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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.

Ian Landsman: How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage BBC: How we make websites Jonathan Ellis:

Reed Hastings: How Netflix got started Wired: Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses

Anatomy of a Program in Memory Netflix attracting more subscribers through streaming video RGEMonitor: Everything You Wanted to Know about Credit Default Swaps–but Were Never Told Big Mideast Funds Scale Back Investments Time to Unravel the Knot of Credit-Default Swaps

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

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

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 [...]

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

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

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

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 3. Entrepreneurial Marketing

‘Theocracy of Hackers’ Rules Autodesk Inc., A Strangely Run Firm Interview with Matt Knox, an Adware Author Avid founder Bill Warner: How a dirt farmer made me an entrepreneur PubMatic: Remnant Ad Prices Are Half What They Were A Year Ago The crisis explained in one chart: Debt-to-GDP Yale’s Investor Keeps Playbook: Most interesting take [...]

The highlight of headstart was Ashish Gupta‘s keynote session on Company building, then founder of Junglee and now VC at Helion Ventures. The session was candid, interactive, honest, and chock full of lessons learned. If you ever get the chance to hear Ashish speak again, drop everything you are doing and go listen to him. [...]

Yahoo Boss based search engine based on a visual timeline. Word of the day: Contango – Oil futures several months out are trading at a steep premium to spot prices, a situation called contango. Nouriel Roubini: More Doom Ahead

Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing

Some fantastic books I have read recently: Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s brilliant books: Fooled by Randomness & The Black Swan. John Bogle of Vanguard’s The Little Book of Common Sense Investing Dale Dauten’s: The Gifted Boss

Brilliant water-based eyeglasses for the masses: No optician required Mike Cassidy, Founder of Stylus Innovation, Direct Hit, Xfire: Best Strategy Is Speed Don Norman’s Design Journal recommendations Psychologist Stephen Greenspan: Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams Risk Mismanagement – What Led to the Financial Meltdown

James Hamilton blogs about The Cost of Bulk Cold Storage Dan Rayburn’s presentation on CDN: Market Drivers & Challenges for Delivering Video Vint Cerf’s keynote at Nanog (pdf): Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century Comparison of leading Social Networks: New business models in online communities

Eric Ries, Founder of IMVU on: How to raise money in a down economy Benoit B. Mandelbrot: How Fractals Can Explain What’s Wrong with Wall Street Interesting presentations from Jans Aasman of Franz, David Huynh of Metaweb Technologies, Dmitri Soubbotin of Semantic Engines, Satyam Priyadarshy of Network Solutions, Adrian Herrera of Nirvanix from the Web3.0 conference.

“Honey, I have shrunk the file”: 3DSoc develops technology to reduce CAD files sizes. (pdf) Jeff Dean talks about: Handling Large Datasets at Google (pdf). Interesting info on hardware failure on slide 8. Mary Meeker’s presentation on Internet Advertising Trends.  Nate Koechley’s talk on: Professional Frontend Engineering. Non-tech: Michael Wolff of Vanity Fair: Is PE the Ultimate Bubble? [...]