| (Founder Stories) Dropbox: Being Open About a Startup Idea |
youtube.com |
General advice |
| (Founder Stories) Dropbox: Success and Growth |
youtube.com |
Product-market fit |
| 10 Common Blind Spots When Hiring Your First Sales Team |
jasonlk.medium.com |
Sales |
| 10 Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups |
robwalling.com |
Bootstrapping and money |
| 10 Questions You Should Ask Potential Investors |
youtube.com |
Investors |
| 10 Things That Make Your Investors Lose Confidence |
jasonlk.medium.com |
Investors |
| 10 Tips for Startups With ‘Crazy-Big Dreams’ |
smartcompany.com.au |
General advice |
| 100 Accelerators & Incubators |
docs.google.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| 11 bootstrapping entrepreneurs share how they found business success without funding |
foundr.com |
Bootstrapping and money |
| 128 slide presentation |
hubspot.com |
Culture |
| 16 Top Competitor Analysis Tools for 2024 |
orbitmedia.com |
Competition |
| 20 Ideas Before Instacart |
youtube.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| 21 Ways to Blow Up Company |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Starting out |
| 3 Simple Things That Predictably Delight Customers |
youtube.com |
Customer support & success |
| 3 Tips for Working With a Mentor |
linkedin.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| 3 Tips to Stay Close to Your Customers as Your Company Grows |
youtube.com |
Customer support & success |
| 4 Ways Startups Fail |
blog.eladgil.com |
General advice |
| 5 People Who Destroy Your Culture |
blog.eladgil.com |
Culture |
| 5 Ps of Strategy |
youtube.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| 5 Signs You Might Be an Entrepreneur |
linkedin.com |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| 5 Things to Be Wary of in VC Financings |
jasonlk.medium.com |
Investors |
| 5 Ways Esg Creates Value for Companies, Beyond Virtue Signalling |
medium.com |
Environmental & social responsibility |
| 50 Lessons From HP’s Company Culture |
barmstrong.medium.com |
Culture |
| 550+ Business Plan Examples to Launch Your Business |
bplans.com |
Business plans |
| 6 Startup Growth Strategies From a Forbes Top VC |
youtube.com |
Marketing |
| 7 Different Types of Business Plans Explained |
bplans.com |
Business plans |
| 7 Early-Stage Recruiting Mistakes I’ll Never Make Again |
medium.com |
Early hires |
| 7 No-Nonsense Pieces of Startup Advice I Wish I Got When I Started |
groovehq.com |
General advice |
| 7 Tips to Keep Your Sales Process Real and Really Effective |
blog.hubspot.com |
Sales |
| 7 Ways to Avoid the Biggest Hiring Mistake Most Entrepreneurs Make |
mjskok.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| 95 Ways to Find Your First Customers for Customer Development or Your First Sale |
jasonevanish.com |
Customers |
| A Brief Guide to Startup Pivots (4 Types of Pivots) |
blog.eladgil.com |
Pivoting |
| A Controversial Take on Culture |
ecorner.stanford.edu |
Culture |
| A Conversation With Werner Vogels |
youtube.com |
Culture |
| A Few Good Minutes With Hubspot Cofounder and CTO |
youtube.com |
Co-founders |
| A founder’s perspective on bootstrapping over raising venture capital |
forbes.com |
Bootstrapping and money |
| A Guide for Finding Product-Market Fit in B2B |
lennysnewsletter.com |
Product-market fit |
| A Note for Startup CEOs on Budget Chats |
joelonsdale.com |
Budgeting |
| A Path to the Minimum Viable Product |
medium.com |
Product |
| A Playlist for Entrepreneurs |
youtube.com |
General advice |
| A Practical Guide To Diversity and Inclusion in Startups |
diversityq.com |
Team |
| A Quickstart Guide to Positioning |
lennysnewsletter.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| A Scaling Magic Trick |
feld.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| A Simple Tool to Create Effective Board Meetings |
brianbalfour.com |
Governance |
| A Student’s Guide to Startups |
paulgraham.com |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| Accelerating Growth: Grow Faster Without Working Yourself to Death |
youtube.com |
General advice |
| Accounting Basics for Startups: Part 1 |
youtube.com |
Budgeting |
| Acquiring your first 100 customers |
suhaild.medium.com |
Customers |
| Advice for Finding a Mentor (part of an AMA) |
youtube.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| Advice for Founders Who Can’t Code |
youtube.com |
Technical skills |
| Affecting Change From the Inside – Attracting the Environmentally Conscious Millennial |
climate-change-apac.environmentalbusinessreview.com |
Environmental & social responsibility |
| Agile User Story / Product Backlog template |
docs.google.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| An Interview With Slack CEO |
youtube.com |
Customer support & success |
| An MVP Is Not a Cheaper Product, It’s About Smart Learning |
medium.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| As a Budding Entrepreneur, Where Do You Start? |
linkedin.com |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| Ask for Feedback, and Act On It |
blog.hubspot.com |
Customer support & success |
| Ask Us Anything |
youtu.be |
Investors |
| Awkward Adolescence |
outlierspath.com |
The startup process |
| B2B Go-To-Market Playbooks and the Technology Adoption Life Cycle |
linkedin.com |
Go-to-market |
| Backend Web Development – A Complete Overview |
youtube.com |
Technical skills |
| Bad Advice (from investors) |
blog.eladgil.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| Before the Startup |
paulgraham.com |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| Best Hiring Practices: Tactics From Duolingo Co-founder |
youtube.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Best Practices for Startup Legal Structuring in 2024 |
legalnodes.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Better, Faster, Cheaper |
medium.com |
The startup process |
| Blitzfail: How Not to Go off the Rails |
medium.com |
General advice |
| Board Basics |
mintzedge.com |
Governance |
| Board Seat for Sale |
feld.com |
Governance |
| Bootstrap First – VC Later |
youtube.com |
Bootstrapping |
| Bootstrapping a B2B SaaS to $13 Million ARR |
youtube.com |
Bootstrapping |
| Bootstrapping and the Ups & Downs of Finding Product Market Fit |
saasclub.io |
Product-market fit |
| Bootstrapping Engineering Operations |
medium.com |
Engineering & product design |
| Brainstorming Example Video |
youtube.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Brainstorming Toolkit |
integratingengineering.org |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Bridging the Gap: (Re)Finding Go-To-Market Fit |
croneill.medium.com |
Go-to-market |
| Budgets – There Has to Be a Better Way |
feld.com |
Budgeting |
| Build a Complementary Team (Bill Gross Idealab) |
youtube.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Build A Diverse Workforce |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Team |
| Build a Startup Financial Model |
youtube.com |
Financial projections |
| Build Your investor Pipeline |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| Build Your Lean Canvas |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Strategy |
