Weekly Startup Links: Derek Flanzraich, Appsumo and more
January 29, 2011 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:
- The Art of the Pivot (inc.com)
- What do people usually do after they run a failed startup? (victusspiritus.com)
- How I sold my start-up for $40 million (smartcompany.com.au)
- You Dont Need a Good Idea To Start a Great Company (blog.eladgil.com)
- Build Empires, Not Businesses (derekflanzraich.com)
- Furniture, movers, and entrepreneurship. (theborski.com)
- How to not suck in VC pitches (thomvest.com)
- The one position every startup needs- Secret Weapon #2 (blog.appsumo.com)
- Tracking Real Funnels: Mixpanel vs. KISSmetrics vs. Google Analytics (blog.intlock.com)
- Only three metrics matter for your online business (wingify.com)
- Stop guessing. Use A/B testing to determine ideal price for your product (visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)
- ASmartBear Knows What to Measure (blog.chart.io)
- A modest proposal for 500 Y Combinators (launch.is)
- Why can't all "tech" journalism be like this? (kottke.org)
- Detailed notes from StartupLessonsLearned conference 2010 (docs.google.com)
- How to use PR Firms at Startups (bothsidesofthetable.com)
- Letter to a young entrepreneur (johnprendergast.posterous.com)
- What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI (cloudave.com)
- "The Dirty Dozen" Marketing Processes that every Internet start-up must master (blog.publisha.com)
- How to get the best out of Seedcamp (blog.publisha.com)
If you have any startup-related links you'd like to share, shoot me a note!