Pmarchive
An archive of the best articles from the now sadly defunct blog.pmarca.com
The Pmarca Guide to Startups
- Part 1: Why not to do a startup
- Part 2: When the VCs say "no"
- Part 3: "But I don't know any VCs!"
- Part 4: The only thing that matters
- Part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies
- Part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?
- Part 7: Why a startup's initial business plan doesn't matter that much
- Part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
- Part 9: How to hire a professional CEO
Bonus Startup Essentials
- The truth about venture capitalists, Part 1
- The truth about venture capitalists, Part 2
- The truth about venture capitalists, Part 3
- How to hire the best people you've ever worked with
- Serial entrepreneurs and today's Silicon Valley
- The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6
- Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data
- Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck
Additional Pmarca Guides
- Guide to Personal Productivity
- Guide to Career Planning, part 0: Introduction
- Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
- Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education
- Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
- Guide to Big Companies, part 1: Turnaround!
- Guide to Big Companies, part 2: Retaining great people
Bonus Awesomeness
- Why there's no such thing as Web 2.0
- Top 10 science fiction novelists of the '00s -- so far
- Why Ning?
- Book of the week: Best book for tech entrepreneurs this year
- The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet
- Music of the week: Three views of the blues, through jazz
- Eleven lessons learned about blogging, so far
- OK, you're right, it IS a bubble
- Counterpoint: Ben Horowitz on micromanagement
- An hour and a half with Barack Obama
The Long Kiss Goodbye
Before he stopped posting, Marc tantalized readers with a "Coming Soon" list (reprinted below). I was particularly excited about the Guide to High-Tech Startups. Maybe someday. All we can do is hope.
Top 10 books for high-tech entrepreneurs
Top 10 ways to do personal outsourcing
Software -- the velvet revolution and the multicore conundrum
How to trick out a Typepad blog in 2007
Killer Windows Media Center apps for 2007
The truth about reporters: a multi-part series
The Pmarca Guide to High-Tech Startups: a multi-part series
Why Internet advertising is about to get humongous
