Entrepreneurship
- How to start with Software Consulting or Freelancing
- The Parable of the Mexican Fisherman
- Entrepreneurship CAN Be Taught
- And talent is really the only thing that matters
- Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?
- DHH: Software products over software services
- What Working At Stripe Has Been Like @patio11
- Everything I know about freelancing
- To Make Big Gains, Avoid Tiny Losses
- Moonlighting managers ain’t got no time for bullshit
- Forget About Setting Goals And Focus on Your System Instead
- The Crucible Of Leadership
- How Not to Die
- Why we never sold Basecamp by the seat
- Why “I Don’t Have Enough Time” is a Bullshit Excuse
- Litigation (Fred Wilson)
- You Can Succeed Without Y Combinator
- Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week
- Why Web Developers Should Learn Digital Marketing
- How I make my money. Start small. Do a workshop
- Why Blacksmiths are Better at Startups than You
- How Regular One-on-One Meetings Saved Our Company Culture
- Building a Software Product: Lessons Learned
- Recruiting Developers
- Nobody is Going to Steal Your Dumb Idea
- Working for FREE: The Debate
- This is an Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur
- What I Learned From Increasing My Prices
- 3 reasons you shouldn’t outsource your startup, and what to do instead
- How I made my first million dollars (in pro bono code)
- Understanding VCs
- The Shape of Traction
- I Analyzed 250 SaaS Pricing Pages — Here’s What I Found
- Hourly Billing is Nuts
- What Every Founder Should Constantly Be Thinking About
- Bad Manager by Jonathan Snook
- It was every startups’ worst nightmare
- Behind the Scenes: How We’ve Built a $5M/Year Business in 3 Years With Content Marketing
- How We Got 1,000+ Subscribers from a Single Blog Post in 24 Hours
- The #1 Reason Why People Think They Can Underpay You
- When “Sorry” isn’t enough, do this instead…
- The psychological reason why you should sell what you know
- The dumb pricing mistake people make (and how to fix it)
- Why bloggers fail
- Freelance is gr8; protection, proaction and pbusiness shit
- How One SaaS Startup Reduced Churn 71% Using “Red Flag” Metrics
- Wondering whether you should work hard or smart? You won’t like the answer
- The Checklist I Use To Start My Day
- Should you choose a competitive market or an untapped one?
- What Our Business Strategy Would Be if We Started Again From Scratch
- How We Got 300% More People To Read Our Content
- The 8 Types of Images That Increase the Psychological Impact of Your Content
- The Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Post
- The Simple Truth People Forget When Trying to Grow a Business
- The 80/20 Rule for Building a Blog Audience
- What People Buy: How This One Simple Question Reveals Everything
- The “Content is King” Myth Debunked
- How to persuade people you don’t know to help you
- 8 Things Every Non-Technical Founder Should Know How to Do
- Tips For Conducting User Research Interviews
- What Not to Ask Users/Clients
- Why Fixed Bids Are Bad For Clients, Too
- Consultancy vs. Agency: What’s the Difference?
- How We Grew Conversions 100% by Rethinking Our Design Strategy
- The Anatomy of a High Converting Landing Page
- How to Write a Landing Page With a 500% Conversion Lift [Comic]
- The 9 Most Common Questions About Hiring, Answered
- The 10 Commandments of Landing Pages That Work
- How Do You Get Your First Customers to Trust You?
- 3 Early Fails That Nearly Killed Our Startup
- The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Connecting With Awesome Mentors
- Startups: You’re Wasting Your Time
- A day in the life of (this) Ruby on Rails freelancer
- Why I Write for the “Boring” Industries
- An Evolved View Of The Participating Preferred
- How Do You Do Research for Your Content?
- Your Vacation Policy Could Kill Your Startup
- Learn Google Analytics from Santa and his Elves
- The Startup Zeitgeist (Y Combinator 2016)
- We Hired A Business Coach, And Here’s What Happened
- The Deadly Mistake That Kills Too Many Startups
- Expensive Things That Are Worth Investing In For Startups
- What I learned from analyzing the top 253 Medium stories of 2016
- The 10 Essential Roles of a Startup CEO
- What I’ve learned from 18 weeks of vlogging my coding journey
- How I Overcame One of My Deepest Fears as an Entrepreneur
- What I Fear Most As a Founder
- YouTube De-Monetization Explained
- The Simple Truth Behind Reading 200 Books a Year
- How do you network without feeling sleazy?
- The Ultimate Guide for Becoming an Idea Machine
- Turning Your Team
- Employee Equity – How Much
- How I Filter the Advice I Get About Business and Life
- How do you structure a software beta program?
- How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up
- Bank of England’s Mark Carney predicts fintech game changer
- Finance Disrupted: Who will take London’s fintech crown?
