Starting out
Where the journey starts: generating and testing ideas, the shape of the startup process, careers in it, and the general advice people hand you in week one.
73 resources, each credited to whoever published it. Sub-headings are the topic each was filed under in its source collection.
Careers in Entrepreneurship
- 5 Signs You Might Be an Entrepreneur
- A Student’s Guide to Startups · Paul Graham
- As a Budding Entrepreneur, Where Do You Start?
- Before the Startup · Paul Graham
- How and Why to Start a Startup
- How I Became an Entrepreneur at 66
- Hubris, Passion and What It Really Takes to Be a Great Entrepreneur
- Reverse Engineered: Melissa Kwan, Co-founder & CEO at Webinar
- Should You Follow Your Passion?
- The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs · ThinkGrowth
- Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them · ThinkGrowth
- Why Should I Start a Startup? · Y Combinator
- YC Ultimate Job Guide: Startup Stages
General advice
- (Founder Stories) Dropbox: Being Open About a Startup Idea
- 10 Tips for Startups With ‘Crazy-Big Dreams’ · smartcompany.com.au
- 4 Ways Startups Fail · Elad Gil
- 7 No-Nonsense Pieces of Startup Advice I Wish I Got When I Started · groovehq.com
- A Playlist for Entrepreneurs
- Accelerating Growth: Grow Faster Without Working Yourself to Death
- Blitzfail: How Not to Go off the Rails
- Do Things That Don’t Scale · Paul Graham
- Empowering a World of Rebels
- Google Tips for the Entrepreneur
- Here’s What I Learned When I Became “CEO” at 20
- How to Be Successful · blog.samaltman.com
- How to Succeed With a Startup
- How to Tackle an Enormous Goal, Elephant-Style
- Lessons From 5 Bosses
- Productivity · blog.samaltman.com
- Scaling Plangrid to 400+ People With YC Partner Kat Manalac
- Start-up Advice & How to Talk to Customers
- Startup Advice · blog.samaltman.com
- The First 18 Months of Starting a Company: It’s Life or Death
- The Importance of Execution · Stanford eCorner
- The Silicon Valley Outsider Building a Tech Disruptor
- Things I Wish I Did Before Starting a Company
- This 1 Piece of Advice Could Make or Break Your Career · ThinkGrowth
- Vision vs. Perspective · Stanford eCorner
Generating ideas & experimentation
- 20 Ideas Before Instacart
- Brainstorming Example Video
- Brainstorming Toolkit · integratingengineering.org
- Can You Objectively Compare Ideas? CarsDirect example.
- Create Products That People Love by Validating Your Idea First · Hiten Shah
- Finding Ideas
- Founders Should Test the Hypotheses That Matter the Most
- Hard Startups · blog.samaltman.com
- How to Come up With a Great Startup Idea
- How to Get Ideas and Measure Them
- How to Get Startup Ideas · Paul Graham
- Idea Generation · blog.samaltman.com
- IDEO: Brainstorming and Other Ideation Techniques
- Instacart Founder Explains the Framework He Used to Iterate Through 20 Startup Ideas
- Iterate Like Crazy
- Market Research, Wireframing, and Design · spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com
- The Idea Maze · cdixon.org
- Treat Your Idea as a Project Rather Than a Company at First
- Where Good Ideas Come From
- Why You Shouldn’t Keep Your Startup Idea Secret · cdixon.org
Starting out
- 21 Ways to Blow Up Company · Techstars — Techstars list of common mistakes that kill early companies.
- 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. · Startup Science — Bundle of general founder tools: lifecycle tracker, Golden Circle, others.
- Resources on entrepreneurship broadly · Society for Effectual Action — Effectuation.org collection of general entrepreneurship reading and tools.
- What We Look for in Founders · Paul Graham — Essay on founder qualities: determination, flexibility, imagination, naughtiness.
The startup process
- Awkward Adolescence · outlierspath.com
- Better, Faster, Cheaper
- How to Build a Startup That Gets Acquired · ThinkGrowth
- How to Grow Your Startup by Asking Better Questions · Hiten Shah
- How to validate your startup idea
- Startups Are an Act of Desperation · Elad Gil
- The Single Biggest Reason Why Start-Ups Succeed
- The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
- Types of Startups
- Udacity: How to Build a Startup · udacity.com
- Why Successful Startups Stumble at 40 Employees · ThinkGrowth
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