| Building a Bulletproof Startup: Business Model Canvas vs Lean Startup vs Disciplined Entrepreneurship |
medium.com |
Strategy |
| Building a Great Startup Board: Part 1 |
greylock.com |
Governance |
| Building a Great Startup Board: Part 2 |
greylock.com |
Governance |
| Building a Tech Business as a Non-tech Founder: My Advice. |
linkedin.com |
Product |
| Building a World-Class Sales Org |
youtube.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Building an MVP for Non-technical Founders |
youtube.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| Building Company Culture |
greylock.com |
Culture |
| Building Culture |
ycombinator.com |
Team |
| Building New Products/Product Strategy |
weskao.com |
Product |
| Building Product |
ycombinator.com |
Product discovery |
| Building Startup Sales Teams: Tips for Founders |
onstartups.com |
Sales |
| Building the Initial Team for Seed Stage Startups |
andrewchen.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Building Your Best Team |
greylock.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Business Model Competitors Analysis |
medium.com |
Competition |
| Business Model Generation with the Business Model Canvas |
youtube.com |
Business Model Canvas |
| Business Models With a Purpose |
youtube.com |
Business Model Canvas |
| Business Plan Template for a Startup Business |
score.org |
Business plans |
| Business Plan Template for Small Businesses |
bplans.com |
Business plans |
| Business Plan Writing 101: Wharton Entrepreneurship Series |
youtube.com |
Business plans |
| Can You Objectively Compare Ideas? CarsDirect example. |
youtube.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Can’t Find a Mentor? Try My ‘Rule of 10’ Instead |
linkedin.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| Case Study: How 3 Startups Built Their Customer Discovery Practice |
jeffgothelf.com |
Customers |
| CEOs Who Are Pleasers Should Spend More Time With Customers |
feld.com |
Leadership & management |
| Check Your Progress |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Strategy |
| Choice of Business Entity: Pros and Cons of Corporations and LLCs |
mintzedge.com |
Incorporation |
| Choosing Bad Competition |
greylock.com |
Competition |
| Choosing Your Startup’s Compass Metric |
tobi.lutke.com |
Operations |
| Clinching Your Series A |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| Co-founder Conflict |
medium.com |
Co-founders |
| Co-founder Mistakes That Kill Companies & How to Avoid Them |
youtube.com |
Co-founders |
| Comparison of C Corp, S Corp and LLC Entity Types |
cooleygo.com |
Incorporation |
| Competing on Business Models |
youtube.com |
Business Model Canvas |
| Competition Is for Losers |
youtube.com |
Competition |
| Competition is Overrated |
cdixon.org |
Competition |
| Competitive Analysis Landscape Worksheet |
smartsheet.com |
Competition |
| Competitive Social Mediate Analysis Table Worksheet |
smartsheet.com |
Competition |
| Complete Startup Science Toolkit: Includes: Lifecycle tracker, Now Next Long, Golden Circle, #MASSIVE Canvas, Pixar Canvas, Lean Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, Business Model Canvas, Mission Model Canvas, Value Chain Canvas, Target Customer, Interview Context Planner, Interview Questions, Interview Discussion Planner, Interview Notes, Jobs to be Done, Problem as a Comic, Solution as a Comic, Doodle – Me in 5 Years, Risk Reward Equilibrium, Team Audit, Team Canvas, Culture Canvas, Team Alignment, The Pie, Mentor Group, Gaddy Pitch, Storytelling Purpose, Twitter Pitch, Why Now, Story Elements, Universal Pitch Deck, Ask, Networking Targets, Sales Targets, Jobs, Build and Measure, Daily Standup, Lessons Learned. |
startupscience.com |
Starting out |
| Constant Readjustment vs Long-Term Commitment |
ecorner.stanford.edu |
Product discovery |
| Conveying Vision to Employees |
ecorner.stanford.edu |
Leadership & management |
| Cooley Go Legal Documents and Resources |
cooleygo.com |
Legal |
| Coping With the Chasm |
linkedin.com |
Customer & market selection |
| Copycat Your Competitors to Take the Market |
hitenism.com |
Competition |
| Core Values of Culture |
youtube.com |
Culture |
| Corporations: The Basics |
cooleygo.com |
Incorporation |
| Create New Markets with Category Design |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Strategy |
| Create Products That People Love by Validating Your Idea First |
hitenism.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Create Structure Out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later |
feld.com |
Governance |
| Crisis Management: The CFO’s Vital Role in Startup Resilience |
linkedin.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Crowdfunding Considerations for Early Stage Companies |
mintzedge.com |
Fundraising |
| Culture at Coinbase |
medium.com |
Culture |
| Culture Isn’t a Chore |
hitenism.com |
Culture |
| Curious Language Model Limitations |
linkedin.com |
Product |
| Customer Development for Startups: What I Learned Talking to 500 Customers in 4 Weeks |
groovehq.com |
Product discovery |
| Customer Development – Steve Blank |
youtube.com |
Business Model Canvas |
| Customer Obsession vs. Competitor Awareness |
outlierspath.com |
Competition |
| Customer Service Isn’t a Department |
jackealtman.com |
Customer support & success |
| Customers Don’t Care About Your Features and Technology |
youtube.com |
Sales |
| Decisions, Decisions. It Gets Harder as a Company Grows. |
suhaild.medium.com |
Leadership & management |
| Deconstructing Conventional Wisdom in Marketing & Sales |
youtube.com |
Sales |
| Design and Innovate Solutions That Achieve the Desired Performance by Prototyping to Learn |
bobmoesta.medium.com |
Engineering & product design |
| Design for People, Use People Language |
medium.com |
Engineering & product design |
| Design for Startups |
youtube.com |
Engineering & product design |
| Designing a Truly Great Product Requires Asking Yourself This Critical Question |
bobmoesta.medium.com |
Engineering & product design |
| Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen |
youtube.com |
Bootstrapping |
| Discovery – Excuses |
svpg.com |
Product discovery |
| Discovery – Problem vs Solution |
svpg.com |
Product discovery |
| Distribution |
a16z.com |
Sales |
| Do Technical Founders Need a Business Co-founder? |
ycombinator.com |
Co-founders |
| Do Things That Don’t Scale |
paulgraham.com |
General advice |
| Do You Know How Often You Should Be Revisiting Your Financial Forecast? |
youtube.com |
Financial projections |
| Does Your Marketing Pass the Duck Test? |
kellblog.com |
Marketing |
| Does Your Tech Startup Really Need a Technical Co-founder? Yes. |
ycombinator.com |
Co-founders |
| Doing Customer Discovery Is Like Searching for the Holy Grail. 2 Minutes to See Why |
youtube.com |
Customer discovery |
| Don’t Block the Exit |
blog.hubspot.com |
Customer support & success |
| Don’t Make These Hiring Mistakes |
youtube.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Employee Retention |
blog.samaltman.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Employee Selection Affects Culture |
ecorner.stanford.edu |
Culture |
| Empowered – Achieving Extraordinary Results With Ordinary People |
youtu.be |
