Jamie Zawinski: The Netscape dorm Brilliant essay on Quora review: Sex, Death, and Anonymity on Quora Kartik Ayyar: I don’t use Quora, I play it Shinji Kuwayama: The Value of Promise Pinboard Blog: Anatomy of a Crushing Bill Moorier: Life at a Startup
Rands In Repose: The Noise Phil Whelan: Quora’s Technology Examined Jonah Lehrer: Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code Charles Limb: Your brain on improv Mark Suster interviews Gregg Spiridellis: Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?
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?
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tony Hsieh: Why I Sold Zappos Gabriel Weinberg: Paths to $5M for a startup founder Steve Blank: When Big Companies Are Dead But Don’t Know It. As a side note, I asked Ben Horowitz on How he arrived at the decision to sell the Loudcloud business to EDS and become Opsware the software company? The [...]
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.
Ben Tilly: Effective A/B Testing “Hello John. It’s Gordon Brown.” Interesting companies: Adam D’Angelo & Charlie Cheever’s Alma Networks resurfaces as Quora, “a community-generated database of the trusted information that interests people most.” The folks that worked at Right Media start a new company, AppNexus, a new cloud computing solution. A virtual Personal Assistant: Siri
Adam D’Angelo & Charlie Cheever’s (formerly of facebook) new company, Alma Networks The protocols powering the real-time web Buster McLeod: Kinds of attention Derek Sivers: My $3.3M mistake