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This week was a historic one for the internet. We stood up to the progess of SOPA and PIPA in the US government, but more pushback is coming. This was the week that government realized that the internet matters. This was also the week that the internet realized that government matters too. Let’s make sure that government continues to hear our support for an open and free internet.

- Chris

 

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What You Need to Read This Week

Paul Graham, partner at Y Combinator, has noticed that the startups that are hungry to take action and can take care of themselves are the ones who tend to do better than the others.

 

 

Growth is the lifeblood of new companies. Here is how Jeff, a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz, thought about growth while at OpenTable, PayPal, and eBay.

 

Probably the most amazing Stop SOPA page to come out of Wednesday’s blackout was Zachary’s flash-light page. Check out the repo and see how he did it.

 

Here’s a broad overview on the different types of design: graphic, interaction, and UX.

 

Forget what all the browser-specific tags are for using border radius in CSS3? Forget no more with the simplest, but most useful way to instantly see and get the CSS for a cool rounded-border box.

 

Joel Spolsky built Trello to be a horizontal product similar to how he built Microsoft Excel back in 1991.

 

Here are the resources and timeline Eddy went through to learn Python/Django himself and become his own technical co-founder.

 

Here is a video on the historical context of SOPA/PIPA and what companies that support these bills are really aiming for.

 

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