├── Culture.md ├── Design.md ├── Ideas.md ├── LICENSE ├── MVP Template.md ├── Processes.md ├── README.md ├── Techs.md ├── The Setup.md └── Thoughts.md /Culture.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Culture 2 | 3 | - Mandatory vacation 4 | - Mandatory vacation slideshow (show-n-tell) upon return 5 | - Career breaks 6 | - Subsidized food 7 | - Pay transparency 8 | - Limit on max/min income ratio 9 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Design.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Design 2 | 3 | - [Your Startup is Overthinking Design](http://www.smallhq.com/blog/your-startup-is-overthinking-design/) 4 | - [Practical Typography](http://practicaltypography.com) 5 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Ideas.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Some Ideas I Think are Worth Exploring 2 | 3 | - i'm gonna put stuff here. i have no qualms about unconditionally sharing ideas. they are worthless w/o execution. 4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /LICENSE: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | The MIT License (MIT) 2 | 3 | Copyright (c) 2014 ojas 4 | 5 | Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy 6 | of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal 7 | in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights 8 | to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 9 | copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is 10 | furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 11 | 12 | The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all 13 | copies or substantial portions of the Software. 14 | 15 | THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 16 | IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 17 | FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 18 | AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 19 | LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 20 | OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 21 | SOFTWARE. 22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /MVP Template.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # MVP Template 2 | 3 | - [Kickoff Labs - Landing page](http://kickofflabs.com) 4 | - MailChimp 5 | - Email 6 | - Twitter 7 | - Domain name 8 | - Logo 9 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Processes.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Processes & Philosophies 2 | 3 | - [Manifesto for Agile Software Development](http://www.agilemanifesto.org) 4 | - [Manifesto for Async Software Development](http://asyncmanifesto.org) 5 | - [The Cult of Done Manifesto](http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html) 6 | - [Reactive Manifesto](http://www.reactivemanifesto.org) 7 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | A collection of resources on running a software biz. 2 | 3 | ### Software Pricing 4 | 5 | The absolute minimum anyone in the software business should know about pricing. 6 | 7 | - [Camels and Rubber Duckies](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html) 8 | - [SaaS Pricing](https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pricing) 9 | 10 | ### Product & Marketing 11 | 12 | - [Startup Marketing Plan Template](http://daniellegeva.com/2014/09/09/startup-marketing-plan-template/) 13 | - [Pragmatic Marketing](http://mediafiles.pragmaticmarketing.com/pdf/PragmaticMarketingFramework.pdf) 14 | 15 | ### How to Name your Company 16 | - [Nominology](http://messymatters.com/nominology/) 17 | - [Startup Names by PG](http://aux.messymatters.com/pgnames.html) 18 | 19 | ### Misc 20 | 21 | - [40% Rule](http://avc.com/2015/02/the-40-rule/) 22 | 23 | ### Business Models 24 | 25 | If you're in any sort of business, you should be familiar with various business models. 26 | 27 | - List and examples of 100+ [Business Models](https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324) 28 | 29 | ### Startups 30 | 31 | - [Terms Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Know](http://haydenlee.io/terms-every-aspiring-entrepeneur-should-know) 32 | 33 | ### Operations 34 | 35 | You can write software, but what tech is needed to operate a software business? 36 | 37 | - Categorized list of [Tools of the Trade](https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade) for running a software biz 38 | 39 | ##### DevOps 40 | 41 | - [Best practices in modern web projects](http://blog.arvidandersson.se/2014/06/17/best-practices-in-modern-web-projects) 42 | - [Deployment Academy](https://blog.rainforestqa.com/categories/deployment-academy/) 43 | - [5 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/5-common-server-setups-for-your-web-application) 44 | 45 | ### Austin-Specific 46 | 47 | - [Intro to the Austin Startup Scene](http://www.slideshare.net/DamonClinkscales/intro-to-the-austin-startup-scene-30603601) 48 | - [Austin Entrepreneurship Scene](http://www.mindmeister.com/24358308/austin-entrepreneurship-scene) 49 | - [Austin Startup Digest](https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/austin) 50 | 51 | ### Legal Structure 52 | 53 | - [Joel's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup](http://money.stackexchange.com/questions/26337/what-to-ask-for-on-a-business-partnership/26370#26370) 54 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Techs.