2013 Weekly Reading List
by Sebastien Mirolo on Tue, 1 Jan 2013
Short list updated weekly of articles and papers we read and found
worth mentioning in 2013.
Week ending Dec 29th 2013
- Why SaaS Needs To Get Smarter: No One Has Time For Your Clunky Software
- SaaS startups can reduce churn with better customer success
- Pitch Deck Presentation
- Why Freelancers Are Dismayed At Elance's Merger With oDesk
Week ending Dec 10th 2013
- The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team
- The 4 keys to running a data-driven business
- The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar
- Inside the Box - People don’t actually like creativity.
- The Cost of Optimism and The Sorry State of Project Management
- The Current State of Startups from Naval Ravikant
- America's 2013 Company Power Rankings
- Why Habits are Good For Business
- Build Systems, Not Processes
Week ending Nov 24th 2013
- Why Eric Ries Likes Management
- 8 Hats entrepreneurs often wear
- Be Like Bezos: 5 Lessons From A Business Icon
- Taming The Last 10%: Lessons for Finishing Meaningful Work
- How to effectively communicate with your graphic designer and get the results you want
- 5 Reasons Introverts Make Better Leaders
- 10 surprising social media statistics that might make you rethink your social strategy
- How I got meetings using cold emails
Week ending Nov 10th 2013
- Why freelancers should be picky and be paid what they’re worth
- When a great product hits the funding crunch
- Talent as a Service: End of outsourcing or new beginning?
- The Code is your Enemy
- How The Best CEOs Handle Email
- Create True Customer Loyalty: 10 Rules
Week ending Nov 3rd 2013
- How to design your website to survive the blink test
- Preparing a Board Deck
- How to Sell to Humans
- 10 Tips to Nail a Group Presentation
- Earning My Mouse Ears, Part I
- How to Build a Sellable Business - An Interview With John Warrillow
- Angel or Devil: Who’s Really Investing In Your Start-Up?
- 30 Quick & Easy Ways to Increase Your Site's Linkability
- Questions You Must Answer for VC Funding
- How Kentucky Built The Country's Best Obamacare Website
- New Surprises With Obamacare's Small-Business Exchanges
- How Big Data is destroying the U.S. healthcare system
- No, Madam Secretary, Prices On Healthcare.gov Are Not A "Hypothetical Situation"
Week ending Oct 27th 2013
- Why Big Opportunities Crush Small Companies
- The Money Mirage: 3 Measures to Define Early Progress and Avoid Temptation
- 4 lessons every VC should know before investing in pivoted startups
Week ending Oct 20th 2013
- The disruptive business model for higher education is open source
- How To Run Two Companies At Once, Without Losing Your Mind
- Is bootstrapping right for you? Five important tips for successfully funding your business
- Behind the VC numbers: Higher prices, less control
- The Myth of Quick and Dirty
- Reaching Escape Velocity as a Bootstrapper
- Do the Right Thing (and fight the Zombies)
- How Much Should Your Startup Spend on Managing Churn?
- What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs
- AngelList And Beyond: What VCs Really Think Of Crowdfunding
Week ending Oct 14th 2013
Week ending Oct 6th 2013
- Starting a business? Sweat the small stuff
- Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.
- Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now
- How do you persuade someone to pay for “free” information?
- What investors really want to know
- Doing Your Job May Be Hazardous To Your Career
- How To Filter And Select Startup Ideas
- 101 Hiring Hacks For StartUps
- What Does It Cost to Run a Startup?
- What Everyone Should Know About How Talent is Bought and Sold
- Why You Need To Pay Attention To General Solicitation
Week ending Sep 22nd 2013
- The 3 Key Cohort Analyses for Measuring Your Startup's Product Performance
- Breaking Through the SaaS Ceiling
- Six Key Benchmarks for Your SaaS Startup
- SSEBITDA – A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies
- Growth Hacking: The Tale of a Marketer Who Writes Code
- Patterns and practices for open source software success
- Tim O'Reilly - How I Failed
Week ending Sep 15th 2013
- Six Key Benchmarks for Your SaaS Startup
- The Costly Paradox of Health-Care Technology
- Will People With High Grades End Up Working For Those With Average?
- Teach, Don’t Tell
- A rare defense of venture capital classic
- The Essential Role of the 'Other Founder'
- Why Tilting Just a Smidge from Self-Service Can Grow Your Revenue 30x
- This startup has one rule: no venture capital
- Don't Let a Great Idea Waste Your Time & Money
- Jeff Bezos’ Hiring Anti-Pitch
Week ending Sep 1st 2013
Week ending Aug 20th 2013
- How to Differentiate Great Leaders from Good Leaders
- Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
- 5 Reasons Small-Business Owners Should Embrace Obamacare
- How NerdWallet Makes Headlines Without Landing Big VC Bucks
- The Minimal Homepage
- How Medium is building a new kind of company with no managers
by Sebastien Mirolo on Tue, 1 Jan 2013
