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

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

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

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

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 Gettys: BufferBloat: What’s Wrong with the Internet?

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

HN: Interesting hacks

Mixergy interview with Steve Huffman

Matt Rix: The Story So Far

Arthur De Vany: Essay on Evolutionary Fitness

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.

Steve Newcomb: Cult Creation.

Bootstrapping Stormpulse

John Sculley On Steve Jobs

Patrick McKenzie: Lessons Learned At Business of Software 2010

Gabriel Weinberg: Startup micro opportunities

Sunny Bains: Mixed Feelings

James Surowiecki: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?

Steve Martin: How compromise choices can make you money

Good advice from Slava Akhmechet on what matters

Marc Hedlund: Why Wesabe Lost to Mint

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

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

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 customers

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?

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

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)

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

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?

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?

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)

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?

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

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?

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.

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 Optimizer’s Guide to Google Adwords: How to setup and organize your SEM account

Will Thimbleby: MISC: An experimental LISP-like language

Brian Halligan: Sales Management, Strategy, & Transformation (pdf)

How butterfly wings can stop counterfeit currency

Visual Website Optimizer: A/B Testing + Clickmaps = Awesomeness