2016 was a very eventful in the technology and startup world! From early predictions that the funding bubble was about to burst to soaring valuations of both early stage and established tech conglomerates, 2016 was still a record year for the technology industry. In addition to spending time crafting custom SEO solutions for many Fortune 500’s at SEO Inc., I spent a lot of time reading! I thought I’d post the articles I’ve read for the year in the hopes that you may find something interesting!
Please feel free to leave comments on any of the articles and I would be up to have a discussion about them.
- Why in-chat ecommerce is the ‘next big thing’
- The Beginner’s Guide to Freelance
- The Only Way To Be The Real Deal
- The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world
- High-tech updates to the retail experience
- Mobile payment app PaidEasy buys Happy, first winner of the Make It In Brooklyn pitch competition
- Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
- Employee #1: Apple
- The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part II: The Edge and Beyond
- Master Plan, Part Deux
- Visionaries — The California Sunday Magazine
- Schedules Aren’t a Constraint on Life, They Let You Live It
- An open letter from technology sector leaders on Donald Trump’s candidacy for President
- The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
- Four Things Every On-Demand Company Needs To Nail
- Ask HN: What’s your favorite way to save money?
- Most Used SDKs in Top 200 Free iOS Apps
- The R.I.P. Report – Startup Death Trends
- A Technical Due Diligence Framework for Early Stage Startups
- Why Startup Technical Diligence is a Waste of Time · Coding VC
- Why I Left My Corporate Salary for Cannabis Entrepreneurship
- A beginners guide to thinking in SQL ?
- Title: Superintelligence cannot be contained: Lessons from Computability Theory
- What Makes A Great Software Engineer?
- Straightforward Tactics for Testing Minimum Viable Products
- Salespeople Are Burning Out Faster Than Ever. Here’s Why.
- Know Your Numbers: The Business Case for Investing in SEO
- Five Social Trends Marketers Won’t Be Able to Ignore in 2016
- 2016 will be the year of conversational commerce
- Machine learning for large-scale SEM accounts
- The user’s guide to early-stage fundraising
- How To Start An Amazon FBA Business
- The golden age of American entrepreneurship
- 10-Year Exercise Periods Make Sense
- DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT – ENTERPRISE
- A checklist for incorporation so you can get back to building your product, fundraising, etc.
- From losing money to a 51% profit margin in 5 months
- There Is No Handbook for Being a Writer
- The Top 10 Sales Blog Posts of 2016 (So Far)
- Mobile Search Is The Top Source Of Calls To Businesses
- Chat + AI Changing the Face of CRM
- Why Does Sales Ops Matter?
- TV Advertising’s Surprising Strength — And Inevitable Fall – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- 11 SaaS Blogs For Data Lovers & Startup Wonks
- 2016 Will be Rough for Startups. Here’s Why that’s a Good Thing.
- Declarative Design Tools
- Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech when Building Your Startup
- New Grads: Midstage Startups Are Your Best First Job in Tech
- Peak Advertising and the Future of the Web
- Doc Searls Weblog · Is the online advertising bubble finally starting to pop?
- Facebook logo
- Stock based compensation: Who Twitter pays to retain? An analysis vs Facebook.
- Right-sizing the development process for startups
- Agency vs Startup: From a Young Designer
- Startups = growth. Growth = friction, removed. — Medium
- How we got from $0 to $75,000 MRR with zero marketing budget
- Not a hacker or a hipster: How I got my first start-up job
- Enterprise Sales for Hackers
- Why Online2Offline Commerce Is A Trillion Dollar Opportunity
- The Internet Economy
- Varoufakis: IT technologies will overthrow Capital…
- Siri’s creators say they’ve made something better that will take care of everything for you
- The Startup Zeitgeist
- Design at 1x—It’s a Fact — Shyp Design — Medium
- The future of apps should be better apps
- How A 19 Year-Old Founder Turned An Idea Into A $20M/Year Business
- My 100 Favorite Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Five
- Have Software Developers Given Up?
- 15 Fundamental Laws of Software Development
- Try Before You Buy: Why Smart People & Smart Companies Are Ditching the Interview
- What Is The Difference Between Wireframe, Mockup and Prototype?
- How we got from $0 to $75,000 MRR with zero marketing budget — Lifecycle Marketing — Medium
- We Tested 48 Facebook Ads To Bust 6 Marketing Myths
- When you start a startup, it’s much more exciting to focus on building a product and a business… — Medium
- http://alumni.cs.ucr.edu/~
ratana/ PaneRatanamahatanaMyers00.pdf - Scaling Airbnb with Brian Chesky — Class 18 Notes of Stanford University’s CS183C — Blitzscaling
- How to ace your YC interview — Hacker Daily
- Everything the tech world says about marketing is wrong
- The Slack Platform Roadmap — Slack Platform Blog — Medium
- A New Skill Model for Product Managers — On Human-Centric Systems — Medium
- Restaurant waitlisting app NoWait rolls out mobile payments
- Taxi, Uber, and Lyft Usage in New York City
- Accounting in 2016 – Still a manual and tedious process
- Target’s savings app Cartwheel now lets you clip real coupons
- Sorry, developer bootcamps: I was wrong
- What Bubble? — Medium
- Side Projects – AVC
- Regis McKenna’s 1976 Notebook And The Invention Of Apple Computer, Inc.
