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Startup Lessons

By Adam Rifkin

It's a fish-eat-fish world out there.

And I'm wearing kelp underwear.

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The three risks startups face, by Christopher Lochhead, PandoDaily

Startup Advice - Sam Altman

A VC: Revenue Traction Doesn't Mean Product Market Fit

A VC: Product > Strategy > Business Model

The Number 1 Reason Startups Fail

Startup Pitch Slide Decks that got funded: Dwolla, Foursquare, Airbnb, Buffer

The Instagram Origin Story

What a stupid idea, by Dustin Curtis

How do you avoid hiring the wrong people for your start up? - Quora

Ben Horowitz has some of the best advice I've ever read on engineers Hiring Sales People:

Lessons Learned from Bill Gross' 35 IPOs/Exits and 40 Failures

O' Lucky Day in the Race for First Round VC Funding

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you're trying to do more than just make money. ~Tony Hsieh

Pick a good market. ~ @caterina

From Selling Scoops Of Ice Cream To Founding ZeroCater | TechCrunch

The pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much? - pmarca *ARCHIVE*

The Surest Way To Build A Billion-Dollar Consumer Internet Company, by James Slavet of Greylock

The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies - pmarca *ARCHIVE*

The pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 4: The Only Thing That Matters - pmarca *ARCHIVE*

The pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 1: Why Not To Do a Startup - pmarca *ARCHIVE*

The “I-just-got-bought-by-a-big-company” survival guide // Scott Weiss

Keith Rabois on the role of a COO and how to hire

Engineers with too many perks and too much pay are Silicon Valley's well-fed farm animals. Having it too good makes them less resourceful.

The truth about venture capitalists, Part 1 - pmarca *ARCHIVE*

Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck - pmarca *ARCHIVE*

How to hire the best people you've ever worked with - pmarca *ARCHIVE*

The Only Two Ways to Build a $100 million Startup.

The pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity

About the pmarca Archive from Marc Andreessen's blog

I’m starting another content company, and I plan to make a fortune

Why increasing revenues can be bad for startups

Play by your own rules. ~Josh Williams on Gowalla startup lessons

It's never been easier to start a company, but it's never been harder to build one. ~Naval Ravikant

The Nest Founding Story - MIT Technology Review

Warby Parker - Finding Broken Systems That Are Full of Money

The One Number You Need to Grow - Harvard Business Review

How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year

Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned | Om Malik

Mike Abbott on hiring engineers:

5 Steps to interviewing well...

"I don’t pretend that I had any idea that I knew what I was doing." ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Have a point of view about how you're different. Why is there a special opportunity for this now? ~Mike Krieger

Why Instagram Succeeded: "ego analytics" and "like butter"

Jeff Bezos attended 60 investor meetings to raise $1m from 22 people, just to get Amazon started

The Betrayal of Bnter | TechCrunch

"YC founders get to raise money under the best of circumstances and even for them it's a bitch." ~Jessica Livingston

Startup School And Survivor Bias

"Facebook did grow quickly but it took a year for us to get a million users. It wasn’t as quick as a lot of things grow today." ~Zuck

Nothing works better than just improving your product. ~@spolsky

How to Use One Key Metric to Run Your Startup

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