This book by Jessica Livingston is a collection of interviews with the founders of various technology companies during their startup days. Each chapter is an interview with a founder. There’s a blurb at the beginning of each chapter detailing the company. This is probably one of my favorite startup books of all time. The insight [...]

I think this book was recommended reading on a Y Combinator blog post. Described as a marketing book for engineers, I quickly jumped on this one on Amazon. This book aims to help you take your product from the startup phase across the chasm into the consumer phase. The misconception that entrepreneurs must realize is [...]

I am not sure what it is about entrepreneurs and startup folks. They seem to be a different breed altogether in the way that high level martial artists are a different breed from regular people. They seem to be able to have a stick-to-it-ness and maintain a high energy level to always overcome whatever obstacles [...]

I found this on slashdot - an article on Gamasutra about 4 grad students who created over 50 casual games in 1 semester. I wrote about my thoughts on casual games in a previous post. As a part of the Experimental Gameplay Project at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center, a team of 4 grad students [...]

Just heard about this from TechCocktail. IllinoisVentures is starting a program called iVentures10 which will fund tech startups if you are a college student. I think is a great opportunity for kids out here in the Midwest. I wish I had an opportunity to take advantage of something like this back when I was in [...]