with 0 comments

• The Product Managers Guide to Creating an IoT Apple Watch App

  by robbiea on 9/9/2015, 9:55 PM with 0 comments

• Hybrid vs. Native Mobile Apps – The Answer Is Clear

  by robbiea on 8/18/2015, 7:48 PM with 0 comments

• Thank You HN – I just published a book after you gave me the confidence

  by robbiea on 5/28/2014, 2:47 PM with comments

• What'sApp Location Bug

  by robbiea on 4/14/2014, 4:24 AM with comments

• Why You Should Almost Never Accept A Severance Package

  by robbiea on 10/31/2013, 3:24 PM with comments

• The 52 Week Challenge

  by robbiea on 10/1/2013, 2:15 PM with -1 comments

• Shit, I Graduated. Now What?

  by robbiea on 5/26/2013, 9:02 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Need1Hour.com - Please provide feedback

  by robbiea on 5/1/2013, 4:00 PM with 2 comments

• Paypal Mafia

  by robbiea on 4/9/2013, 2:23 PM with 0 comments

• Things I Have Learned From Taking Coffee Meetings

  by robbiea on 2/28/2013, 6:31 PM with 0 comments

• Are You Biased? Research Says Blog Comments & Search Engines Alter Perception

  by robbiea on 1/28/2013, 9:08 PM with 0 comments

• Fake It Till You Can't Fake It Anymore

  by robbiea on 1/25/2013, 2:53 PM with -1 comments

• Rejection vs. Failure: Which is Worse?

  by robbiea on 1/7/2013, 4:20 PM with 0 comments

• The Best Startup Community in the World is ...

  by robbiea on 1/2/2013, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• Your Company Culture Sucks, and it’s All Your Boss’s Fault

  by robbiea on 12/5/2012, 4:19 PM with 2 comments

• How does 37 Signals respond to feature requests on Twitter?

  by robbiea on 11/26/2012, 5:25 PM with 0 comments

• Arguing on the Internet is Worthless - Ask Mark Suster and Paul Graham

  by robbiea on 11/20/2012, 2:18 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: What would happen if HN was split into "sub-reddits".

  by robbiea on 11/20/2012, 1:33 PM with 12 comments

• Startup 101: The PR Basics You Need to Know

  by robbiea on 11/19/2012, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• Why Startup Ideas Are Often Worthless

  by robbiea on 11/13/2012, 3:36 PM with 0 comments

• Investing in Client Meetings

  by robbiea on 11/12/2012, 4:45 PM with 0 comments

• Programming is Frustrating – This is Why There is a Shortage of Programmers

  by robbiea on 11/12/2012, 4:29 PM with 1 comments

• The Worst

  by robbiea on 11/8/2012, 9:05 PM with 0 comments

• The Narrative Fallacy: Why No Startup Success is Inevitable

  by robbiea on 11/6/2012, 4:13 PM with 1 comments

• Entrepreneurship in 3D: Do You Have the Vision to Build a Business?

  by robbiea on 11/5/2012, 8:42 PM with 0 comments

• Why Your Hard Work Isn't Paying Off

  by robbiea on 11/2/2012, 3:02 PM with 0 comments

• Shed the Costume of Perfection & Embrace Vulnerability

  by robbiea on 11/1/2012, 5:06 PM with 0 comments

• Lessons for Startups That Are Looking To Go Global

  by robbiea on 10/31/2012, 5:30 PM with 0 comments

• The “C” in VC Doesn’t Stand for Corporation – But Maybe it Should

  by robbiea on 10/30/2012, 3:10 PM with 1 comments

• How to Get New Customers

  by robbiea on 10/29/2012, 2:45 PM with 0 comments

• Every Single Relationship Counts

  by robbiea on 10/26/2012, 3:05 PM with 1 comments

• How to Get More Done In a One Day Than You Ever Have Before

  by robbiea on 10/25/2012, 3:00 PM with 0 comments

• Should Startups Limit the Product or Service Options They Offer?

  by robbiea on 10/24/2012, 3:14 PM with 1 comments

• Are You Trying To Invent a Job or Find a Job?

  by robbiea on 10/22/2012, 7:09 PM with 0 comments

• BJ Fogg’s Behavior Design Bootcamp: The Motivation Wave

  by robbiea on 10/22/2012, 4:06 PM with 0 comments

• What I Learned From The Founder of AppSumo, Noah Kagan

  by robbiea on 10/19/2012, 6:55 PM with 0 comments

• Behavior Design Bootcamp with Stanford’s Dr. BJ Fogg

  by robbiea on 10/19/2012, 5:59 PM with 0 comments

• The Ultimate Guide to Time Management (Part 1): Add Structure to Your Day

  by robbiea on 10/18/2012, 6:04 PM with 3 comments

• The Harder You Work, The More Likely You Will End Up Being Fired

  by robbiea on 10/18/2012, 3:13 PM with 2 comments

• Startup Food Fight: Truck vs. The City

  by robbiea on 10/17/2012, 2:05 PM with 10 comments

• How GoDaddy Convinces Users to Buy Things They Really Don’t Need

  by robbiea on 10/16/2012, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• Kickstarter vs. Quirky: How Crowdsourcing Can Impact Intellectual Property

  by robbiea on 10/15/2012, 3:13 PM with 1 comments

• Chicago Teachers Union Strike: A Teacher’s Perspective

  by robbiea on 9/18/2012, 7:05 PM with 0 comments

• Unprofessional is the New Unprofessional

  by robbiea on 8/22/2012, 1:44 PM with 0 comments

• Nobody Gives A Shit About Your Startup

  by robbiea on 8/13/2012, 1:44 PM with -1 comments

• The Moment You Realize That People Like You, But They Don’t Like Your Startup

  by robbiea on 8/9/2012, 3:48 PM with 1 comments

• All Entrepreneurs Are Liars – But We Don’t Do It On Purpose

  by robbiea on 8/8/2012, 3:03 PM with 0 comments

• The Cover Letter Is Dead. Long Live the Cover Email.

