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Mike McCormick
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I'm looking forward to seeing you all on our call with Rahul Prakash this Sunday (dial in info coming soon).
Mike
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Mike McCormick
I'm looking forward to seeing you all on our call with Rahul Prakash this Sunday (dial in info coming soon).
Mike
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From: Chris McCann <ch...@startupdigest.com>
Date: Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Subject: StartupDigest Reading List - May 25, 2012
To: michaelp...@gmail.com
StartupDigest Reading List
Life is too short to work at a boring company. Meet the best startups here.
Life is too short to work at a boring company. Meet the best startups here.
I just finished this amazing biography on John D. Rockefellers's life called Titan. It's long but totally well worth the read.
- Chris
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With the recent Facebook IPO, are you wondering about the fate of companies that go public? This Kauffman report released today offers a rare look at post-IPO trends – of the IPOs from 1996 through 2000, biomedical companies had the highest survival and lowest bankruptcy rates; the highest failure rates were in manufacturing and retail.
What You Need to Read This Week
The Dirty Little Secret of Attending Meetups
By Aaron Hockley
It's all about the people, not the things (or in this case the content).
You only get one chance to be a beginner
By David
There is great value in being ignorant of prevailing wisdom.
JS101: Prototypes
By Alex Young
Almost every nerd has hacked a little bit of JavaScript to get their MVP to do something cool before shipping it out the door. Understanding JS prototypes will take you from seeing JS as a toy to a powerful tool.
Competition (most of the time) isn't important
By Blake Masters & Peter Thiel
One of the newest notes from Peter Thiel's startup class on competition and why competition is mostly a time waster.
Steve Jobs and... Workplace Design
How Jobs used unseemingly functional workplace design to build amazing culture.
WebSockets with Varnish and Nginx
By James Arthur
Websockets have achieved quite a bit of notoriety lately and are one of the most exciting new features of HTML5, but unless you're running Node.js, how do you actually implement them in production?
Last Year I Graduated College and Launched a Startup
By Jason Shah
Experience builds cumulatively (not linearly) so be mindful about what direction you are heading right now.
What was it like to be a user of TheFacebook.com in 2004?
Best answer by Annie Lausier
An interesting look at what Facebook was like during the early days of its expansion.
Anonymous Classes In Ruby
Ruby's object system is one of the most powerful and flexible of any major programming language. Did you know you can even make anonymous classes?
See all of the best startup resources here.
StartupDigest VIP
Life is too short to work at a boring company. Meet the best startups here.
- Chris
StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris Burnor - Lead Engineer, StartupDigest
Adrienne Tran - UI Designer
StartupDigest Reading List is supported exclusively by:
What You Need to Read This Week
By Aaron Hockley
It's all about the people, not the things (or in this case the content).
You only get one chance to be a beginner
By David
There is great value in being ignorant of prevailing wisdom.
JS101: Prototypes
By Alex Young
Almost every nerd has hacked a little bit of JavaScript to get their MVP to do something cool before shipping it out the door. Understanding JS prototypes will take you from seeing JS as a toy to a powerful tool.
Competition (most of the time) isn't important
By Blake Masters & Peter Thiel
One of the newest notes from Peter Thiel's startup class on competition and why competition is mostly a time waster.
Steve Jobs and... Workplace Design
By Ken Ashley
How Jobs used unseemingly functional workplace design to build amazing culture.
WebSockets with Varnish and Nginx
By James Arthur
Websockets have achieved quite a bit of notoriety lately and are one of the most exciting new features of HTML5, but unless you're running Node.js, how do you actually implement them in production?
Last Year I Graduated College and Launched a Startup
By Jason Shah
Experience builds cumulatively (not linearly) so be mindful about what direction you are heading right now.
What was it like to be a user of TheFacebook.com in 2004?
Best answer by Annie Lausier
An interesting look at what Facebook was like during the early days of its expansion.
Anonymous Classes In Ruby
Ruby's object system is one of the most powerful and flexible of any major programming language. Did you know you can even make anonymous classes?
See all of the best startup resources here.
StartupDigest VIP
Life is too short to work at a boring company. Meet the best startups here.
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