Cosi 165a - IT Entrepreneurship
Interesting links
Links to articles that you might find useful
Interesting presentation about google’s scaling:
Software Engineering Advice from Building Large-Scale Distributed Systems
All about email regex
Heroku: Getting Started With Rails
Classification of Cloud Services
Martin Fowler on Feature Toggle
Feature Switches at Flickr
Rethinking Crossing the Chasm
Making a simple db driven website with sinatra and heroku
A Practical Introduction to Git
Dave McClure on Pirate Metrics
Laws of Cloud SAAS Growth
The Price of Free Apps
How To Price Something
Disney Struggles to Make Its Free Gaming Apps Pay
How SnapChat will make money
Cohort Analysis: 3 Rules to Actionable Metrics
How to be a growth hacker
Cloud Computing is forcing a rethink of IP
How to make sense of conflicting startup advice
Cryptic Genetic Variation in Software-Hundting a 41 year old bug
Leaders of dead startups share the reasons why they failed
Animation for Attention and Comprehension
Movie: Something Ventured
about the VC world and Silicon Valley
Learn advanced Rake in 7 episodes
How to be a great software developer
Why composition is often better than inheritance
Think Like a Git
Low Findability and Discoverability: Four Testing Methods to Identify the Causes
Why you should never ask your customer to price your product
The Pivot
How SnapChat will make money
Disney Struggles to Make Its Free Gaming Apps Pay
The Price of Free Apps
How To Price Something
Basics of good database design in web development
How to design a user experience flow chart
User Experience: Stop designing screens and start designing flows
Effective use of white space in forms
How to nail a group presentation
What’s in a startup name?
Value Proposition Examples and How To
Linkedin Pitch to Greylock
What I wish I knew before pitching to Greylock
Pivoting when using Lean Startup for Product Development
Don’t let the minimum win over the viable
How Pivotal Tracker could be killing your startup
Unbundling: AOL, Facebook and LinkedIn
Post Mortem of a failed venture backed startup
How to go from zero to revenue in under five weeks!
Silent students shortchange themselves and others
Boston Law-related startups
Dave McClure on the Lean Startup
Getting the V in MVP right
95 ways to find your first customer for customer development and sales
When an accidental feature becomes your entire business
Videos from Lean Startup Conference
Is startup validation bullshit?
Pivoting in Product Development
12 Pieces of Advice on Startuping
Do things that don’t scale (Paul Graham)
What is Customer Development?
The history of app pricing and why apps are free
A single startup metric
How to help your app stand out
4 steps to building a compelling value proposition
Achieve Product Market Fit
Supercharge your Value Proposition
Examples of paper prototyping here
Paper Prototyping
Romancing the pitch
Why you should find product Market Fit …
Good job, but what if the vcs don’t come?
The Lucky-take-all society
5 Steps to $5000 per month in monthly recurring revenue
Business school rankings need a startup upgrade!
Great Entrepreneurship Blogs
Jason Calacanis Launch Blog
Both Sides of the table - Mark Suster’s Blog
A VC: Fred Wilson Blog
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