  by robbiea on 8/6/2012, 5:25 PM with 0 comments

• Someone Had the Idea For Uber 4 Years Ago & It Wasn’t Uber. +1 Execution

  by robbiea on 8/3/2012, 2:00 PM with 0 comments

• Front Page of HN Gave me 21k Views and 10 New Twitter Followers. That’s Right,10

  by robbiea on 8/2/2012, 5:16 PM with 8 comments

• Don’t Lie On Your Resume, But Lie Like Hell During Your Exit Interview

  by robbiea on 8/1/2012, 5:23 PM with 126 comments

• What Happens To My Klout Score After I Die?

  by robbiea on 7/25/2012, 1:33 PM with 4 comments

• Area Entrepreneur Wakes Up at 5AM to Pretend Like He’s Getting More Shit Done.

  by robbiea on 7/11/2012, 2:31 PM with 1 comments

• Does Networking = Not Working?

  by robbiea on 7/6/2012, 1:14 PM with 0 comments

• Your Professional Network Sucks and It's All Your Fault

  by robbiea on 7/5/2012, 4:34 PM with -1 comments

• Why The Quitter Always Wins

  by robbiea on 7/3/2012, 2:10 PM with 0 comments

• Second City, Now Start Up City

  by robbiea on 7/1/2012, 4:23 PM with 0 comments

• Shit No One Says: “I Found My Awesome Job on Monster.com"

  by robbiea on 6/2/2012, 9:51 PM with 0 comments

• Who Do You Want In Your Deal? Do You Want Dead Funding?

  by robbiea on 6/1/2012, 1:37 PM with 1 comments

• Those Who Have a Job, Want to Quit. Those Who Want a Job, Can’t Find One.

  by robbiea on 5/31/2012, 12:28 PM with 85 comments

• My Name is Robbie And I’m a 0x (Zero x) Entrepreneur.

  by robbiea on 5/15/2012, 2:16 PM with 2 comments

• How to Make Money as a New Developer

  by robbiea on 5/2/2012, 7:54 PM with 0 comments

• Will Ferrel Parody & _ShitNoOneSays_ Twitter Account:Genius or is it a Scam?

  by robbiea on 4/19/2012, 8:27 PM with 0 comments

• I Know My Startup is Successful When My Lunch Gets Stolen From the Kitchen

  by robbiea on 4/18/2012, 2:31 PM with 0 comments

• There is No Such Thing as Mandatory. Every Day & Everything is Optional.

  by robbiea on 4/17/2012, 6:51 PM with 0 comments

• Fire Me, I Beg You

  by robbiea on 4/13/2012, 3:45 PM with 65 comments

• The Rise of Pinterest and the Fall of the Hippie Male Early Adopters

  by robbiea on 3/5/2012, 11:29 PM with 0 comments

• Tofu is the Anti Steve Jobs

  by robbiea on 2/13/2012, 10:03 PM with 0 comments

• Forget Stealth Startups. We Have a New Issue: Stealth Blogs

  by robbiea on 2/8/2012, 3:19 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Feelings on building a backdoor killswitch in your program?

  by robbiea on 2/1/2012, 8:32 PM with 4 comments

• The Awkward moment when your dad tells you he reads your blog

  by robbiea on 1/27/2012, 8:21 PM with 0 comments

• 10 things that happen once you leave your fulltime job to start your own company

  by robbiea on 1/16/2012, 4:03 PM with 0 comments

• To KickStarter or Not to KickStarter – That is the Question

  by robbiea on 1/9/2012, 3:57 PM with 0 comments

• A problem solving interview question that is not a puzzle

  by robbiea on 1/7/2012, 4:18 PM with 0 comments

• What’s worse: The Auto Repair Shop, Or The Computer Repair Shop?

  by robbiea on 1/4/2012, 1:58 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN - How long of consistent blogging did it take to see traffic results

  by robbiea on 1/1/2012, 11:16 PM with 2 comments

• You don’t meet your new years goals because your friends don’t care about you.

  by robbiea on 1/1/2012, 10:45 PM with 0 comments

• Friends Don’t Let Friends Drink Starbucks (Unless It’s Your Boss)

  by robbiea on 12/31/2011, 10:32 PM with 0 comments

• 99% of Project Plans Are Absolutely Worthless

  by robbiea on 12/29/2011, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• Path v2 gives me a warm & fuzzy feeling that I have been craving

  by robbiea on 12/28/2011, 8:37 PM with 0 comments

• How lucky you are is directly proportionate to how many people owe you a favor

  by robbiea on 12/28/2011, 3:16 PM with 0 comments

• 5 reasons why watching Seinfeld will help you become better at the game of life.

  by robbiea on 12/27/2011, 2:54 PM with 0 comments

• To get the job that you want: Focus on the people, not the postings

  by robbiea on 12/26/2011, 4:59 PM with 0 comments

• Celebration of My Failures: 6 more interviews that I failed (Part 2 of 2)

  by robbiea on 12/25/2011, 5:35 PM with 0 comments

• Celebration of My Failures: 5 Job Interviews I failed (Part 1 of 2)

  by robbiea on 12/24/2011, 4:50 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN - Connecting founders with hackers instantly (twilio app)

  by robbiea on 8/9/2011, 3:38 PM with 1 comments