StartupDigest Reading List – February 17, 2012

17/02/2012

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- Chris

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

 

 

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What You Need to Read This Week

On Business Madness
By Alex Payne | More articles on leading

An engineer’s view on business by Alex, who was an engineer at Twitter and started Simple.

 

 

Caching Tutorial
By Mark Nottingham | More articles on coding

Caching is one of the best ways to speed up performance for a semi-static application, but actually implementing it well requires more than just plugging in a cache gem. Mark Nottingham of Rackspace walks through how to set up caching well in this detailed tutorial.

 

The Management Team
By Joel Spolsky | More articles on leading

Think of your management team as the support team for your company.

 

Post-Mortems For Ten Products I’ve Built
By Dana Levine | More articles on failing

A candid assessment on the failure of 10 early stage products. Good to get a glimpse into what failure looks like and what you learn from it.

 

If I were an Architect
By Brian Marick | More articles on coding

A lean startup builds features and iterates quickly, but a well architected system looks like it was built with the foresight of every feature and not a clock-cycle more. How does a good systems architect balance these two opposing priorities?

 

Between failure and Facebook
By Chris Dixon | More articles on attitudes

The best thing about startups is you get to work with great people on interesting projects even if the startup doesn’t turn into Facebook.

 

[Video] Ryan Dahl on Node.js
By Ryan Dahl | More startup videos

Ryan Dahl talks about the history of Node and why he created it.

 

[Video] Simon Sinek on Meaning
By Simon Sinek | More startup videos

People don’t buy what you do. They buy why you do it.

 

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StartupDigest Reading List – October 21, 2011

21/10/2011

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Welcome back to the StartupDigest Reading List, the members-only guide to the best articles on startup life.This week is dedicated to the founders and teams building real businesses from startups. It’s sexy to talk about startups launching and startups getting acquired, but here’s to the teams in the long middle section that are building lasting companies.- Chris

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Startup Weekend founders share tips and insights in their first book, How to Take a Company from Concept to Creation in 54 Hours. Funded by the Kauffman Foundation, the book outlines key beliefs that have yielded powerful results. Order your copy by Nov. 8, 2011.

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

People love to talk about the beginning and end of startups but there is huge middle struggle to build a real business. Here is a glimpse into what that middle part feels like.

 

 

It really helps to have a sense of purpose when you’re building something big. To quote the cheshire cat, if you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.

 

Building a real business takes time. It’s easy to start a startup, but you can’t build a business in a weekend.

 

If you’re advising or even just giving your feedback on someone else’s startup, it pays to be truthful. And founders, it’s hugely valuable to have someone on your side who will tell it like it is.

 

Find all of the best resources on starting, joining, and leading a startup here.

 

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StartupDigest Reading List – April 8, 2011

7/04/2011

Below is an archived version of the StartupDigest Reading List – a weekly curated listing of the best articles you need to read for the startup industry. If you would like to get next weeks digest on Friday sign up here, or if you want to discuss these articles leave a comment below.

What You Need to Read This Week

How do you start a tech startup as a non-technical person?
By Travis Biziorek

Getting a technical co-founder as a non-technical person is one of the hardest things someone could go through. Travis completely failed at this for 6 months but was able to eventually find a technical co-founder to join is team, and in this Quora post he shares how he did it.

13 Things You Must Do Every Week As A Startup CEO
By Jason Goldberg

Being the CEO of a small startup (and a big company) sucks and is not as glamorous as people make it out to be. Here are 13 things you must do as a CEO, including point #1 which I started doing here with StartupDigest.

Starting Up Silicon Valley Style [Video from 1980's]
By The Santa Clara Valley Historical Association

Here is a recorded glimpse into the start of “Silicon Valley” as we know it today. This video is an incredible thing to watch and you can really feel the spirit of Silicon Valley through the words of legendary founders who were all mid-way into their startups.

How We Knew When to Launch Our Startup
By Vinicius Vacanti

Launching your startup is like attracting schools of fish (TechCrunch school, Lifehacker school, HackerNews school, etc). At launch you are the fisherman and its your job to net as many of these schools as possible and to retain those fish.

In this post are 4 strategies (depending on the stage your startup is in) and lots of tactical ideas to keep users engaged post-launch.

Why incorporating my startup was my worst mistake
By Hamza

Hamza incorporate his startup by himself (easily and cheaply) but when his startup died and he closed his corporation, he owed a total of $89,000 to the State of Delaware.

Take this as a warning if you are trying to hack your own incorporate for cheap.

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