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Techs 2 | 3 | ## Python 4 | 5 | - 6 | - [Learn Python](http://www.learnpython.org/) 7 | - [Dive Into Python](http://www.diveintopython.net/toc/index.html) 8 | - [Python the Hard Way](http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/) 9 | - [Python AV](https://www.python.org/doc/av/) 10 | - 11 | - more at [awesome-python](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python) 12 | 13 | ## Django 14 | 15 | - [Django Project](https://www.djangoproject.com) 16 | - [Effective Django](http://effectivedjango.com) 17 | - [Tango with Django](http://www.tangowithdjango.com/) 18 | - more at [awesome-django](https://github.com/rosarior/awesome-django) 19 | 20 | ## Data Science 21 | 22 | - [Data Science Toolkit](http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org) 23 | - [Data Portal](http://ckan.org) 24 | - [Pandas](http://pandas.pydata.org) 25 | - [Statwing](https://www.statwing.com) 26 | - [IPython Notebook Intro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iwVvqwLDsJo) 27 | - [Python Web Scraping Resource](http://jakeaustwick.me/python-web-scraping-resource/) 28 | - [Kimono](https://www.kimonolabs.com) convert webpages to APIs 29 | 30 | ## Natural Language Processing 31 | 32 | - [NLTK - Natural Language Toolkit](http://www.nltk.org/) 33 | - [Stack Overflow - summarize text or simplify text](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5479333/summarize-text-or-simplify-text) 34 | - [Build Your Own Summary Tool](http://thetokenizer.com/2013/04/28/build-your-own-summary-tool/) 35 | - [TextBlob](https://textblob.readthedocs.org/) 36 | 37 | ## Machine Learning 38 | 39 | - [Mahout](http://mahout.apache.org/) 40 | - [A Course in Machine Learning](http://ciml.info) 41 | - [Machine Learning Cheat Sheet](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_map/index.html) 42 | - [A Tour of Machine Learning Algorithms](http://machinelearningmastery.com/a-tour-of-machine-learning-algorithms/) 43 | 44 | ## Backend Architectures the Big Guys Use 45 | 46 | - [Backend Architectures](https://gist.github.com/ragingwind/5840075) 47 | 48 | ## Front-End 49 | 50 | - [Frontend Development](https://github.com/dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks) 51 | 52 | ## Other 53 | 54 | Wow, look at [Awesome - A curated list of awesome lists](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) 55 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /The Setup.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | What follows is a [The Setup](http://usesthis.com)-style article of what I use to get things done. 2 | 3 | ### Who are you, and what do you do? 4 | 5 | I'm Ojas. I write software for a living. 6 | 7 | ### What hardware do you use? 8 | 9 | I'm still using a [13" Mid 2011 MacBook Air](http://support.apple.com/kb/SP683). It seems to keep on rocking and I haven't found the need to get something more powerful yet. I have an iPhone 6 I use a lot too. 10 | 11 | ### And what software? 12 | 13 | I use [Sublime](http://www.sublimetext.com) for most of my text editing, although I prefer to use ~~[Mou](http://mouapp.com)~~ [MacDown](http://macdown.uranusjr.com) for [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) files. 14 | 15 | I use [Homebrew](http://brew.sh) for package management, [Git](http://www.git-scm.com), [Github](https://github.com), and [Bitbucket](http://bitbucket.org) for source control. I use [Pixelmator](http://www.pixelmator.com) for general image editing. 16 | 17 | I do most of my programming in [python](https://www.python.org) and should probably get more familiar with [PyCharm](http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/). I've heard MacVim with Janus is a good way to make the transition to Vim, which is something I would like to make time to learn. 18 | 19 | I'm kind of obsessed with being happy and productive when I code. I use [RescueTime](https://www.rescuetime.com/) for staying efficent and focused and have started using [Track Your Happiness Tracker](https://www.trackyourhappiness.org/) after hearing [Matt's TED talk](http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_killingsworth_want_to_be_happier_stay_in_the_moment?language=en). 20 | 21 | I'm trying to automate life's boring tasks. I publish a calendar on my website to help people schedule meetings with me. Of course, I use automatic billpay any time I can. I have a hodge-podge of scripts that use [Boxcar](https://boxcar.io), [Ifttt](https://ifttt.com/), and my bank's account notifications to alert me as needed. I should probably clean this up and share the code. 22 | 23 | More: 24 | 25 | - [Airmail](http://airmailapp.com) for desktop email client 26 | - [Asana](http://asana.com/) for project management (business & personal) 27 | - [Evernote](http://evernote.com) to store any and all docs, the mobile version's document scanner is great for storing paper docs. I can eliminate most of my paper docs with this. 28 | 29 | Of course for personal stuff: 30 | 31 | - [Pocket](http://getpocket.com) for personal & social bookmarking 32 | - [Dropbox](http://dropbox.com/) for storage 33 | - [SparkleShare](http://sparkleshare.org/) for storage 34 | - [Mint](https://www.mint.com/) for financial overview 35 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Thoughts.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # On Entrepreneurship 2 | 3 | - [Entrepreneur is a Silly Word](http://unsolicited.consulting/article/entrepreneur-is-a-silly-word) 4 | - [Entrepreneurs think they’re badass](http://ryancarson.com/post/101015286840/entrepreneurs-think-theyre-badass) 5 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------