Gabriel Weinberg: Are you building an empire, sparking a powder keg, or starting a movement? Caterina Fake: Getting the Startup Equation Right Tony Wright: Considering Y Combinator (or any seed funding)? Rand Fishkin: SEO for startups From this image, a comment on reddit on the speed of the Antelope
There are good reasons for saying hello Steve Blank: No Accounting For Startups Steve Yegge: Ten Challenges/ Books Jason Cohen: Enough with the “expert” guilt Jesse Schell’s talk on the future of games (video) Mike Maples Talks Venture Capital And Thunder Lizards (video)
Anton Kovalyov: Making Disqus faster Jason Sobel: Making Facebook 2x Faster Max Ventilla: The idea was that we should add value to people’s existing habits not try to change them. Jimmy Wales on Getting Traction for wikipedia & wikia Panjiva: PageRank for shipping (interesting startup) Arthur De Vany: From chaos, order
What’s a Dress Worth? The online retailer Gilt Groupe offers a great deal: Buy designer clothes at deep discounts. Interesting use of data aggregation: Please Rob me Alexis Ohanian: Reasons to self publish books & Step by step guide on how to publish a book Jared Dudley – Most Athletic Hands in History (video) Paolo [...]
Interesting startup:ChartBeat is slick! Welcome to the world of Real Time Analytics. Rebekah Cox: Early Quora Design Notes The deepest point in the ocean:Marian Trench The technical details regarding Siri Paul Graham interview with How Y Combinator Helped 172 Startups Take Off. Helpful follow up on Hacker News with answers from Paul Graham.
The Human Shuffle: Is ChatRoulette the future of the Internet or its distant past? Chatroulette’s mysterious creator is Andrey Ternovskiy The $5 Guerrilla User Test Some alternatives to GMail NYT: Luge Crash at the Olympics (viz.)
The Art of Peering: The Peering Playbook (pdf) Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem (pdf) The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine (pdf) Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots on the World Wide Web (pdf) A Few Billion Lines of Code [...]
Some old favorite essays from Folklore – Switcher: The Macintosh’s first multi-tasking environment – Can We Keep The Skies Safe?: Burrell and I get our pictures in Newsweek – Round Rects Are Everywhere!: Steve inspires Bill by pointing out something about the real world – Close Encounters of the Steve Kind: Steve Jobs meets Donald [...]
Chris Ballard: The Hoops Whisperer. U.S freelancers are pretending to be from philippines on RentACoder to get jobs. Awesome Parkour motion reel. Jonathan Abrams: Web Infrastructure: Surviving The “Hockey Stick” Daniel Terdiman: Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder’s gaming start-up. Glitch. Bill Gurley: Virtual Goods, Accounting, And The Power Of The “Rental” Model
Paul English, co-founder of Kayak – Startup Advice: – Hiring – Venture Financing – Time Management – Trust Models – Usability Testing Todd Sattersten: Fixed to Flexible, 4 simple lessons about cost, price, margin & the options. (ebook)
Tom Feilden: The gunfighter’s dilemma. Money Quote: The intentional act of drawing and shooting was slower to execute than the action in response. Ann Miura-Ko: Venture Finance (pdf) Jeff Bezos: Regret Minimization Framework Gabriel Weinberg interviews Alexis Ohanian from reddit on Getting Traction AirBnB interview with Andrew Warner
Bugs of collective intelligence: why the best ideas aren’t selected? Tom Gruber of Siri: Big Think, Small Screen Scott Prevost: Dimensions of Semantic Search Steve Nash vs. the regular ol’ layup Asana: Lunascript, our in-house language for writing great web apps