Contents

• 1. The Why
  • 1. How will you measure your life?
  • 2. How to rebuild an empire
  • 3. Peril to Power - Hunger
  • 11. Giving Advice and the Curse of Knowledge
  • 18. From Plateau to Power
• 2. Viva la Resistance
  • 2. How Carnegie Mellon SV helped my transition to entrepreneurship
  • 5. How Venture Capitalists Miss the Fastest Growing Startups
  • 7. Does a society with economic inequality need technology entrepreneurs?
  • 10. Science in Software Management and its entrepreneurial spirit
  • 36. In Praise of Idleness (by Bertrand Russell, 1932)
• 3. How to become an entrepreneur
  • 3. From user indifference to traction in 10 weeks
  • 4. Reinventing yourself
  • 6. The Founding Engineer's Equity Negotiation Position
  • 12. Look like an expert to the public
  • 22. Does the world want your startup to be born?
• 4. The Invisible Wall
  • 1. In Praise of Salary Negotiation
  • 2. The liberating power of burning the past
  • 28. From Peril to Power - Fearing freedom vs. quitting
• 5. Trough of Sorrow
  • 1. Sponsorbrite Monopolizing Customer Engagement
  • 2. Traction and getting unstuck
  • 19. How to build a startup and gain traction with zero funding
• 6. Reward and Uncertainty
  • 1. The uncertain price of creative success
  • 2. Knowing You've Arrived
  • 26. Stop worrying and start breathing
  • 30. The mistake that kills your first startup
• 7. Growth Engineering
  • 21. Impossible opportunities
  • 25. Escape velocity: market scale causes preventable startup disasters
  • 31. Nevermind the bollocks
• 8. Temptations
  • 1. Formidable creations are unleashed when you let go of expectation
• 9. Not just an engineer
• 10. On Startup Culture
  • 1. Tech Startup culture and things not to do
  • 3. What are the success rates of startups with N founders?
  • 4. Company size matters
  • 5. Handing off the technical side of a successful bootstrapped startup
  • 11. The first three engineering hires will make or break you
• 11. Meta Thoughts
  • 1. Epigrams on Programming
  • 2. Quotes on changing the world
  • 9. Writing is meta-hacking
  • 32. Will you recognize success when you finally find it?
• 14. Back stories
  • 1. Pirate Captain's log, day one: desire and blind faith
  • 2. About Amin Ariana
  • 3. The Father of a Revolution
  • 4. The Stolen Currency
  • 5. The Sleeping Tulip
• 15. Getting into the industry
  • 1. Landing an entry level job interview at Google, Facebook and Amazon
  • 2. Why learn Haskell programming language
  • 3. IT hiring trends for CTOs and engineering hiring managers in 2014
  • 4. The College Dropout's King-Maker
  • 5. Software company Technical Interview success tips
  • 9. Quit fear and let hunger win
  • 33. What are some anxiety and depression hacks?

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