Archive for March, 2009

Daily Links #48

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Interesting Startup: Pixazza, Visual shopping/product identification engine with such a simple integration. Online Retailers are going to love this.

Reid Hoffman advice for entrepreneurs: Choosing the Entrepreneurial Path

Joe Liemandt of Trilogy. His Lessons learnt. The Passion and Perseverance Behind a Start-up

Daily Links #47

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Steve Blank has started a blog. Add this to your must read list. Steve is going to write about customer development and execution aspects of the business — maybe more stories than I ever wanted :-)

Interesting Startup: Chris Dixon, Tom Pinckney & Caterina Fake launch Hunch! I loved Chris & Tom’s previous startup, SiteAdvisor, beautiful idea wonderfully executed. Caterina has the story on her blog regarding Hunch

The genius behind Google’s web browser

Need a Pothole Filled in Your City? Call KFC

Daily Links #46

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

“The Lost Google Tapes” Series from 2000

Sergey Brin interview: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Larry Page interview. Part 1, 2, 3

David Cheriton interview. Part 1, 2, 3

Daily Links #45

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

What is the minimum viable product? Eric Ries answers the question on his blog and Nivi of Venture Hacks interviews him on this subject

Naval Ravikant on How to be an angel investor

Mary Meeker on Economy/Internet Trends – updated slide deck for March 2009

PopSci: Who Protects The Internet?

Daily Links #44

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Garry Tan of Posterous has some great startup advice.

Paul Tyma has some advice on evaluating startup ideas. Part 1. Part 2.

Dan Kegel talks about the C10K problem.

The Architecture of Mailinator

Mark Nottingham’s Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters

Daily Links #43

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

The Effort Effect: A growth mindset is better than a fixed mindset

Dave McClure’s presentation: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London)

Alex Krupp: Put a form on your main page, that should increase your traffic

Daily Links #42

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Interesting presentations from Streaming Media West 2008.
- Dan Rayburn: CDN Research Data – World Content Delivery Networks Market
- Jan Ozer: Encoding H.264 Video for Streaming and Progressive Download

Daily Links #41

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Some interesting presentations from last year’s O’Reilly Velocity conference.
- David Ulevitch’s on BGP Blackmagic: Load Balancing in “The Cloud”
- John Allspaw on Capacity Management
- Stoyan Stefanov on Image Optimization: How Many of These 7 Mistakes Are You Making
- Peter Zaitsev on Scaling MySQL-powered Web Sites by Sharding and Replication
- Wei-Hsin Lee on Shared Dictionary Compression Over HTTP

Daily Links #40

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Matthew Ogle gives a talk on scalable development for Web Apps based on his experience at Last.fm (pdf)

Damien Katz talks about CouchDB (pdf)

Venture Hacks: Top 10 term sheet hacks

Daily Links #39

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

How do you deal with the ephemeral web?: Zoetrope has some interesting answers

Brad Fitzpatrick describes the story behind scaling LiveJournal

Truth is stranger than fiction: Michael Lewis on Iceland

Daily Links #38

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Anand Rajaraman: Reboot: How to Reinvent a Technology Startup

Highlights of Buffett’s 2008 Letter

100 Years of Earnings Cycles

Ries: Tropicana gets Squeezed

Bill Simmons: Welcome to the No Benjamins Association