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The Fine Line Between Rejection and Revelation: How Invisible Rules Nearly Stopped My Entrepreneurial Journey

What If the Only Thing Holding You Back Is an Invisible Rule You Never Questioned?

“I’d take th’ risk. Worst they could say of me is, that I did what I thought best, even to my own wrong.”

PROMISES FULFILLED.

From ARPANET’s open roots to today’s walled gardens, explore how we centralized the internet—and why the fight for a freer web isn’t over.

From Walled Gardens to World Grid: A Short History of How We Centralized the Internet

Never before, perhaps, was staged a more thrilling race, and yet it was run with only the moon and stars to see.

The Walled City

The Feature Image was made by HackerNoon’s Stable Diffusion AI, Prompt “landlord looking happy in his walled garden”

First thing first: Apple takes 30% of all sales made by developers via its walled garden app store

Once upon a time, the personal computer stored the user data. Then, the Web came along. 

The Walled Gardens of Social Media: From the Free Web to the “Free” Web

Comment comes as part of big tech CEO grilling by antitrust committee

The Markup Investigation: Congressman Says that Google engineered a “Walled Garden”

In just five years the Salesforce ecosystem has transformed from a "walled garden" to an open-sourced driven solution set.

Salesforce: Walled Garden No More

The walled gardens situation is on everyone's lips, as it pushes ad-tech peers on both buying and selling sides to fight over the scraps remaining after the industry titans saved the best ad budget slices for themselves. 

Walled Gardens Transparency and the Cost of Obscurity: Will 2021 Be Different?

In the last few years, I've been dissecting business models of any type, and companies of any size. At the same time, I've been talking, interviewing, and discussing business models and business model innovation with dozens of entrepreneurs, and practitioners.

Are Tech Giants Building Walled Gardens (Again)?

<em>Rob Walling has bootstrapped multiple startups to exit, most recently Drip. These days he’s working on TinySeed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. He also founded and runs MicroConf and Startups for the Rest of Us.</em>

Founder Interviews: Rob Walling of MicroConf, Drip, and TinySeed

This is Part 3 on my series about cross-compilation. You can check out Part 1 and Part 2 first&nbsp;!

A C++ Hello World And The Rose Gold Walled Garden Of Doom

Building the ultimate onboarding experience across the web2 and web3 through a Digital ID aggregator toolkit

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EVERGREEN INDEX #10141

WalliD's stories on HackerNoon

What If the Only Thing Holding You Back Is an Invisible Rule You Never Questioned?

PROMISES FULFILLED.

From Walled Gardens to World Grid: A Short History of How We Centralized the Internet

The Walled City

First thing first: Apple takes 30% of all sales made by developers via its walled garden app store

The Walled Gardens of Social Media: From the Free Web to the “Free” Web

The Markup Investigation: Congressman Says that Google engineered a “Walled Garden”

Salesforce: Walled Garden No More

Walled Gardens Transparency and the Cost of Obscurity: Will 2021 Be Different?

Are Tech Giants Building Walled Gardens (Again)?

Founder Interviews: Rob Walling of MicroConf, Drip, and TinySeed

A C++ Hello World And The Rose Gold Walled Garden Of Doom

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EVERGREEN INDEX #10141

WalliD's stories on HackerNoon

What If the Only Thing Holding You Back Is an Invisible Rule You Never Questioned?

PROMISES FULFILLED.

From Walled Gardens to World Grid: A Short History of How We Centralized the Internet

The Walled City

First thing first: Apple takes 30% of all sales made by developers via its walled garden app store

The Walled Gardens of Social Media: From the Free Web to the “Free” Web

The Markup Investigation: Congressman Says that Google engineered a “Walled Garden”

Salesforce: Walled Garden No More

Walled Gardens Transparency and the Cost of Obscurity: Will 2021 Be Different?

Are Tech Giants Building Walled Gardens (Again)?

Founder Interviews: Rob Walling of MicroConf, Drip, and TinySeed

A C++ Hello World And The Rose Gold Walled Garden Of Doom

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