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recent bookmarks from asterisk2aE1084: David Sacks on his foolproof operating philosophy: “The Cadence” - YouTube2022-03-10T21:56:41+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdCmk-42ULQ
asterisk2ascaling operations Start-up advice Managementhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:5cb01f832223/The tech industry has cut a Google’s worth of jobs in the past 12 months2016-04-21T23:00:40+00:00
http://recode.net/2016/04/19/the-tech-industry-has-cut-a-googles-worth-of-jobs-in-the-past-12-months/
asterisk2aSilicon Valley Unicorn Instagram WhatsApp productivity Software Eats The World Is Eating Revolution Development Slack Facebook profit maximisation maximization winner take all IBM Intel Microsoft Salesforce antitrust overhead cost center AWS cloudcomputing Cloudstorage Netflix Amazon Azure Google Cloud Inc. Alphabet Oracle Mobile Creative scalability scaling scale Snapchat Twitter Apple automation robotics AI artificial intelligence 3D printing autonomous cars self-driving labour market job skill gap skills homescreenhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:d359538454a7/Five years, building a culture, and handing it off. - Laughing Meme2015-09-06T16:01:30+00:00
http://laughingmeme.org/2015/08/31/five-years-building-a-culture-and-handing-it-off/
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice Facebook linkedin Google Inc. Alphabet scaling corporate culture values Failure team management people business innovator innovation lefty counter disruption bottom up imagination dream disrupting markets Silicon Valley ecosystem CEO Leadership of You Open Organization transparency communication community Source accountability equality ProAm Software Development Programming programmers continual education learning accelerated curve Netflix Etsyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:bc5904f58bc7/Wellness in the workplace: how health initiatives can boost staff productivity | Guardian Small Business Network | The Guardian2015-09-03T05:12:30+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2015/aug/28/wellness-workplace-health-initiatives-boost-staff-productivity
asterisk2aproductivity well being chronic stress 4-day work week environment workplace happiness index sick day population health care budget spending western lifestyle diet Standard American pattern sedentary Fitness Start-Up lesson advice mental HR human resources recruiting recruitment people management team scaling crisis long-term view thinking NHS subsidies subsidizing financial incentive insurance premium UKhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c63c39feca7e/#TOA15: "Enabling Rapid Growth, a CFO’s Perspective" with Lee Kirkpatrick (Twilio) - YouTube2015-08-30T14:27:52+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXUq7xJw8_w
asterisk2aStart-Up advice lesson CFO CEO Founders co-founders scaling bootstraped bootstrapping bootstrapped Frugal organizational behavior structure corporate values culturehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:30efd4d51286/Squarespace and the love of optimizing constraints - Small Empires - YouTube2015-08-30T01:02:26+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPj5SOUrn8&feature=youtu.be&t=3m5s
asterisk2aSingle Founder Founders Co-Founder co-founders Start-Up lesson scale scaling HR hiring human resources recruiting recruitmenthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f39b29e7db24/What Uber and Airbnb Are Up Against in China - YouTube2015-08-28T19:43:34+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dij0J8tdkuc
asterisk2aUber China linkedin AirBnB SoftBank Asia expansion global trade playbook scale scalinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:81d6d07a37cb/Pando: A good problem to have: Andy Dunn and Phil Libin talk about the difficult decision to fire themselves2015-08-28T19:19:17+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/08/27/good-problem-have-andy-dunn-and-phil-libin-talk-about-difficult-decision-fire-themselves/
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice MVP Product/Market Fit Minimal Viable Product scaling Problem Solving accelerated learning Failurehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8e8c45bcb784/Death of Popular Facebook Game FarmVille creator Zynga loses $400million Dollars in market cap. - YouTube2015-08-21T15:11:49+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mROkeSbX-_I
asterisk2aZynga marcpincus Mark Pincus Leadership vision mission impact scaling Start-Up lesson advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:9c0f35f9b221/Access To Startup Skills Threatened By U.K. Visa Review | TechCrunch2015-08-10T22:23:09+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/10/access-to-startup-skills-threatened-by-u-k-visa-review/
