Archive for May, 2008
DIY Startup School Cleveland-style
Kevin Day, May 22nd, 2008Although the official Startup School was last month at Stanford, there was enough startup activity in Clevleand last week to constitute it’s own mini startup school.
Thursday was Cleveland Startup Drinks, which was a great chance to talk with other startup founders.
Saturday was the SCORE business workshop that was a half-day of informative talks by an accountant, a lawyer, and a bank president about how to develop a business plan, incorporate a business, and finance a business. This was the first time I had heard of SCORE, and it looks like a valuable resource for new businesses. They are a large group of retired business executives that offer free counseling. What could be better than that?
Lastly, on Sunday morning Craig Newmark spoke at the CWRU commencement ceremony. It wasn’t quite as inspriational as the real startup school talks, but it was a taste of Silicon Valley nonetheless.
Startup stuff
Kevin Day, May 15th, 2008Tonight I’m going to Startup Drinks at the Bier Markt.
Also, Saturday is a SCORE business class at the U.S. Bank building downtown. The first session covers business plans and legal stuff. The second half is business finance. Only $20.
Really looking forward to both events. Should be fun and educational.
What’s on your (Safari) bookshelf?
Kevin Day, May 10th, 2008I’ve been trying out the Safari bookshelf recently and it’s really nice. Despite the recent buzz that programmers don’t read books, I think published books (electronic or dead-tree) are the best way to lean a subject because they’re more complete and have been thoroughly edited.
For Safari, I have the 10-book-per-month plan, which is $23. I plan on needing a lot of reference material in the next few months so it’s a valuable resource to me at the moment. Some of the larger books take up more than one “book” on my 10-slot book shelf though. The books on my shelf right now are:
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition (2 slots)
- PHP Hacks (1 slot)
- Programming Amazon Web Services (2 slots)
- Programming Python, 3rd Edition (2 slots)
- JavaScript: The Good Parts (1 slot)
PHP Hacks is kind of a let-down, but the other four books are pretty good. I’m interested to find out if I’ll find any books that are useful enough to buy hard copies of after I’m done using Safari.
