Noteworthy links, November 7th 2010

• Starting your first company 11 no-nonsense suggestions to start your first company by Chris Dixon
• Yahoo releases S4, a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data
• Startup ideas, demystified how to find ideas for your startup in a repeatable way
• 20 recommended Quora thread for startups
• Are you a pirate? Michael Arrington on entrepreneurship (and on his future?)