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• 12+1 Signs That You Have Founderitis – GigaOM

February 3, 2010 – Om Malik on Founderitis

• Dear MBAs who want to work at startups | from This is going to be BIG! – Comments on New York Tech Community, Startups, Venture Capital and Career Education

January 30, 2010 – Charlie O’Donnell, EIR at First Round Capital (one of our backers) writes just excellent advice for MBAs trying to work at startups. It’s a little harsh at first but also spot on. I think this advice goes in both directions (Entrepreneurs shouldn’t think they know what all “MBAs” are like just because they met some asshole who couldn’t shut up about Harvard) but I did see a number of my classmates committing some of these errors.

• Conan Blowing NBC's Money, Spends $1.5 Million For One Minute Segment (VIDEO)

January 21, 2010 – Conan sticks it to NBC by doing a comedy bit with a Bugatti Veyron ($1.0m car) and by playing a clip from the Rolling Stones. Awesome. (Although I doubt he really bought that car…)

• Chinese Fingerprints Said to Be Found in Google Attacks – NYTimes.com

January 20, 2010 – This is pretty exotic stuff. Is the Chinese government really hiring the types of hackers that read Chinese math journals to pursue their electronic espionage? This stuff all seems pretty aggressive.

• The Welcome screen may be displayed for 30 seconds during the logon process after you set a solid color as the desktop background in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

January 19, 2010 – Hillarious Windows 7 bug – solid background color desktop -> 30 second delay while booting.

• (Adobe) Flash Gordon! | MetaFilter

January 14, 2010 – Flash, implemented in javascript. The mind boggles.

• On how Google Wave surprisingly changed my life – This is so Meta

January 13, 2010 – Google Wave being put to use in real life. Very cool.

• Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs

January 13, 2010 – Wow! That is some cheap storage!

• This Will Be The Year Adobe’s 2 Million Flash Developers Come To The iPhone

January 11, 2010 – Interesting. I always wonder where they get these numbers. Two million (active? de-duped?) flash developers seems like a lot. But the broader point is well put – the number of iPhone apps in the world may be about to mushroom. Now of course if Adobe can add support for Android and Windows Mobile…

• xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe

January 11, 2010 – A little late night coding humor…

• Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words – #StartupTriplets

“Improve employees resumes”

January 10, 2010 – Unfortunately pithy advice sort of loses it’s power when you try to cram 50 of them into a single article but this one struck me as particularly powerful. (Came to my attention via a tweet from @Nivi.)