asterisk2askill-biased technological change UK London Start-up Scene ecosystem skills gap job market labour Supply and Demand borderless flat world HR human resources hiring lesson advice scaling work visa immigration productivity output STEM industrial policy David Cameron Tories Conservative Party general election 2015 campaign promises UKIP sentiment populism propaganda education European Union talent pool Europe war for Makers Career Politicians No Representation competitive competitiveness advantage competition execution digital economyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f102c09a73f9/Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game' - BBC News2015-08-03T21:00:18+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33117769
asterisk2aAtari entrepreneur Start-Up lesson advice people management Leadership passion mission vision scale scaling hiring Failure intrinsic motivation identity identification Tribehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3038f5786435/Question: How Do You Get Enough Experience to Apply for Programming Jobs? - YouTube2015-07-23T19:10:19+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3kQyqMFpQ
asterisk2aHR human resources Start-Up lesson advice scaling scale career ladder programmers Programming Software Development webdevelopment Developer developers Quereinsteiger Failurehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:d1ec726aa017/Red Hat Used by NSA Spies, SELinux Possibly Bypassed2015-07-21T23:33:06+00:00
http://ostatic.com/blog/red-hat-used-by-nsa-spies-selinux-possibly-bypassed
asterisk2aNSA surveillance state military–industrial complex Surveillance-Industrial Intelligence Agency scaling scale FOSS Wall Street profit maximisation shareholder value ethical machine moral beliefs ethics corporate governance valueshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:df3eb47a2fcf/bethanye Blount Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "Build a Better Unicorn..." - YouTube2015-07-14T16:38:40+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEztet4IiU
asterisk2a> lot has already been blogged about how hiring for STEM is somewhat broken - http://techcrunch.com/search/hiring#stq=hiring&stp=1 // because of existing stakeholder look and talk the same and have the same education background. living in their own created bubble. prejudice against everything that is not them. --- thats what I read into the satus quo description. // &! &! OSCON 2013: Laura Weidman Powers, "Diversity in the Innovation Economy" - youtu.be/7HWKXUNrL8g &! youtu.be/oAzW1EmpxLA]]>Software Development HR human resources Leadership management people Start-Up lesson advice scaling economies of scale hiring process pattern matching recognition gender bias selection confirmation Privileged privilege male Silicon Valley diversity Women in Tech STEM gender-based discrimination politics policing inequality straight white ethnic minority black asshole culture brogrammer corporate jock Campushttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:10d612790b2f/Reddit Alternatives: Where Will Ellen Pao’s Detractors File Out?2015-07-03T18:58:54+00:00
http://www.inquisitr.com/2222824/reddit-alternatives-where-will-ellen-paos-detractors-file-out/
asterisk2aReddit community management Leadership business model communication user generated content YouTube Twitter Pinterest Start-Up lesson advice scaling scale Ellen Pao Alexis Ohanianhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a9bb0c64ad26/Reddit Moderators Are Locking Up The Site’s Most Popular Pages In Protest | TechCrunch2015-07-03T18:05:18+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/02/reddit-is-blowing-up/#.qy0vrq:HbpF
asterisk2aReddit management branded content native advertising community HR human resources business model Alexis Ohanian Ellen Pao Leadership communication user generated YouTube Twitter Pinterest Start-Up lesson advice scaling scalehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a711e9a07b8c/Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart2015-07-03T14:20:13+00:00
http://gizmodo.com/reddit-is-tearing-itself-apart-1715545184
asterisk2aReddit community management HR human resources operations Alexis Ohanian Ellen Pao Start-Up lesson advice Leadership team product people business project model communication user generated content YouTube Twitter Pinterest scaling scalehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6289d198a500/NOVA | The Great Math Mystery - PBS - YouTube2015-06-25T16:20:50+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zoxRSDjT9A
