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
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
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
Interesting websites/startups: – Goby: Amazing search engine that helps you answer What would you like to do? – Rate Expectations: Was the movie worse than the trailer? This site has the answer William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind (Video) Scott Wheeler of Directed Edge: On Applying to Y Combinator SKMurphy: Startup Maturity Checklist. Gabriel [...]
Interesting Startup: SkyGrid. I got an invite to SkyGrid in April, finally got around to playing around with it. Absolutely Awesome UI. Another Interesting startup: Convey Computer, working on what they call Hybrid-core computing. Here’s a whitepaper from their site. Remember Steve Wallach from the book, Soul of a New Machine, he is the founder [...]
Mendeley: How Last.fm inspired a scientific breakthrough Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other’s minds (Video) That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger: on Jure Robic the ultra-endurance athlete What went wrong with AIG, 3 part article from December, 2008: – What Went Wrong: The Beautiful Machine – A Crack in The System [...]
Building Rome in a day: Algorithm Generates a Virtual Rome in 3D from 150,000 Flickr Photos JSSpeccy: A ZX Spectrum emulator in Javascript. Nothing like playing Super Mario and Contra in JavaScript. Paul Graham: Post-Medium Publishing. Comments on Hacker News. David Weekly: How PBworks Used Lean Startup Techniques Things Naughty Dog Liked about Lisp
TC50 video demo of AnyClip: does amazing movie search. Pixlr: Cool web-based picture/image editor Dan Bricklin: Signals and the Ubiquity of New Carriers D. J. Bernstein: Usable security for DNS (pdf) Mark Sellers: Seven Traits great investors share
Short Paul Graham video interview at TechCrunch50 As always some gems. Joshua Porter: Designing For Social Traction Ulf Wiger: What is Erlang-Style Concurrency? The Man Nobody Wanted to Hear: Global Banking Economist Warned of Coming Crisis
Ben Tilly: Effective A/B Testing “Hello John. It’s Gordon Brown.” Interesting companies: Adam D’Angelo & Charlie Cheever’s Alma Networks resurfaces as Quora, “a community-generated database of the trusted information that interests people most.” The folks that worked at Right Media start a new company, AppNexus, a new cloud computing solution. A virtual Personal Assistant: Siri
Mike Markson of Blekko: Eight hard truths about online media Tim Bray: Music & Money. Another gem by Tim. Freebase: A socially managed semantic database. Freebase’s presentation at the NYC semantic web meetup. Tom Pinckney: What I don’t like about mysql and memcache Bret Taylor: The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed’s web server Better Explained: Understanding [...]
Tim Bray interviews the founder of Ravelry James Hamilton: Successfully Challenging the Server Tax Harmonix: How ‘horrendous failure’ led to Rock Band Latency Arbitrage: High-frequency Trading
Dropbox’s Summer ’07 YCombinator Application, with interesting comments from Paul Graham. Thinking about applying to YCombinator, you have to read this. Philip Greenspun: Tips for Startup Companies Paul Graham: What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage. Hacker News discussion here. IEEE spectrum: The Making of The [...]
Daniel Pink: TED talk on motivation How FlightCaster Squeezes Predictions from Flight Data. Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable Chris Dixon: The worst time to join a startup is right after it gets initial VC financing Bill Gurley: What Is Really Happening To The Venture Capital Industry? The World’s Most Mind-Bending Language Has the [...]
Interesting startup: Fairspin. Perspectives from an entire community spectrum. OpenTable: Technology that restaurateurs actually like. Laws of Productivity: 8 productivity experiments you don’t need to repeat Germany in the Era of Hyperinflation: Weimar Republic in the early 1920′s.
Interesting startup: I have been playing around with brizzly, a new service from thing labs to check my tweets. This has replaced twitter.com. Startup to watch – Rockmelt: Marc Andreessen backs the new *browser* startup. Robert Churchill is another person involved with Rockmelt. Ben Franklin’s daily planner Chris Dixon: Why Seed Investors Don’t Like Convertible [...]
