Silicon Prairie News

Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany. These are some of my favorites:

• PayPal Never Could Have Been Built Lean (leehower.com)
• Marketing for SaaS Customer Acquisition (workingplanet.com)
• Thomas Friedman: Start-Ups, Not Bailouts (nytimes.com)
• Define your personal leadership brand in 5 steps (blogs.hbr.org)
• What going home with a hooker taught me about my business (anthillonline.com)
• Take a Ride on the Entrepreneur Roller Coaster (grasshopper.com)
• Drinking Your Way Up the Ladder (zevgroup.com)
• 7 Companies That Mastered the Freemium Business (chargify.com)
• If you're doing a startup, you have to read Papillon. (stephenwalters.posterous.com)
• Jeff Jarvis on How the iPad Destroys Creativity (thefastertimes.com)
• Top 20 most promising startups (Reuters) (blogs.reuters.com)
• New Seed-Stage Incubator in Blacksburg, VA (dayoneventures.com)
• Tips Learned While Raising $33 Million In Venture Capital (venturefizz.com)
• What value do we create here? (astatespacetraveler.com)
• Become a better entrepreneur by failing completely (dechen.posterous.com)
• What Silicon Valley startups can learn from West African kidnappers (blog.cubeofm.com)

And my personal favorite:

• NSFW: It’s Easier To Run, And Other Lessons That Entrepreneurs Can Learn From ELEW (techcrunch.com)

If you have any startup-related links you'd like to share, shoot me a note!