asterisk2aScience mathematics Fibonacci Pi STEM Universe Albert Einstein Pythagoras Nature Golden Ratio Programming scaling scale engineer engineering programmers NASAhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f0a833e27cb9/Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel: What Is His Endgame? - YouTube2015-05-27T20:09:00+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYgps-hnHik
asterisk2aSnapchat Evan Spiegel attention span distraction user behaviour mobile homescreen phone first Entertainment WhatsApp Instagram Newsfeed Facebook Pinterest engagement experience Silicon Valley IPO scale scalinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:e8652de5354d/Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh: Adopt Holacracy Or Leave | Fast Company | Business Innovation2015-05-18T22:48:14+00:00
http://www.fastcompany.com/3044417/zappos-ceo-tony-hsieh-adopt-holacracy-or-leave
asterisk2aTony Hsieh Zappos scaling scale economies of agglomeration microeconomies microeconomics microeconomic policy management team people HR human resources product business Autonomy Mastery Purpose happiness index Holacracy corporate culture values Leadership agility speed time to response scrum Agile Start-Up lesson advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:7ff5f50abc01/Cloud HR Startup Zenefits Is Looking To Raise A Giant New Round Of Funding | TechCrunch2015-04-22T17:44:57+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/zenefits-400-million/#.qy0vrq:TJeG
asterisk2a COO/Accounting/HR // youtu.be/7KmjzfK3f38 min 11 Start-up struggle, figuring it out along the way but having a sense // (2015) youtu.be/8DwlS_6jLAo "Hyperscaling Inside Sales" &! YC W2013 application video - youtu.be/-S83fysRwn4]]>valuation Silicon Valley Zenefits HR Unicorn growth round enterprise 2.0 SAAS SPV business model customer acquisition user churn marketing Box DropBox Salesforce ZenDesk experience Software Is Eating The World operations freemium scaling LTV scale human resources hiring Core Product Value Proposition saleshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:770d5b737b5f/Startup UCLA: Fireside Chat with Jeff Jordan, Andreessen Horowitz - YouTube2015-04-19T18:45:41+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlDI_VB7I08
asterisk2a>> 'need to be an effective seller, not a sales person per se' to get capital, to get best employees, customers,]]>a16z Venture Capital scaling value creation Proposition added intangible differentiate differentiation Ben Horowitz Marc Andreessen ecosystem Silicon Valley war for talent war-for-talent Top London Start-up Scene Berlin Manchester Amsterdam lesson advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3cbf7092ae92/Confirmed: Twitter Buys TenXer For Under $50M To Improve Its Tools For Engineers | TechCrunch2015-04-02T22:48:12+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/02/confirmed-twitter-buys-tenxer-for-under-50m-to-improve-its-tools-for-engineers/?ncid=rss
asterisk2aquantified self Programming programmers Start-Up advice lesson team management scaling people product GitHubhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:55374207ef12/Aaron Levie | Box | USC 2014 Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year - YouTube2015-03-14T04:12:59+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzSMgv0YeWg
asterisk2aBox Aaron Levie scaling management people product project Leadership CEO organisational behaviour organizational behavior HR human resources learning curve growth mindset execution decision making team business Start-Up lesson advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:1db474a146e5/Reinventing Organizations: Frederic Laloux: 9782960133509: Amazon.com: Books2015-03-14T03:46:36+00:00
http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Laloux/dp/2960133501
asterisk2aBuffer Start-Up lesson advice eStar shareship people management team product project business book agile scrum Programming STEM Mobile Creative Creatives destruction Future of Work Office Politics Vision Mission scaling Spotify HR human resourceshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0f8c388f5811/Sure Stripe has more cash, but does it have a path to exit? | PandoDaily2014-12-04T16:35:10+00:00
http://pando.com/2014/12/02/sure-stripe-has-more-cash-but-does-it-have-a-path-to-exit/
asterisk2aVenture Capital Stripe Apple Pay PayPal Google Wallet Bitcoin Amazon Alibaba Rakuten Silicon Valley growth round exitstrategy exit strategy IPO M&A business model margin AliPay Braintree mobile first homescreen Platform network effect economies of scale scaling Venmo valuation ycombinator Unicorn Square Wall Street payments online creditcard Visa Mastercard micropayments Start-Up lesson advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:df09c5735477/NASA: We're sending humans to Mars | Hacker News2014-12-03T15:29:25+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8688002
