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
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 [...]
“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
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?
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
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
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
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 [...]
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
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
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