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Ben Gundersen

@bengundersen

Growth & community strategist in the relevance crisis. I like sailing, tying fancy knots, and beating you at Scrabble.

 New York, NY
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Joined September 2009
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Don’t feel too bad for American exceptionalism; humanity has yet to discover a system of government that is immune to the ultra-wealthy having their way. Did you think we’d cracked that one?
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The early web was fun. It was weird. It was community-driven. It's time to rebuild that. Which is why @KevinRose & I just bought back @Digg — rival CEOs turned partners! Just don't call it nostalgia! This is a necessary evolution.
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Growth isnt about fretting over every interaction. It’s about shots on goal. To be able to recognize trends you need more data. More dakka.
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Back on this platform after more than 8 years. Let’s see what you’ve got.
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David Ban@d_ban26 Feb 2016
V neat new map draw feature in @foursquare. Say you're looking for donuts along Flatbush avenue...
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React is amazing
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Tenacity - AVC

Tenacity - AVC

One of the things I admire most in companies and their leaders is tenacity. I don’t mean sticking with a failed idea for too long. That is a mistake I see a lot of entrepreneurs make in the Seed and...

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Over-comment your code. :) nitter.cf/ChinaProverbs/status/5…
Chinese Proverbs (@ChinaProverbs) profile pictureChinese Proverbs@ChinaProverbs6 Mar 2015
The palest ink is better than the best memory. 好记性不如烂笔头。#chinese
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Liz Carter@withoutdoing11 Dec 2015
I'd add, Chinese seems to make more sense broken into building blocks. English does too, just its blocks are in other languages (like Latin)
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Wow. @mozibot has massive potential as an educational tool. Great stuff from #accesscode Android. nitter.cf/mozibot/status/6441554…
mozi (@mozibot) profile picturemozi@mozibot16 Sep 2015
Tonight's the night! All #AccessCode 2.1 teams will be demo-ing at @MovingImageNYC! Good luck everyone + TY @C4QNYC!
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No one ever got fired for making the share button bigger.
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@joinpursuit2 Aug 2015
Access Code #AndroidDevs keep up the hard work practicing demos on our 2nd day of #hackesscode! #RHFunded #hack4good
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What it looks like when @ftrain makes the first-ever (?) magazine cover on GitHub: github.com/BloombergMedia/wh…
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Our global finalist project team #FirstHand worked hard all night long at @YotelHQ! Great people + hard work + awesome venues = COOL HACKS
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andymorris@andymorris26 Feb 2015
First stop, NYC. Next stop, everywhere else. @Citymaps maps the world! via @CrainsNewYork amp.ac/upm
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@bindavisdraws oh man, there are so many analogies to coding that this could be a whole series.
I hope Ello can pull it off. Something like this is needed. ello.co/manifesto
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Creating Polymer Style Checkboxes With CSS. Just like material design at #io14 scotch.io/tutorials/css/crea…
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Fire phone is $199+2yr contract, AT&T only? Amazon is about to learn a very important lesson about consumers, and learn it the hard way.
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