Startup Podcasts: – Paul Graham Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity – Gabriel Weinberg Traction interview series, first up: Steve Barsh Chris Fralic of First Round Capital: Biz Dev for Startups: 25 years of learning in 25 slides Jeff Dean – Handling Large Datasets at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions (pdf) Bill Scott: Designing Web Interfaces [...]
Interesting presentations from NANOG 46 (pdf): – Richard Steenbergen: Deploy a Production IPv6 Network in 30 Minutes or less – Suzanne Woolf: DNSSEC Goes Mainstream: Deployment Incentives, Experience, and Question Joshua Porter: Designing with Psychology in Mind Videos: – Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? – Eric Ries: How to [...]
The $160B given to AIG — a visual representation John Carmack and the Wizardry of Id Jude Gomila: Mapping Out Your Web Startup Beautiful Parallelism: Harnessing Multicores with Haskell (pdf) From OCaml to Javascript at Skydeck Joseph Smarr: The Social Web - An Implementer’s Guide Gabor Cselle Business opportunities around Google Waves
Adam D’Angelo & Charlie Cheever’s (formerly of facebook) new company, Alma Networks The protocols powering the real-time web Buster McLeod: Kinds of attention Derek Sivers: My $3.3M mistake
Kevin Kelly: 1,000 True Fans Intentional Software presentation (pdf) The Quest for Computable Knowledge — A Short Timeline (pdf) Good explanation of Bayes theorem Reg Braithwaite’s fantastic essay on Optimism, based on Martin Seligman’s book, Learned Optimism Danny Sullivan: Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine” Updated slides & commentary from Eric Ries on Customer Development
Rich Skrenta: blekko.com will presumably launch in 3 months. 10 engineers, 1 VP of everything else, ~200 servers, $ 5 million in angel funding and some debt to build a new search engine. Can’t wait to use blekko! Steve Blank: “Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups. Great startups have a tempo of [...]
The Lanchester Model – a model for capturing market share in business operations & 3 to 1 Rule Kicking Butt by the Numbers: Lanchester’s Laws
Interesting Startup: Pixazza, Visual shopping/product identification engine with such a simple integration. Online Retailers are going to love this. Reid Hoffman advice for entrepreneurs: Choosing the Entrepreneurial Path Joe Liemandt of Trilogy. His Lessons learnt. The Passion and Perseverance Behind a Start-up
Steve Blank has started a blog. Add this to your must read list. Steve is going to write about customer development and execution aspects of the business — maybe more stories than I ever wanted Interesting Startup: Chris Dixon, Tom Pinckney & Caterina Fake launch Hunch! I loved Chris & Tom’s previous startup, SiteAdvisor, beautiful [...]
“The Lost Google Tapes” Series from 2000 Sergey Brin interview: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Larry Page interview. Part 1, 2, 3 David Cheriton interview. Part 1, 2, 3
What is the minimum viable product? Eric Ries answers the question on his blog and Nivi of Venture Hacks interviews him on this subject Naval Ravikant on How to be an angel investor Mary Meeker on Economy/Internet Trends – updated slide deck for March 2009 PopSci: Who Protects The Internet?
Garry Tan of Posterous has some great startup advice. Paul Tyma has some advice on evaluating startup ideas. Part 1. Part 2. Dan Kegel talks about the C10K problem. The Architecture of Mailinator Mark Nottingham’s Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
The Effort Effect: A growth mindset is better than a fixed mindset Dave McClure’s presentation: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) Alex Krupp: Put a form on your main page, that should increase your traffic
Chris Wanstrath of GitHub: On how GitHub got started. Left 4 Dead sees 3000% jump in sales on Steam: numbers during the sale period actually eclipsed the sales during L4Ds launch week Funny: An illustrated TARP