Product management |
| Empowering a World of Rebels |
youtube.com |
General advice |
| End to End Marketing |
weskao.com |
Growth |
| Engineering Funnel? 10 Ways for Entrepreneurs to Find and Hire Technical Talent |
medium.datadriveninvestor.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Enrepeneurship and Mental Health |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Team |
| Entrepeneurs Guide To Going B-Corp |
cbey.yale.edu |
Legal |
| EQ For Entrepeneurs |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Team |
| ESG Checklist for Startups |
cooleygo.com |
Environmental & social responsibility |
| Every Customer Is a Design Partner – Leading Your Sales Motion With Sales Engineering |
tomtunguz.com |
Sales |
| Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Marketing Communications |
medium.com |
Marketing |
| Excellence in Customer Service |
outlierspath.com |
Customer support & success |
| Fact-Specific Inquiry: Deciding Between Trade Secret and Patent Protection |
mintzedge.com |
Intellectual property |
| Find a Tough Mentor, You’ll Thank Them One Day |
linkedin.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| Find Product Market Fit |
youtube.com |
Product-market fit |
| Finding Ideas |
medium.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Finding Product Market Fit |
rein.pk |
Product-market fit |
| Finding Product Market Fit 1/6 – Getting Started |
johnwdanner.medium.com |
Product-market fit |
| Finding Product Market Fit 2/6 – Magic |
johnwdanner.medium.com |
Product-market fit |
| Finding Product Market Fit 3/6 – Habit |
johnwdanner.medium.com |
Product-market fit |
| Finding Product Market Fit 4/6 – Discovery |
johnwdanner.medium.com |
Product-market fit |
| Finding Product Market Fit 5/6 – Growth Loop |
johnwdanner.medium.com |
Product-market fit |
| Finding Product Market Fit 6/6 – Getting Ready for Series A |
johnwdanner.medium.com |
Product-market fit |
| Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur |
youtube.com |
Co-founders |
| Flavors of Prototypes |
svpg.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| Formation 101- Founder Stock and Vesting |
mintzedge.com |
Incorporation |
| Formation 101: Choosing an Entity Jurisdiction |
mintzedge.com |
Incorporation |
| Founders Can’t Scale: Fact or Fiction? |
mjskok.com |
Leadership & management |
| Founders Need to Know This Before They Raise Venture Capital |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| Founders Should Test the Hypotheses That Matter the Most |
bussgang.medium.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Founders’ Agreement Template |
pandadoc.com |
Co-founders |
| Founders’ Agreement template and conversation guide |
law.upenn.edu |
Co-founders |
| Freemium vs Free Trial: Which Is Better for SAAS Startups |
medium.com |
Go-to-market |
| From Seven Failures to 10X Growth |
growthunhinged.com |
Go-to-market |
| Frontend Web Development – A Complete Overview |
youtube.com |
Technical skills |
| Get Customer Feedback by Creating an MVP |
youtube.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| Getting From $1M – $10M ARR Making Improvements to Drive Customer Success Scores |
youtube.com |
Customer support & success |
| Getting Into Y Combinator – Twice! |
youtube.com |
Accelerators |
| Getting Press For Your Startup |
ycombinator.com |
Growth |
| Getting the MVP Right |
youtube.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| GhG Evaluation Tool |
cranetool.org |
Climate and impact |
| Give Your Elevator Pitch |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Growth |
| Go ahead and start a business – but don’t quit your day job. |
hbr.org |
Bootstrapping and money |
| Go to Market Strategies: A Guide for Product Managers + Template |
villaumbrosia.medium.com |
Go-to-market |
| Go To Market Template |
miro.com |
Go-to-market |
| Go to Market – 3 Ways Startups Can Hack It |
medium.datadriveninvestor.com |
Go-to-market |
| Go-To-Marketing Strategies for Startups |
youtu.be |
Go-to-market |
| Good Group Project Manager / Dead Group Project Manager |
khoslaventures.com |
Product management |
| Good Product Strategy, Bad Product Strategy |
linkedin.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| Google Tips for the Entrepreneur |
youtube.com |
General advice |
| Grow Your Business with KPIS |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Strategy |
| Growth for Startups (market fit) |
ycombinator.com |
Growth |
| GTM Strategies to Reach $250M ARR at Activecampaign |
growthunhinged.com |
Go-to-market |
| Hard Startups |
blog.samaltman.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Here’s What I Learned When I Became “CEO” at 20 |
suhaild.medium.com |
General advice |
| High Functioning vs Low Functioning Startup Boards |
bothsidesofthetable.com |
Governance |
| Hire a Gap Filler |
blog.eladgil.com |
Early hires |
| Hiring Executives & Bad Advice |
blog.eladgil.com |
Early hires |
| Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good? |
a16z.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Hiring Techniques for Early Stage Startups: How to Get Your First 3 Employees |
blog.eladgil.com |
Early hires |
| Hiring the First 5 Engineers: What Sort of People Do You Want on Your Team? |
blog.eladgil.com |
Early hires |
| Hiring the Right People |
youtube.com |
Early hires |
| Hiring Your Early Team |
lennysnewsletter.com |
Early hires |
| Hiring Your First Employee as an Entrepreneur |
youtube.com |
Early hires |
| Hiring, Managing, Promoting, and Firing Executives |
pmarchive.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| How a CEO Spends Time |
ecorner.stanford.edu |
Leadership & management |
| How and Why to Start a Startup |
youtube.com |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| How Customers Can Help You Build a Product They’ll Buy |
medium.com |
Product discovery |
| How Do You Convince Someone to Join Your Startup? |
youtube.com |
Early hires |
| How Do You Know if an Investor Is Good? |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| How I Became an Entrepreneur at 66 |
youtube.com |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| How Many Authorized Shares Should I Use in My Certificate of Incorporation |
cooleygo.com |
Incorporation |
| How Market Segmentation Simplifies Growth Hack |
medium.com |
Customer & market selection |
| How Much Equity Should I Give My First Employees? |
youtube.com |
Early hires |
| How Much Funding Is Too Little? Too Much? |
pmarchive.com |
Fundraising |
| How Netflix Builds a Culture of Excellence |
youtube.com |
Culture |
| How Sophia Amoruso Lost $85,000,000 from Nasty Gal |
youtube.com |
Bootstrapping |
| How Startups Should Do Customer Discovery |
thinkgrowth.org |
Customers |
| How Strategy Really Works |
youtube.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| How the Internet Works for Developers – Part 1 – Overview & Frontend |
youtube.com |
Technical skills |
| How the Internet Works for Developers – Part 2 – Servers & Scaling |
youtube.com |
Technical skills |
| How to Approach Someone to Be Your Mentor |
suhaild.medium.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| How to Ask for an Introduction |
blog.eladgil.com |
Fundraising |
