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UX: Information software design is graphic design
By Brett Victor

50 things I learned at 500
By Kim Dowd

How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit
By Danielle Morrill

What They Can’t Tell You: Starting Up Outside a Hub
By Matthew Wensing

Traction trumps everything
By Gabriel Weinberg

Click Hacking for Fun and Profit
By Jesse Farmer

The difference between hard and soft links
By Lew Pitcher

Functional Programming in the Java Language
By Abhijit Belapurkar

Mercator: A Scalable, Extensible Web Crawler
By Allan Heydonand Marc Najork

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Below are six articles and one amazing video by Sergey Brin on the early days of starting Google. By the way if you have any amazing startup videos we should check out respond to this email and let me know about them.

- Chris

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Chris Burnor – Lead Engineer, StartupDigest

 

 

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Check out these sketchbook videos on “finding the magic sauce of entrepreneurship” and “three things entrepreneurs do” and more from the Kauffman Foundation.

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

An epic letter by James Currier, 2x exited founder and now founder of Jiff, to his alma mater on how to do something exciting instead of wasting your life at a cube job.

 

An inside look into how Loudcloud used business development to save the company after the dot-com crash by breaking itself up into two companies. Opsware the software company eventually sold to HP for $1.6 billion.

 

Ruby and JQuery developer Yehuda Katz argues on the subtle but key differences between JavaScript’s first class functions and Ruby’s block syntax.

 

Why learning the basics of software development is important, even for the business people.

 

There’s only a couple sites people will use on a daily basis but if done right you can retain people to your app through either notifications or using your service as a start point for something.

 

Need to edit a bunch of files all at once? Too complex of a refactoring for sed? Try combining ack and Vim macros.

 

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, talks about how simple ideas built for one person are so powerful and why just trying things is so important.

 

See all of the previous resources and articles we’ve featured here.

For newcomers: StartupDigest Reading List is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best articles in the startup world.

You can become a member for free here.

Welcome back to the StartupDigest Reading List, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the startup world every week. 

This week we’re focusing on what investors think about the current stock market, an engineer’s perspective on applying for jobs, the job of a CEO, startup M&A, and a beginner’s guide to design.

On to this week’s reading list!

- Chris

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest

 

 

StartupDigest Reading List is supported exclusively by:
Winners of Global Entrepreneurship Week’s Startup Open competition, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation, could win a trip to Liverpool to hang out with global entrepreneur experts or a year’s worth of mentoring from the founders of Redbox. Learn more about all of the prizes here and submit your startup here.

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Stock Market Drops. VCs Hold Partner Meetings. What Happens Next?
By Mark Suster

The current macroeconomic outlook is weak and there’s a ton of volatility in the markets right now. Here’s what investors feel and think about while this is going on.

 

My secret Hobby: Applying for jobs
By Nikolaus Gebhardt

Companies, this is what engineers feel while applying for your jobs.

 

The fine line between fear and courage
By Ben Horowitz

I love Ben’s last quote:

Over the past 10 years, technological advances dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

 

Startup M&A availability bias
By Gabriel Weinberg

If you are thinking about getting acquired now or sometime in the future, you need to read this.

 

A beginner’s guide to Design
By Daniel Higginbotham

Learn how to articulate what you want from design, the terminology, and the basics of design.

 

Welcome back to the StartupDigest Reading List, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the startup world every week.

This week we included a presentation, a video, and 3 articles. Trying to mix things up a bit this week :)

On to this week’s reading list!

- Chris

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Presentation: So you want to do a startup, eh?
By Tara Hunt

Startups are really, really hard.

Video: The Anatomy of a Fundable Startup
by Naval Ravikant

This is especially useful for startups outside of Silicon Valley and New York City.

How to value your company for sale
By Jason Cohen

Multiples of revenue is only one way a potential acquirer would evaluate your company and it’s typically not the most common.

How do you act on all that product feedback?
By Gabriel Weinberg

Small changes can have a huge effect on your product experience.

The day after you get funded
By Tawheed Kader

This is a good reminder that, after you get funded, your worries don’t disappear. It’s time to buckle down so you can make it rain.