Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days <\/a>– I need to dive back into this guy. I’m only 25 or so pages in (PayPal’s Max Levchin, and the founder of Hotmail). I didn’t realize how much the Hotmail guys hated their VCs. A lot of lessons to be learned in this one.<\/p>\nAnd so the resolution is slightly revised to be reading 12 books this year. But other than that, I’m on course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Book update for the New Year’s resolution: I’m reading, in parallel, three books. It’s not the best way to nail one book per month, but I’m really enjoying it because the context switch keeps the content of each book fresh. Here’s where I am with all three: Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-fJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":555,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2012\/09\/09\/life-update-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":975,"position":0},"title":"Life update","date":"September 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't posted in quite a long while, and a lot has happened in my life since. High level overview, and then I'll get back on the bandwagon, and post more regularly. 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