Daily Links #200
Gabriel Weinberg: Google Web spam Jason Baptiste: If You Build It, They Won’t Come Christopher “moot” Poole’s new startup, Canvas Networks is hiring Why do you think startups fail? How do bootstrapped companies hire talent?
Gabriel Weinberg: Google Web spam Jason Baptiste: If You Build It, They Won’t Come Christopher “moot” Poole’s new startup, Canvas Networks is hiring Why do you think startups fail? How do bootstrapped companies hire talent?
Nassim Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next ‘Black Swan’ Paul Graham: The Acceleration of Addictiveness. Interesting comments on HN on the essay. Eliezer Yudkowsky: Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization Desh Deshpande’s talk and Q&A July 22, 2010 Interesting startup: yCumulus — GPU clusters in the cloud
Interesting presentations from Velocity 2010: (all links pdf/ppt) Marcus Westin & Martin Hunt: Building Fast Webapps, Fast (Lessons From Creating the Meebo Bar) Arvind Jain & Michael Kleber: Don’t Let Third Parties Slow You Down Urs Hölzle: Speed Matters John Rauser: TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance Joshua Bixby & Hooman Beheshti: The 90-Minute [...]
Paul Graham: The top idea in your mind. Josh James: On how he started Omniture (video) Peter Norvig: On Lisp – past, present & future — from 1999 FasterWeb resurfaces as Acceloweb with some interesting features Yale Patt: Future Microprocessors: Multi-core, Mega-nonsense, and What we must do differently moving forward (pdf)
$9 footlong? Subway teaches you how to raise your price. Dharmesh Shah: 7 Non-Obvious SaaS Startup Lessons From HubSpot Mike Troiano: How To Sell. “In the end your ability to surface opportunities is a straight-line function of the number of people who are thinking about you this week, and job one is to make that [...]
More from the Startups topic on Quora. How does Meebo make money? How did LinkedIn get initial traction? How did Chatroulette become such a global phenomenon so quickly? How did Mint acquire 1.5m+ users without a high viral coefficient, scalable SEO strategy, or paid customer acquisition channel? What generic first order principles should a new [...]
From the Startups topic on Quora. What is the best advice you could give to a young, first-time startup CEO? What is the best advice for a startup applying to Y Combinator? What do you need to get a meeting with, and then present to, Ron Conway? What are some of the main reasons that [...]
When Genius Failed covers the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM). LTCM’s partners and traders including John Meriwether, David Mullins, Eric Rosenfeld, Gregory Hawkins, Larry Hilibrand, Victor Haghani, Myron Scholes, Robert C. Merton and the Wall Street banks form the crux of the story. The first half of the [...]
Sachin Agarwal: If you can’t buy your investor a beer, don’t take their money Bill Gurley: Google’s Acquires ITA: Will Deeper Vertical Integration Lead To Higher Revenues? Niel Robertson: Everything I learned in business I learned from these 3 charts Nassim Taleb: Why I Walk (pdf)
Linda problem: Behavioural Finance’s Smoking Gun Marco Arment nails it: Great since day one Clay Shirky: “No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.” Location-based Mobile Ad: A Lesson From Japan The Way I Work: Justin Kan of Justin.tv
Paypal history from Quora. What strong beliefs on culture for entrepreneurialism did Peter / Max / David have at PayPal? What are the most important things that David Sacks did while running product for PayPal? What was PayPal’s most important strategic decision early on in achieving widespread customer adoption? Why did so many successful entrepreneurs [...]