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

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Last week Brendan McManus re-designed all of our StartupDigest Video pages to make them a little easier on your eyes :)

If you haven’t seen any of our videos before I suggest watching our top 3 talks by Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel.

 - 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

This really applies to any position you are hiring for. Make sure to be kind to new people meeting your company for the first time.

 

An inside look into what buyers are looking for.

 

Using Python’s date functions and can’t remember if uppercase AM/PM is %A or %p? Sure you could go look it up in the documents and scroll down the page until you find what you want. Or, you could go to strftime.org and get all the info you need on one, gorgeous, simple page.

 

I hate how Business Insider sensationalizes titles but this is a good look at a great sign-up flow. I love how Pinterest keeps their entire process very personal.

 

A 7,000 word essay on the idiosyncrasies of salary negotiation. The key point here is to stop feeling guilty about asking for market compensation.

 

 

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Happy early New Year’s! Over the holiday break I watched this vintage Steve Jobs video, filmed in 1980, and it was one of the best videos I have seen recentley. Definitley reccomend watching this when you have time.- Chris

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

 

 

StartupDigest Reading List is supported exclusively by:
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

Here is a basic rundown of what SOPA is, where it is now, and why its important for the startup community to know about.

 

 

When companies start they need to make one very important decision at the beginning of their life: do you want to build organically or get big fast?

 

If you have 1,000 servers each individually rated at 99.9% uptime, on average, one of those machines is always failing.

 

Alison shares some lessons she learned from working at Box.net and now starting her own company.

 

Co-founder and hiring problems, especially with the first 5 hires, trouble shipping, and trouble communication are all deep problematic signs for new startups.

 

CanCan is a great authentication system for for Rails, but how do you rigorously test it’s magic?

 

People love to talk about working on meaningful things but Elon Musk, who started Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is one individual who lives and breaths making a huge difference.

 

A rare video filmed at the Computer History Museum in 1980 of Steve Jobs talking about the beginning of Apple and his plans for the future.

 

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

Below is an archived version of the Beijing StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Beijing. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Hello everyone!I am in Shanghai this week for the Game Developers Conference as the moderator for the Independent games summit. There are some great speakers here that really define the Indy spirit. One thing that I learned is that Independent Game Developers are the spiritual brothers of New Media web entreprenuers. They are following a vision and passion of building unique
and innovative games that they just can’t do at bigger studios and corporate game complexes. They work in teams of 5 or less people, they live in near poverty both before and sometimes after their game ships and they need to convince others to give up great jobs and prospects to join an uncertain future making off beat games.I will be in Shanghai this week as a mentor for the upcoming Startup Weekend Shanghai this weekend.

Not to be outdone, there is an iWeekend happening in Beijing as well to help celebrate the Global Entrepreneurship week. Join us to: kick start, refine your products and boost your business, work side-by-side with fellow entrepreneurs and professionals, and get advice & insight from top notch mentors!Have a great Global Entrepreneuship Week everyone!

Regards,
Frank and David

@frankyu @davidatsg on Twitter
@frankyu01 @davidatsg on Weibo
The Beijing StartupDigest archives can be found here.

Some Interesting Articles
-Unstoppable Tencent
-The evolution of Chinese Entrepreneurs
-The Steve Jobs commemorative Shanzhai Tablet is an Android
-China and the challenges of motion controlled camera games
-The Fashion/Mobile/China site from Anina blogger/model/geek/entrepreneur.net

Beijing StartupDigest is curated by:
Frank Yu – Founder of Kwestr
David Ding – Founder of Bridge for Angels & Startup Entrepreneurs (BASE)

 

 

Highlighted Beijing Startup Events (Mixed Language)

iWeekend Beijing
Time: 6:30pm, Nov. 18 – 9pm, Nov. 19
Venue: Oracle Beijing Office (closest subway is Jintaixizhao on Line 10)
Language: Chinese and English

 

Closing the Entrepreneurial Gap
Date: 18th November 2011
Time: 1530h – 1830h
Venue: Carnegie Hall, Wenjin Hotel Level 3, South Gate of Tsinghua University, Chengfu Road, Haidian District, Beijing

 

Listen to first-hand opinions from the tech industry leaders in China, on technological innovation, idea and execution. Entrepreneurs and businessmen based in Beijing will share what it takes to succeed in this land of opportunities.

 

 

For newcomers: StartupDigest Product Manager is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best resources in product management.

