Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. You can find some of the monthly ones in the following:

Without further lead in, here are the top 120 posts for 2010:

  1. Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems- Nathan Hurst, March 15, 2010
  2. If I Launched a Startup- The Startup Lawyer, March 17, 2010
  3. Why Free Plans Don't Work- Software By Rob, August 18, 2010
  4. Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple.- 500 Hats, February 1, 2010
  5. When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?- SoCal CTO, January 13, 2010
  6. 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches- A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks, July 11, 2010
  7. 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere- Life Beyond Code, March 29, 2010
  8. No Accounting For Startups- Steve Blank, February 22, 2010
  9. Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - #StartupTriplets- OnStartups, January 8, 2010
  10. How to Minimize Politics in Your Company- Ben's Blog, August 24, 2010
  11. New York Times 50 Most Challenging Words (defined and used)- Currently Obsessed, June 15, 2010
  12. Startup CTO or Developer- SoCal CTO, January 26, 2010
  13. 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup- Instigator Blog, June 18, 2010
  14. Quantum of Deployment- Code as Craft, May 20, 2010
  15. 10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss- A VC : Venture Capital and Technology, June 18, 2010
  16. MoneyBall for Startups: Invest BEFORE Product/Market Fit, Double-Down AFTER.- 500 Hats, July 30, 2010
  17. Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009- Business of Software Blog, May 4, 2010
  18. Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup – Part 1- Ash Maurya, February 16, 2010
  19. How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets- Gabriel Weinberg, June 28, 2010
  20. Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started- OnStartups, September 27, 2010
  21. Taking the Mystery out of Scaling a Company- Ben's Blog, August 2, 2010
  22. Your Market is Smaller Than You Think- Software By Rob, September 30, 2010
  23. Web Services as Governments - Union Square Ventures: A New York.- Union Square Ventures, June 10, 2010
  24. No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models- Steve Blank, April 8, 2010
  25. Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product- Seth Levine's VC Adventure, August 12, 2010
  26. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events- Startup Lessons Learned, January 18, 2010
  27. Don Norman at Business of Software 2009- Business of Software Blog, June 21, 2010
  28. My experiments in lean pricing- Venture Hacks, February 16, 2010
  29. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas- Tony Wright dot com, May 27, 2010
  30. Cash Connections: Who Invested In Social Media [infographic]- OnStartups, November 22, 2010
  31. How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs- Ben's Blog, May 30, 2010
  32. The Twitter Platform's Inflection Point- A VC : Venture Capital and Technology, April 7, 2010
  33. Startup Development- SoCal CTO, April 23, 2010
  34. If I Launched a Startup- The Startup Lawyer, March 17, 2010
  35. What’s A Startup? First Principles.- Steve Blank, January 25, 2010
  36. 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service- ReadWriteStart, September 21, 2010
  37. Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own.- 500 Hats, January 10, 2010
  38. Developing new startup ideas- Chris Dixon, March 14, 2010
  39. Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images- Code as Craft, July 9, 2010
  40. jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount- The Product Guy, March 23, 2010
  41. How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?- Startup Company Lawyer, March 14, 2010
  42. Four Minutes In The Morning- Feld Thoughts, September 1, 2010
  43. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011- crowdSPRING Blog, December 8, 2010
  44. How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup- Vinicius Vacanti, August 3, 2010
  45. Evidence that Facebook Works as Marketing Tool- The Entrepreneurial Mind, March 2, 2010
  46. 10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog- Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories, July 21, 2010
  47. HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback- Niall Kennedy's Weblog, February 8, 2010
  48. Your Product Needs a Soul- ArcticStartup, February 12, 2010
  49. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem- This is going to be BIG., August 20, 2010
  50. How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere)- FairSoftware's Blog, November 9, 2010
  51. Figuring Out Your Way to Startup Success- Startup Marketing Blog, June 8, 2010
  52. The 30 Steps to Mastery- Ben Casnocha: The Blog, November 29, 2010
  53. Four Square Fatigue and the Evolution of Privacy- VentureBlog, February 5, 2010
  54. Ten rules for better founding teams- High Contrast, March 22, 2010
  55. 8 Simple Ways You Can Earn a Passive Income- Feint, March 14, 2010
  56. Stop hitting your Invisible Wall.- 47 Hats, March 9, 2010
  57. Seed funding best practices- StartupCFO, February 11, 2010
  58. PowerPoint Is Evil, Redux- David Silverman, April 28, 2010
  59. I'm Tired of Creating Your Content- Babbling VC, November 12, 2010
  60. The Scene Will Kill You- Brad Hargreaves, November 7, 2010
  61. The Magic Word in Customer Development Emails- Kevin Dewalt, January 12, 2010
  62. Updated Customer Development Image- Market by Numbers, January 13, 2010
