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Startups in general:



- [Ideas are just a multiplier of execution](http://sivers.org/multiply)

- [Do things that don't scale by Paul Graham](http://paulgraham.com/ds.html)

- [Startup = Growth by Paul Graham](http://paulgraham.com/growth.html)

- [What startups are really like by Paul Graham](http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html)

- [Startup Advice by Sam Altman](http://blog.samaltman.com/startup-advice)

- [My Best Advice for Entrepreneurs: Learn to Speak](http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130819204919-62614725-my-best-advice-for-entrepreneurs)

- [Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth ](http://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/issie-lapowsky/how-paul-graham-became-successful.html)

- [The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2013](http://firstround.com/article/30-Best-Pieces)

- [The Dentist Office Software Story](http://avc.com/2014/07/the-dentist-office-software-story/)

- [The Founder's guide to selling your company](http://justinkan.com/the-founders-guide-to-selling-your-company)

- [How to make sense of conflicting startup advice](http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/08/30/here-is-how-to-make-sense-of-conflicting-startup-advice/)

- [The Dentist Office Software Story](http://avc.com/2014/07/the-dentist-office-software-story/)



Management, Scaling and Hiring:



- [Management advice from Naval](http://blog.djinni.co/post/68061191934/naval-ravikant-angellist-eventually-startups-will-be)

- [A new kind of company without managers](http://firstround.com/article/How-Medium-is-building-a-new-kind-of-company-with-no-managers)

- [I’ve Worked with Hundreds of Recruiters - Here's What I Learned](http://firstround.com/article/Ive-Worked-with-Hundreds-of-Recruiters-Heres-What-I-Learned)

- [What is the right burn rate for a startup](http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/09/28/what-is-the-right-burn-rate-at-a-startup-company/)

- [A Counterintuitive System for Startup Compensation](http://firstround.com/article/A-Counterintuitive-System-for-Startup-Compensation)

- [Master's of Scale by Reid Hoffman: a podcast series](https://mastersofscale.com/)



Customer development:



- [Validating Product Ideas Before Building Them](https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/validating_product_ideas)

- [An MVP is not a cheaper product by Steve Blank](http://steveblank.com/2013/07/22/an-mvp-is-not-a-cheaper-product-its-about-smart-learning/)

- [Create products that people love by validating your idea first by Hiten Shah](http://hitenism.com/business-ideas/)



Engineering:



- [The one cost engineers and product managers don't consider](http://firstround.com/article/The-one-cost-engineers-and-product-managers-dont-consider)



Venture capital and raising money:



- [Black Swan farming by Paul Graham](http://paulgraham.com/swan.html)

- [How to convince investors by Paul Graham](http://paulgraham.com/convince.html)

- [How to present to investors by Aaref Hilaly](http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/bzxr-how-to-present-to-investors)

- [Breaking Down a Typical VC/Startup Diligence Process](http://tomtunguz.com/breaking-down-a-typical-vcstartup-diligence-process/)

- [Fundraising Mistakes Founders Make](http://blog.samaltman.com/fundraising-mistakes-founder-make)

- [Pitch Decks for VCs - You’re doing it wrong.](https://medium.com/boost-vc/5-rules-for-the-pitch-deck-d7c7bbc3185d)

- [Raising Capital: This is the Advice We Give Our Founders](http://a16z.com/2014/09/26/valuation-this-is-the-advice-we-give-our-founders/)



Legal Advice:



- [If I launched a startup by Ryan Roberts](http://startuplawyer.com/startup-issues/if-i-launched-a-startup)



Marketing, Sales & metrics:



- [The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters](http://web.archive.org/web/20070701074943/http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the-pmarca-gu-2.html)

- [Startup Metrics for Pirates by Dave McClure](http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version)

- [Traction Mistakes by Gabriel Weinberg](http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/07/traction-mistakes.html)

- [How New User Acquisition Channels Drive Change](http://brianbalfour.com/post/58798523560/new-user-acquisition-channels)

- [Guide to SaaS metrics by David Skok](http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/)

- [Free Marketing guides by Kissmetrics](http://blog.kissmetrics.com/marketing-guides/)

- [Elements of a viral launch page by SmashingMagazine](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/09/01/elements-of-a-viral-launch-page/)

- [95 Ways to find your first customers](http://jasonevanish.com/2013/08/11/95-ways-to-find-your-first-customers-for-customer-development-or-your-first-sale/)

- [The definitive guide to growth hacking](http://www.quicksprout.com/the-definitive-guide-to-growth-hacking/)

- [10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups](http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/06/27/10-lessons-for-managing-marketing-at-an-early-stage-startup/)

- [How to build habit forming technologies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDtycnZgCfY)

- [How To Become A Customer Acquisition Expert](http://brianbalfour.com/post/63581380690/customer-acquisition)

- [Spreadsheet for SaaS Analytics](http://andrewchen.co/2013/10/24/the-easiest-spreadsheet-for-churn-mrr-and-cohort-analysis-guest-post/)

- [Pre-Launch Email List Building With Directories](http://whitetailsoftware.com/2013/10/pre-launch-email-list-building-directories/)

- [If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales? (B2B)](http://a16z.com/2014/05/30/selling-saas-products-dont-sell-themselves/)

- [Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing](http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/06/03/jessica-livingston-why-startups-need-to-focus-on-sales-not-marketing/)

