TEC Weekend Reading 2011-09-03

Business

Legal Advice : If I Launched a Startup : http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/if-i-launched-a-startup
While this blog is clear advertisement for legal services, it includes short list of quite helpful basic advises for VERY early stage founders.

NASA Blog recommendations : How to guide your project toward failure :
http://wiki.nasa.gov/cm/blog/mattatnasa/posts/post_1314035416289.html
Learn from the best experts how to waste resources on failed projects (Shuttle to nowhere?)

Sequencing the Startup DNA on LinkedIn
http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/09/01/entrepreneur-data

Benchmark your startup against 3,200+ internet startups.
https://beta.startupgenome.cc/


It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings
http://martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html

Five Tips For Getting iPhone Reviews
http://mobileorchard.com/five-tips-for-getting-iphone-reviews/


Technology

 Scratchpad : dev tool in the latest FireFox : http://blog.mozilla.com/devtools/2011/08/15/introducing-scratchpad/

Google released “offline” support for Gmail. GDOC support to  be released soon..
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/using-gmail-calendar-and-docs-without.html

AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WnzlbyTZsQY
IMHO, looks like a natural man & female conversation, isn’t it ?

Web technologies evolution [ infographics]
http://evolutionofweb.appspot.com/?hl=en

Free Stanford U classes at your location:
http://www.ai-class.com (Artificial Intelligence)
http://www.ml-class.com (Machine Learning)
http://www.db-class.com (Introduction to Databases)

 
Other

How to get media attention using fake research:
Exhibit 1 : Is Internet Explorer For The Dumb? A New Study Suggests Exactly That.
http://www.aptiquant.com/IQ-Browser-AptiQuant-2011.pdf
Exhibit 2:  retraction at http://www.aptiquant.com/articles/396/ 9
(quite a lot of people believed this “research” and create a MASSIVE traffic )
Bonus reading : iPhone users are getting more sex ;-)
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/
( no , it is not a joke - coming form quite solid company)

What They Say About Us

"The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries."

Ron Conway, Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, early stage investor in Google and PayPal

"Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience."

Esther Dyson, Founder, EDventure Holdings

"This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the Eastern European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded key note speakers' line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur,"

Richard Guha, President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

"As Stanford MBA students, we were exposed to a lot of VC firms both from the Valley and abroad. It is at Stanford that we met Anna Dvornikova, an absolutely amazing business leader and (by our big luck) our friend, who was the center of the Russian Silicon Valley professional community, and was doing a huge work to connect Russia and the Valley. Anna helped us a lot with kick-starting Wikimart, put us to our first-ever conference, introduced us to most of Russian VCs. And all that happened in a very short time span! It was the beginning of a six-month journey that despite the particularly tough times resulted in an extraordinarily group of investors backing our start-up."

Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakayev,
co-CEOs, Wikimart