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:

• Isn’t the "Lean startup" method supposed to prevent failure? (giffconstable.com)
• Why CEOs Should Tell It Like It Is (bhorowitz.com)
• “Lessons Learned” Posts You’ll Never Learn From Me (audreywatters.com)
• Relationships are worth more than your funding. (nsethi.wordpress.com)
• Startups: Don’t Hire Frontend or Backend Webdevs (trottercashion.com)
• The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development (startuplessonslearned.com)
• The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective (bothsidesofthetable.com)
• Things CEOs Need to Know About Design (slideshare.net)
• Jeff Bezos to Princeton's class of 2010 :"We are What We Choose" (princeton.edu)
• The 7 Variables Needed To Figure Out How To Apply Startup Advice To Your Startup (maxmarmer.com)
• It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are (cdixon.org)
• How I got 1 Million pageviews in 7 months (www.3by9.com)
• The Royal We: Single Founder Startups (ginzametrics.com)
• Blogging your Product: A Primer (cyruseslami.com)
• Traction Trumps Everything (gabrielweinberg.com)
• Startups fail because entrepreneurs value money more than time. (twitter.com)
• It’s Dangerous To Call Your Company The Google Of ____ (markpeterdavis.com)
• Do Start-Ups Really Create Jobs? (inc.com)

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