Startup & Entrepreneurial Readings For Today

# “Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek” And What We Did About It – Fog Creek Software
# 10 Good Reasons to Hire a Grown-Up – Susan Kim
#Success in startups takes time. It’s a long, long road. – Jason Freedman
# Sitting is Killing You – Medical Billing
# Lean Startup Lessons Learned – Carlos
# Our Lean Startup – page.ly
#10 Things I Learned From Failure – Scott Gerber
# Hacker Monthly May 2011 – a collection of startup stories in PDF format
#21 Lessons Learned from 16 Years of Hustling – Amy Hoy <– one of the best posts I’ve read in a long time

# I am starting a company in Chile – Amir Salihefendic
# Revenue, Personified – Cindy Alvarez
#Getting to 1000 Users is the Easy Part, Keeping Them is the Hard Part – Jared Brown
# 50+ Tools to Automate Your Link Building – SearchEngineWatch
# The World’s Best Boss is Standing in the Mirror – LifeDev
# Why I Run a Flat Company – Jason Fried
#13 Things You Must Do Every Week As A Startup CEO – BetaShop
# Why Regional Conferences Rule – Everything SysAdmin
# Startup Launch Lessons From Color – Rocket Watcher
# Happy Birthday Zinch (a look back at 4 years) – Founder Diaries
# How can I tell if I am failing at my entrepreneurial venture or start-up? – Mark Cendella
# 31 days, 120,000 hits, and $462 in revenue. The Startup Foundry’s story. – Startup Foundry