2014 Weekly Reading List
by Sebastien Mirolo on Wed, 1 Jan 2014
Short list updated weekly of articles and papers we read and found
worth mentioning in 2014.
Week ending Dec 21st 2014
- How to Make the Most Money in Your Marketing Career
- How the universally hated cubicle came to be
- Worthless Questions No Interviewer Should Ask
- The Next Big Thing You Missed: Tech Superstars Build ‘Startup Factories’
- What Are MOOCs Good For?
Week ending Dec 14th 2014
Week ending Nov 27th 2014
- The Fundamental Unit Of SaaS Growth
- How Are Mid-Market SaaS companies Crushing It in 2014?
- The Road Not Taken: How Losing $50,000 Became My Biggest Gain
- 7 Myths of Startup Financing
- 5 BIG Tips to Become a Presentation Jedi
Week ending Nov 23rd 2014
- Why Negative Churn Is Such A Powerful Growth Mechanism
- The Legal Life-Cycle of a Startup
- Forrester Says Marketers Are Wasting Resources on Facebook, Twitter and A Note to Re/code Readers
Week ending Nov 16th 2014
Week ending Nov 9th 2014
- Community at the speed of light: Best practices for the new era of open source
- The best sales advice I ever got was from a surfer dude
- The Counterintuitive Thing About Counterintuitive Things
- 3 great reasons to give away your precious tech under an open-source license
Week ending Nov 2nd 2014
Week ending Oct 19th 2014
- Ireland Considers Closing Corporate-Tax Loophole
- 2014 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey
- How SaaS benefits partners and consultants
Week ending Oct 12th 2014
- Stop Per User SaaS pricing; You're Killing Growth
- Dumb down and scale up
- SAAS Revenue Recognition Rules (boy, this stuff is different)
- Why You Need to Ring the Freaking Cash Register
Week ending Sep 28th 2014
- Demystifying Venture Capital Economics, Part 2
- LinkedIn's CEO Jeff Weiner Reveals The Importance Of Body Language, Mistakes Made Out Of Fear, And One Time He Really Doubted Himself
- Does Silicon Valley Have a Contract-Worker Problem?
- How To Build a Trustworthy e-Commerce Website
Week ending Sep 14th 2014
- The Potemkinism of Privacy Pragmatism
- What Bloggers need to know about SEO in 2014
- Understanding the key differences between LXC and Docker
- Docker private registry authentication
- Why Apple Pay Will Hurt PayPal
Week ending Sep 7th 2014
Week ending Aug 24th 2014
- America Needs Entrepreneurs. Instead Of Programming Teach Children Fantasy Football.
- The Learning Myth: Why I'm Cautious About Telling My Son He's Smart
- Wells Fargo Launches Accelerator To Promote Innovation In Financial Services
- Most smartphone users download zero apps per month
- 25 Business Tips From the World's Best Coaches
- The Problem With PaaS
- Optimizing AngularJS: 1200ms to 35ms
- Delivery Start-Ups Are Back Like It’s 1999
Week ending Aug 17th 2014
- Bending over: How to sell to large companies
- In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty
- The Internet's Original Sin
- Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
- It’s time for cloud software companies to start turning a profit
- Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted
- Moving Ruby Apps From Heroku to Docker
Week ending Aug 10th 2014
- The Economics of Trivia Night
- AOL still has 2.3 million dialup subscribers - and they’re very profitable
- Now even Internet Explorer will throw lousy old Java into the abyss
- Education vs. Experience: Do Entrepreneurs Really Need a College Degree?
- No Man's Sky: A Vast Game Crafted by Algorithms
- Tell Me About Your Next Job
- Are You Losing Your Company Money by Being Quiet?