- [500 Startups #500distro conference videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOStnEM8wBOZMOr_jwoK4-EtPuX5fJrzK)

- [Extensive notes from SalesConf](http://codingvc.com/extensive-notes-from-salesconf)

- [If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales](http://a16z.com/2014/05/30/selling-saas-products-dont-sell-themselves/)



Postmortems & Learnings:



- [http://thederek.com/post/117083143500/lessons-learned-four-years-startup-founder](Lessons Learned After Four Years as a Startup Founder)

- [https://medium.com/@brett1211/postmortem-of-a-venture-backed-startup-72c6f8bec7df](Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup (Sonar))



## Websites



- [HackerNews (HN)](https://news.ycombinator.com/) - Social tech and startup news run by Paul Graham / YCombinator

- [Crunchbase](http://www.crunchbase.com/) - Free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.

- [AngelList](https://angel.co/) - AngelList is a community of startups and investors who make fund-raising efficient.

- [Quibb](http://quibb.com/) - Professional network to share startup-related links.

- [The Grove](http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove) - Founders helping founders, by Sequoia capital.

- [GrowthHackers](http://growthhackers.com/)

- [Google Ventures Library](http://www.gv.com/library/)



## Mailing Lists / Startup Lists



- [Startup Digest](http://startupdigest.com/) - Weekly newsletter of curated startup articles

- [Hacker Newsletter](http://www.hackernewsletter.com/) - Weekly newsletter of the best articles from [HackerNews](https://news.ycombinator.com/)

- [Betali.st](http://betali.st/) - Be the first to discover and get access to the latest internet startups. A good place to submit your startup.

- [Startupli.st](http://startupli.st/) - A place to find, follow, and recommend startups. It naturally caters to early adopters. A good place to submit your startup.

- [Kickoffboost](www.kickoffboost.com) - Explore thousands of just-launched products. A good place to submit your startup.

- [Launchbit](http://www.launchbit.com/) - An email ad network that can promote your startup.

- [Erlibird](http://erlibird.com/) - A site for early adopters to discover startups.

- [Pressfriendly](http://www.pressfriendly.com/p/best_reporter) - Find the TechCrunch Reporter for Your Story

- [ProductHunt](http://www.producthunt.com/) - the best new products, every day 

- [JustReachOut](https://justreachout.io/) - Helps you find reporters for your pitch



## Popular VC blogs/articles



- [Paul Graham's essays](http://paulgraham.com/articles.html) - Must-read essays by Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator

- [First Round Review](http://firstround.com/review/ ) - Actionable insights for tech entrepreneurs, by [First Round Capital](http://firstround.com/)

- [Both sides of the table](http://bothsidesofthetable.com) - Blog run by Mark Suster, partner at [Upfront Ventures](http://www.upfront.com/)

- [Redpoint ventures blog](http://www.redpoint.com/blog)

- [Chris Dixon's blog](http://cdixon.org/) - Blog run by Chris Dixon, an investor at [Andreessen Horowitz](a16z.com)

- [AVC](http://www.avc.com/) - Blog run by Fred Wilson, a VC and principal of [Union Square Ventures](http://www.usv.com/)



## Videos and MOOCs



- [The Lean Launchpad by Steve Blank (Udacity)](https://www.udacity.com/course/ep245) - 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.

- [Startup Engineering (Coursera)](https://www.coursera.org/course/startup) - Learn the engineering skills needed to build a technology startup from the ground up.

- [Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies (Coursera)](https://www.coursera.org/course/innovativeideas) - 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](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOStnEM8wBOZMOr_jwoK4-EtPuX5fJrzK)

- [YC Startup School 2012, 2013, 2014 videos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg/playlists)

- [CS183: Startup](http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup) by Peter Thiel

- [CS183B: How to Start a Startup](http://startupclass.samaltman.com/) by Sam Altman

- [CS183C: Technology-enabled Blitzscaling](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnsTB8Q5VgnVzh1S-VMCXiuwJglk5AV--) by Reid Hoffman



## Popular Books



- [The Lean Startup by Eric Ries](http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successful-ebook/dp/B004J4XGN6/)

- [Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder](http://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-ebook/dp/B00BD6RFFS/)

- [The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank](http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step--ebook/dp/B009UMTMKS/) - 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](http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Series-ebook/dp/B006UKFFE0/) - A practical guide to the Lean Startup

- [Founders At Work by Jessica Livingston](http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-ebook/dp/B009IXMK4O/) - A collection of interviews about the early days of popular technology companies

- [The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman](http://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-Dilemmas-Entrepreneurship-ebook/dp/B007AIXKUM/) - 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](http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Capitalist-ebook/dp/B00AO2PWOI/)

- [Venture Capitalists at Work by Tarang Shah and Sheetal Shah](http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Capitalists-Work-Billion-Dollar-ebook/dp/B006C9EM1Q/) - 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](http://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Guide-Getting-Customers-ebook/dp/B00N06Y2DW/)



## Other lists



- [http://www.khoslaventures.com/entrepreneurial-resources.html](http://www.khoslaventures.com/entrepreneurial-resources.html)

- [http://ycombinator.com/lib.html](http://ycombinator.com/lib.html)

- [http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2009/11/compilation-of-webs-best-advice-for.html](http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2009/11/compilation-of-webs-best-advice-for.html)

- [http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/](http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/)