Business Development edition. Seth Godin: Understanding business development Mike Volpi: Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Business Development Matt Wyndowe: The Fundamental skills for Internet Business Development Alexander Taub: Assessing The Stage Of A (BD) Deal John O’Farrell: Who You Gonna Call? Navigating the Existential Crisis
Paul Graham: Schlep Blindness Marco Arment: Designing “Mute” James Hague: A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Al Ries: Kodak Wasn’t Slow to Digital; It Was the First One In 18 Ways to Think About Data Quality
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998 Keith Adams: The Life of a Typeahead Query Adam Wiggins: Idea to Delivery – app development in 2012 Adrian Cockcroft: How Netflix gets out of the way of innovation Top 25 lines from @bhorowitz at #geeksvsuits Scott Miller: The genius of Pac Man
Joel Spolsky: Hitting the High Notes Nelson Minar: CPU scavenging In Singapore, loyalty card rewards coffee fans for being disloyal Jason Goldberg: How Fab Raised $40 million with a lot of data and not much pain Wavii blog: Your Mileage May Vary
Patrick McKenzie & Keith Perhac: Japan, Startups, A/B Testing, And More Michael Farr (Tintinologist): Why do the Tintin stories have such enduring appeal? Nora Young interviews Luis von Ahn on Duolingo Jessica Mah: A Startup is a Learning Experience Roger McNamee: 10 Hypotheses for Technology Investing (pdf) Vint Cerf, Van Jacobson, Nick Weaver & Jim [...]
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
Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin: Making Crash Bandicoot – Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Byrne Reese: How did WordPress win? Analysis: World of Goo’s iPad Launch Non-intuitive Examples of Compounding Returns Rand Fishkin: Inbound Marketing for Startups in 2011
Evan Miller: Golden Footballs and the Economics of Groupon & Is Groupon The Next Google? Paul Buchheit: Angel investing, my first three years James Altucher: 10 Things I Learned While Trading for Victor Niederhoffer Steve Jobs: Hiring the Best Is Your Most Important Task Howard Lindzon interviews Mark Cuban
Lawrence Kesteloot edition. Slow Assimilation Works Best Why Software is Late Helping the Average Programmer Estimates Production Languages and Toy Languages Soccer Team Preference Personal Motivation Hiring in a Recession Every Line Is a Potential Bug
Rich Skrenta: Algorithmic search is sinking, Bryne Hobart gets to the bottom of it. Dan Ariely: An Irrational Guide to Gifts Michael Lewis: How the Eggheads Cracked Billy Hoffman: Optimizing Web Performance (ppt) Paul Graham: Tablets Interesting startup: Lockitron
Joel York: SaaS Startup Strategy – Three SaaS Sales Models Paul Tyma: A Google Interviewing Story Mo Costandi: Neurocriminology in prohibition-era New York James Chanos: A Walk on the (Asian) Wild Side (pdf) David Einhorn interview (video)
Jordan Mechner: Tips for game designers Matt Mullenweg: 1.0 is the Loneliest Number Ben Horowitz: Meet the New Enterprise Customer, He’s a Lot Like the Old Enterprise Customer Dan Ariely: The power of Free tattoos Keith Schacht: Understanding your customers
Piaw Na: 5 Google Engineering Management Mistakes Patrick McKenzie: How A Half-Broken Halloween Promotion Smashed Revenue Records Instapaper Founder Marco Arment’s Journey From Bagel Jockey to Publishing Pioneer Jonah Lehrer: The Taste Of Coke Is All In Your Head
Chuck Lorre: How to create a hit sitcom Jason Goldberg: 57 things I’ve learned founding 3 tech companies Rich Skrenta: Crowdsourcing search relevance How will you find your truest, most productive niche? It may take decades and trial and error.
Paul Graham: The new funding landscape & What we look for in founders HN: Interesting hacks Mixergy interview with Steve Huffman Matt Rix: The Story So Far Arthur De Vany: Essay on Evolutionary Fitness
Naval Ravikanth: Privacy Violations. Excellent observation. Philip Su: Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook! Tracy Chou captures notes from Startup School 2010 Peter Norvig: On why he started working with Python Gabriel Weinberg: My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups. Comments on HN.
Ben Horowitz: Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good? Steve Newcomb: Cult Creation. Bootstrapping Stormpulse John Sculley On Steve Jobs Patrick McKenzie: Lessons Learned At Business of Software 2010
Steve Blank: Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs and Strategy is Not a To Do List Gabriel Weinberg: Startup micro opportunities Sunny Bains: Mixed Feelings James Surowiecki: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?
Kevin Drum: The Counterintuitive World Steve Martin: How compromise choices can make you money Good advice from Slava Akhmechet on what matters Marc Hedlund: Why Wesabe Lost to Mint
Paul Graham: What Happens At Y Combinator. comments on HN Todd Agulnick: End of the Road for Xmarks MailChimp: Going Freemium – One Year Later Max Levchin: On ambition Matt Douglas: The Doctrine of Completed Staff Work
Interesting startup: Hipmunk Ask HN: Do you use programming tricks in real life too? D. J. Bernstein: On debugging Ben Horowitz: The Right way to lay people off TechZing 68: Gabriel Weinberg & DuckDuckGo
Michael Lewis: Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds. Money Quote: In Greece the banks didn’t sink the country. The country sank the banks. Jim Rickards: Treasury Bills: The New Opium Michael Burry, bets on farmland and gold Chris Dixon: Things I’d do if I ran a big VC firm Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise [...]
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
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 [...]
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)
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 [...]
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
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?
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.
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 [...]
Jawed Karim: YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth (video) Brian Halligan: Sales Management, Strategy, & Transformation (pdf) How butterfly wings can stop counterfeit currency Visual Website Optimizer: A/B Testing + Clickmaps = Awesomeness