- Blockchain could save investment banks £12bn a year
- Financial Chatbot Cleo Raises $700K in Seed Money
- Deutsche Bank’s ex-head of equities says banking careers are over
- 33 of the UK’s Most Promising Tech Companies Join Upscale 2017
- The 100:10:1 Method for Creativity on Demand
- How a single programmer changed the music industry
- How My Very First Business Almost Failed in 5 Minutes
- Cultural Differences (Fred Wilson)
- How Do You Deal With Writer’s Block?
- Why Companies like Lyft, Uber, Postmates, Instacart etc Will Never Be Profitable
- The Hardest Adjustment To Self Employment
- Nothing will change until you start building
- 3 Easy Growth Tactics That Literally Every Business Should Do Today
- Investing For Geeks
- Protect Your Rights with the Standard Freelance Contract by AND CO
- How I turned a rejected conference talk into 300K views on Medium and YouTube
- Why You’re Not Speaking at User Groups, and Why You Should
- Why I quit Google and built an app that teaches personal finance to kids
- Why I Stopped Hustling
- How To Charge For A Website In 2017 (and Beyond)
- Don’t Be the Cheapest, Be the Best
- To determine what to do next, we listen closely to our communities, and our customers
- The bullshit of outage language
- How do you deal with people copying you?
- The Perfect Medium Post. How I added $20,000 in revenue in two months on Medium
- 8 Platforms Web Developers Can Sell Their Services On
- Why ‘Easy’ Publishing Solutions Hardly Ever Are
- (DHH) RECONSIDER
- How to start
- Stealing Your Competition’s Customers
- Better Ways to Use 404 & 500 Error Pages
- There Is No Free Lunch (Fred Wilson)
- Building a Startup? You Need to Learn to Negotiate
- Online Publishing Should Look At Steem, Not Spotify, For Inspiration (Fred Wilson)
- Is chasing “big name” customers worth it?
- I burned my first startup to the ground. Here are some hard lessons learned
- How my friends and I grew our side project into a $17,000/month business
- Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
- The 10x developer is NOT a myth
- The Most Important Skill for Any Entrepreneur (And How to Develop It)
- See How This Entrepreneur Rewrote Her Sales Page For A Childrens’ Toy
- Culture is Defined by What You Cannot Say (Cognitect)
- Resource Constraints is a blessing not a curse (Fred Wilson)
- How much should a startup founder pay themselves?
- If You’re Selling SaaS, Then You’re Selling a Commodity
- AVC 2017. Our Model
- Igniter: Why Startups Suck at Marketing
- Yield management (wiki)
- How I got my startup to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News by accident
- What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six months
- Turning side projects into profitable startups
- How to Earn a Side Income Through Freelancing
- How I made $200,000 when I was 16 years old
- The more they pay, the more they value it
- Use the internet, not just companies
- Time And Money
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Some Words Of Wisdom
- The Heartbeat
- The Final Push
- First Mover Disadvantage
- Investor Friendly Terms
- Being Public
- What Happens When A Founder Is Fully Vested?
- Negotiating: Drawing A Hard Line or Building A Negotiating Cushion?
- The Profit Motive
- Missing The Forest Through The Trees
- Take Your Lumps
- Understanding Your Investors
- The IPO Bonanza 2019
- The Hidden Cost Of Extending Option Exercise Periods
- Name It, and They Will Come
- Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation
- Who will steal Android from Google?
- Scaling A Company While Controlling Costs
- Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and the Quest to Kill eBay
- Seven to Ten Years
- Business Model Innovation
- Risk Tolerance
- The Road to $10,000 Profit from my Side Project Slack Bot
- What I Learned Rescuing Our Startup From Death
- Why We Dropped “Fun” as a Core Value
- Hypothetical Value To Real Value
- The Great Public Market Reckoning
- It is your job to bother me and my job to be responsive when you do
- Bringing It All Back Together
- Cloudflare beats a patent Troll
- Priorities
- All that Stand Between You and a Successful Project are 500 Experiments
- Cash Management In Startups
- Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better
- All that Stand Between You and a Successful Project are 500 Experiments
- A choice between a flashy operator or a grinder
- The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication
- The Long Buy (AVC)
- Not All Gross Margin Is The Same (AVC)
- Entrepreneurship CAN Be Taught
- Finding the Right Co-Founders for Your Startup
- Independent Director Compensation
- Goals vs Systems
- Haggling (AVC)
- Secondary Markets for private equity (AVC)
- It’s hard to draw lessons from your own failures (DHH)
- Investing is a Social Phenomenon
- The Vision Thing AVC
- Half Of All VCs Beat The Stock Market (AVC)
- Why millennial entrepreneurs are embracing the sweaty-startup movement
- Regulating Software (AVC)
- How People Get Rich Now. Paul Graham
- The high price of ignoring small expenses
- Dear Open Source: let’s do a better job of asking for money
- Caring about costs is cool (DHH)
- The truth about the cloud and serverless (DHH)
- The VC’s Customer (AVC)
- Actions beat arguments
- SaaS startups will have to care about productivity again
- Angry customers are a gift
- When they want to shut it down, I say double down
- Manage process before people
- Breaking the inertia of mediocrity
- When promotions become punishment
- Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work