Sean Ellis: Key Elements of a Massively Scalable Startup David Greiner: Promoting your product or service with banner ads – is it worth it? Andres Kutt: Learnings from Five Years as a Skype Architect Mozilla Presentation on Space & Narrative: Designing for Social Interaction Steve Blank: You’re Just the Founder
Marc Andreessen: A Panorama of Venture Capital and Beyond (video) Patrick McKenzie: Introducing Appointment Reminder Sachin Agarwal: Building startups from the heart Steve Blank: Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do Startup Insights from Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak Ben Horowitz: Why Startups Should Train Their People
Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit Incenting your customer John Kay: Obliquity Search Engines don’t create Intent, they Harvest It From Zero to a Million Users – Dropbox and Xobni lessons learned
The 221B Baker Street illustration Ben Horowitz: The Scale Anticipation Fallacy Bill Simmons: Kerr finally has Suns in the right place. Money quote: “Absolutely. If we are going to shed our baggage, it has to happen in exactly this way … this ludicrous, preposterous way. And it’s the only way.” Daniel Engber: The Underdog Effect [...]
Lars Leckie: Magic Number for SaaS Companies The rise of content farms: Can technology help make online content pay? Adam Wiggins: Startup Lessons Learned Gabriel Weinberg: Will the real standard terms please stand up? The Search Engine Landscape in 2010: Rand’s Presentation from Web 2.0 Expo
Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Flash Ben Horowitz: Why We Prefer Founding CEOs Naval Ravikant: Presentation Hacks Fred Chong: The Forces of Long Tail Software and Services Mixergy Interview: How SiteAdvisor Went From Startup Vision To A Career-Making Exit – with Chris Dixon
A Recipe for Motivation: Easy to Read, Easy to Do Dilbert: That Lost 4G Phone How many Steve Nash high-fives per game? (video) Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish (video) Kevin Donaldson: Summary of Startup Lessons Learned Conference
Bradford Cross & Hamilton Ulmer: 7 Tips for Successful Self-Learning Mike Taylor: Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search? Evan Miller: How Not To Run An A/B Test Mark Suster: Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Gabriel Weinberg interviews Eric Ries on [...]
Aaron Iba: How I Cured my RSI Pain, comments on the essay on HN Paul Graham: Organic Startup Ideas Well-capitalized Seattle start-up seeks Unix developers. From Jeff Bezos of Amazon, then know as Cadabra. Steve Blank: Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups Steven Strogatz on sync
Gabriel Weinberg interviews Patrick McKenzie on SEO & AdWords for Bingo Card Creator. Follow up questions answered by Patrick on HN The Inspiring Story Of The Man Behind SmugMug And FatBrain – with Chris MacAskill (Mixergy interview) Andrew Chen: Minimum Desirable Product Mark Wieczorek: Why Most Businesses Fail (A Theoretical Model)
Micheal Burry: I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed? Jonah Lehrer: The Superstar Effect Edward Tufte: Megan Jaegerman’s brilliant news graphics Robert Cialdini: The Neuroscience of Influence
DuckDuckGo is a new search engine I have been using for the past 7 months and absolutely love it! DuckDuckGo captures the essence of search and delivers great results with some interesting features. Here are a few of my favorite features: Zero-Click info: Easy to access information right on the search page. Disambiguation: Narrow your [...]
David Leadbeater: Wikipedia over DNS. Presentation here. Open information extraction from the Web (pdf), talks about TextRunner among other things. Gabriel Weinberg interviews Paul English on early Kayak and how hiring impacts traction Clay Shirky: The Collapse of Complex Business Models Arthur De Vany: Evolutionary Fitness (pdf)
Matt Brezina: Freemium ain’t new. It is just a new word Gabriel Weinberg: Duck Duck Go reddit ad by the numbers. Comments on Hacker News here. Jia Shen: Design Learnings from Viral Applications Gabriel Weinberg interviews Satish Dharmaraj on Getting Traction
Yishan Wong on Engineering Management: Hiring, Process, Promotions, Tools & Technical Leaders Slava Akhmechet: Building a world-class team: six mistakes I made early in my career Ben Horowitz: Product Market Fit Myths Patrick McKenzie: Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week, comments on HN Imran on Tech: Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who [...]
