Paul is well known for co-founding what became the Yahoo! Store and for co-founding the Y Combinator.
This is a great compilation of his best essays that I’m sure you’ll find valuable for your startup ventures.
How to Make Wealth
How to Start a StartupHiring is Obsolete
The Hardest Lesson for Startups to Learn
The 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups
Why Not to Start a Startup
Holding a Program in One’s Head
Cities & Ambition
Relentlessly Resourcesful
Highly recommended book, you’ll learn how the greatest breakthroughs across all industries are a result of teams of creative people that are especially productive.
excerpt:
Scott Belsky’s Making Ideas Happen chronicles the methods of exceptionally productive creative leaders and teams – companies like Google, IDEO, and Disney, and individuals like author Chris Anderson and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh – that make their ideas happen, time and time again.
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As detailed in the previous section, a web page’s Google PageRank is very important for several reasons, not the least of which is getting high rankings in the search results.
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I was surfing around checking out some of the popular entries to the PHP framework world today, when I came across this excellent Application Flow Chart diagram over at CodeIgniter.
A review of using the CSS sprites method and optimizing the use of background images in websites to reduce requests and improve page load time.
I see the topic of MySQL optimization come up frequently in discussions. Understandably so, given that it doesn’t take that much data for a poorly optimized query to become the bottleneck in an otherwise well thought out process.
