A GaTech professor does a detailed analysis of the factors required for startup formation.

atlpaperMay19th.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Been playing around with Drew Conway's scripts he demo'd at the bay area R meetup at linkedin last week - saw it here.

Files to do this yourself are here.

Information on the libraries: Igraph twitteR ggplot2

Installation (for OS X):

- Install latest Mac OS X R build 2.10
- Install latest tcltk
- In R, execute: install.packages("igraph"); install.packages("twitteR"); install.packages("ggplot2");

Have at :) Beware the API limit.

Oh, the MS zoomable thing.

Social Map of #ASW3 Hashtag on Twitter (Atlanta Startup Weekend 3)

Ninety-percent of Silicon Valley's start-ups fail not because of faulty product, but because they don't tap the right market and they don't know their customer. Well-seasoned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank drafts a new model for plotting the path between good idea and market success.

If you're even tangentially interested in startups, it is vital that you listen to everything Steve Blank says.

Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Steve Blank, Serial Entrepreneur - Retooling Early Stage Development

1) Load apache logs, limit by 10

2) Load apache logs, limit by 100

3) Load apache logs, filter by method == 'GET', group by referer, get a count, order by count desc, limit 20 and export to excel.

If it ain't in Excel, it ain't real to most people. This lets you crunch big data down into Excel accessible scopes, using Hadoop, via Apache Pig.

Cloud Stenography Demo

Open Coffee: Come one, come all - entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, startup job-seekers: Open Coffee at Tech Square Starbucks on July 28th at 5PM.

Please: no service providers. You'll find most of the crowd are quite poor, and you'd just be wasting your time.

http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/

This is a good place to go if you've ever thought about starting a company.

Open Coffee at Tech Square Starbucks (Tuesday July 28, 2009) - Upcoming

The problem here is that Google is setting the platform that we are supposed to develop for a year or more before it exists. That IRRITATES the hell out of me. It is the same kind of egotistical douschebaggery Microsoft used to pull: pre-launching products to gain control before contributing anything.

Watching the Wave introduction video... when I see that semi-euro, T-shirt wearing trim-bearded fuck up there on that stage with his falsely elegant peppy smart talk planning a 'boating trip', and the scripted passing back and forth with 'the best project manager in the world,' I see one thing and one thing only in my mind: Ballmer's sweaty bitch tits bouncing as he stomps and screams, vibrating to the tune of "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!"

At least Ballmer had the good sense to be ugly, which gave him an odd kind of dignity.

Hacker News | Google's Microsoft Moment

I'm not sure Google's new Chrome OS announcement is that big a deal, or that the eventual product that gets released will actually have that much impact, but it's a useful milestone in marking Google's evolution towards becoming an older company with a distinctly different culture than they used to have.

This is, for lack of a better term, Google's "Microsoft Moment". This is the point when the difference between their internal conception of the company starts to diverge just a bit too far from the public perception of the company, and even starts to diverge from reality. At this inflection point, the reasons for doing new things at Google start to change.

The problem here is that in combination with Wave, Google is setting the platform that we are supposed to develop for a year or more before it exists. That IRRITATES the hell out of me. It is the same kind of egotistical douschebaggery Microsoft used to pull: pre-launching products to gain control before contributing anything.

Watching the Wave introduction video... when I see that semi-euro, T-shirt wearing trim-bearded fuck up there on that stage with his falsely elegant peppy smart talk planning a 'boating trip', and the scripted passing back and forth with 'the best project manager in the world,' I see one thing and one thing only in my mind: Ballmer's sweaty bitch tits bouncing as he stomps and screams, vibrating to the tune of "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!"

At least Ballmer had the good sense to be ugly, which gave him an odd kind of dignity.

I think I prefer this stagecraft http://bit.ly/pwGXs to this stagecraft http://bit.ly/15aSar because Google's culture of arrogance is starting to disgust me.

Google's Microsoft Moment - Anil Dash

Unfortunately -- you knew that was coming, right? -- Gentry’s scheme is completely impractical. It uses something called an ideal lattice as the basis for the encryption scheme, and both the size of the ciphertext and the complexity of the encryption and decryption operations grow enormously with the number of operations you need to perform on the ciphertext -- and that number needs to be fixed in advance. And converting a computer program, even a simple one, into a Boolean circuit requires an enormous number of operations. These aren't impracticalities that can be solved with some clever optimization techniques and a few turns of Moore's Law; this is an inherent limitation in the algorithm. In one article, Gentry estimates that performing a Google search with encrypted keywords -- a perfectly reasonable simple application of this algorithm -- would increase the amount of computing time by about a trillion. Moore’s law calculates that it would be 40 years before that homomorphic search would be as efficient as a search today, and I think he’s being optimistic with even this most simple of examples.

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Schneier on Security: Homomorphic Encryption Breakthrough

I spoke with Mark at Buck’s Woodside about how he conceived his successful products, the process of growing those sites into successful companies, and what makes a successful consumer Internet startup. The most interesting part of the interview was when Mark described how his first startup took off very quickly, once he arrived at a solid concept. Mark created ONEList and it took off overnight because it solved a fundamental pain many people were experiencing. Making mailing lists at the time was a painful process, and ONEList made it easy. Bloglines was another good idea because it solved a problem Mark personally was experiencing, how to keep up with the many blogs he read. Furthermore, Mark leveraged the marketing and PR relationships he had built at ONEList to get press for Bloglines which spurred their growth.

An Interview with Mark Fletcher, Founder of Bloglines and ONEList — TechDrawl

July 9, 2009, ATLANTA--GlobalCrypto, the leader in low-cost, user-friendly cryptographic security, today announced the release of Bunkermail for highly-secure file transfer. A web-based email service, this no overhead encryption solution makes adoption easy for both IT and capital budgeting. It is available for $10 per month.

“Our clients requested an ultra-secure encryption-based file transfer system that is inexpensive, has low IT overhead and is easy to use,” said Todd Merrill, GlobalCrypto’s Founder and CEO. “Traditional file transfer systems do not offer the level of security needed for the increasing confidential data traversing the Web. Bunkermail makes cryptographic, Web-based solutions highly secure, affordable and easy to use. If you can send a web-based email, you can use Bunkermail.”

GlobalCrypto Introduces Bunkermail: Secure, Encrypted File Transfer