Halloween Costume Startup

October 5, 2014

In undergrad, I had a good friend who was also an engineering student. He was hilarious and always doing funny things. After school he went to work at NASA on the Mars rover. While at NASA, Mark started posting funny videos to YouTube. Many of them went viral and he started making money from all […]

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Articles on Engineering

October 4, 2014

Over the years I have collected a nice set of articles on the topic of engineering. I have printed those from my instapaper, here:  engineering. What are your favorite articles on engineering?  

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Thoughts on Hiring Part-time Contractors

October 3, 2014

. @lance “Come work with us for a 1/2/a few days and we’ll pay you”. There’s no better predictor of success in hiring than working together. — Aarjav Trivedi (@aarjav) October 1, 2014 This week we had a job applicant mention that they are open to working part-time with us while they wind down other […]

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20 Startup Desks Available

October 2, 2014

I’m excited to announce that we will be moving into our new office next week! Over the past 9 months, we have gone through a lenghty process of finding, negotiating, and remodeling a great office space for ArrayFire, Brinktop, and the other companies we will bake. The location is right next door to the Atlanta […]

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Articles on Culture

October 1, 2014

Over the years I have collected a nice set of articles on the topic of culture. I have printed those from my instapaper, here:  culture. What are your favorite articles on culture?  

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Burn Rates

September 30, 2014

it’s hard to overstate how valuable it is to keep your personal burn rate low. it probably 10x’s interesting opportunities available to you. — Sam Altman (@sama) August 15, 2014 Every so often, the startup ecosystem becomes all abuzz with discussions on certain entrepreneurial points. The last two weeks have been full of posts about […]

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Articles on Acquisition

September 29, 2014

Over the years I have collected a nice set of articles on the topic of acquisition. I have printed those from my instapaper and posted them here. What are your favorite articles on acquitions?  

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Winning Hearts Through Culture

September 28, 2014

‘You can buy a person’s hand, but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.’ Stephen Covey — Mike Croucher (@walkingrandomly) September 23, 2014 The best leaders win over hearts. Startup leaders can compensate well. That buys the employee’s hand. They will do their work. But to be enthused […]

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Negotiating with University Offices of Technology Licensing

September 27, 2014

Stanford has a different business model than most universities. Give away the IP (mostly) and make money from donations. — Chris Dixon (@cdixon) September 27, 2014 When we first started ArrayFire, we were students. We wanted to be unambiguously clear of any future IP entanglement with the university, so we went through a disclosure process […]

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YCombinator’s List of Startup Ideas

September 26, 2014

YCombinator dropped a big list of startup ideas earlier this month. Here are the ones that interest me the most: AI – so much is possible now (like this stuff) with cheap and powerful computing resources, like the ones ArrayFire deals with Robotics – so fun! I love drones Education – Brinktop is now working […]

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