https://github.com/amilajack/startups-101

Everything you need to know to start a startup
https://github.com/amilajack/startups-101

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Everything you need to know to start a startup

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/amilajack/startups-101
• Owner: amilajack
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-11-10T16:13:24.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-12-01T18:41:01.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-05T11:38:39.319Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: indiehackers, startup, startups, venture-capital, ycombinator
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• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 10
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# startups-101

**A one-stop-shop for founder resources**

## How to Fundraise

* [Process and Leverage in Fundraising - YC](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/3N-process-and-leverage-in-fundraising)

* [Raising Venture Capital 📘](https://www.amazon.com/Holloway-Guide-Raising-Venture-Capital/dp/1952120217/ref=sr_1_1_sspa) - How to fundraise, source deals, pitch, value your startup, and think about term sheets.

* [How to Raise Money - Paul Graham](http://paulgraham.com/fr.html)

* [How to Convince Investors - Paul Graham](http://paulgraham.com/convince.html)

## What is Product Market Fit?

* [Vora Model](https://review.firstround.com/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit)

## Venture Capital Firms

  Top VC Firms

  - Y Combinator

  - a16z

  - Benchmark

  - Founders Fund

  - General Catalyst

  - Sequoia

  - First round

  - Kleiner Perkins

  - Redpoint Ventures

  - Matrix

  - Tiger Global

  - Lightspeed

  - Index Ventures

  - Box Group

  - Thrive capital

  - Hyper fund

  - Accel Partners

  - Collaborative Fund

  - New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

  - Bessemer Venture Partners

  - Amplify Partners

  - Khosla Ventures

  - GV

  - Battery Ventures

  - Bond Capital

  - Greycroft

  - Menlo Ventures

  - Spark Capital

  - Initialized Capital

  - Union Square Ventures

## Angels

  Top Angels

  - Naval

  - Brianne Kimmel

  - Suhail

  - Sahil

  - Ryan Hoover (weekend fund)

  - Andrew Miklas (cofounder, PagerDuty)

  - Jason Warner (former GitHub CTO)

  - Adam Gross (former Heroku CEO)

  - Olivier Pomel (DataDog CEO)

  - Scott Belsky (Adobe CPO)

  - Will Gaybrick (Stripe CPO)

  - Kevin Hartz (Xoom & Eventbrite founder)

  - Mathilde Collin (founder/CEO of Front)

  - Alex Maccaw (founder of Clearbit)

  - Calvin French-Owen (Segment founder)

  - George Kunthura

  - John + Patrick Collison (Stripe)

  - Elad Gil (Color)

  - Nat Friedman (Github)

  - Greg Brockman (OpenAI)

  - Max Levchin

  - Chris Sacca

  - Ron Conway

  - Dylan Field

  - Nikhil Basu Trivedi

  - Mike Smith

  - Jack Altman

  - Allison Pickens

  - Calvin French-Owen

  - Christian Reber

  - Deborah Quazzo

  - Chris Messina

  - Austen Allred

  - Eric Feldman

  - Josh Miller

  - Sam Altman

  - Saad Rehmani, VP Engineering, Reddit

  - Peter @ Segment

  - Tomer @ Gusto

  - Elad Gil

  - Evan Conrad

  - Immad Akhund

  - Qasar Younis

## Incorporate Your Startup

* [Startup Incorporation Checklist](https://github.com/leonar15/startup-checklist)

* [File your 83b](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/83b-election.asp)

## Preliminary Readings

* [Startups in 13 sentences - Paul Graham](http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html)

* [Before Growth - Sam Altman](https://blog.samaltman.com/before-growth)

* [The Pmarca Guide to Startups](https://pmarchive.com/)