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice corporate culture personal values meritocratic meritocracy decision making economies of scale scaling lobby marketplace efficiencies plurality inefficiencies monopoly NHS oligopoly oligopol governance crony capitalism creative destructionhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b98df68885fe/Immigration is about talent, not costs | AeroFS2014-12-03T15:08:29+00:00
https://www.aerofs.com/blog/immigration-is-about-talent-not-costs/
asterisk2aH-1B startupvisa USA immigration immigrants Fachkräftemangel Silicon Valley war for talent Mobile Creative Creatives flat world globalization globalisation growth round ecosystem scaling Start-Up lesson advice cost of living Berlin Scenehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:5221e385f0b4/This is how Google kills your app — Medium2014-10-27T10:31:19+00:00
https://medium.com/@joshliptzin/this-is-how-google-kills-your-app-c1abad30eb25
asterisk2aTOS Platform business model plan Start-Up lesson advice barriers to entry uncertainty Twitter Google Facebook Amazon scale scalinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:d13efb057ba6/Report: You can startup anywhere, but getting big happens more often in just a few markets | PandoDaily2014-09-28T21:34:33+00:00
http://pando.com/2014/09/26/report-you-can-startup-anywhere-but-getting-big-happens-more-often-in-just-a-few-markets/
asterisk2aSilicon Valley economies of agglomeration scale San Francisco Berlin Start-Up Scene London scaling lesson advice Venture Capital knowledge worker domain economy labour market economics ecosystem economic historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:5b750e5125c4/At Alibaba, the Founder Is Squarely in Charge - NYTimes.com2014-09-07T16:50:45+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/business/international/at-alibaba-the-founder-is-squarely-in-charge.html
asterisk2aAlibaba China e-commerce ecommerce commodity business commoditization Jack Ma Amazon scale scaling IPO Taobao AliPay Jerry Yang Yahoo! SoftBank transparency accountability ownership structurehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:7a4f3b7ed6dc/Silicon Valley has evolved -- it’s not about startups anymore | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Armando Biondi, AdEspresso2014-08-16T03:48:09+00:00
http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/14/silicon-valley-has-evolved-its-not-about-startups-anymore/
asterisk2aSilicon Valley Start-Up advice lesson San Francisco war for talent barriers to entry scaling scale economies of agglomeration Berlin Scene Europe Lean Mountain View Palo Alto Venture Capital Networkinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:737d43d36d88/Founder School with McKinsey - YouTube2014-06-28T18:11:55+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QSmdIPTOIo
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice business math management shareholder value stakeholder valuation scale scaling growth hacker economics model revenues revenue Silicon Valley long-term thinking short-term customer acquisition retention monetization monetize monetisation plan stifling execution Vision product Product/Market Fit Design multi-product company patent trolls innovation stealth trollhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8c2599454873/Founder School with Di-Ann Eisnor: How to Build a Billion-Dollar Business: Lessons from Waze - YouTube2014-06-28T16:57:56+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DpvuRTkU1A
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice scale scaling execution content context growth hacker Gary Vaynerchuk gamification Waze Di-Ann Eisnor leadership vision adoption community distraction learning to say no Value Proposition Product Design management Product/Market Fit consumer MVP Minimal Viable frictionless friction viral brand brands branding competitive advantage comparative comparative-advantagehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:bd2b4ccbb1d3/BBC News - 'No wage rises' until jobless rate falls to 5% says MPC member2014-06-19T18:25:18+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27901454