  63. LIFT10: Workshop on Hacking Venture Capital- Fred Destin, May 7, 2010
  64. Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn't Get About Silicon Valley- Founders at Work - Blog, October 27, 2010
  65. What Does a CEO Do, Anyway?- OnlyOnce, September 6, 2010
  66. Ten Slides Make a Killer Investor Presentation- Startup Professionals Musings, May 19, 2010
  67. We’re Living In The Dark Ages Of Social Media- rosskimbarovsky.com, August 9, 2010
  68. How to Enchant Your Customer- How to Change the World, November 23, 2010
  69. Don’t Let Your Ignorance Stop You- Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak, February 17, 2010
  70. Gartners IT Debt Scare- deal architect, September 26, 2010
  71. Change is coming to online shopping- Redeye VC, March 2, 2010
  72. Consumer RSS: 1999-2010- Venture Chronicles, September 11, 2010
  73. Bessemer's Top 10 Laws of eCommerce: Introduction- Adventurista, September 7, 2010
  74. You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers- Austin Startup, July 12, 2010
  75. Eight Suggestions For Great Brainstorming/Ideation- Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook, July 23, 2010
  76. 8 Really Cool Web-Based Tools for Bloggers- Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog, June 1, 2010
  77. Drunks, Wall, Entrepreneurs and Jobs- Growthology, April 9, 2010
  78. Top Startup Mistake 8: Misunderstanding Equity- Up and Running, February 5, 2010
  79. When to ramp sales- BeyondVC, January 14, 2010
  80. Anatomy of a Term Sheet: Index- VC Ready Blog, August 24, 2010
  81. 4 Steps to a successful Performance Management implementation- Active Garage, May 24, 2010
  82. Who Owns the IP Rights to Custom Software?- IP Law for Startups, June 23, 2010
  83. Groupon’s Growth Made Possible by Facebook- Leveraging Ideas, May 5, 2010
  84. Automating Themed Logo Changes by Season- TylerCruz.com: An Internet Entrepreneur's Journey, October 18, 2010
  85. Selling a Business - A Guide for Investors and Entrepreneurs- Angel Blog, February 28, 2010
  86. Minimum Viable Product in practice- Guy Nirpaz, October 17, 2010
  87. Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?- Both Sides of the Table, July 22, 2010
  88. An updated Digital Trends presentation- Jeff Hilimire, June 2, 2010
  89. I do what I hate- Jessica Mah, January 7, 2010
  90. Startup Equity Allocation- charliecrystle.com, January 11, 2010
  91. When good investment decisions end up backing more women CEOs: Conversation with Cameron Lester at Azure Capital.- Grade A Entrepreneurs, September 5, 2010
  92. Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia- Start Up Blog, November 3, 2010
  93. Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs- IDDICTIVE.COM, July 14, 2010
  94. Is crowdfunding an option for my business?- Growthink blogs, October 29, 2010
  95. Have a Look Inside an Angel’s Brain- Ask the Angels, December 1, 2010
  96. Mark Suster Lays It Down At Columbia- Get Venture: Venture Made Transparent, November 13, 2010
  97. SMALL BUSINESS IDEAS: GROW SLOW- The Freestyle Entrepreneur, May 1, 2010
  98. The Five Domains of High Performance- Seeing Both Sides, January 18, 2010
  99. How to Do a Business Model – Part 1- NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation Blog, July 10, 2010
  100. A reason why people quit - lack of network- Sophia Perl of Wisdom, September 20, 2010
  101. From Personas to Functional Specifications- Startup Musings, January 25, 2010
  102. Small Business Jobs Act Includes Short-Term Full Exclusion from Gross Income of Gain from QSBS- Recent Buzzes - VC Experts, Inc., November 23, 2010
  103. Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective- Robert Ochtel, June 7, 2010
  104. Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding- teenentrepreneurblog.com, October 28, 2010
  105. Build Your Own Silicon Valley? | Vivek Wadwha- Campus Entrepreneurship, November 19, 2010
  106. Best Practices for Introduction Emails- Israel Venture Capital 2.0, March 25, 2010
  107. Weekend Reading- The Mogul Mom, October 1, 2010
  108. Make informal advisors part of the team.- Berkonomics, November 29, 2010
  109. Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup- Startup Houston, November 27, 2010
  110. When to step on the gas and go for it?- Will Price, October 11, 2010
  111. Georgians Should Vote No- Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby, October 28, 2010
  112. Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup- Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010
  113. Purpose Driven Life- Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur, July 26, 2010
  114. Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions? Then (Google) & Now (Apple)- Genuine VC, January 7, 2010
  115. Marketing Your Startup with Neil Patel- More Caffeine, Please, March 30, 2010
  116. The Concept of Co-working- The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp, April 21, 2010
  117. A Cool Communication Concept- Entrepreneur Success Blog, January 26, 2010
  118. Weighing In On The Debate Over Standardized Financing Documents- VC Deal Lawyer, October 11, 2010
  119. Twilio ideas brainstorm: SMS, Voice, API- Steve Poland, February 10, 2010
  120. Part 1: Guide to Creating Products Linked to Social Entrepreneurship- College Mogul, January 30, 2010

Did I miss any? If you think so, please let me know what they are.

3 comments:

Ryan Roberts said...

Hey thanks for the mention! Hopefully I can make the 2011 list!

Jeff Hilimire said...

Dude, thanks for the mention. Great list!

Elaine Chen said...

Thanks for the mention!