Blog reads

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Blogs:

http://www.avc.com/

http://cdixon.org/

AbovetheCrowd blog

http://www.beyondvc.com/

Good sources of Info.

see this guy customized , we need this kind http://theresenordgren.blogspot.com/

see this one also http://davidchin342.blogspot.com/p/tags.html as he said here http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=6b49a499a9cfa310&hl=en

good student BS comp. Engg: http://www.samir-ahmed.com/iris.html ( see his Iris ...)

good student PHD stats/modelling ( his Python Libs) : http://www.stat.washington.edu/~hoytak/index.html

great Tab UI : for my own Site to have all the Info in 1 page : http://keith-wood.name/gChart.html ( see 2 nd level tabs )

great UI: http://visualjquery.com/ -- best Categorization/filtering tools

good tabs and nice file upload util and Theaming: http://aquantum-demo.appspot.com/file-upload

- Nice 3 column compare: http://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=Python+programming+language

- Nice documentation model : http://www.stat.washington.edu/~hoytak/index.html -- click at bottom SOURCE , you see plain text it was done with http://sphinx.pocoo.org/rest.html#source-code

also see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1756145/sphinx-for-php-code-documentation

- good Syntax Highlighter http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/

IRAQ INDEX: http://www.brookings.edu/saban/iraq-index.aspx

http://www.brookings.edu/experts/ebingerc.aspx -- asr: can use to get opinion on US electric car subsidy of $5000

- idea: we need a 'data wikipedia' like wikipedia for data, see if the above IRAQ index data is availble as CSV/Json object many creative people use it to show charts on web. A site like google can host this DATA and provide their charting tools for easy inclusion on web pages.

1.1 : http://www.codeproject.com/ this seems good resource too, seems 150 android mini projects, similar C++ , Java projects etc..

1. Quora: for inside scoop , collection of knowledge bank in aras like staratup .

ex: http://www.quora.com/I-am-a-creative-guy-with-a-startup-idea-Where-is-the-best-place-to-find-a-rockstar-developer-to-bring-it-to-life?q=rockstar+techni

2. Stack Oveflow.com : Quora of Technical knowldege base.

- you can ask ( if not found ) about Python Vs. PHP , Django etc.

Gadgt.com : Quora of Gadgets ( trying to be )

4. Slide.com : great slide search and learan:

http://www.slideshare.net/singhvivek6/14-tips-to-present-awesome-charts-2071447 http://www.slideshare.net/singhvivek6

lean Startup http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=lean+startup

5. Scribd : you can get tone of documents here when you search properly

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20920697/Goldman-Research-Where-to-Invest

6. crunchbase: for all startup funding info and articles ..

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/mypunchbowl

Edit CL Notes: Edit

1/10/11:

http://google.aquteintelligence.com/ -- i need to do this kind of site for CRUDE using google archieve ( go back 10 year for each source 'goldman sachs' , PFGbest , other oil sources ... and recent 'twitter' #crudeoil guy what he said in the past etc..

- and archeve like the Aqutet.. guys did ... and show to a commodity guy for 'historic news' how OIL traded on those days OPEC meeting , Hurricanes, PIpe braks and the subseuqtn days trade and Spread prices on 'break day' and next 2 week , sprd with curent/next month on pipe breask etc..

Dygraphs: is good , this graphite opensource from Orbiz seems good for large sets of data
- http://graphite.wikidot.com/screen-shots
- it is written in Python ( seems is good for math ), it has memcached and realtime dataupdates
- Orbiz is using it in production to display 1600 different parameters
- User can select chart dimensions dynamically with their browser ...

1/1: see kickstart.com quriky.com crowdsourcing examples
- quirky.com has some resemblence to our 'help you shop' concept ( with 30% payment )
12/28: see Qualcom chipset for $100 android phone posting ( disruption , AVC endorsed it)

12/1:

1) Milo.com acquired by ebay for 75 mil .

lesson: I was afraid about this big funded Milo . now ebay may do some thing with it. But still the other players in this (Online reserach and Local Buy ) will have some market. This ebay buy validated my (asr) thinking for good starrtup product ideas.

2) 10gen backer of MongoDB got funded by Sequoia

3) Verizon LTE 4G shows good speeds for USB modem as tested by gigaOM. So expect 4G on phones in 2012 for $30 /data . techcrunch article said Iphone for LTE will be coming in 2012 that make sense, before that universal Iphone for GSM/CDMA first ..

