Archive for the ‘startups’ Category

Daily Links #128

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Florence Nightingale: The Passionate Statistician

Ed Yourdon: Peopleware 2008 (pdf)

John Ousterhout:
- My Favorite Sayings
- Startup Company Culture
- Open Decision-Making
- Fortnight Milestones

Daily Links #125

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Scobleizer: My world has changed (and I get to share with you)

A dozen of the best start-up pitches on the Web

Time: The 50 Best Inventions of 2009

Richard Thaler: Paying a Price for the Thrill of the Hunt

Interview: Jeff Bezos Founder and CEO, Amazon.com from 2001

Making browsers faster: Resource Packages

Daily Links #124

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Bram Cohen: Comments on Go

Scobleizer: The worst things startups do

Alexis Ohanian: From PlayStation to Y Combinator: The Reddit Origin Story, Part 1

Eric A. Brewer: Towards Robust Distributed Systems and Brewer’s CAP Theorem

SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web

Daily Links #123

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Evan Williams: Why Retweet works the way it does

Laura Ries: How Crocs Crashed

Christian Swinehart: 13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project.

Johan Andersson: Parallel Futures of a Game Engine

Satish Dharmaraj: The air in the valley

Daily Links #122

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Trevor Blackwell: Early-stage theories

Greg Linden: Starting Findory – The entire series

Chris Dixon: Presenting Founder Collective

Steve Blank: Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action

Riak: Web-shaped data storage system

Daily Links #120

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Richard Muller on his grad school research and advisor

Joel Spolsky: Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?

Scott Wheeler: The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not

Jason Cohen: Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias

Matthew Ebel: In Defense Of 1,000 True Fans – Part II

Daily Links #119

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals

James Surowiecki: Amazon-Wal-mart price war

Steve Blank: Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups

How John Paulson took home $10 million a day betting on a fall in home prices

Why Dolphins are deep thinkers?

Daily Links #117

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Tina Seelig: If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money as possible?

Tim Berners-Lee: Linked Data

Bill Gurley: Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model

Garbage Time All-Stars is back with a bang

Videos from Startup School 2009

Daily Links #115

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Paul Graham: What Startups Are Really Like, Hacker News discussion

Inside the App Economy

Kevin Rose: Taking your Site from One to One Million Users

Search vs. Recommendations, or Authoritative and Related Sources in a Graph

WOW! Korea’s Internet Is Mired in a Microsoft Monoculture

Ben Tilly: What are financial derivatives?

Daily Links #112

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Alexis Ohanian, reddit cofounder: Serendipity in startup life & why it pays to be good

Malcolm Gladwell: How different are dogfighting and football?

Caterina Fake on the Value of Viral Loops

Wayne Crosby of Zenter – interview

Daily Links #108

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Peter Saint-Andre: Jabber, the Real-Time Internet, and You (pdf)

Steve Vinoski: RESTful Web Services Development Checklist (pdf)

Chris Wensel: Perpetual Content Mining

Mark Fletcher: Lessons Learned Birthing and Building Web Start­Ups

Gordon Bell: The Eleven Rules of Supercomputer Design

Robert J. Moore: Twitter Data Analysis