The fever of startup plans is everywhere, as proven by a controversial article from money.CNN entitled “How to build a Bulletproof startup” ; a pretty scary article, if you ask me, assembling plenty of todays common knowledge and infos on BIG IDEAS, Team, Angels, VCs, etc. Useful info for the noobies, but lousy info for […]

Sometimes I feel up, sometimes I feel down. The problem is that in the last month I’ve been on the down side.
The two or three of you who read this blog probably know already that I’ve been dreaming of being my own boss for a while now. I remember being a fourth-year college student, more […]

Alex’s note: I finally managed to convince a friend to join this wonderful piece of blog. Everybody please welcome my new collaborating editor, code-name giures, for what I hope will be a productive collaboration.
I am having a dilema for some time: should i start my own company or should i still work in my current […]

Yet Another Paul Graham Post to be read: The Hardest Lessons for Startups…
And another post startup-related, although not of Paul Graham’s : Don’t be an employee

Again via Rodrigo I got to the kelblog page of the former author of Kelkoo(sold to Yahoo for quite a bit of cash) and founder of Wikio, which seems to be a cross of Digg, Newsvine and Kelkoo. I’m not sure yet, it’s in beta.
Well… the guy over at Kelblog pointed Rodrigo to a pretty […]

The link of the day is about a talk from the Flickr guys on Scaling Fast and Cheap - How We Built Flickr over at ETech 2006, whose outline you can find over at Vogon Poetry
Pretty useful stuff, in the same line of thought as in About Bootstraping :

use Linux, MySQL
keep it simple
Control Version everything
use […]

Over on the Signal vs Noise blog (belonging by the guys from 37signals and their guests) there’s the second part of a small series on bootstraping. Tips on reducing the cost of a startup, from the founder of DropSend

Part 1
Part 2

PS. The comments for both posts are pretty interesting readings by themselves.

Dragos from Argumente points to two interesting readings; the optimistic list of Next Net 25 and a pessimistic yet cool reality check on Web 2.0 and chances for a startup to succeed within

One after another, there are new rounds of acquisitions; of companies, of web services, of web sites. I’m reading right this moment a discussion from Memeorandum, starting with an article on a 23-year-old fresh millionaire.
CHRIS SHARKEY is 23. He has just got a cool $6 million plus, his share from the sale of a holiday […]

Guy Kawasaki strikes again: the previous bigshot at Apple(one of the first employees they had), and founder of Garage Inc, a seed-funding and VC firm has a blog(for those of you living outside the blogosphere for the last couple of months).
Once in a time(quite often, I might add) he puts some List, Test, Tips or […]