11/22:

1) saw 'fast society' groupme.com competitor

2) noted may event based sites in 'product-event' delicius

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11/16:

1) Startup Resources http://steveblank.com/blogs-for-entrepreneurs/ -- this has every thing.

- Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack

2) Raising Venture Capital - http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/pitching-a-vc/

asr: one of the best advices

asr: use this one for our shop discovery ( walmart/target/macys/sears/amazon vs. ASRshop )

As a person looking to buy a new car, look at how difficult it is for me to get real pricing data when I look at Edmunds or Kelly Blue Book. Now watch the same price discovery as we search through TrueCar

3) Angle.co - Naval Ravikant http://startupboy.com/about/

- http://venturehacks.com/articles/pick-cofounder

- http://startupboy.com/2010/01/17/why-you-need-to-be-in-silicon-valley/

- Ads are served up by third-party ad networks. Storage goes on Amazon. Computation scales via Amazon, Softlayer or Rackspace. Code is built upon stacks of open source, SaaS, and $10/month services.

What used to cost $1M-$2M to set up, now costs $10K. What used to cost $5M to build, now costs $250K. What used to cost $20M to go to market now costs $1M.

Smart Money Angle list - see Chris Dixon is 1st as per businessweek http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/02/0225_angel_investors/23.htm

3.2) Sancha touch is now Free, see good Kitchen Sync Demo
http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/

4) TrymyUI http://www.trymyui.com/ -- interesting
- asr: similarly we have many shopping aggregation sites, but ours will be easier and FUN. For example, evite has been around for a long time, but pingg and a number of other sites came about, in part with the idea that they can make the invitation design experience easier and more fun.
http://blog.trymyui.com/2010/08/3-facets-defining-the-user-experience/

Check-ins based startups:
1)stream checkin: facebook , twitter ( on top of email, provide instant for viewers)
2) location checkin: foursquare , gowalla ( friends can find you , leave reviews )
3) product checkin: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/20/stickybits-object-check-ins/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/27/snapdragon/

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1) 11/10: groupme.com , check funding details how VCs fighting to fund this groupme.com

Series A: $850k, Series B: pre $20 MM , post: $30 ( so B team paid $10 MM to get 30% of company )

- http://www.businessinsider.com/bidding-war-breaks-out-over-groupme-2010-11

- GroupMe’s cofounders, former Tumblr employee Jared Hecht and former Gilt Group engineer Steve Martocci

- GroupMe is working with Twilio, who was a sponsor of the hack day, to power the SMS and calling. http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/groupme-born-at-techcrunch-disrupt-secures-funding-and-launches/ ( they used simple Twilio API .. which is cheap $1/line and 3 cent/min )

- we *HAVE* already invested in several startups using Twilio for their solution (Mogotix, TeachStreet, HomeBoodle, others (http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/got-a-twilio-based-app-get-some-investment-dollars/)

- GroupMe just raised $850,000 from high profile investors like First Round Capital (Mint, StumbleUpon) and Betaworks (Bit.ly, TweetDeck). -- http://mashable.com/2010/11/10/mobile-innovation-dumbphone/

- http://location-labs.com/products.php -- GeoFencing ...

- Several times during the conference I noticed Kim introduce Martocci to a group of investors and entrepreneurs. They would immediately surround Martocci?with their phones out in front of him as he showed off his weekend’s work. ( asr : we can believe this as WSJ reported )

- http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/08/25/25venturebeat-freshly-founded-startup-groupme-raises-850k-86010.html?ref=start-ups

other startups in this space: http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/09/callvine-raises-4m-for-group-calling-and-texting/

2) 11/10: checked Roambi visualizer http://www.roambi.com/

- had this Ipad app , wow this is disrupt to enterprise software

Self-service BI makes an entry

- Another company to adopt apps, Life Technologies Corp. distributed 400 iPads to its sales team and senior executives this spring. The biotechnology-tools maker licensed an app called Roambi from San Diego-based start-up MeLLmo Inc.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303891804575576380032084938.html#ixzz14xFcsnre

- Good Ipad APP Omnigraffle

- five thousandth OmniGraffle® for iPad™ on Wednesday, just 32 days after its introduction on April 3

http://www.omnigroup.com/company/press/

3) techmeme has a snapshot archevie as back as 2007 , we can have similar for 'commodity news' based on google archive and save it as our own site ..

