Articles on Starting a Startup

Links:

 

How to Start a Startup.

 

Startups in 13 Sentences.

 

Hiring is Obsolete.

 

How to Make Wealth.

 

You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss.

 

Why to Not Not Start a Startup.

 

Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012

 

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy.

 

A Student’s Guide to Startups.

 

Ideas for Startups.

 

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas.

 

Be Relentlessly Resourceful.

 

The 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups.

 

The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

 

How to Fund a Startup.

 

The Hacker’s Guide to Investors.

 

How to Present to Investors.

 

The Equity Equation.

 

A Fundraising Survival Guide.

 

The Venture Capital Squeeze.

 

The Other Road Ahead.

 

How Not to Die.

 

What Business Can Learn from Open Source.

 

What the Bubble Got Right.

 

The High-Res Society.

 

They Would Be Gods.

 

The New Boom.

 

For Start-Ups, Web Success on the Cheap.

 

ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up.

 

The Cult of the NDA.

 

Ten Rules for Web Startups.

 

Valuation.

 

A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom.

 

Elements of Sustainable Companies

 

How to write a killer deck, and get funded.

 

Links to Articles on Life and Philosophy

What You’ll Wish You’d Known

Undergraduation

Good and Bad Procrastination

How to Do What You Love

The Island Test

Is It Worth Being Wise?

Two Kinds of Judgement

How Not to Die

How to Do Philosophy

Six Principles for Making New Things

You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss

How to Disagree

Be Good

Lies We Tell Kids

Disconnecting Distraction

Cities and Ambition

Keep Your Identity Small

Relentlessly Resourceful

The Anatomy of Determination

How to Lose Time and Money

The Top Idea in Your Mind

The Acceleration of Addictiveness

What We Look for in Founders

A Word to the Resourceful

The Top of My Todo List

How You Know

What Doesn’t Seem Like Work?

Life is Short

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Writing

Links to Articles on Writing:

Writing, Briefly

The Age of the Essay

Write Like you Talk

Writing and Speaking

Persuade xor Discover

Post Medium Publishing

The Virtue of Narrowness

Taboo Your Words

Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Wadler’s Blog: Three ways to improve your writing

Advice to writers by Vonnegut

OJ : Write for you

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” – 1946

Words can be Harmful

 

 

Favourite Articles / Essays

Rationality

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

The Virtue of Narrowness

“Science” as Curiosity-Stopper

Your Strength as a Rationalist

Guessing the Teacher’s Password

Fake Explanations

Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions

Explain/Worship/Ignore?

Words:

Words as Hidden Inferences

Extensions and Intensions

The Cluster Structure of Thingspace

Feel the Meaning

Taboo Your Words

Replace the Symbol with the Substance

Categorizing Has Consequences

Arguing “By Definition”

Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles