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1 save http://coworkingmanifesto.com/

The Co-working Manifesto, and signatories.

The Netflix Tech Blog: The Netflix Simian Army

81 saves http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html

Netflix blog post discussing how, inspired by the success of the Chaos Monkey (a tool that randomly disables production instances to make sure they can survive this common type of failure without any customer impact), they've started creating new simians that induce various kinds of failures, or detect abnormal conditions, and test their ability to survive them; a virtual Simian Army to keep their cloud safe, secure, and highly available.

What Investors Really Want to Hear in Your Pitch

2 saves http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223438

Article discussing how investors typically focus their due diligence on the three Ps - product, people, and profit.

Industry Benchmarks - Operating and Net Margins by Sector

4 saves http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/margin.html

Industry data provided by New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Are You Buying a Job or a Profitable Business?

1 save http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-17/are-you-buying-a-job-or-a-p...

Article discussing how to evaluate a valuation on purchasing a small business, and comparing the return/income against that for a job.

Great Businesses Don't Start With a Plan

17 saves http://blogs.hbr.org/tjan/2012/05/great-businesses-dont-start-wi.html

Article by co-author of Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, due out in August from HBR Press. Describes interviews and surveys of hundreds of successful entrepreneurs around the globe to better understand what it takes to be an entrepreneur and build a really great business. One of our most striking findings was that of the entrepreneurs we surveyed who had a successful exit (that is, an IPO or sale to another firm), about 70% did NOT start with a business plan.

Loomio - A site where decisions can be discussed until agreed

3 saves http://loom.io/

Loomio is a free and open-source web application that helps groups make better decisions together.

A List Apart: Articles: Getting Clients

48 saves http://www.alistapart.com/articles/getting-clients/

An excerpt from Chapter 2 of Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro.

Our Mobile Planet

105 saves http://www.ourmobileplanet.com/en/

Questions about the mobile consumer?
Our Mobile Planet has answers.
Learn about smartphone adoption and usage across 40 countries. Create custom charts to deepen your understanding of the mobile consumer and get the data you need to guide your mobile strategy.

Google Mobile Ads blog: New research shows 6 countries are the clear leaders in ...

1 save http://googlemobileads.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/new-research-shows-6-countrie...

Blog post from Google discussing the release of their new 2012 Our Mobile Planet smartphone research for 26 countries.

Kickstarter Rescues Startups That VCs Won't Touch, But Here's What's Missing | C...

31 saves http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669698/kickstarter-rescues-startups-that-vcs-w...

Kickstarter has uncovered many untapped consumer dreams. But the model needs improvement before it ushers in a hardware renaissance, argues Frog’s Robert Fabricant.

Reinvention 101: 5 Lessons From Robert Downey, Jr.

3 saves http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223546

Robert Downey Jr's self-reinvention is a great case study for anyone who's attempting a midlife second act -- whether you're an entrepreneur starting a new business, or someone who is struggling at 40 or beyond to overcome past mistakes.

Gmvault: gmail backup

327 saves http://gmvault.org/

Open source solution for backup of your Gmail account.

Privacy Patterns

29 saves http://privacypatterns.org/

Privacy patterns are design solutions to common privacy problems — a way to translate "privacy-by-design" into practical advice for software engineering. We believe design patterns can help document common practices and standardize terminology and while we're starting with a set of patterns for location-based services, we hope to build a living, community space where all can contribute their own patterns.

research!rsc: QArt Codes

177 saves http://research.swtch.com/qart

Detailed technical article on the embedding of pictures, logos, etc in QR codes.

Mixing Fonts | Four Techniques for Combining Typefaces

272 saves http://www.typography.com/ask/recentTopic.php?rtID=92

Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ;'s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.

Supermechanical : Twine - Listen to your world, talk to the Internet

140 saves http://supermechanical.com/twine/

Want to monitor things and environments remotely without a nerd degree? Maybe you want to get a tweet when your laundry's done, an email when the basement floods, or a text message when you left the garage door open.

Twine is the simplest way to get the objects in your life texting, tweeting or emailing. Focus on your idea instead of installation or technical stuff. A durable 2.5" square provides WiFi, internal and external sensors, and two AAA batteries that last for months. A simple web app lets you give Twine human-friendly rules — no programming needed.

9 Essential Steps for a Killer Kickstarter Campaign

20 saves http://mashable.com/2012/05/13/kickstarter-tips/

We’ve read all of Kickstarter’s guidelines, FAQs and tips, and have researched testimonials from successful campaign alums to compile a set of tips that will help launch you into the Kickstarter hall of fame.

MakerBot Industries - Robots That Make Things.

1336 saves http://www.makerbot.com/

MakerBot Industries is a company founded in January 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and Zach Smith producing an open source 3D printer to democratize manufacturing. MakerBot is a machine that can make you almost anything!

Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

2205 saves http://www.thingiverse.com/

Digital designs for real, physical objects. A Universe of Things!

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