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1. Programming Bottom-Up
2. Lisp for Web-Based Applications
3. Incremental Development
4. Interactive Toplevel
5. Macros for Html
6. Embedded Languages
7. Closures Simulate Subroutines
8. Beating the Averages
9. The Secret Weapon
10. The Blub Paradox
11. Aikido for Startups
12. Notes
13. Javas Cover
14. Being Popular
15. 1 The Mechanics of Popularity
16. 2 External Factors
17. 3 Brevity
18. 4 Hackability
19. 5 Throwaway Programs
20. 6 Libraries
21. 7 Syntax
22. 8 Efficiency
23. 9 Time
24. 10 Redesign
25. 11 Lisp
26. 12 The Dream Language
27. Notes
28. Five Questions about Language Design
29. Guiding Philosophy
30. Open Problems
31. Little-Known Secrets
32. Ideas Whose Time is Returned
33. Pitfalls and Gotchas
34. The Roots of Lisp
35. The Other Road Ahead
36. The Next Thing?
37. The Win for Users
38. City of Code
39. Releases
40. Bugs
41. Support
42. Morale
43. Brooks in Reverse
44. Watching Users
45. Money
46. Customers
47. Son of Server
48. Microsoft
49. Startups but More So
50. Just Good Enough
51. Why Not?
52. Notes
53. What Made Lisp Different
54. Why Arc Isn Especially Object-Oriented
55. Taste for Makers
56. Good design is simple.
57. Good design is timeless.
58. Good design solves the right problem.
59. Good design is suggestive.
60. Good design is often slightly funny.
61. Good design is hard.
62. Good design looks easy.
63. Good design uses symmetry.
64. Good design resembles nature.
65. Good design is redesign.
66. Good design can copy.
67. Good design is often strange.
68. Good design happens in chunks.
69. Good design is often daring.
70. Notes
71. What Languages Fix
72. Succinctness is Power
73. Hypothesis
74. Metrics
75. Design
76. Comparison
77. The Taste Test
78. Restrictiveness
79. Readability
80. To What Extent?
81. Languages, not Programs
82. Revenge of the Nerds
83. Catching Up with Math
84. What Made Lisp Different
85. Where Languages Matter
86. Centripetal Forces
87. The Cost of Being Average
88. A Recipe
89. Appendix: Power
90. Notes
91. A Plan for Spam
92. _ _ _
93. _ _ _
94. _ _ _
95. _ _ _
96. _ _ _
97. Appendix: Examples of Filtering
98. Appendix: More Ideas
99. Appendix: Defining Spam
100. Notes:
101. Design and Research
102. Better Bayesian Filtering
103. Tokens
104. Performance
105. Future
106. Notes
107. Why Nerds are Unpopular
108. The Hundred-Year Language
109. Notes
110. If Lisp is So Great
111. Hackers and Painters
112. Notes
113. Filters that Fight Back
114. Notes
115. What You Can Say
116. The Conformist Test
117. Trouble
118. Heresy
119. Time and Space
120. Prigs
121. Mechanism
122. Why
123. Pensieri Stretti
124. Viso Sciolto?
125. ABQ
126. The Word "Hacker"
127. The Python Paradox
128. Great Hackers
129. Edisons
130. More than Money
131. The Final Frontier
132. Interesting
133. Nasty Little Problems
134. Clumping
135. Recognition
136. Cultivation
137. Notes
138. The Age of the Essay
139. Mods
140. No Defense
141. Trying
142. The River
143. Surprise
144. Observation
145. Disobedience
146. Notes
147. What the Bubble Got Right
148. 1. Retail VC
149. 2. The Internet
150. 3. Choices
151. 4. Youth
152. 5. Informality
153. 6. Nerds
154. 7. Options
155. 8. Startups
156. 9. California
157. 10. Productivity
158. Whats New
159. Notes
160. Bradleys Ghost
161. Made in USA
162. Notes
163. What Youll Wish Youd Known
164. Upwind
165. Ambition
166. Corruption
167. Curiosity
168. Now
169. Notes
170. How to Start a Startup
171. The Idea
172. People
173. What Customers Want
174. Raising Money
175. Not Spending It
176. Should You?
177. Notes
178. A Unified Theory of VC Suckagepad
179. Notes
180. Undergraduation
181. Hacking
182. Math
183. Everything
184. Jobs
185. Grad School
186. Notes
187. Writing, Briefly
188. Return of the Mac
189. Notes
190. Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
191. The Artix Phase
192. The Still Life Effect
193. Muck
194. Hyenas
195. A Familiar Problem
196. Copper and Tin
197. Notes
198. The Submarine
199. Symbiosis
200. Buzz
201. Online
202. Notes
203. Hiring is Obsolete
204. Market Rate
205. Product Development
206. Trend
207. Investors
208. The Open Cage
209. Risk
210. The Man is the Customer
211. Grad School
212. Experience
213. A Public Service Message
214. Notes
215. What Business Can Learn from Open Source
216. Amateurs
217. Workplaces
218. Bottom-Up
219. Startups
220. Notes
221. After the Ladder
222. Inequality and Risk
223. Investors
224. Founders
225. Growth
226. Wealth and Power
227. Notes
228. What I Did this Summer
229. Age
230. Morale
231. What Got Learned
232. Independence
233. Notes
234. Ideas for Startups
235. Questions
236. Upwind
237. Doodling
238. Problems
239. Wealth
240. Design for Exit
241. The Woz Route
242. Notes
243. The Venture Capital Squeeze
244. The Solution(s)
245. How to Fund a Startup
246. Friends and Family
247. Consulting
248. Angel Investors
249. Seed Funding Firms
250. Venture Capital Funds
251. Stage 1: Seed Round
252. Stage 2: Angel Round
253. Step 3: Series A Round
254. Deals Fall Through
255. Notes
256. Web 2.0
257. Origins
258. 1. Ajax
259. 2. Democracy
260. 3. Don Maltreat Users
261. The Common Thread
262. Notes
263. How to Make Wealth
264. The Proposition
265. Millions, not Billions
266. Money Is Not Wealth
267. The Pie Fallacy
268. Craftsmen
269. What a Job Is
270. Working Harder
271. Measurement and Leverage
272. Smallness = Measurement
273. Technology = Leverage
274. The Catch(es)
275. Get Users
276. Wealth and Power
277. Notes
278. Good and Bad Procrastination
279. How to Do What You Love
280. Jobs
281. Bounds
282. Sirens
283. Discipline
284. Two Routes
285. Notes
286. Are Software Patents Evil?
287. Notes
288. The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
289. 1. Release Early.
290. 2. Keep Pumping Out Features.
291. 3. Make Users Happy.
292. 4. Fear the Right Things.
293. 5. Commitment Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
294. 6. There Is Always Room.
295. 7. Don Get Your Hopes Up.
296. Speed, not Money
297. Notes
298. How to Be Silicon Valley
299. Two Types
300. Not Bureaucrats
301. Not Buildings
302. Universities
303. Personality
304. Nerds
305. Youth
306. Time
307. Competing
308. Notes
309. Why Startups Condense in America
310. 1. The US Allows Immigration.
311. 2. The US Is a Rich Country.
312. 3. The US Is Not (Yet) a Police State.
313. 4. American Universities Are Better.
314. 5. You Can Fire People in America.
315. 6. In America Work Is Less Identified with Employment.
316. 7. America Is Not Too Fussy.
317. 8. America Has a Large Domestic Market.
318. 9. America Has Venture Funding.
319. 10. America Has Dynamic Typing for Careers.
320. Attitudes
321. How To Do Better
322. Capital Gains
323. Immigration
324. A Good Vector
325. Notes
326. The Power of the Marginal
327. Outsiders
328. Insiders
329. Tests
330. Anti-Tests
331. Risk
332. Delegation
333. Focus
334. Less
335. Responsibility
336. Audience
337. Hacking
338. Inappropriate
339. Notes
340. The Island Test
341. Copy What You Like
342. How to Present to Investors
343. 1. Explain what you e doing.
344. 2. Get rapidly to demo.
345. 3. Better a narrow description than a vague one.
346. 4. Don talk and drive.
347. 5. Don talk about secondary matters at length.
348. 6. Don get too deeply into business models.
349. 7. Talk slowly and clearly at the audience.
350. 8. Have one person talk.
351. 9. Seem confident.
352. 10. Don try to seem more than you are.
353. 11. Don put too many words on slides.
354. 12. Specific numbers are good.
355. 13. Tell stories about users.
356. A Students Guide to Startups
357. Plus
358. Minus
359. Now
360. Notes
361. The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
362. 1. Single Founder
363. 2. Bad Location
364. 3. Marginal Niche
365. 4. Derivative Idea
366. 5. Obstinacy
367. 6. Hiring Bad Programmers
368. 7. Choosing the Wrong Platform
369. 8. Slowness in Launching
370. 9. Launching Too Early
371. 10. Having No Specific User in Mind
372. 11. Raising Too Little Money
373. 12. Spending Too Much
374. 13. Raising Too Much Money
375. 14. Poor Investor Management
376. 15. Sacrificing Users to (Supposed) Profit
377. 16. Not Wanting to Get Your Hands Dirty
378. 17. Fights Between Founders
379. 18. A Half-Hearted Effort
380. Notes
381. Mind the Gap
382. The Daddy Model of Wealth
383. Stealing It
384. The Lever of Technology
385. Alternative to an Axiom
386. Notes
387. How Art Can Be Good
388. Audience
389. Error
390. Making It
391. Notes
392. Learning from Founders
393. Is It Worth Being Wise?
394. Curve
395. Split
396. New
397. Limits
398. Recipes
399. Different
400. Notes
401. Why to Not Not Start a Startup
402. 1. Too young
403. 2. Too inexperienced
404. 3. Not determined enough
405. 4. Not smart enough
406. 5. Know nothing about business
407. 6. No cofounder
408. 7. No idea
409. 8. No room for more startups
410. 9. Family to support
411. 10. Independently wealthy
412. 11. Not ready for commitment
413. 12. Need for structure
414. 13. Fear of uncertainty
415. 14. Don realize what you e avoiding
416. 15. Parents want you to be a doctor
417. 16. A job is the default
418. Notes
419. Microsoft is Dead
420. Notes
421. Two Kinds of Judgement
422. The Hackers Guide to Investors
423. 1. The investors are what make a startup hub.
424. 2. Angel investors are the most critical.
425. 3. Angels don like publicity.
426. 4. Most investors, especially VCs, are not like founders.
427. 5. Most investors are momentum investors.
428. 6. Most investors are looking for big hits.
429. 7. VCs want to invest large amounts.
430. 8. Valuations are fiction.
431. 9. Investors look for founders like the current stars.
432. 10. The contribution of investors tends to be underestimated.
433. 11. VCs are afraid of looking bad.
434. 12. Being turned down by investors doesn mean much.
435. 13. Investors are emotional.
436. 14. The negotiation never stops till the closing.
437. 15. Investors like to co-invest.
438. 16. Investors collude.
439. 17. Large-scale investors care about their portfolio, not any individual company.
440. 18. Investors have different risk profiles from founders.
441. 19. Investors vary greatly.
442. 20. Investors don realize how much it costs to raise money from them.
443. 21. Investors don like to say no.
444. 22. You need investors.
445. 23. Investors like it when you don need them.
446. Notes
447. An Alternative Theory of Unions
448. The Equity Equation
449. Notes
450. Stuff
451. Holding a Program in Ones Head
452. How Not to Die
453. News from the Front
454. Notes
455. How to Do Philosophy
456. Words
457. History
458. Theoretical Knowledge
459. The Singularity
460. A Proposal
461. Notes
462. The Future of Web Startups
463. 1. Lots of Startups
464. 2. Standardization
465. 3. New Attitude to Acquisition
466. 4. Riskier Strategies are Possible
467. 5. Younger, Nerdier Founders
468. 6. Startup Hubs Will Persist
469. 7. Better Judgement Needed
470. 8. College Will Change
471. 9. Lots of Competitors
472. 10. Faster Advances
473. A Series of Tubes
474. Why to Move to a Startup Hub
475. Notes
476. Six Principles for Making New Things
477. Trolls
478. Notes
479. A New Venture Animal
480. You Weren Meant to Have a Boss
481. Trees
482. Corn Syrup
483. Programmers
484. Consequences
485. Notes