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  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
  • The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank - The Startup Owner's Manual lays out the best practices, lessons and tips that have swept the startup world, offering a wealth of proven advice and information for entrepreneurs of all stripes.
  • Running Lean by Ash Maurya - A practical guide to the Lean Startup
  • Founders At Work by Jessica Livingston - A collection of interviews about the early days of popular technology companies
  • The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman - Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.
  • Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
  • Venture Capitalists at Work by Tarang Shah and Sheetal Shah - Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes offers unparalleled insights into the funding and management of companies like YouTube, Zappos, Twitter, Starent, Facebook, and Groupon. The venture capitalists profiled—among the best in the business—also reveal how they identify promising markets, products, and entrepreneurs.
  • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel
  • Hello, Startup - The "Hello, World" tutorial for building a startup
  • How to start a startup (course)
  • Steve Jobs' Vision of the World (video)
  • The Lean Launchpad by Steve Blank (Udacity) - Learn the key tools and steps to build a successful startup (or at least reduce the risk of failure). An introduction to the basics of Steve Blank's famous Customer Development process, where entrepreneurs "get out of the building" to gather massive amounts of customer and marketplace feedback, and then use that feedback to continuously iterate and evolve their startup business models, improving the chances of success at every step.
  • Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies (Coursera) - Explore how to identify and develop great ideas into great companies. Learn how to identify opportunities based on real customer needs. Develop solid business models. Create successful companies.
  • 500 Startups #500distro conference videos
  • YC Startup School 2012, 2013, 2014 videos
  • Y Combinator's startup School
  • Authors @Google: Eric Ries "The Lean Startup"
  • Marc Andreessen & Dave McClure: The Future of Startups, VC's, and Technology
  • Foundation 37 // David Byttow
  • How to Start a Startup - IIM A
  • The Lean Startup - Eric Ries (book)
  • Running Lean - Ash Maurya (book)
  • Sam Altman's blog
  • Startup advice, briefly
  • How to get startup ideas
  • 18 Mistakes that kill startups
  • High Output Management - Andrew S. Grove (book)
  • Patrick Lencioni
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni - Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team.
  • The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni - Patrick Lencioni delivers a provocative message. CEOs mainly have themselves to blame when things go wrong. If you're a CEO (or a manager for that matter), do you have the courage to face it? Doing so could change your future -- for the better.
  • The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: The Four Disciplines at the Heart of Making Any Organization World Class by Patrick Lencioni - In this follow-up to his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni's focus is on a leader's crucial role in building a healthy organization--an often overlooked but essential element of business life that is the linchpin of sustained success.
  • Hacker News
  • Crunchbase
  • Revolut Business - Control your payments, company cards, expenses and more from one app
  • StartupJohn
  • Alchemist - Enterprise sales accelerator
  • YCombinator - Seed funding for startups (from the creators of HackerNews)
  • 500 Startups - One of the top accelerators with a global presence
  • Techstars - One of the world's leading accelerators offering a range of programs
  • Brex - Banking for newly-founded tech startups made easy
  • Ramp - Cards, bills, payments, approvals, and more for startups
  • Ideas are just a multiplier of execution
  • What startups are really like by Paul Graham
  • Startup Advice by Sam Altman
  • My Best Advice for Entrepreneurs: Learn to Speak
  • Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth
  • The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2013
  • The Dentist Office Software Story
  • 27 books every startup ought to read by Hiten Shah
  • Datadog - Modern app monitoring and security for applications
  • The one cost engineers and product managers don't consider
  • Spurwing - rich, accessible product for building custom solutions, product integrations, scheduling and calendaring widgets. You are only limited by your own imagination.
  • Black Swan farming by Paul Graham
  • How to convince investors by Paul Graham
  • Breaking Down a Typical VC/Startup Diligence Process
  • Fundraising Mistakes Founders Make
  • Raising Capital: This is the Advice We Give Our Founders
  • The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters
  • How New User Acquisition Channels Drive Change
  • Guide to SaaS metrics by David Skok
  • Elements of a viral launch page by SmashingMagazine
  • Self-Service SaaS: A Beginner’s Guide to Maximizing Growth - There aren’t many resources available that thoroughly outline the basics of managing self-service revenue at a SaaS company, but Chargebee does a nice job of it in this guide. By explaining the basics, providing a framework, including real-world examples from the SaaS space, and linking out to additional resources this asset is a solid place to start!
  • Monday.com - One platform, better teamwork
  • Jira - Issue tickets, keep track of progress and plan your agile projects
  • Microsoft Teams - Business communication platform that offers workspace chat, videoconferencing, file storage and 3rd party app integration
  • Feedbear - Prioritize feature requests to build your roadmap.
  • Logit.io - Collaborative visualisation platform with no limits on the number of users or teams.
  • BuzzSumo - Find Most Shared Content and Key Influencers
  • SocialBlade - Social Media Statistics
  • IFTTT - Create custom triggers to automate social media workflows
  • Zapier - Alternative to ifttt : triggers based automated workflows
  • Phantombuster - Automate social media via webscraping
  • QApop - Find relevant Quora questions to answer
  • Smartlook - Understand how people interact with your website and improve conversion
  • SocialDog - All-in-one Twitter marketing tool.
  • Staples Studio
  • Canada Virtual Office
  • Employee Engagement: The Wonder Drug For Customer Satisfaction - short article showing the high correlation between employee engagement and customer satisfaction. Satisfied customers and happy/engaged employees produce the most amazing start-ups - or any type of company for that matter.
  • Revolut Business - Control your payments, company cards, expenses and more from one app
  • Pitch Decks for VCs - You’re doing it wrong.
  • My Best Advice for Entrepreneurs: Learn to Speak
  • The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2013
  • Free Marketing guides by Kissmetrics
  • Startup Metrics for Pirates by Dave McClure
  • Free Startup Pitch Deck Templates for Figma
  • Running Lean - Ash Maurya (book)
  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
  • Founders At Work by Jessica Livingston - A collection of interviews about the early days of popular technology companies
  • The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman - Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.
  • 500 Startups #500distro conference videos