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1) 11/9: Scrum http://www.scrumdesk.com/

- Scrum is an iterative, incremental methodology for project management often seen in agile software development.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) -- see Ref. and video section at bottom

- 3 roles , 4 ceremonies , 3 Artifacts ( asr Favorite)

- Scurm 10 min video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5k7a9YEoUI

2) 11/9: Chris Dixon : good startup advice page

summary: they fund based on Founder background , not just product

b) initial IDEA is not that important as it changes

c) 4 yeras std. vesting, std. terms

d) see their 40 list of small comapnies ...

http://foundercollective.com/strategy

At what stage of a company's life do you invest? A person or two and an idea is our favorite stage

(asr: suits us if we build 'KIDS remote' or 'Math Tutor' on mobile platforms .....)

After spending three years programming financial algorithms at a high-speed options trading firm, http://foundercollective.com/people/Chris-Dixon -- so this can understand (asr)OurSeasonal enrty price at 2Sigma Level ...

http://cdixon.org/about.html - personal investor in Billshrink , Knewton etc.. small initial IDEAS so he can be open for our 'Responsible Media Consumption' RMC ( media limits for KIDS & adults)

http://cdixon.org/contents/ -- Great , simple ( no theory) articles . Format is one page my Favourate

http://foundercollective.com/people/Chris-Dixon

I think this type of investing requires a lot of intellectual modesty--recognition that you simply can't predict the future, all you can do is bet on somebody who's good enough to bob and weave along the way.

http://cdixon.org/2009/11/14/pitch-yourself-not-your-idea/
- it’s what you’ve built. This could mean coding a video game, creating a non-profit organization, designing a website, writing a book, bootstrapping a company – whatever. The story you should tell is the story of someone who has been building stuff her whole life and now just needs some capital to take it to the next level.

“come back when you have a demo.” They aren’t wondering whether your product can be built – they are wondering whether you can build it.

http://foundercollective.com/companies/Brontes -- they showed OutCome Return 9.1 x

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Market Commenatry

News/Opinion
venture blog - on left menu has many other VC blogs
Good Vc blog - seattlepi
ZDNet blogs
Ajaxian - referred by above VC blog, look at these user comments on each article very valuable
Digg
All about Hyderabad developments
Hyd RE discussions -- good posts, seems some active discussions

Business week blogs
techcrunch - blog about technology start-ups
broadband, voice over IP, telecom
Latest in Gadgets
Top 100 popular blogs
Technorati: Popular Blogs
9rules - Quality Loves Company.

Forbes Columists -- Top notch columists
CNN
TheStreet.com

Perspective
lifebeyondcode
Liz Blog ( Rajesh ref.)
google archive serach to see old glory


Productivity
- see this digg "firefox" search - it showed most digged for the search subject "Firefox" . this is best way to get best topics ( highly digged )
- digg search "CSS" -- this gave Aptana open source CSS , JS editor
-- this was posted by the company Aptana : see the marketing leverage for good products , by just posting by company to it's page , it got product news spread wiral . This is new 21 st century marking I guess (asr).
Ajaxian - look at these user comments who tested and reveiwed so many new products on this site, very useful to read these reviews to save time..
del.icio.us serach -- Bookmark search to find best (more users saved book marks ) on any topic with search , example here mysql
LifeHacker -- search popular in css example ( you can see user comments on usefulness of it)
Web Developer's Handbook | CSS, Web Development, Color Tools, SEO, Usability etc.
50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing - said on the page it is updated constantly
My del.icio.usvisionary -Save links and Refer from
good example of public info sharing with Spread sheet




Reviews
Forbes best of the web(bow)-blogs
Forebes Best of the web -- web site reviewed and rated by Forbes , best to find quality sites for every category
Amazon user reviews
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/reviews/
CNet reviews
PCMag reviews


Health
Better information. Better health.
Forbes best of the web - blog category -- health blogs
Web Developer's Handbook -- we wanted to have Forbes best of the web in this format for easy access of categories


Life Style

Learning
Interview questions, You can clear some work related tech questions from these answers


Orkut
Image via CrunchBaseApple
Indian sites
http://www.bestindiansites.com/ -- some good filter, finance sites shown good so other sites must be good too

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