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By on May 9, 2012 in Educate

We make it a point to read broadly here at Anant, and wanted to share some of the more interesting things we’ve come across in the past week or two with you. 1. Peter Thiel’s Start Up Essay Notes In thinking about building good company culture, it may be helpful to dichotomize two extreme personality [...]

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Self Tracking: Setting Up Your Own Daily Tracker

By on May 7, 2012 in Educate, Empower

Since As It Changes has been on the topic of measuring success and progress lately, author and internet strategist Austin Yoder is sharing one of the ways he uses to measure his progress on a daily basis. Steal his idea if it works for you – the more people that measure their personal projects, the [...]

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[Modern Enterprise Series] – Process – One Year

By on May 5, 2012 in Uncategorized

In a year our company multiplied our income ten fold. How’s that for a happy opening sentence? We are a small company and that is why we were able to do that. As our revenue went up, so did our expenses. In the beginning I had very small capital and operating expenses and planned the budget on a [...]

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Quick Thought: 5 Ways to Separate Your Start-Up From the Pack

By on May 4, 2012 in Educate

Great piece in ZDNet Asia today on making your start-up stand out. The site asked several venture capitalists to delineate what founders need to do to get their companies funded. Here are the VCs’ five suggestions: Get the right team in place (and be able to sing your team’s praises to investors) Make your elevator [...]

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Instagram – A Lesson in Robust Architecting

By on May 3, 2012 in Internet Architecture

A famous quote describes true engineering talent as “the ability to replace every component in a car that’s traveling at 100mph.” While Instagram – the photo-sharing app that Facebook just bought for $1 billion – doesn’t have anything to do with cars, its back-end does have a significant number of moving parts. And when Instagram [...]

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[Modern Enterprise Series] Process – One Month

By on May 3, 2012 in Uncategorized

Mark Zuckerburg once said that most of Facebook’s initial development was done over the course of a few weeks. If Facebook can be built in a couple of weeks, much more can be done in month. With proper planning, coordination, and people, a team can move mountains. One of the largest projects that we finished last year was [...]

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