February 2012
11 posts
“The world doesn’t need a lean startup, or a developed customer, or a REWORK’d...”
– Alex Payne
Letters of Note: To My Old Master →
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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy →
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Top 25 lines from @bhorowitz at #geeksvsuits ... -... →
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Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup's... →
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Заметки некоренного Американера: Большое... →
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Crash Dev: Top three reasons NOT to do a local +... →
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Just Fucking Sell →
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A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From JLM →
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The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only... →
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Coding Horror: Listen to Your Community, But Don't... →
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January 2012
27 posts
the-hustlers-manifesto →
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“Games are puzzles to solve, just like everything else we encounter in life. They...”
– Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster
Gamification — что за зверь / Интернет-реклама /... →
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“We know very little about self-development. But we do know one thing: People in...”
– Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
Double your productivity without more work or... →
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“Averaging stamps out diversity, reducing anything to its simplest terms. In so...”
– Numbers Rule Your World by Kaiser Fung
How to Make Wealth →
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“If you’re in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get rich, because if...”
– How to Make Wealth
“If you want to make a killing trading tech stocks, find a friend in the t-shirt...”
– I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
“Thiel told Zuckerberg “just don’t fuck it up,” which the CEO now says was pretty...”
– The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick
“For a long time there wasn’t even a Portuguese word for “entrepreneur.” Money...”
– Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky by Sarah Lacy
“The best use you can make of a Black-Berry [or any other always-connected...”
– Lucky or Smart by Bo Peabody
“Never run out of cash. If you don’t manage your cash, it will manage you.”
– Engineering your Startup
“In the New World of Work there are a few simple strategies for making money....”
– Instant MBA by Nicholas Bate
The 19 Awesome Investors In Our $400,000 Seed... →
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Recruiting programmers to your startup →
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How cold calling (properly) works better than... →
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A Few Too Many →
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“Entrepreneurs are B-students. There is no one thing they do well. But there are...”
– Lucky Or Smart? by Bo Peabody
“You should give people a second chance. Maybe even a third chance. Focus on the...”
– Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki
“[Larry] Ellison thought that Jobs was missing a key point [about possible Apple...”
– Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
“When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means...”
– The LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x... →
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“Without effectiveness there is no “performance,” no matter how much intelligence...”
– Peter Druker, Effective Executive.
“The people who become excellent at a given thing aren’t necessarily the same...”
– SuperFreakonomics
“one test of a have-to-have product is that the customers have built or have been...”
– Steve Blank, Four Steps to the Epiphany
30 book quotes in 30 days challenge
Kindle has really changed the way I read books.
Just for fun, I decided to have a small challenge for myself. In next 30 days I’m going to post 30 quotes from various books I’ve read, one quote per day. Feel free to join or follow! Lots of wisdom ahead.
December 2011
11 posts
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“As apps become transition from content into media, selling apps makes as much...”
– Some bold predictions on Mobile space
“The best way to ensure that lucky things happen is to make sure that a lot of...”
– Lucky or Smart
Quora: How do you ask busy person to "grab coffee... →
skip the fucking coffee and make your request clear and explicit
Как мы воруем у себя время при помощи Twitter,...
Время бывает разное. Иногда за час можно сделать больше, чем в другой день. Можно провести и 80 часов в неделе на работе, сделав меньше, чем за 15 продуктивных часов. Конечно, я говорю о творческой работе, не о рутине.
Программисту да и в принципе любому специалисту хорошо известно, что для “погружения” в задачу и для того, чтобы войти в “поток” обычно требуется не менее...
Fail to succeed →
To truly succeed, you must fail. And you must fail a lot.
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“So how should you retain employees? Have clear and consistent salary guidelines,...”
– Never make counter-offers
Короткий отчет о Техкранч Москва →
“successful entrepreneurs can’t be convinced that any other startup has their...”
– Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki
Startup trivia, bookkeeping and other boring stuff... →
November 2011
8 posts
2 tags
Reading List: Instant MBA, Jeff Bezos, statistics...
Short reviews for a bunch of books I read recently. Previous reading list is here.
One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com Lacks depths and interesting insights. 3/10
Instant MBA (52 Brilliant Ideas) Still reading (slowly). A lot of useful data digested into easy-to-read and compact format. Could serve as a guide to areas you want to explore more in business. 9/10.
How to Lie with...