Weekly Startup Links: “VCs are startups too”

Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany. These are some of my favorites:

• The brutal truth about marketing your software product (successfulsoftware.net)
• Which investors will invest in your startup? (gabrielweinberg.com)
• How to rebuild a tech team from scratch (blog.geekli.st)
• SxSW – Lost That Loving Feeling for Early Stage Entrepreneurs (founderdating.com)
• What should you open source in your company (ahmetalpbalkan.com)
• How A Y Combinator Startup Is Born: The Story Of Strikingly (forbes.com)
• HubSpot’s approach to front-end development at scale (dev.hubspot.com)
• Free works (marco.org)
• One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make (techcrunch.com)
• VCs are startups too (ludlowventures.com)
• Startup engineers (dilbert.com)
• How I Met 75 Investors and Raised $650,000 (aihuiong.com)
• Why my startup failed (jamesmaskell.co.uk)
• Don’t Let Your Hype Write A Check That Your Product Can’t Cash (techcrunch.com)
• The anti-tech startup pattern (isbullsh.it)
• A Startup’s Guide to Outsourcing (tomtunguz.com)
• What Do Angel Investors Actually Do? (Part 1) (leoexplor.es)
• Should you pay to pitch an angel group? What the data says (startupnorth.ca)
• How Solo Founders Beat The Odds and Get Into Top Accelerators (blogs.wsj.com)

If you have any startup-related links you’d like to share, shoot me a note!