asterisk2a> London Finance Centre Canary Wharf drove up productivity in the run up to the 2008 GFC :: UK workforce as a whole, lacking skills for the future, thus the productivity gap; Mobile Creative, Mobile Creatives, skill-biased technological change, knowledge worker, White-collar Worker, Blue-collar Worker. Year of Code is too late and a drop/tea-cup in the ocean. College needs to offer Computer Science Degrees (Technichal College), not just University. College's offers courses as "Beauty Technicians." Services Industry that does NOT scale. A locals hairdressers service can not be exported, sold and consumed in other countries. Period.]]>spare capacity output gap UK productivity recovery 2014 BOE economic history unknown unknowns complexity unemployment structural economy monetary policy fiscal austerity Impediments faultlines imbalance Mobile Creative Creatives skill-biased technological change knowledge worker White-collar Blue-collar workforce Year of Code 21stcentury Why Software Is Eating the World education Higher formal business bubble un-college College scaling scale microeconomics macroeconomic microeconomic macroeconomics macroprudential microprudential regulation Public interest retraining STEM Career Politicians short-term thinking long-term accountability Politics transparency democracy Democratic Process free press speech pluralistic society plurality pluralism freedom debate discoursehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8b38daac9f04/Travis Kalanick of Uber - TWiST #180 - YouTube2014-06-15T13:59:38+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=550X5OZVk7Y
asterisk2a> multi-product company - for different budgets. Operations, Scaling - one problem that needed solving, a Playbook for expanding from one city to the next. Changing how u live, over months. not decades, today's age.]]>Uber Travis Kalanick Start-Up lesson advice entrepreneurship entrepreneurial entrepreneur status symbol system design Product systems brand Personal brands branding on demand Supply and ondemand lifestyle magic technology STEM reputation Silicon Valley multi-product company travel traveling transportation public Platform western instant gratification frictionless friction accelerated life marketplace efficiencies plurality inefficiencies business model mobile first urbanisation urban planning Operations scaling algorithm algorithms algo dynamic pricing mathematics complexity marketing Viral Airbnb Utility utilities 21stcenturyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:535ca2dd68f6/Startups: Wagniskapital - Deutschland scheut das Risiko - SPIEGEL ONLINE2014-05-10T20:44:41+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/startups-wagniskapital-deutschland-scheut-das-risiko-a-968637.html
asterisk2aGermany Silicon Valley Berlin Start-Up Scene risk taking aiming big Start-Ups FNAC Google Facebook Twitter Airbnb aversion Marc Andreessen Ben Horowitz Venture Capital VC entrepreneurship entrepreneur scaling corporate culture disrupting markets disruption skill-biased technological change skill skills workforce Book regulators regulation Innovation SAAS SAP SME SMB competitive advantage competitiveness comparative globalisation globalization Europe Structural Impediments unemployment imbalance Mobile Creative Creatives history technology Charles Hugh Smith destruction value creation manufacturing engineering engineer Amazon Salesforce riskaversion risk-taking public policy Career Politicians accountability transparency Politics Female Founders Women in Tech progressivehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:ec71cc3c6b92/The Facebook Effect with Mark Zuckerberg - YouTube2014-04-14T17:00:12+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TuFkupUn7k
asterisk2aMark Zuckerberg Facebook growing pains up Start-Up vision long-term thinking short-term entrepreneurship entrepreneurial CEO people management HR human resources Privacy internet culture scalinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8ab4c8687d58/Twitter / OpenSource2010-03-02T04:22:45+00:00
http://twitter.com/about/opensource
asterisk2aprogramming ruby hadoop tools opensource scaling twitterhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:385eee3e7c9c/SecondTeacher - How Homework Just Got Easy!: Building a Scalable Website2009-11-08T20:46:48+00:00
http://blog.secondteacher.com/2009/09/building-scalable-website.html
asterisk2ascalability scaling awshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6db86d1ba059/distributed systems primer :: snax2009-10-25T23:47:31+00:00
http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/05/04/distributed-systems-primer/
asterisk2adistributed papers scalability scaling cloud algorithms programming architecture buildinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0e6f552bca48/High Performance Web Sites2009-10-11T21:59:54+00:00
http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php
asterisk2ascalability scaling Performance optimization webdesign development webdev programminghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:55e53b17ff86/High Scalability - High Scalability2009-10-09T01:38:55+00:00
http://highscalability.com/
asterisk2ascalability architecture Performance scaling development programming optimization web serverhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:04d44f0d7f74/