| How to be an Effective Executive |
delian.io |
Leadership & management |
| How to Be Strategic |
medium.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| How to Be Successful |
blog.samaltman.com |
General advice |
| How to Become a Magnet for Talent and Assess Talent |
delian.io |
Recruiting & team building |
| How to Become a Master-Level Copywriter |
davegerhardt.com |
Marketing |
| How to Become Profitable as a Bootstrapped SaaS |
youtu.be |
Bootstrapping and money |
| How to Build a Product |
youtu.be |
Product discovery |
| How to Build a Startup Company Budget! A Step-By-Step Guide |
youtube.com |
Budgeting |
| How to Build a Startup Pitch Deck in 2024 |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| How to Build a Startup That Gets Acquired |
thinkgrowth.org |
The startup process |
| How to Build an MVP |
ycombinator.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| How to Build Culture of Rigorous Thinking (podcast) |
weskao.com |
Team |
| How To Build Your Brand |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Growth |
| How to Build Your First Sales Team – Aaron Ross, Predictable Revenue |
youtube.com |
Sales |
| How to Calculate Burn Rate: The Startup Cash Burn Rate Formula |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| How to Calculate Cash out Date |
youtube.com |
Financial projections |
| How to Choose a Board Member |
blog.eladgil.com |
Governance |
| How to Choose a Co-founder |
blog.eladgil.com |
Co-founders |
| How to Choose a Lawyer for Your Startup |
cooleygo.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| How to Cold Email Investors |
youtube.com |
Investors |
| How to Come up With a Great Startup Idea |
youtube.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| How to Conduct a Comprehensive Competitive Analysis |
mykpono.com |
Competition |
| How to Convince Investors |
paulgraham.com |
Fundraising |
| How to Convince Investors You’re the Future Not the Past |
medium.com |
Fundraising |
| How to Create a Great Brand Name |
youtube.com |
Marketing |
| How to Create a Killer Competition Slide for VC Investors |
youtube.com |
Competition |
| How to Create a Winning Go-To-Market Strategy for Startups |
antler.co |
Go-to-market |
| How to Cross the Chasm: Creating and Owning Your Own Market |
youtube.com |
Customer & market selection |
| How to decide between boostrapping and raising venture capital |
youtube.com |
Bootstrapping |
| How to Detect if Your Startup Has a Faux Focus |
kellblog.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| How to Determine the Right Level of Burn Rate |
linkedin.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| How to Develop a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy: Solving Business Problems |
youtube.com |
Environmental & social responsibility |
| How to Develop Your Startup’s Annual Budget and Plan |
linkedin.com |
Budgeting |
| How To Do Competitor Analysis for Your Startup |
youtube.com |
Competition |
| How to Find and Grow Talent |
youtube.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| How to Find and Win Your First 10 B2B Customers |
lennysnewsletter.com |
Sales |
| How to Fire a Co-founder |
blog.eladgil.com |
Co-founders |
| How to Fix a Broken Go-To-Market Motion Using a Steady State Funnel |
kellblog.com |
Go-to-market |
| How to Focus When You’re Overwhelmed by Marketing Options |
hitenism.com |
Marketing |
| How to Future-Proof Your SEO Strategy |
growthunhinged.com |
Marketing |
| How to Get From Big Idea to a Validated Business Case: An Overview of the Testing Process |
youtube.com |
Customers |
| How to Get From Big Idea to a Validated Business Case: An Overview of the Testing Process |
youtube.com |
Business Model Canvas |
| How to Get Ideas and Measure Them |
youtu.be |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| How To Get More Done |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Team |
| How to Get Startup Ideas |
paulgraham.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| How to Get the Most Out of a Mentor |
linkedin.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| How to Get Users and Grow |
youtube.com |
Marketing |
| How to Get Your First Ten Customers? |
youtube.com |
Customer discovery |
| How to Grow Your Startup by Asking Better Questions |
hitenism.com |
The startup process |
| How to Hire |
blog.samaltman.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| How to Identify Your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) |
lennysnewsletter.com |
Customers |
| How to Improve Conversion Rates |
ycombinator.com |
Growth |
| How to Iterate & Improve Your Product With Rapid User Testing |
youtube.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business |
lennysnewsletter.com |
Pivoting |
| How to Know if Your Idea’s the Right One — A Founder’s Guide for Successful Early-Stage Customer Discovery |
review.firstround.com |
Customers |
| How to Know When to Scale and How to Do It |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| How to Know When You Need to Fire Your Customer |
battery.com |
Customer & market selection |
| How To Launch |
ycombinator.com |
Growth |
| How to Lead a Strategic Board Discussion |
kellblog.com |
Governance |
| How to Learn From Customers When Everyone Is Lying to You |
youtube.com |
Customer discovery |
| How to Make Executive Hires at Your Startup |
thinkgrowth.org |
Recruiting & team building |
| How to manage, monitor and validate third-party data sharing |
iapp.org |
Legal |
| How to Measure Your Product |
youtube.com |
Product discovery |
| How to Operate |
youtu.be |
Operations |
| How to Optimize Your Pricing Page |
growthunhinged.com |
Sales |
| How to Over Engineer a Website // What Is a Tech Stack? |
youtube.com |
Technical skills |
| How to Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| How to Pitch Your Startup |
ycombinator.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| How to Prepare for a Board Meeting to Make Sure You Crush It |
bothsidesofthetable.com |
Governance |
| How to Protect Your Intellectual Property | WSGR Startup Basics |
youtube.com |
Intellectual property |
| How to Raise Money |
paulgraham.com |
Fundraising |
| How to Raise Money Before Launch |
medium.com |
Fundraising |
| How to Raise Money With Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, and Parker Conrad |
youtu.be |
Fundraising |
| How to Raise Venture Capital for Your Startup, From Pre-seed to Series A |
marker.medium.com |
Fundraising |
| How to Ruin Your Company With One Bad Process (Budgeting) |
a16z.com |
Budgeting |
| How to Run a Strategic Seed Round Process |
medium.com |
Fundraising |
| How to Run an Effective Board Meeting and Make an Effective Board Deck |
delian.io |
Governance |
| How to Scale a Magical Experience – 4 Lessons From Airbnb’s Brian Chesky |
reid.medium.com |
Pivoting |
| How to Sell Your Vision: The Most Important Skill for Any Entrepreneur |
groovehq.com |
Sales |
| How to Split Equity Among Co-Founders |
ycombinator.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| How to Stand out From Your Competition |
linkedin.com |
Competition |
| How to Start a Cultural Revolution |
youtu.be |
Leadership & management |
| How to start a SaaS business with no money |
