#startup (80 links)
- The profitable startup - Linear Blog linear.app
Profitability isn't unambitious; it's controlling your own destiny. It means you don't have to rely on investors for survival. It means you can focus on your unaltered vision and mission. And it means you as a founder decide the pace of growth. And once you experience it, it's hard to imagine doing things any other way.
- How to expand into the USA: guide for UK startups seedlegals.com
- Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth — Unfashionable unfashionable.blog
YC is no longer an exclusive club where membership signals legitimacy—it’s becoming a broad index of tech startups. This decline will continue until cool, innovative companies no longer see any reason to apply.
- Exponential growth devours and corrupts m.signalvnoise.com
- Tech's tunnel vision (Phil Gyford’s website) gyford.com
<blockquote>Trying to imagine a tech conference that would embody an alternative viewpoint — a more “socialist / social democratic” alternative — actually seems like a good way in. I don’t have to imagine a whole new society and economic model, but only try to imagine what kinds of topics might be talked about at a conference along those lines. Some topics I quickly wrote down...</blockquote>
- cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade github.com
<blockquote>Here's a handy list of tools and apps for developers and folks launching businesses.</blockquote>
- Project Credit Union - Day 1 — Go Free Range. gofreerange.com
Chris Roos Introduction We’re going to see whether we can start a credit union . We’ve been talking about this for a while and we’ve decided to use our current…
- What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap | Kalzumeus Software kalzumeus.com
<blockquote>Backends can be built with/without the use of service providers that provide already built functions. While some startups have the resources to take on such a bold undertaking, many of them are often dealing with scarce resources. To this end, building a backend with the use of service providers (referred to Backend as a Service) saves both time and money.</blockquote>
- Lifestyle Programming successfulsoftware.net
<blockquote>If you aren’t going to be satisfied with anything less than being a multi-millionaire living in a hollowed out volcano, then an all-or-nothing, VC-backed start-up crap shoot is probably your only option. And there are markets where you have very little chance of success without venture capital. But really, how much money do you need? Is money going to make you happy? How many meals can you eat in a day? How many cars can you drive?</blockquote>
- Thoreau 2.0 - XOXO Conference Talk static.pinboard.in
<blockquote>I've come to believe that it's time for us to take a stand, and refuse to cooperate with this apparatus of secrecy. We've already seen Lavabit, in an act of great moral courage, throw away ten years of hard work rather than acquiesce to blanket monitoring of its users. But the fact that Ladar Levinson wasn't even able to give the reasons for shutting his project down, that we had to infer them from his silence, demonstrates the problem.</blockquote>
- Lanyrd: from idea to exit - the story of our startup blog.natbat.net
- The Journey of Launching My First Product, “To Do Cal” | Chris Norstrom chrisnorstrom.com
<blockquote>Moral of the Story: Start Small, You Can Make Massive Mistakes and Still Be Ok.</blockquote>
Much more in here than my poorly-chosen quote would suggest.
- 57 startup lessons defmacro.org
A mixed bag, mostly useful when VC-talk filter engaged.
- The Happy Startup School – Helping entrepreneurs realise their dreams, one startup at a time thehappystartupschool.com
<blockquote>The spectre of competition means that at work, school, everywhere we think we have to work/study/run as fast as we possibly can, all the time. But, says Bjergegaard, much of that is counterproductive. "We get tired, we don't work as well under constant stress. We don't always need to be there anyway – many of my best ideas have come when I'm running, or on holiday."</blockquote>
- The brutal truth about marketing your software product | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Three Months to Scale NewsBlur - The NewsBlur Blog blog.newsblur.com
- How do free services on the web make money? | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud static.pinboard.in
- Venture Hacks - Good advice for startups. venturehacks.com
- Foursquare: Today's best-executing startup dashes.com
I think we need more stories that celebrate the success of what seem like small, iterative product launches, but actually reflect triumphs in unsung disciplines such as systems operations, design process, business development and product management. There are lots of loud, pointless headlines about companies getting money from venture capitalists or angel investors. What I'd love to see more of in 2012 (and beyond!) is headlines about how a few small successes with users are a demonstration of a small company outperforming and out-innovating the biggest companies in the tech industry by being focused and disciplined in their execution.
- Instagram Engineering • What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies instagram-engineering.tumblr.com
- Convore convore.com
You're so busy, doing everything yourself. You know you need help, but to find and train someone would take more time than you have! So you keep working harder, until you break.
- startuptools / FrontPage startuptools.pbworks.com
List of saas and other tools that might be useful for start-ups.
- Hacker News | Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2010 edition news.ycombinator.com
joshu asks: "These days, lots of that stuff is available as SaaS. What are the tools and services people use instead of hosting their own?"
- Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups « jolieodell.wordpress.com
I would like to propose that technologists apply their ample skill to solving the real problems of humanity, not just the perceived problems of their very privileged social set. And for my good friends at several of the aforementioned startups, I challenge you to find a way to solve a social or human problem with your app.
- Think Vitamin » How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App thinkvitamin.com
- Hacker News | What does a product manager do? news.ycombinator.com