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Product Manager, the members-only guide to becoming a better product manager every week. Whether you’re a Product Manager at an early stage startup or at a large corporation, you’ll find yourself spending a lot of time solving problems. The nature of each problem differs. Sometimes they present themselves obviously: an engineer on your team suddenly takes a personal leave and you’re on a deadline to deliver your first demo. In this case, there’s a clear path toward resolving the problem and getting the project back on track.The harder problems are less noticeable and slowly brew behind the scenes. How do you deal with degrading team morale or declining code quality? As a PM how do you prepare your team to anticipate, identify and solve these problems? This week’s digest article delves further into this topic.

StartupDigest Product Manager is curated by:
Herman Ng – Program Manager, Microsoft

 

 

Resource of the Week

In The Ring: Problems, Problems Everywhere
By Seth Sternberg, TechCrunch

Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg shares his thoughts on problem solving from a startup CEO’s perspective. Seth sums up his thoughts well: “don’t run from your problems, but do everything you can to empower your people to solve them early and often.”

Since PMs are essentially mini-CEOs, the insights shared in this article are relevant for this digest too. 

 

 

Past Resources

What I Learned From Steve Jobs
By Guy Kawasaki

 

How to Give Your Product Personality
By Jason Shen

 

The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries with case studies, Intuit’s Scott Cook and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom
From TechCrunch Disrupt

 

 

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Design, the members-only guide to becoming a better designer every week.You may believe you’re well informed on design, but if you don’t read this week’s article you may be missing out on one of the most powerful communication and design techniques that you can use.- Jeremy

StartupDigest Design is curated by:
Jeremy Merle – Creative Director, Brightcove
Zack Sears – Designer, Kickstarter

 

 

Resource of the Week

Design With Dissonance
by Tad Fry, Smashing Magazine

Dissonance challenges your beliefs and makes you feel uncomfortable. When effectively used in design and writing, this technique can be a powerful way to help persuade people to take an action.

 

 

Past Resources

What Made Steve Jobs so Great
By Cliff Kuang, Co.Design

22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website’s Usability
By Jacob Gube

 

24 Excellent Examples of Responsive Web Design
By Gisele Muller

 

Elements of a Viral Start Page
By Simon Schmid

 

 

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Welcome back to the StartupDigest Reading List, the members-only guide to the best articles on startup life. This week has been an awesome week because Chris Burnor, formerly an engineer at Linkedin, joined StartupDigest full time 3 days ago! Everyone give Chris (@chrisburnor) a big virtual high five on Twitter :)- Chris

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U.S. college graduates with innovative new business ideas can apply to the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Scholars Program, newly expanded to include U.S. scholars. Participants learn and network with an international group of fellow aspiring entrepreneurs from January through June 2012. Apply here by Oct. 17, 2011.

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, thinks through the reasons why startup hubs work in large cities and not in others.

 

 

Businesses don’t have to be lightning fast growing, unprofitable, and venture backed. Here’s the story of how one person turned his passion into a startup.

 

Mike just started a new VC fund and is exploring how VC’s differentiate themselves. This leads into a really interesting piece about how Ron Conway & SV Angel (one of the top angel funds) work through a private email exchange.

 

A firsthand experience about how Steve Jobs reorganized and inspired Apple the week he left NeXT and re-joined Apple.

 

My co-founder Brendan took all of the resources that have been in the Reading List over the past 10 months and organized them by topic here. Super valuable to be able to look back through everything and easily reference relevant resources when you need them.

 

For newcomers: StartupDigest Design is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best resources in design.

You can become a member for free here.

Welcome back to StartupDigest Design, the members-only guide to becoming a better designer every week.
 
This past week the world lost one of the most influential people in modern history, Steve Jobs. He had a profound impact on a number of industries, not the least of which is Design. This week’s featured resource is a look back at the life of Steve Jobs and the incredible ways he changed the world.

StartupDigest Design is curated by:
Jeremy Merle – Creative Director, Brightcove
Zack Sears – Designer, Kickstarter
 
 
Resource of the Week

What Made Steve Jobs so Great

By Cliff Kuang, Co.Design

This article in Fast Co.Design was actually written prior to Steve’s passing, but nevertheless it is a very inspiring look back at his successes, failures and unique style that will live on forever.
 
 
Past Resources

22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website’s Usability

By Jacob Gube

24 Excellent Examples of Responsive Web Design

By Gisele Muller

Elements of a Viral Start Page

By Simon Schmid

For newcomers: StartupDigest Product Manager is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best resources in product management.

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Product Manager, the members-only guide to becoming a better product manager every week.
 
Stories about Steve Jobs’ passing dominated news media coverage last week. I think what we’ll miss most about him would be the lessons learned and product inspirations enabled by his presence. We’ll no longer be able to interview him or invite him to speak at university commencements. What we can do, however, is ask people what they’ve learned through working and interacting with him in the past. I’d like to share one such article in this week’s digest.
 