youtube.com |
Bootstrapping |
| How to Startup: Part 5 – Minimum Viable Product |
linkedin.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| How to Stop Your Board Meeting From Going down a Rat Hole |
bothsidesofthetable.com |
Governance |
| How to Structure Early-Stage Startup-Fundraising (Safe/Convertible Note vs Investment Agreements) |
legalnodes.com |
Fundraising |
| How to Structure Your Product Discovery Process |
youtube.com |
Product discovery |
| How to Succeed With a Startup |
youtube.com |
General advice |
| How to Tackle an Enormous Goal, Elephant-Style |
linkedin.com |
General advice |
| How to Take an Audience-First Approach to Competitive Analysis |
medium.com |
Competition |
| How to Talk to Users |
ycombinator.com |
Customers |
| How to Talk to Users |
youtube.com |
Customer discovery |
| How to Talk to Users – Customer Discovery for Your Startup |
youtube.com |
Customer discovery |
| How to Test Your Business Model Canvas Hypotheses |
youtube.com |
Business Model Canvas |
| How to Validate Your B2B Startup Idea |
lennysnewsletter.com |
Product-market fit |
| How to validate your startup idea |
youtube.com |
The startup process |
| How to Work With a COO at a Startup |
jackealtman.com |
Operations |
| How to Write a One Page Business Plan |
youtube.com |
Business plans |
| Hubris, Passion and What It Really Takes to Be a Great Entrepreneur |
youtube.com |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| Human Resource Issues in a Startup |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| I Don’t Mind Paying, but I Do Mind Being Played |
blog.hubspot.com |
Customer support & success |
| Iconiq Insights: Seven Tips for Managing Remote Engineering Teams |
medium.com |
Leadership & management |
| Idea Generation |
blog.samaltman.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Ideal customer profile battlecard |
mykpono.com |
Customers |
| IDEO: Brainstorming and Other Ideation Techniques |
youtube.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| If Financial Projections Are Never Accurate, Why Prepare Them? |
medium.com |
Financial projections |
| If Product Is Great, It Doesn't Have to Be Good |
paulbuchheit.blogspot.com |
Product |
| If You Need to Do Marketing, Did You Fail at Product? |
youtube.com |
Marketing |
| Influx of Accelerators |
youtube.com |
Accelerators |
| Instacart Founder Explains the Framework He Used to Iterate Through 20 Startup Ideas |
youtube.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Intellectual Property: Building Your IP Strategy |
youtube.com |
Intellectual property |
| Intellectual Property: Copyrights |
youtube.com |
Intellectual property |
| Intellectual Property: Employee Policies |
youtube.com |
Intellectual property |
| Intellectual Property: Licensing |
youtube.com |
Intellectual property |
| Intellectual Property: Patents |
youtube.com |
Intellectual property |
| Intellectual Property: Protection & Infringement |
youtube.com |
Intellectual property |
| Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets |
youtube.com |
Intellectual property |
| Intellectual Property: Trademarks |
youtube.com |
Intellectual property |
| Intro: Bootstrapping vs Venture Capital – Why Bootstrapping Is Better |
ewebinar.com |
Bootstrapping and money |
| Introducing the “Elevator Question” for Entrepreneurs |
linkedin.com |
Pitch competitions |
| Investor Herd Dynamics |
paulgraham.com |
Investors |
| Is A Public Benefit Corporation Right for Your Mission-Driven Business? |
mintzedge.com |
Incorporation |
| Is It Still Worth Learning to Code? Amjad Masad Weighs In |
youtube.com |
Technical skills |
| Is Your Startup Ready for an Accelerator? |
youtube.com |
Accelerators |
| Is Your VC Founder Friendly? |
thinkgrowth.org |
Investors |
| Iterate Like Crazy |
youtube.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Jamie Gier – The Good Side of B2B Marketing |
youtube.com |
Marketing |
| Jason Fried Challenges Your Thinking on Fundraising, Goals, Growth, and More |
youtube.com |
Bootstrapping |
| Jeff Bezos on the Importance of a Truth-Telling Culture |
youtube.com |
Culture |
| Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) Competitor Analysis Template |
docs.google.com |
Competition |
| Judging Product Market Fit |
rein.pk |
Product-market fit |
| Later-Stage Advice |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Launching and Scaling |
ecademycourse.teachable.com |
Growth |
| Layoffs at a Startup in This Economy Are a Reality – Here’s How to Do It Right |
youtube.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Leadership and CEO Succession |
greylock.com |
Leadership & management |
| Legal Support: Working With Attorneys Part 1 |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Lessons From 5 Bosses |
youtube.com |
General advice |
| Lessons From a Large Founding Team |
ecorner.stanford.edu |
Co-founders |
| Lessons From Scaling Stripe |
youtube.com |
Operations |
| Lessons From the Rise and Fall of Nasty Gal |
youtu.be |
Investors |
| Let’s Scale Purpose – Why Combining Purpose With Profit Should Be the New Recipe for Impact |
linkedin.com |
Environmental & social responsibility |
| Leveraging Technology to Help Customer Success Scale |
youtube.com |
Customer support & success |
| Limited Liability Companies (LLC): The Basics |
cooleygo.com |
Incorporation |
| List of investors, accelerators, and resources supporting underrepresented founders |
airtable.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| LTV Calculation Spreadsheet |
d-eship.com |
Bootstrapping and money |
| Managing Chaos: Responsibilities & Challenges of a Startup COO |
youtube.com |
Operations |
| Managing Startup Finances |
youtu.be |
Budgeting |
| Managing the Marketing Budget in a Downturn |
linkedin.com |
Budgeting |
| Managing Through a Crisis |
linkedin.com |
Leadership & management |
| Managing Your Startup Board — A Short Presentation |
bothsidesofthetable.com |
Governance |
| Market Research, Wireframing, and Design |
spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Marketing Basics for Startups |
youtube.com |
Marketing |
| Master Your Elevator Pitch |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Growth |
| MasterClass Live with Sara Blakely |
youtube.com |
Early hires |
| Mastering the Foundation: Go-To-Market Strategy for Startup Success |
medium.com |
Go-to-market |
| Mastering the Problem Space to Achieve Product-Market Fit |
youtube.com |
Product-market fit |
| Melanie Perkins of Canva on Fundraising |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| Melanie Perkins on Finding a Technical Founder and Hiring Great Talent |
youtube.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| MIT – Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures and Business Plans |
youtube.com |
Business plans |
| Money Doesn’t Solve Problems, People Solve Problems |
feld.com |
Leadership & management |
| Mr. Beast Burger – Business Model Canvas Example |
youtube.com |
Business Model Canvas |
| MVP Doesn’t Mean Anything |
rein.pk |
MVP & prototype development |
| My Best Financial Projections for Startups Pitch Deck Slide |
youtube.com |
Financial projections |
