How to Do What You Love. January 2006.
Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund Paul Graham July 2008.
Public speaking do's and don't's - Lifehacker. Overview by paulgraham (on reddit.com) Tips for Startup Companies. The author of this article has started about six companies over the years with collective and cumulative revenues approaching $100 million.
He has been a board member and advisor to young companies in software, materials science, and electronic hardware. Here are some tips for young people starting companies. Sergey Brin ( 7-Jan-1996) Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 (415)723-9273sergey@cs.stanford.edu Education September 1993 - Present: Stanford University, Computer Science Department Ph.D.: expected June 1997.
Ideas for Startups. October 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2005 Startup School.)
How do you get good ideas for startups? That's probably the number one question people ask me. I'd like to reply with another question: why do people think it's hard to come up with ideas for startups? That might seem a stupid thing to ask. Well, maybe not. Randomnoise » Blog Archive » The Five Buck Idea. Face it, startups are cool.
Anyone that made it through the 90s remembers that startups were cool back then. Well guess what? The Word "Hacker" April 2004 To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers.
Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants—whether the computer wants to or not. Seed Funding. Google Product Theory. Y Combinator. Where do Ideas Come From? Cardsharp on Software. Posted by cardsharp under Entrepreneurial Development [13] Comments Ask 10 developers what they think about startups.
You'll get a mix of responses involving risk, finanancial deprivation, and stress. But the one thing everybody will mention without fail is overtime. Startups are known for their frightening tendency to encourage developers to sacrifice everything at the altar of the 18 hour work day. The question, therefore, is how effective is overtime and should it occupy a place in the startup manager's toolbox. The XP crowd is vehemently opposed to overtime. Web Two Point Oh! The Cost of Bootstrapping Your App: The Figures Behind DropSend (part one) What does it actually cost?
When we built DropSend, it was our first enterprise level web app and I had no way to predict how much it would cost to build. Frustratingly, no one would share their figures with me either. So we had to learn the hard way. Yuck. In order to help you avoid this pain, I’m going to walk you through, step-by-step, the costs involved in building an enterprise web app, on a budget. What’s the big deal? Why is it only recently that small companies (Carson Systems is only two full time employees and a set of 3 part-time freelancers) are able to build large scale web apps? Broadband is widespread so your potential audience is larger Average people are comfortable with web apps (Gmail, Online banking, etc) Hardware is dirt cheap Open source platforms are virtually free Definition of the terms.
The Next Net 25: 25 startups that are reinventing the web - Mar. 3, 2006. A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Things are really crackling in Silicon Valley these days. There's the frenzied startup action, the rising rivers of VC cash, even the occasional bubble-icious long-term stock prediction (Google $2,000, anyone?). There's so much happening that the buzzword recently employed to try to encapsulate the era -- "Web 2.0" -- now seems hopelessly inadequate, defined and redefined into near meaninglessness by squadrons of aspiring entrepreneurs, marketers, and other fortune hunters.
So it seems a particularly useful moment to wave away the smoke and home in on what's really core. How to Write a Killer Resume, for Software Engineers. By Niniane Wang, May 2005 Update March 2013: My company Minted is hiring software engineers! We are a consumer web startup in San Francisco, and welcome you to apply. Please see the job description and then email your resume to me! In the past few years working as a software engineer for Google (and previously a dev lead at Microsoft), I've screened hundreds of resumes, to make the decision on whether to proceed with the interview process. Some resumes gave off a great impression, and others didn't. How to Fund a Startup. November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. A typical startup goes through several rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take just enough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the next gear.
Few startups get it quite right.