Weekly Startup Links: Fred Wilson, TechDirt, and more
September 4, 2010 by Dusty Davidson
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:
- How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App (carsonified.com)
- The Art of the Customer Development Conversation (market-by-numbers.com)
- Coworking Spaces (avc.com)
- Some Thoughts On Convertible Debt (avc.com)
- The VC-free startup (oreilly.com)
- Wait, what does your startup do? (itsthisforthat.com)
- Considering The PayPal Mafia's place in Silicon Valley history (mercurynews.com)
- Keen on… with Reid Hoffman: “You Need to be a Leader in Society” (TCTV) (techcrunch.com)
- Is Convertible Debt Preferable to Equity? (bothsidesofthetable.com)
- Attracting Smart People To Your Community Accelerates Entrepreneurship (feld.com)
- In Defense Of A/B Testing (smashingmagazine.com)
- Why working from home is awesome and horrible (acidcow.com)
- Stealth Mode = Miss the Boat Mode (techdirt.com)
- Learn to get burned - dealing with partners gone bad (www.startupnorth.ca)
- How we Doubled our Conversion Rate in 2 Days (okdork.com)
- What Does Your "About Us" Page Say About Your Startup? (readwriteweb.com)
- Steve Blank's list of the best books for building a startup (microsoftstartupzone.com)
- One Sign That You've Made It: Money Looks for You (domainshane.com)
And my personal favorites:
- What A CEO Does (avc.com)
- 23 Tweetable Startup Insights From Seth Godin (onstartups.com)
If you have any startup-related links you'd like to share, shoot me a note!