| Navigate Cofounder Relationships |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Team |
| Negotiating Your Venture Term Sheet |
mintzedge.com |
Fundraising |
| Netflix’s Freedom and Responsibility Culture Deck |
peterfisk.com |
Culture |
| Never Ask What They Want — 3 Better Questions to Ask in User Interviews |
medium.com |
Customers |
| Next Power Capital Workshop on Project Finance |
nextpowercapital.com |
Climate and impact |
| On Creating Business Culture |
youtube.com |
Culture |
| On Micromanagement |
a16z.com |
Leadership & management |
| One-Page Business Plan Templates |
smartsheet.com |
Business plans |
| Only 23% of You Would Pick the Same VCs Again |
saastr.com |
Investors |
| Operational Excellence Is the New Customer Intimacy |
linkedin.com |
Operations |
| Original AirBnB Pitch Deck |
slideshare.net |
Fundraising |
| Outrun the Competition |
linkedin.com |
Competition |
| Own Your Screw-Ups |
blog.hubspot.com |
Customer support & success |
| Part 2 |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Part 2 |
medium.com |
Financial projections |
| Part I: Founder-Led Enterprise Sales, Zero to $5M in ARR |
tracy.posthaven.com |
Sales |
| Party Rounds: How to Get a High Valuation for Your Seed Startup |
blog.eladgil.com |
Fundraising |
| Pitching For Payroll: How We Bootstrapped $1,226,500 in Pitch Competitions |
medium.com |
Pitch competitions |
| Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works |
fs.blog |
Strategy & positioning |
| Policy Hub For Climate and Energy Solutions |
c2es.org |
Climate and impact |
| Position Your Product |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Strategy |
| Positioning Worksheet |
cdn2.hubspot.net |
Strategy & positioning |
| Post-incorporation Checklist: 10 Next Steps to Consider |
cooleygo.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Pre-revenue Financial Projections – Wow Angel Investors |
feeltheboot.com |
Financial projections |
| Pricing Strategy & Cost Advantages |
outlierspath.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| Problem-Founder Fit |
medium.com |
Product-market fit |
| Product Development Cycles Fundamentals |
ycombinator.com |
Product |
| Product Management at a Startup 101 |
leighmariebraswell.substack.com |
Product management |
| Product Management Theater |
youtube.com |
Product management |
| Product Strategy and Product Discovery |
romanpichler.com |
Product discovery |
| Product Visionary vs. Product Leader |
linkedin.com |
Product management |
| Product vs Feature Teams |
svpg.com |
Product management |
| Product-Led Marketing to Reach 400,000 Users |
growthunhinged.com |
Marketing |
| Productivity |
blog.samaltman.com |
General advice |
| Put Your Investors to Work for You |
blog.eladgil.com |
Investors |
| Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) |
carta.com |
Incorporation |
| Raising Capital and Creating a Pitch Deck |
youtube.com |
Pitch competitions |
| Reference Checks |
jackealtman.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| Resources on entrepreneurship broadly |
effectuation.org |
Starting out |
| Revenue Based Finance |
impactterms.org |
Fundraising |
| Revenues or No Revenues? This Is the Question |
medium.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Reverse Engineered: Melissa Kwan, Co-founder & CEO at Webinar |
youtu.be |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| Roadmap to Navigate Energy Transition |
oxfordenergy.org |
Climate and impact |
| Running an Effective Board Meeting |
mintzedge.com |
Governance |
| Ryan's Seqoia inspired deck |
medium.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| S Corporations: The Basics |
cooleygo.com |
Incorporation |
| Sales Advice for Founders |
tracy.posthaven.com |
Sales |
| Scaling Plangrid to 400+ People With YC Partner Kat Manalac |
youtu.be |
General advice |
| Scaling the Product Owner Role |
romanpichler.com |
Product management |
| Section 409A Valuations |
mintzedge.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Seed Funding Basics |
mintzedge.com |
Fundraising |
| Selecting Co-founders |
youtube.com |
Co-founders |
| Setting Prices, Evaluating Opportunities |
ecorner.stanford.edu |
Competition |
| Shareholders’ Agreement template |
startupcommons.org |
Co-founders |
| Should You Be the CEO? |
medium.com |
Co-founders |
| Should You Follow Your Passion? |
youtube.com |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| Should You Hire a COO? |
blog.eladgil.com |
Operations |
| Should You Worry About Competition |
youtube.com |
Competition |
| Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise VC? |
youtube.com |
Bootstrapping |
| Silicon Valley Legend Unveils Her Best Operating Advice |
youtube.com |
Leadership & management |
| Six Common Contract Traps: A Field Guide |
mintzedge.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| So You Want to Be a B Corp… |
medium.com |
Incorporation |
| Social & Environmental Sustainability: What Startups Can Do Right Now |
youtube.com |
Environmental & social responsibility |
| Solve for My Success, Not Your Systems |
blog.hubspot.com |
Customer support & success |
| Start Small, Stay Small – A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup. Chapter 1 |
startsmall.com |
Bootstrapping and money |
| Start-up Advice & How to Talk to Customers |
youtube.com |
General advice |
| Startup Advice |
blog.samaltman.com |
General advice |
| Startup Advisor Equity |
youtube.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| Startup Boards |
bothsidesofthetable.com |
Governance |
| Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture |
youtube.com |
Culture |
| Startup CEO: Creating Your Company’s Operating System |
youtube.com |
Operations |
| Startup CEO: Creating Your Personal Operating System |
youtube.com |
Operations |
| Startup Finance for Founders — Part I, Accounting: Bank Accounts, Credit Cards, Invoices & Contracts |
rein.pk |
Budgeting |
| Startup Finance for Founders — Part II, Strategic Finance: CFOs, Annual Prepayment, Venture Debt & Shadow Budgets |
rein.pk |
Budgeting |
| Startup Financial Models – 12 Templates Compared |
openvc.app |
Financial projections |
| Startup Founder’s Legal Guide to Issuing Employee Stock Options |
legalnodes.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Startup Fundraising Decks – Financial Model Template for Sales & Marketing Part 1 |
medium.com |
Financial projections |
| Startup Fundraising Terms Explained |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| Startup Legal Mechanics |
youtu.be |
Incorporation |
| Startup Operations |
youtube.com |
Operations |
| Startup Pitch Wars: How I Won 5 Pitch Battles |
marissa-limsiaco.medium.com |
Pitch competitions |
| Startup Pricing |
ycombinator.com |
Growth |
| Startup=Growth |
paulgraham.com |
Growth |
| Startups |
youtube.com |
Investors |
| Startups Are an Act of Desperation |
blog.eladgil.com |
The startup process |
| Steps in a CSR Strategy: How to Create a Compelling Case for Your Program |
youtube.com |
Environmental & social responsibility |
| Steve Blank's Customer Development |
steveblank.com |
Customers |
| Stock Vesting in Startup Companies |
mintzedge.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Strategic Budgeting Tips for Startups During Crisis |