Ben Horowitz: The Case for the Fat Start-Up José Miguel Guzmán: Google’s Peering Policy (pdf) ITA Software’s Needlebase, can’t wait to try it. Daniel Hillis: Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine Justin Sheehy & Steve Vinoski: Developing RESTful Web Services with Webmachine (pdf)
Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis Charles Davi: What Critics Don’t Get About Credit Default Swaps Jonah Lehrer: Online Status Anxiety David Skok: Customer Acquisition & Monetization Justin.tv’s Live Video Broadcasting Architecture
Video edition. Dr. Atul Gawande: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Interesting startup, OnLive. Steve Perlman, talks about the technology & gives a demo (vid) Gabriel Weinberg interviews Justin Kan of Justin.tv on getting traction Jessica Livingston interviews the founders of AirBnB & Weebly
Video edition. reddit.com Interviews Peter Norvig Anand Rajaraman: What lies beneath: harnessing the deep web Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory Gabriel Weinberg interviews Garry Tan of Posterous
Weaponizing Mozart: How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control Pete Michaud: Achievement Porn Patrick McKenzie: Lesson from Madlibs Signup Fad: Do Your Own Tests The Diamond Formation: Making sure your side wins the sound-byte battle An Excerpt on Dr. Michael Burry from Michael Lewis’s new book: Betting on the Blind [...]
Gabriel Weinberg: Are you building an empire, sparking a powder keg, or starting a movement? Caterina Fake: Getting the Startup Equation Right Tony Wright: Considering Y Combinator (or any seed funding)? Rand Fishkin: SEO for startups From this image, a comment on reddit on the speed of the Antelope
There are good reasons for saying hello Steve Blank: No Accounting For Startups Steve Yegge: Ten Challenges/ Books Jason Cohen: Enough with the “expert” guilt Jesse Schell’s talk on the future of games (video) Mike Maples Talks Venture Capital And Thunder Lizards (video)
Anton Kovalyov: Making Disqus faster Jason Sobel: Making Facebook 2x Faster Max Ventilla: The idea was that we should add value to people’s existing habits not try to change them. Jimmy Wales on Getting Traction for wikipedia & wikia Panjiva: PageRank for shipping (interesting startup) Arthur De Vany: From chaos, order
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.
Chris Ballard: The Hoops Whisperer. U.S freelancers are pretending to be from philippines on RentACoder to get jobs. Awesome Parkour motion reel. Jonathan Abrams: Web Infrastructure: Surviving The “Hockey Stick” Daniel Terdiman: Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder’s gaming start-up. Glitch. Bill Gurley: Virtual Goods, Accounting, And The Power Of The “Rental” Model
Tom Feilden: The gunfighter’s dilemma. Money Quote: The intentional act of drawing and shooting was slower to execute than the action in response. Ann Miura-Ko: Venture Finance (pdf) Jeff Bezos: Regret Minimization Framework Gabriel Weinberg interviews Alexis Ohanian from reddit on Getting Traction AirBnB interview with Andrew Warner
Bradford Cross: You Release Late and Infrequently Tunnel Splitter: Accelerating a single TCP connection over multiple ISPs Paul Graham: Is it worth being wise? Tom Pinckney: Use it or Lose it – on backups & restore The PayPal Wars and its Lessons for Today’s Entrepreneurs
A Peek Into Netflix Queues – interesting visualization of Netflix queues by the NYT. Renting movies provides sentiment analysis? John Borthwick: Creative destruction … Google slayed by the Notificator The Presentation Secrets Of Steve Jobs Matasano Security: Enough With The Rainbow Tables: What You Need To Know About Secure Password Schemes Lean Analytics For Startups
Bill Gurley: Android Or IPhone? Wrong Question Rand Fishkin: SEOmoz’s Venture Capital Process Tim Sweeney: The Next Mainstream Programming Language (pdf) Jonah Lehrer: Blame It on the Brain VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
Steve Blank: The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Soda’s Are No Longer Free Peter Norvig: What to demand from a Scientific Computing Language — Even if you don’t care about computing or languages (video) Traction series interview: Mark Cramer, Part II Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media Technology Review: Trading Shares [...]
Will Larson: Hands On Review of the Dynamo Paper Jason Cohen: Easy statistics for AdWords A/B testing, and hamsters Dan Bricklin: Note Taker for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch Sean Ellis: How to bring a product to market Ash Maurya: Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup Joe Armstrong: Comet is dead long live websockets
Scott Adams: Job Satisfaction Matt Brezina: No One Cares About Your Stupid Little Startup Robert L. Glass: Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering Derek Sivers: There’s no speed limit.
Florence Nightingale: The Passionate Statistician Ed Yourdon: Peopleware 2008 (pdf) John Ousterhout: – My Favorite Sayings – Startup Company Culture – Open Decision-Making – Fortnight Milestones
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
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