This summer seems to be full of slow news weekends. Today we focus on startups. First, on Both Sides of the Table, Mark Suster talks about what he has learned about venture funding. At Andreessen Horowitz, they give us their 16 metrics that startups need to care about. Granted, some of the metrics may not apply to a typical internet startup, but getting a good idea of what you should pay attention to is always welcome. On the Subtraction Capital blog, they talk about subtraction yielding growth. The basic idea is that if you eliminate noise and focus on what you do well, that can help your startup grow. It sounds basic but I would guess that most startups struggle with this idea.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- What I’ve Learned About Venture Funding | Both Sides of the Table
- Subtraction = Growth | Subtraction Capital Blog
- 16 Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz
- Looking for change in all the wrong places | Seth Godin
Design and Development
- UX Protip: Turn Your Screw Ups Into A Positive Experience | StatusPage
- Virtual Structs Part 3: Bringing Enums and Structs Together | Baby Steps
- Dash, a simple programming language written in C | Dreaming Of Bits
- C# 6.0: An Introduction | Alex Booker
- The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Add-ons Blog
- Fast pattern search in Swift… since 1974 | Marcin Krzyzanowski
- Increasing complexity one entity at a time | Java Code Geeks
- Comparing Hashing strategies | Vanilla Java
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Computing square triangular numbers | John D. Cook
- Generating Spherical Distance Fields from Polygons | Experilous
- Making maps with noise functions | Red Blob Games
- An Introduction to Distributed Machine Learning | Dato
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Dedicated operations road bypasses | Ayende @ Rahien
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Accessing unaligned memory | RealTime Data Compression
- Snifflab: An environment for testing mobile devices | Open Effect
- Predictable Android lock patterns | Flowing Data
Fun and Other stuff
Link Collections
- Web Development Reading List #100 | Smashing Magazine
- Dew Drop – August 21, 2015 (#2074) | Morning Dew
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