- PressFriendly
- Service discovery with Docker
- App Rot
Week ending July 27th 2014
- We're 650,000 Start-Ups Shy of a Revolution
- Tim O'Reilly OSCON 2014 Keynote: "Technical and Cultural Revolutions"
- Mac OS X Terminal Theme: Piperita
Week ending July 21st 2014
- America Is Très Bien For French Entrepreneurs
- Monitoring Docker: Part II
- Lou Adler: Staffing Spiral of Doom - Catch 22
- Just Like Facebook, Twitter’s New Impression Stats Suggest Few Followers See What’s Tweeted
- Platform Monopolies
- TaskRabbit
- Kent Goldman’s New Seed-Stage Fund Is A Partnership Where Founders Share In The Upside
- What Every Successful Startup Knows About Marketing
- LinkedIn Founder: How to Fix the Way We Work
- Securing Docker’s Future with SELinux and the Open Source Way
- Docker and Logstash: Smarter Log Management For Your Containers
Week ending July 6th 2014
- Get Paid: GoDaddy Links With PayPal, Dwolla, Stripe For A Mobile & Web Payment Service
- The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why.
- The Future of UI: Contextual Intelligence
Week ending June 29th 2014
- 5 Questions All Marketers Need to Ask Themselves
- The Disruption Machine
- We Have No Idea If Online Ads Work
- Seeking Investors for Your App or SaaS business? Here’s What We Look For
Week ending June 15th 2014
Week ending June 8th 2014
- The Homepage Is Dead! Long Live The Homepage!
- The Exit Curve: Exitround’s Report On Tech M&A
- 5 ways to make fewer decisions
- Feeding Your Funnel The Wrong Leads Can Make Your SaaS Business Sick
- The one mistake that will kill your startup? Bad financial predictions
- Startups – The Essential To Do List
- The Economics of a Small VC Fund
Week ending May 16th 2014
- Bruce Stuart: What the sales transition to the cloud looks like
- Companies Are Turning More to the Cloud for Do-It-Yourself Apps
- Understanding SaaS: Why the Pundits Have It Wrong
- SaaS instrumentation: four stories you need your app to tell you
- Google Has Most Of My Email Because It Has All Of Yours
- Employee Sharing – The New Employee-Employer Relationship
- Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs in Chrome Become a Standard?
Week ending Apr 27th 2014
Week ending Apr 20th 2014
- The Core Beliefs of the Delightfully Successful
- Amazon and Google are in an epic battle to dominate the cloud - and Amazon may already have won
- The Problem With Profitless Start-ups
Week ending Apr 13rd 2014
- Heartbleed bug puts the chaotic nature of the Internet under the magnifying glass
- The 11 Rules of Highly Profitable Companies
- Real Engines Of Growth Have Nothing To Do With Growth Hacking
Week ending Apr 7th 2014
- Why Education Spending Doesn't Lead to Economic Growth
- The Difference Between Successful and Very Successful People
- The Right Way to Ask Users for iOS Permissions
Week ending Mar 23rd 2014
Week ending Feb 21st 2014
- Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias
- How to Build a World-Class Technology Platform Brand
- 3 Things Incredibly Productive People Do
- Avoid SEO Hype: Why Small Businesses Should Focus on Return on Investment
- StartUp Success by the Numbers
- October 2015: The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card
- 51 Startup Failure Post-Mortems
Week ending Jan 26th 2014
- Ignorance
- The Net Neutrality Endgame
- Entrepreneurship is a Roller Coaster, Not a Cruise
- What salary does the founder of your favorite startup get? Probably not a very high one
- Why Obama’s NSA Reforms Won’t Solve Silicon Valley’s Trust Problem
- About That Sales Cycle…It Will Kill you
- Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong
- Has Mobile Killed The Fast Follower Strategy? Sure Looks That Way…
- 7 Unlikely Recommendations for Startups & Entrepreneurs
- The real use of money is to buy freedom
- 20 Business Lessons You Don't Want To Learn The Hard Way
- Recruiting Engineers in Less Time
- Designing for exponential trends of 2014
by Sebastien Mirolo on Wed, 1 Jan 2014
