Tag: Startup
Workaholism, No time is no excuse, Be a curator, Go to sleep, Who cares what they're doing, Say no by default, Emulate chefs, Pass on great people, The best are everywhere, Put everyone on the front lines, You don't need more hours; you need better hours, ASAP is poison and Inspiration is perishable.
"Being intelligent is like having a knife. If you train every day in using the knife, you will be invincible. If you think that just having a knife will make you win any battle you fight, then you will fail." via Cube Of M.
"If you're creating a new product, what are the three (or fewer) key features that will make it so great that you can cut or half-ass everything else?" by Paul Buchheit
Thread on Hacker News about Python jobs.
Narrow, Different, Casual, Picky, User-Centric, Self-Centered, Greedy, Tiny, Agile, Balanced and Wary.
"Focus on focusing", "Biggest cost is time, not money", "Trust you gut. Timing is everything", "The power of time off" and "Always make the best decisions"
Top three reasons why VCs were convinced that we would have failed: we did not have a rock star CEO, we were all engineers and we contradicted Gartner.
"This winter marks Y Combinator's tenth investment season, yet even with their reputation as the world's leading early stage venture fund their success rate (much like that of their competitors) has remained for the most part private.", Imran Ghory
A blog about entrepreneurship, ideas, current affairs, and intellectual life.
Mark Suster, "I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by F’ing up at my first company. I think the sign of a good entrepreneur is the ability to spot your mistakes, correct quickly and not repeat the mistakes. I made plenty of mistakes."
Paul Graham essey about the starting a startup.
Have you thought about starting a program like Y Combinator in your city?
Stephan Schmidt wrote "There is a job offer, you’re on a job hunt or a headhunter calls you. With the ending recession this scenario becomes more likely again. What are signs that you should not sign up with a company?".
Raising money, managing business, strategy, positioning, company core values, product development, customer development, human resources, marketing, finance, legal and operations.
The winners and finalists of TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009.
The list of 50 promising tech startups from BusinessWeek.
European Startups helps you to keep track of events and get in touch with people who can help you and your startup succeed.
EuropeanStartups is a portal and a tool targeting entrepreneurs interested and/or engaged into European Web start up scene.
Marty Zwilling wrote that potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, and there is no market for ideas.
Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson wrote "Starting a new pet project is easy. But finishing it? That's a different story."
Under the Radar tracks early stage innovations focusing on startups.
Mark Goldenson listed 10 lessons from a failed startup (e.g. find quick money first, know when to value speed vs. stability).
BusinessWeek.com's annual rundown of the most promising tech startups and the young people, age 30 and under, who set them in motion.
The list of top 100 Australian Web Startups from April 2009.
Mason Hipp listed 20 useful, thought-provoking, and potentially lucrative sources of news and ideas blogs about entrepreneurs.
Paul Graham wrote on his blog "it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy. I was saying recently to a reporter that if I could only tell startups 10 things, this would be one of them."
Allan Young wrote "The world would be a much better place if less people tried to build startups. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying we could use less entrepreneurship."
Daniel Tenner wrote about starting up with a friend "It seems like a fool-proof plan: start up with a close friend. It's not a bad idea, but there are a few caveats that you should be aware of before you proceed".
Aggregated top news about Startups by Alltop.
Bob Martens replayed to post "Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals" by "the article is referring to ideas and business models, but I think interface design is an example more people can relate to. Have you seen an interface that was obviously copied from someone else’s interface? The copy usually lacks depth and detail. They miss the spacing, the proportions, the relationship between colors and objects and buttons and links. It’s usually pretty close, but there’s something not right about it."
Dharmesh Shah wrote "I don't know about you, but I'm tired of getting lectured about how my business should be more like Toyota, and like Zappos, how my blog should be more like Joel Spolsky and like Copyblogger, and how my software should be more like 37signals and like Apple."
Signal vs. Noise is a weblog by 37signals about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, and more.
For startup companies (help the right job seekers find you and make the whole team–building process as easy as possible) and for job seekers (help you learn as much as possible about growing startups so you can find where you fit best and to make the job search process as fun and easy as possible).
My today guest on Software Project Management is Piotr Ukowski. Piotr is an entrepreneur who started his business with a couple of friends two and a half years ago. In the following interview we discussed starting a business and bringing a startup into success. If you think about running your own company you can find Piotr’s thoughts very interesting.
Last time I shared mistakes we made while working on Overto – startup which was closed down some time ago. Today another part – things we did right and are worth replaying next time I’ll be engaged in a startup.
Some time ago we closed down Overto – startup I was involved in. It was a failure – pretty obvious thing since we’ve closed the service. Since we learn much on our mistakes I think a reliable analysis why the business have failed should be valuable for you. For the beginning things we screwed.
Pawel's blog is about software development lifecycle. There you can find a range of topics from software design, to project management, to team-building, to management of software development company.