startups


28
Jul 10

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?


27
Jul 10

Daily Links #199

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


22
Jul 10

Daily Links #197

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)


19
Jul 10

Daily Links #196

$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 happen among as large a group as possible, week in and week out.”

How Entrepreneur Gabriel Weinberg Bootstrapped & Created A Search Engine (video)

Michael Bodekaer on getting traction


18
Jul 10

Daily Links #195

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 technology project or startup follow?

What are the most common mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make?


18
Jul 10

Daily Links #194

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 tech companies haven’t tended to IPO much over the last few years?

What is Keith Rabois’s hiring process for people in Sales, Business Development & Product Management?


10
Jul 10

Daily Links #193

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)


4
Jul 10

Daily Links #191

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 and startups come out of PayPal?

What were the early achievements that drove PayPal’s awesome fraud detection systems?

What’s the hardest puzzle question asked at PayPal?

Why has no payment startup emerged as a meaningful challenger to PayPal?


19
Jun 10

Daily Links #189

Keith Rabois: The State of Angel Investing & What Startups Can Learn From It

Chris Dixon: On Startups & Why the VC Model Is Broken

David Cohen: You have acquisition interest – now what?

Wolfire Blog: Thoughts on OnLive

Sebastian Deterding: Why Games Are Fun: The Psychology Explanation


14
Jun 10

Daily Links #188

YC Founders at Work Interview: Posterous

SeaMicro’s interesting new product for the server industry

Thomas Korte: 16 Tips for Founders @ YC Demo Day

Dan Ariely: The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People

YC: Need to process payments?


11
Jun 10

Daily Links #185

Kayak: Where can I fly for how much? (awesome tool)

Founder Dialogues: Tim Healy, co-founder and CEO of EnerNOC

Gabriel Weinberg on Mixergy: How The Founder Of Duck Duck Go Previously Bootstrapped A $10 Mil Company

Chris Dixon’s blog content page. Many gems in there.