StartupDigest Product Manager is curated by:
Herman Ng – Program Manager, Microsoft

 

 

Resource of the Week

What I Learned From Steve Jobs
By Guy Kawasaki, CNET News

Former Apple Fellow and cult technology figure Guy Kawasaki was one of the early employees at Apple and experienced first-hand what it was like to work with Steve Jobs. In this article, he shares a list of his top 12 lessons learned from Steve Jobs over the years.

 

 

Past Resources

The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries with case studies, Intuit’s Scott Cook and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom
From TechCrunch Disrupt

 

Getting to the Top in Product Marketing & Product Management
From Stanford GSB

 

 

Below is an archived version of the Chile StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Chile. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Chile StartupDigest is curated by:
Carlos Leiva Burotto - Currently building the next step of web marketing research
 
 
What’s Going on in the Chile Startup Community
 
A Tribute to Steve Jobs
When: October 12th, 7pm
Where: Gran Central — Las Urbinas #44, Providencia
Organized by Start-Up Chile. For this meetup we’ll pay a short tribute to the man who’s known for being an innovation friend and for preferring to “be a pirate instead of joining the navy.” We’d like to share his Stanford commencement speech with you before kicking off our weekly networking.

 

Organized by InterSystems. Iran Hutchinson, who leads and assists in the Java, .NET, C++, XTP, Event processing, and Cloud technology areas for InterSystems globally, is going to talk about NoSQL Databases to let you understand what they are.

 

Esta semana, en Santiago hay principalmente ferias, mientras que en regiones está Sub35 y Webprendedor 2011 que se realizará en tres ciudades distintas de Chile.

Destacado de la semana.-
ExtraGym es el primer Gimnasio virtual online en Chile, que entrega periódicamente rutinas de ejercicios personalizadas al perfil de cada usuario. Los inscritos hasta el 17 de octubre recibirán rutinas GRATIS para conocer este nuevo concepto (Destaca tu proyecto aquí).

Por otra parte, si tu negocio está relacionado con el área móvil, tienes hasta el 30 de Octubre para postular a la Segunda convocatoria de Emprende Claro.

Comparte eventos de emprendimiento agendados para las próximas semanas!

Chile StartupDigest is curated by:
Carlos Leiva Burotto - Currently building the next step of web marketing research
 
 
Eventos Esta Semana
 
Círculo Empresarial: 1ª Feria del Emprendimiento
Cuándo: 11 de Octubre, 9am
Dónde: Monjitas #392 (2do piso), Santiago (Metro Bellas Artes)

Organizado por Círculo Empresarial. Esta idea nace, por el vacío de nichos que acojan a los pequeños emprendedores, aquellos que se encuentran desarrollando todo el potencial que puede lograr su idea, pero que tienen los problemas de todo aquel que empieza, mucho para hacer y poco con que financiar.

 

VIII Feria de Soluciones Tecnológicas para el Medio Ambiente
Cuándo: 12 al 15 de Octubre
Dónde: Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho, Santiago (Metro Cal y Canto)

 

Organiza MMA, AEPA, FISA, CPL. Evento que abarca los principales tópicos del sector que incluye el conocimiento, análisis y proyección de nuevas técnicas al servicio de la industria. Participan: Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, AngloAmerican, Sodimac, Crystal Lagoons, entre otros.

 

Fundación País Digital, First Tueday e INACAP se unen para realizar el tercer scouting digital en Chile. El objetivo consiste en convocar y capacitar a jóvenes e-innovadores de la región para potenciar sus proyectos de negocio y además darles la posibilidad de ganar un espectacular viaje a uno de los principales polos tecnológicos del mundo.

 

Fundación País Digital, First Tueday e INACAP se unen para realizar el tercer scouting digital en Chile. El objetivo consiste en convocar y capacitar a jóvenes e-innovadores de la región para potenciar sus proyectos de negocio y además darles la posibilidad de ganar un espectacular viaje a uno de los principales polos tecnológicos del mundo.

 

La Asociación Chilena de Administradoras de Fondos de Inversión (ACAFI) realizará la edición anual del evento que reúne a todos los actores involucrados en Capital de Riesgo y Private Equity de Chile.

 

 

Below is an archived version of the Hong Kong StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Hong Kong. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Hong Kong StartupDigest is curated by:
Vincent Chan – Co-founder of Primitus

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

October 19-21 - AsiaD: All Things Digital
October 22 - Startup Saturday 2011
October 24 - Make a Difference Meet-up: Three Faces of Entrepreneurship
October 24 - Beyond Entrepreneurship Forum
November 8 - Startup 103: Enterproid, iDonate, Barcamp and Beijing Trip Sharing