linkedin.com |
Budgeting |
| Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially |
hbr.org |
Strategy & positioning |
| Strategic Coherence: The Deceptively Difficult Task of Figuring Out Your Startup’s ‘One Thing’ |
battery.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| Strategic Communication: How to Develop Strategic Messaging and Positioning |
mykpono.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| Strategic Leadership |
weskao.com |
Team |
| Strategic Patenting: Leveraging Intellectual Property in Startup Funding |
linkedin.com |
Intellectual property |
| Strategy |
youtube.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| Strategy & Competitors |
rogermartin.medium.com |
Competition |
| Strategy at Scale: Designing and Scaling Uber Eats |
greylock.com |
Pivoting |
| Strategy First. Then Relentless Tactical Execution |
thinkgrowth.org |
Strategy & positioning |
| Strategy Planning and Corporate Social Responsibility: Creating a CSR Strategy (Part 1) |
youtube.com |
Environmental & social responsibility |
| Swiftly Move Through Any Design Process With These Design Tools |
bobmoesta.medium.com |
Engineering & product design |
| Talking With Humans (full PDF) |
s3.amazonaws.com |
Customers |
| Team and Execution With Sam Altman |
youtube.com |
Co-founders |
| Test Your Business Model Canvas: The Customer Interview |
youtube.com |
Business Model Canvas |
| The 3-Step Marketing Framework We Created to Grow Kissmetrics |
hitenism.com |
Marketing |
| The 4 Questions Every Founder Should Ask Every VC That Almost No One Asks |
medium.com |
Investors |
| The 7 Most Common Legal Mistakes Startups Make During the Investor Due Diligence |
legalnodes.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| The 7 Types of Angel Investors – What Is Right for Your Startup? |
blog.eladgil.com |
Fundraising |
| The Alphabet Soup of ESG: Introducing Key Frameworks |
cooleygo.com |
Environmental & social responsibility |
| The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework |
sequoiacap.com |
Product-market fit |
| The Art of Startup Finance: Financial Budgeting – Your Long-Term Forecast |
youtube.com |
Budgeting |
| The Art of Startup Finance: Financial Budgeting – Your Operating Budget |
youtube.com |
Budgeting |
| The Art of Startup Finance: Financial Foundations – Your Balance Sheet |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| The Art of Startup Finance: Financial Foundations – Your Capitalization |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| The Art of Startup Finance: Financial Processes – Your Cash Flow |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| The Art of Startup Finance: Financial Processes – Your Income Statement |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| The Art of Startup Finance: The Startup Finance Pyramid |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| The Best Startup Accelerators & Incubators Around the World |
medium.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| The Board Boss Delusion |
kellblog.com |
Governance |
| The Business Model Canvas |
seedfund.nsf.gov |
Strategy |
| The Business Model Canvas |
youtube.com |
Business Model Canvas |
| The Business Model Canvas: From Chaos to Clarity |
youtube.com |
Business Model Canvas |
| The Complete Guide to Partnerships for Startups and Corporations |
valuer.ai |
Growth |
| The Dangers of a High Compensation Culture |
battery.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs |
thinkgrowth.org |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| The Executive Recruiting Playbook |
greylock.com |
Recruiting & team building |
| The Finance Function: Looking back and Looking Forward |
avc.com |
Financial projections |
| The First 18 Months of Starting a Company: It’s Life or Death |
suhaild.medium.com |
General advice |
| The Five Most Critical Mistakes Founders Make When Raising Money |
hitenism.com |
Fundraising |
| The Founders of Stripe and Pinterest on What Should You Look for in the First 10 Hires of a Company |
youtube.com |
Early hires |
| The Gross Margin Problem: Lessons for Tech-Enabled Startups |
medium.com |
Financial projections |
| The Hubspot Culture Code |
blog.hubspot.com |
Culture |
| The Hubspot Customer Code |
hubspot.com |
Customer support & success |
| The Idea Maze |
cdixon.org |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| The Ideal Financial Reporting Tempo for a VC-Backed Company |
feld.com |
Governance |
| The Impact of Customer Selection on Fundability |
linkedin.com |
Customer & market selection |
| The Importance of Execution |
ecorner.stanford.edu |
General advice |
| The Importance of Starting With a Small Market |
youtube.com |
Customer & market selection |
| The Intimacy of Start-up Pitching |
linkedin.com |
Pitch competitions |
| The Key for Successful Go-To-Market: Rational Needs-Based Segmentation |
medium.com |
Go-to-market |
| The Lean Startup |
youtube.com |
Customer discovery |
| The Marketing Formula That Propelled Duolingo to 500M Users |
youtube.com |
Marketing |
| The Mini-Guide to Talking to Your Customers |
medium.com |
Customers |
| The Missing Link Between PLG and SLG |
growthunhinged.com |
Customer support & success |
| The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick [Actionable Summary] |
durmonski.com |
Customers |
| The Most Common Mistake When Forecasting Growth for New Products (And How to Fix It) |
andrewchen.com |
Financial projections |
| The Nature of Product |
youtube.com |
Product discovery |
| The Next Feature Fallacy: The Fallacy That the Next New Feature Will Suddenly Make People Use Your Product |
andrewchen.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| The Outsiders: Defying the Myth of Founder-Market Fit |
bussgang.medium.com |
Product-market fit |
| The Path From 0 to 100+ Paying Customers |
growthunhinged.com |
Go-to-market |
| The Pre-PMF Guide to Product Management |
growthunhinged.com |
MVP & prototype development |
| The Problem Statement Canvas |
metabeta.com |
Strategy |
| The Problem Statement Canvas |
docs.google.com |
Strategy |
| The Real Product Market Fit |
youtube.com |
Product-market fit |
| The Right Way to Do a Competitor Analysis for a New Product Category |
arunsureshwrites.medium.com |
Competition |
| The Rise of the COO Role |
allisonpickens.substack.com |
Operations |
| The Sales and Partnerships Playbook: Your Guide to Early Growth |
fi.co |
Growth |
| The Secret to Presenting Your Pitch Deck Financials |
youtube.com |
Financial projections |
| The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea |
youtube.com |
Pitch competitions |
| The Silicon Valley Outsider Building a Tech Disruptor |
youtube.com |
General advice |
| The Single Biggest Reason Why Start-Ups Succeed |
youtube.com |
The startup process |
| The Startup Founder’s Guide to Tech Stacks |
develocraft.com |
Product |
| The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company |
youtube.com |
The startup process |
| The Startup Pivot |
greylock.com |
Pivoting |
| The Three Machines |
feld.com |
Leadership & management |
| The Three Types of Customer Success Teams |
tomtunguz.com |
Customer support & success |
| The Truth About Y Combinator |
