A Student's Guide to Startups

A Student's Guide to Startups: "The advantages of rootlessness are similar to those of poverty. When you're young you're more mobile—not just because you don't have a house or much stuff, but also because you're less likely to have serious relationships. This turns out to be important, because a lot of startups involve someone moving."

Be Relentlessly Resourceful

Be Relentlessly Resourceful: "This test is also useful to individuals. If you want to know whether you're the right sort of person to start a startup, ask yourself whether you're relentlessly resourceful. And if you want to know whether to recruit someone as a cofounder, ask if they are."

Essays

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A Local Revolution?pad
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The Founder Visapad
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Five Founderspad
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Be Relentlessly Resourcefulpad
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How to Be an Angel Investorpad
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Why TV Lostpad
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Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.pad
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What I've Learned from Hacker Newspad
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Startups in 13 Sentencespad
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After Credentialspad
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Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?pad
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The High-Res Societypad
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The Other Half of 'Artists Ship' pad
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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economypad
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A Fundraising Survival Guidepad
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The Pooled-Risk Company Management Companypad
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Cities and Ambitionpad
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Disconnecting Distractionpad"

Hiring is Obsolete

Hiring is Obsolete: "The three big powers on the Internet now are Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Average age of their founders: 24. So it is pretty well established now that grad students can start successful companies. And if grad students can do it, why not undergrads?

Like everything else in technology, the cost of starting a startup has decreased dramatically. Now it's so low that it has disappeared into the noise. The main cost of starting a Web-based startup is food and rent. Which means it doesn't cost much more to start a company than to be a total slacker. You can probably start a startup on ten thousand dollars of seed funding, if you're prepared to live on ramen."

Startup School 08 | Omnisio

Startup School 08 | Omnisio: "Startup School 08

Startup school is an annual free conference for hackers interested in startups. This year notable speakers included Mike Arrington, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos and Paul Graham.

The official website is http://startupschool.org/"

What the data miners are digging up about you - tech - 28 November 2008 - New Scientist

What the data miners are digging up about you - tech - 28 November 2008 - New Scientist: "n today's technological world we leave electronic traces wherever we go, whether shopping online or on the high street, at work or at play. That data is the raw material for a new industry of number crunchers trying to explain and influence human behaviour, as Stephen Baker explains in his new book The Numerati."

The LinkedIn Blog » Blog Archive Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn | Guy Kawasaki «

The LinkedIn Blog » Blog Archive Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn | Guy Kawasaki «: "When Guy Kawasaki blogged about the Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn, LinkedIn had 8.5 million users in 130 industries. Since then we’ve grown to over 12 million users covering 147 industries, but many of Guy’s suggestions on using LinkedIn (see below), still remain a great way for professionals to strengthen their online brand reputation and leverage their professional network. Happy Reading!"

Creating Your Own Deadlines and Setting Aggressive Goals for Your Business - The Netsetter

Creating Your Own Deadlines and Setting Aggressive Goals for Your Business - The Netsetter

Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram

Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram

Ed Ulbrich shows how Benjamin Button got his face | Video on TED.com

Ed Ulbrich shows how Benjamin Button got his face | Video on TED.com: "Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create younger and older versions of Brad Pitt's face for 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.'"

Social Graph API - Google Code

Social Graph API - Google Code: "Social"

Social Graph: Concepts and Issues - ReadWriteWeb

Social Graph: Concepts and Issues - ReadWriteWeb: "Brad Fitzpatrick recently wrote an elegant and important post about the Social Graph, a term used by Facebook to describe their social network. In his post, Fitzpatrick defines 'social graph' as 'the global mapping of everybody and how they're related'. He went on to outline the problems with it, as well as a broad set of goals going forward."

David Merrill demos Siftables, the smart blocks | Video on TED.com

David Merrill demos Siftables, the smart blocks | Video on TED.com: "MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?"

How to make a flexible display | Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me | The Economist

How to make a flexible display | Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me | The Economist: "The crucial technological development happened recently at the Flexible Display Centre at Arizona State University. Using a novel lithographic process invented by HP Labs, the research arm of Hewlett-Packard, and an electronic ink produced by E Ink, a company spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the centre’s researchers succeeded in printing flexible displays onto long rolls of a special plastic film made by DuPont. To make individual screens, the printed film is sliced up into sections rather as folios for magazines or newspapers would be cut from a printed web of paper."

How to make a flexible display | Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me | The Economist

How to make a flexible display | Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me | The Economist: "The crucial technological development happened recently at the Flexible Display Centre at Arizona State University. Using a novel lithographic process invented by HP Labs, the research arm of Hewlett-Packard, and an electronic ink produced by E Ink, a company spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the centre’s researchers succeeded in printing flexible displays onto long rolls of a special plastic film made by DuPont. To make individual screens, the printed film is sliced up into sections rather as folios for magazines or newspapers would be cut from a printed web of paper."

IBM Research: Dynamic Infrastructure for a Smarter Planet

IBM Research: Dynamic Infrastructure for a Smarter Planet: "Dynamic Infrastructure for a Smarter Planet

Amazon Mechanical Turk

Amazon Mechanical Turk: "Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human intelligence directly into their applications."

The Turk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Turk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The Turk or Automaton Chess Player was a chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century, and exhibited from 1770 for over 84 years, by various owners, as an automaton but later explained in the early 1820's as an elaborate hoax [1]. Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804) to impress the Empress Maria Theresa, the mechanism appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent, as well as perform the knight's tour, a puzzle that requires the player to move a knight to occupy every square of a chessboard once and only once."

Nokia's Down With Making A High-End Open Source Phone, Just Not With Android - Gizmodo Australia

Nokia's Down With Making A High-End Open Source Phone, Just Not With Android - Gizmodo Australia: "When Nokia first showed me their Maemo Linux-powered N800 Internet Tablet, I told them it was cool but that, ideally, I wanted this exact product, smaller, and as a phone. Seems like two years later, this might finally be the way things are headed."