- 21 Cold Email Opening Lines That Will Make Your Sales Leads Warm – Integrated Suite of Business Apps
- How to create an AI startup – convince some humans to be your training set
- Falling For The Wrong GUI — User Experience Design (UX) — Medium
- Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing
- Network Effects
- Msg.ai’s Puneet Mehta on The Rise of AI, The Potential For Bots and Life As A Current YC Startup
- What I Learned Selling Bingo Card Creator
- Apple Pay is coming to the mobile web
- Instacart Is… Generating Profits?
- The Search for the Perfect To-do List
- Here are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People
- Machine Learning in Practice
- The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming
- Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years
- Mobile Retail Apps and Sites: Designing a Better Experience for Shoppers
- The Strategic Shift in Revenue for SaaS Startups as They Scale
- Twitter to keep 140-character limit, CEO says
- Jeff Dean on Large-Scale Deep Learning at Google
- The Programming Languages Beacon
- Shoshana Zuboff: Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Definitive Guide to Buying a Customer Success Platform
- Stupid Swift Tricks #4
- A technical guide to SEO
- Uber’s Atomic Meltdown — Eli Schiff
- Paid User Acquisition for Early Stage Startups – Part 3: Facebook Advertising Basics
- Building Towards Value with Atlas
- It’s Discounted, but Is It a Deal? How List Prices Lost Their Meaning
- How Snapchat Built a Business By Confusing Olds
- What’s happening in the mobile development economy?
- Capital Market Laboratories — The Secret’s Out : Apple, Facebook, Google Warring…
- The Startup Stock Tracker
- Real-World Blueprint for a $5-Million Week
- Etsy CTO Q&A: We Need Software Engineers, Not Developers
- Startups are Risk Bundles · Coding VC
- Why Isn’t Anyone Calling Out Stoppelman? — Medium
- Valuing high-tech companies
- SaaS Metrics: How to Value a SaaS Business
- The Rise of the API-based SaaS
- Acknowledgments
- The Politics Of The Internet Of Things
- Y-Combinator and Alphabet Inc. — Simone Brunozzi — Medium
- How This Entrepreneur’s Food Obsession Became a $6 Million Business
- What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
- You are the robots
- The Super Bowl Ads That Got People to Shop, as Measured by Attribution Powered by Foursquare
- Unicorns, Bandwagons and Networks
- Lessons Learned Launching A Side Project in 48 Hours — Learning New Stuff — Medium
- How to get hired at a startup when you don’t know anyone
- Operating Partner, DFJ
- Kontakt.io, The Beacon Startup And Platform, Locates Further $5M Funding
- Shopify Debuts Shopkey, An App That Puts A Product Catalog In Your iOS Keyboard
- Uber’s Atomic Meltdown — Eli Schiff
- Closing Reflections
- What is it like making around $120K ~ $130K in the US in Sunnyvale, California as a software engineer?
- How Peach Onboards New Users
- Starting Fires on Purpose — When and How Leaders Need to Break the Rules
- Scaling Zapier to Automate Billions of Tasks
- Web Scraping Finds Stores Guilty of Price Inflation
- Michael Hudson on Parasitic Financial Capitalism
- The complete guide to SaaS revenue
- Tutorial: Deep Learning
- Five ways to build a $100 million business — Point Nine Land — Medium
- What a Great VP Sales Actually Does. Where The Magic Is. And When to Hire One.
- How to Start a Startup
- What’s your startup’s superpower?
- Instant Gratification and the Power of Right Now
- The end of app stores as we know them
- Stealth is Overrated
- How Much Further Will Internet Stocks Fall? — Mahesh VC
- 10 golden rules for becoming a better programmer
- Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer
- Starting up Slack’s Search, Learning, & Intelligence Group in the New NYC Office — Medium
- Secrets of the MIT Poker Course
- Leveling Up at Foursquare. — Foursquare Direct — Medium
- The Downward Pressure of Public Markets on Startup Valuations
- Beware of the Silicon Valley cult
- Startups and Shit, How to get rich in tech, guaranteed.
- When to join a startup
- The Past, Present and Future of Sketch — Habits of Introspection — Medium
- How We Approached The Allen A.I. Challenge on Kaggle
- Towards an understanding of technical debt
- Custom Analytics Company Keen IO Goes Open Source With Its Data Explorer
- Interest Rates, Unicorns And What The Fed Means To Silicon Valley
- Using Scraping & Virtual Assistants to Create a Massive Lead Pipeline
- “It takes a very special founder to build a media business long term. I have not met many.” Five Questions With Howard Lindzon
- Startup Finance for Founders — Part I, Accounting
- Career Advice
- Why User Onboarding is the Most Important Part of the Customer Journey by 2.6x
- 100 Days of Swift
- Partnerships And Interoperability Matter Most In Cloud-Mobile World