Marc Andreessen Says The 1990s Dot-Com Bubble Startups Were ‘All Right But Just Early’
The Invention of Money: In Three Centuries, the Heresies of Two Bankers Became the Basis of Our Modern Economy
https://www.amazon.com/Famous-First-Bubbles-Fundamentals-Manias/dp/0262571536
Turns Out the Dot-Com Bust’s Worst Flops Were Actually Fantastic Ideas
June 2017 News § The Digital Antiquarian
My thanks to Eric Jackson for His Thoughtful Questions and Post on Forbes.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/djju8a/d_jurgen_schmidhuber_really_had_gans_in_1990/f495n1m/
Michael Wolfe's Answer to What Were the Most Ridiculous Startup Ideas That Eventually Became Successful?
Elon Musk: SpaceX and Tesla Were Two of the 'Dumbest' Business Ideas
Blockbuster Could Have Bought Netflix for $50 Million but the CEO Thought It Was a Joke: John Antioco's Arrogance in September 2000 Cost Blockbuster Its Future
The Sharp Startup: When PayPal Found Product-Market Fit: Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of a $100+ Billion Product
bitcoin-is-worse-is-better#contemporary-objections
The Internet of Food: Online Food Delivery Was Probably Secretly Essential to the Internet's Success, but It Took a While for Us to Get a Food Option As Good As Grubhub.
Online Extra: Fred Smith on the Birth of FedEx—The Delivery Giant's Founder Recalls How He Started It, What Made It Take Off, and Why It Helped Spark a Revolution in Business
Idea for Online Networking Brings Two Entrepreneurs Together
Almost Wikipedias and Innovation in Free Collaboration Projects
https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1430210788
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days: Introduction
https://www.amazon.com/Plex-Google-Thinks-Works-Shapes/dp/1416596585
Marissa Mayer on Career Growth and How a Revenue Guarantee Almost Killed Google
The Friendship That Made Google Huge: Coding Together at the Same Computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat Changed the Course of the Company—And the Internet
https://www.amazon.com/Changing-How-World-Does-Business/dp/1576754138
Gwern’s Review of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Elon Musk: SpaceX and Tesla Alive ‘By Skin of Their Teeth’
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
EXCLUSIVE: The IM Conversation In Which 19-Year-Old Zuckerberg Decided To Build Facebook, This Year's $100 Billion IPO
YouTube Was Meant to Be a Video-Dating Website: Co-Founder Steve Chen Tells SXSW Conference That ‘We Thought Dating Would Be the Obvious Choice'—But Internet Users Didn’t Agree
How One VC Firm Amassed a 24% Stake in Slack Worth $4.6 Billion: Stewart Butterfield Wanted to Quit and Give the Money back to Investors. They Wouldn't Let Him.
Episode 13: Masters of Scale Episode Transcript: Stewart Butterfield [2018]
Skill Vs. Luck In Entrepreneurship And Venture Capital: Evidence From Serial Entrepreneurs
Do Serial Entrepreneurs Run Successively Better-Performing Businesses?
If You Don't Succeed, Should You Try Again? The Role of Entrepreneurial Experience in Venture Survival
Entrepreneurial Uncertainty and Expert Evaluation: An Empirical Analysis
Predicting entrepreneurial success is hard: Evidence from a business plan competition in Nigeria
Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History, ch. 3: Trees
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/4sk58m/resultblind_peer_review_for_reducing_publication/d59wzuk/
Losing Their Grip: An Oral History of Nintendo's Power Glove
All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen: For a moment a decade ago, the game industry looked like a very different place
122 Things Everyone Should Know About Investing and the Economy
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Zen-Classics-Gateless-Records/dp/1590302826
1986-hamming#problems-with-attacks
Uncertainty and Individual Discretion in Allocating Research Funds
The Changing Structure of American Innovation: Some Cautionary Remarks for Economic Growth
bakewell#the-improving-attitude
(More) Efficient Reinforcement Learning via Posterior Sampling [PSRL]
Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference
The Human Strategy: A Conversation With Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland [10.30.17]
Essays in Learning and the Revelation of Private Information § Pg53
Science Funding Is a Mess. Could Grant Lotteries Make It Better? We Might Be Better off Funding Scientific Research by Choosing Projects at Random. Here's Why.
Construction of arbitrarily strong amplifiers of natural selection using evolutionary graph theory
‘Build Something People Want’ Is Not Enough – Avichal Garg
The Curious Wavefunction: Technological Convergence in Drug Discovery and Other Endeavors
Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science and Technology
How DFS, Poker, Basketball, Starcraft and Strong Opinions, Weakly Held (SOWH) Can Help Your Startup
An Attempt at Explaining, Blaming, and Being Very Slightly Sympathetic Toward Enron
Spend Twice As Much Effort Every Time You Attempt to Solve a Problem
https://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Orange-Glow-Untold-Cyberculture/dp/1101871555
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/2/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/3/
He Spent $140 Billion on AI With Little to Show. Now He Is Trying Again. Billionaire Masayoshi Son said he would make SoftBank ‘the investment company for the AI revolution’, but he missed out on the most recent frenzy
https://www.amazon.com/First-Miracle-Drugs-Transformed-Medicine/dp/019518775X
https://monoskop.org/images/2/29/Hughes_Thomas_P_Networks_of_Power_Electrification_in_Western_Society_1880-1930.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Sand-Hill-Road-Venture/dp/059308358X