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A Checklist For Writing Code

David Teten

Nate Jenkins, co-founder of Authorea (ff Venture Capital company), offers, “Sometimes solving a simpler problem can be a beachhead towards a fully-featured solution. If something is slow to compute but re-used many times, cache it. Don’t code anything until you’re reasonably certain your algorithm works.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/09/24/lets-fire-our-customers – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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End of the Android Road: Why I got an iPhone

This is going to be BIG.

So, eventually, you start to get "low memory" notices and you're forced to delete your twitter cache and manually move apps from internal memory to the card. I couldn't help but think, "Steve Jobs would never let a user spend time moving apps around memory or worrying about cache clearing.

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RegulatoryKings: Thoughts on the Duel Between Government and Fans

This is going to be BIG.

By not allowing individuals to invest in startups and venture capital funds unless they're already wealthy, we're widening the gap between the rich and everyone else. You know the type--the ones who will defend good from evil with their cache of semi-automatic weapons that you have to pry from their cold dead hand.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

Unintended Lessons « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/09/28/unintended-lessons – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?