Scientific American: Six Ways to Boost Brainpower
Can Countries Really Go Bankrupt?: Nothing Is Unimaginable Anymore
Bill Gross of PIMCO: “stop the decline in asset prices.”
Ray Dalio of Bridgewater: Annual letter to investors.
January, 2009
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Jan 09
Daily Links #20
Ian Landsman: How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage
BBC: How we make websites
Jonathan Ellis: A Stock-Market Scam
SMS Loans are becoming a big problem for Estonia
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Jan 09
Daily Links #17
WSJ: What You Need to Know About Gold
Citibank: Teetering Since 1812
The Freemium model is alive: Free Monty Python Videos on Youtube Lead to 23,000% DVD Sale Increase
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Jan 09
Daily Links #16
Feed Me: Motivating Newcomer Contribution in Social Network Sites
Bribes and Transparency on Chinese Holidays: A Primer
The Dirt Bag Chronicles: On Goldman Sachs
Beware of Greeks bearing gilts: The risks involved in buying government debt
Jérôme Kerviel: Secrets of the rogue trader
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Jan 09
Daily Links #15
Reading up on Convertible Debt.
CRV’s Quickstart funding program starts out with a “convertible note”.
Yokum Taku has an interesting blog, that answers a few questions on Convertible Notes
Venture Hacks, has many interesting articles:
- Should I raise debt or equity?
- What are the benefits of debt in a seed round?
- How to make a cap table
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Jan 09
Daily Links #14
You know when things are bad: Kleiner Perkins reaches out to new investors: “Unheard of”
Dodgeball Shuttered By Google, Its Co-Creator Promises To Clone It
Nyquist Capital: Still No Japanese Exaflood in Sight
Markus Frind of Plenty of Fish: And the Money Comes Rolling In
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Jan 09
Daily Links #13
Joel Reymont: My road to Lisp
Po Bronson, 6 years later: What Should I Do with My Life, Now?
Pew Internet report on Adults and Social Network Websites
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Jan 09
Daily Links #12
Interesting slides from the Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2008 session:
all slides pdf
- Jeff Polakow: Is Haskell Ready for Everyday Computing?
- Anil Madhavapeddy: Xen and the art of OCaml
- Nick Gerakines: Developing Erlang at Yahoo.
- Jake Donham: From OCaml to Javascript at Skydeck.
- Bob Ippolito: Ad Serving in Erlang
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Jan 09
Daily Links # 11
A MIT Blackjack Team perspective: The real cause of the financial crisis, and the real solution
Slides from Steve Blank’s Stanford Technology Entrepreneurship course. Some of the interesting sessions posted below all slides pdf
1. The Secret history of Silicon Valley
2. Mike Maples Jr: The New Era of Lean Startups