I’ve been away for a vacation/family visit it Italy & France, and enjoyed the time off the roller-coaster of startup life. Still I’ve marked a few articles worth reading which I’m listing here.
- 10 VCs And Founders Give Their Best Advice For Raising Money – Interesting read
- REVEALED: How The Samwer Brothers Made Billions Cloning Facebook, Groupon, And Other US Internet Startups – Very interesting article, showing that the Samwer bros might not be innovative, but they know how to make clones that fits different countries and run an international operation so well, that sometimes the original startups gains by buying the closes. Very interesting read!
- Salesforce Acquires Buddy Media for $689 Million, HootSuite May Be Next target
- How to moderate a brainstorming session and get results
- 5 Reasons Recurring Revenue Models Work
- Hiring for Startups 101 – hiring process
- Executives: Your Company Isn’t Attracting the Best Talent
- Mary Meeker Explains the Mobile Monetization Challenge – Based on her original Internet Trends for 2012 presentation
- 2012 Internet Trends Report [PDF] – The original report KPCB’s Mary Meeker presented
- What does it feel like to be the CEO of a start-up? – Some really interesting answers
- How to Protect Your Game From Clones – Some legal points
- 26 Books About Success That Every Entrepreneur Should Read
- 38 Studios’ Downfall: The Gamasutra Report
- Why one Zynga executive left his post for a small startup
- Why targeting ‘whales’ shouldn’t be a cornerstone of free-to-play design
And finally, a video from , founder of Buddy Media telling how his personal story made him fearless: