Awesome Articles

A collection of the best and most awesome startup articles I’ve come across to date.

 

Technology today:

Interesting article charting the success of Candy Crush Saga:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25334716

Pando Daily – “Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile”:

http://pando.com/2012/04/27/web-2-0-is-over-all-hail-the-age-of-mobile/

Entrepreneur – “Secrets of the world’s most successful apps”:

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230160

Business advice and entrepreneurial stories:

Tim O’Reilly – “How I failed”:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/09/how-i-failed.html

Business Insider – “Billionaire Reid Hoffman Reveals LinkedIn’s 2004 Pitch Deck Along With Invaluable Startup Advice”:

http://www.businessinsider.com/reid-hoffman-startup-advice-and-linkedin-series-b-pitch-deck-2013-10

Jamie Dunn – “What have you really got to lose?”:

http://www.shell-livewire.org/blog/what-have-you-really-got-to-lose/

Entrepreneur – “9 Entrepreneurs reveal how they validated their business idea”:

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233408

Sergio Schuler – “What I learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300 users and zero revenue”:

http://www.sergioschuler.com/startup-lessons-learned-from-my-failed-startup/

Bethnal Green Ventures – “What Startups wish they’d known…”:

http://bethnalgreenventures.com/2014/06/13/what-startups-wish-theyd-known/

Nick Morris’ NEF Blog on “You don’t know what you don’t know”:

http://newentrepreneursfoundation.com/dont-know-dont-know/

 

Tips, Tricks, and sound Advice:

Social Media Today – “What’s the best time to post to Facebook?”:

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/faq-whats-best-time-post-facebook

Mashable.com – “7 Best Practices for Improving Your Website’s Usability”:

http://mashable.com/2011/09/12/website-usability-tips/

Simply Business – “The Small Business Guide to Google AdWords”:

http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/microsites/google-adwords/

Facebook – “4 Tips to get discovered on Facebook”:

https://www.facebook.com/business/a/online-sales/complete-your-page

Simply Business – an infographic on the reasons to use Google+ for your small business:

http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/microsites/googleplus-for-small-businesses/

TechCrunch – “Rise of the Explainer Video”:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/24/rise-of-the-explainer-video/

TED Blog – 10 tips on how to make slides that communicate your idea, from TED’s in-house expert:

http://blog.ted.com/2014/07/15/10-tips-for-better-slide-decks/