ycombinator.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| Things I Wish I Did Before Starting a Company |
suhaild.medium.com |
General advice |
| This 1 Piece of Advice Could Make or Break Your Career |
thinkgrowth.org |
General advice |
| This is How You Build Partnerships to Make Your Startup Better, Faster, Stronger |
firstround.com |
Growth |
| Three Lessons From the Founding Story of Doordash |
youtube.com |
Customer discovery |
| Three Types of Pivots |
youtube.com |
Pivoting |
| Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People |
a16z.com |
Sales |
| To Patent or Not? Do Companies Need an IP Strategy? |
medium.com |
Intellectual property |
| To Pivot or Not to Pivot and More |
youtube.com |
Pivoting |
| Top 7 Legal Documents for Any Startup |
entrepreneur.com |
Legal |
| Top Lessons in Building Great Teams |
youtube.com |
Early hires |
| Top Ways Startups Waste Money |
youtube.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| Tough Startup Legal Questions |
youtube.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Tracy Young’s Advice on Fundraising for Women Founders |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| Treat Me Like a Person, Not a Persona |
blog.hubspot.com |
Customer support & success |
| Treat Your Idea as a Project Rather Than a Company at First |
youtube.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Turn Your Budgeting Process Upside Down |
hbr.org |
Budgeting |
| Types of Sales Leads |
youtube.com |
Marketing |
| Types of Startups |
youtube.com |
The startup process |
| Udacity: How to Build a Startup |
udacity.com |
The startup process |
| Understand Category Design |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Strategy |
| Understand Your Customers |
toolkit.techstars.com |
Customers |
| Understanding SAFEs and Priced Equity Rounds |
ycombinator.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| Universal Pitch Deck |
startupscience.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| Update Your First Believers |
outlierspath.com |
Investors |
| Use Your Competitors’ Products All The Time |
feld.com |
Competition |
| Using GenAI for Better Product Discovery |
youtube.com |
Product discovery |
| VC’s are not your friends, they’re your frenemies |
medium.com |
Investors |
| Venture Capital Red Flag Checklist |
abovethecrowd.com |
Investors |
| Venture Debt 101: A Discussion of the Basics and Key Considerations |
mintzedge.com |
Fundraising |
| Viaweb’s First Business Plan |
paulgraham.com |
Business plans |
| Vision vs Hallucination – Founders and Pivots |
medium.com |
Pivoting |
| Vision vs. Perspective |
ecorner.stanford.edu |
General advice |
| Want the Best Mentor? One Thing to Know… |
linkedin.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| What Exactly Is a Product Strategy |
romanpichler.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| What Goes Into an MVP Tech Stack? |
youtube.com |
Technical skills |
| What is a Business Plan? |
youtube.com |
Business plans |
| What is a cap table? – Overview + Example |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| What Is a SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle)? |
youtube.com |
Investors |
| What Is a Startup CEO’s Real Job? |
linkedin.com |
Leadership & management |
| What Is AOP in Finance – Annual Operating Plan? |
youtube.com |
Financial projections |
| What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? |
writings.stephenwolfram.com |
Product |
| What is Design Thinking? |
outlierspath.com |
Engineering & product design |
| What Is Esg? A Primer for Startups |
cooleygo.com |
Environmental & social responsibility |
| What Startups Get Wrong About Culture |
youtube.com |
Culture |
| What Startups Get Wrong About Financial Modeling |
youtube.com |
Financial projections |
| What Startups Should Look for When Hiring a Designer |
youtube.com |
Engineering & product design |
| What We Look for in Founders |
paulgraham.com |
Starting out |
| What You Think Is a Sales Problem Is More Likely a Marketing Problem |
jasonlk.medium.com |
Marketing |
| When and From Who to Raise Money From |
youtube.com |
Fundraising |
| When and How to Pivot Your Product Idea |
youtube.com |
Pivoting |
| Where Good Ideas Come From |
youtube.com |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Who Should Be on Your Startup Board? |
bothsidesofthetable.com |
Governance |
| Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them |
thinkgrowth.org |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| Why Gross Profit Is More Important Than Revenue |
feld.com |
Finance, legal & HR |
| Why Hire More Designers |
medium.com |
Engineering & product design |
| Why Lengthy Business Plans Increase the Risk of Failure |
linkedin.com |
Business plans |
| Why Personal Brand Is the Secret to Building a Company Brand (And How You Can Make It Work for Your Business) |
medium.com |
Marketing |
| Why Pivots Are Pivotal to Your Success |
thinkgrowth.org |
Pivoting |
| Why Product People Should Care About Business Strategy |
romanpichler.com |
Strategy & positioning |
| Why Products Don’t Succeed: The 7 Biases of Product Teams |
linkedin.com |
Product management |
| Why Should I Start a Startup? |
ycombinator.com |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| Why Social Selling Matters So Much |
youtube.com |
Marketing |
| Why Some Investors Care About Culture |
linkedin.com |
Culture |
| Why Successful Startups Stumble at 40 Employees |
thinkgrowth.org |
The startup process |
| Why You Shouldn’t Keep Your Startup Idea Secret |
cdixon.org |
Generating ideas & experimentation |
| Why “Ops” Is Taking Over Startup Land |
bussgang.medium.com |
Operations |
| Winning Together A Guide To Successful Corporate Startup Collaborations |
ec.europa.eu |
Growth |
| Y Combinator and 500 Startups – A Founders Comparison |
medium.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| Y Combinator Application Breakdown and Guide |
medium.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| Y Combinator vs Techstars: Accelerators Comparison by a Three-Time Alumni |
codementor.io |
Investors and accelerators |
| Y Combinator: Application & Interview Advice From a Winter ’18 Alumni |
medium.com |
Investors and accelerators |
| YC Guide to Business Models |
ycombinator.com |
Business plans |
| YC Ultimate Job Guide: Startup Stages |
youtube.com |
Careers in Entrepreneurship |
| You Can’t Be CEO and COO at the Same Time |
youtube.com |
Operations |
| You Only Need Two Investors |
johnwdanner.medium.com |
Fundraising |
| Your Customer’s Profitability Is Your Startup’s Future Health |
tomtunguz.com |
Customer & market selection |
| Your Guide to Outbound Automation |
growthunhinged.com |
Marketing |
| Your Guide to Product-Led Sales |
growthunhinged.com |
Sales |
| Your Guide to the First PLG Sales Hire |
growthunhinged.com |
Sales |
| Your Job Is Not to Make Every Customer Happy |
thinkgrowth.org |
Customers |
| Your Startup’s Competitive Advantage |
tomtunguz.com |
Competition |
| You’re Mentoring the Wrong Way |
hitenism.com |
Advisors & mentors |
| Zero to 1: Product Fundamentals for Go-To-Market |
medium.com |
Go-to-market |
| Zero to Product/Market Fit |
andrewchen.com |
Product-market fit |