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<p>A curated list of awesome books, videos, courses and resources about
making a startup.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#books">Books</a></li>
<li><a href="#videos-and-courses">Videos</a></li>
<li><a href="#general">General</a></li>
<li><a href="#resources">Resources</a></li>
<li><a href="#accelerators">Accelerators</a></li>
<li><a href="#finance">Finance</a></li>
<li><a href="#reading">Reading</a></li>
<li><a href="#engineering">Engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="#venture-capital-and-raising-money">Venture Capital and
Raising Money</a></li>
<li><a href="#marketing-sales--metrics">Marketing, Sales &amp;
metrics</a></li>
<li><a href="#task-management--collaboration">Task Management &amp;
Collaboration</a></li>
<li><a href="#marketing-tools">Marketing Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="#coworking--virtual-offices">Coworking &amp; Virtual
Offices</a></li>
<li><a href="#leadership--people">Leadership &amp; People</a></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="books">Books</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.blockshelf.com/">Quotes / Lessons / Videos for
Entrepreneurs and Startups</a></li>
<li><a href="http://powerbooks.strikingly.com/">For
Entrepreneurs</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1540102964&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=0+to+1">Zero
to One by Peter Thiel</a> Notes on Startups, or How to Build the
Future</li>
<li><a href="http://startupnotes.org/#page/1">Startup Notes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://amzn.com/1591847788">Hooked: How to Build
Habit-Forming Products</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successful-ebook/dp/B004J4XGN6/">The
Lean Startup by Eric Ries</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-ebook/dp/B00BD6RFFS/">Business
Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step--ebook/dp/B009UMTMKS/">The
Startup Owner’s Manual by Steve Blank</a> - 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.</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Series-ebook/dp/B006UKFFE0/">Running
Lean by Ash Maurya</a> - A practical guide to the Lean Startup</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-ebook/dp/B009IXMK4O/">Founders
At Work by Jessica Livingston</a> - A collection of interviews about the
early days of popular technology companies</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-Dilemmas-Entrepreneurship-ebook/dp/B007AIXKUM/">The
Founder’s Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman</a> - Drawing on a decade of
research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and
how to avoid them.</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Capitalist-ebook/dp/B00AO2PWOI/">Venture
Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Capitalists-Work-Billion-Dollar-ebook/dp/B006C9EM1Q/">Venture
Capitalists at Work by Tarang Shah and Sheetal Shah</a> - 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.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Achieve-Explosive-Customer/dp/0241242533">Traction:
A Startup Guide to Getting Customers</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1540102964&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=0+to+1">Zero
to One by Peter Thiel</a> Notes on Startups, or How to Build the
Future</li>
<li><a href="https://www.hello-startup.net/">Hello, Startup</a> - The
“Hello, World” tutorial for building a startup</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Balanced-Scorecard-Translating-Strategy-Action/dp/0875846513">The
Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action</a> - The Balanced
Scorecard translates a company’s vision and strategy into a coherent set
of performance measures. The four perspectives of the
scorecard–financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business
processes, and learning and growth–offer a balance between short-term
and long-term objectives, between outcomes desired and performance
drivers of those outcomes, and between hard objective measures and
softer, more subjective measures. This is a great tool for all
companies, but importantly early stage companies, to help them translate
data to data execution into actionable and measurable outcomes, across
the business.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996">Good
to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t</a> - Using
tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of
elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those
results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the
good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the
general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years,
better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the
world’s greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General
Electric, and Merck.<br />
</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Solution-Creating-Sustaining-Successful/dp/1422196577">The
Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth</a> -
Helpful to growth stage companies who are moving beyond their initial
successful product, provides a great framework for how to invest beyond
the core.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Tribes-We-Need-You-Lead-ebook/dp/B001FA0LAI/">Tribes:
We Need You to Lead Us</a> - Seth Godin stresses the importance and
benefits of knowing your audience and staying hyper-focused on them to
build a loyal following. “With his signature wit and storytelling flair,
Godin presents the three steps to building a tribe: the desire to change
things, the ability to connect a tribe, and the willingness to
lead.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Revenue-Marketer-Debbie-Qaqish/dp/1610054075/">Rise
of the Revenue Marketer</a> - The role of Marketing has dramatically
evolved over the last decade. Historically seen exclusively as a
cost-center for the business, this shift tasks Marketing with generating
revenue. This book highlights these changes and outlines the
organizational structure necessary to drive this accountability and
growth.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Built-Last-Successful-Visionary-Essentials/dp/0060516402">Built
to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies</a> - Built to Last
provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper
long into the 21st century and beyond.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Change-Culture-Game-Breakthrough-Organization/dp/1591845394">Change
the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing
Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results</a> - shows
how leaders can achieve record-breaking results by quickly and
effectively shaping their organizational culture to capitalize on their
greatest asset-their people.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="videos-and-courses">Videos and Courses</h1>
<ul>
<li><p><a
href="https://startupclass.co/course/how-to-start-a-startup">How to
start a startup (course)</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuw8hxrFBH8">Steve Jobs’
Vision of the World (video)</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://startuptalks.tv/">Startup Talks</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://startupmovies.be-genius.com/">Startup
Movies</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.udacity.com/course/ep245">The Lean Launchpad
by Steve Blank (Udacity)</a> - 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.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/startup">Startup
Engineering (Coursera)</a> - Learn the engineering skills needed to
build a technology startup from the ground up.</p></li>
<li><p><a
href="https://www.coursera.org/course/innovativeideas">Developing
Innovative Ideas for New Companies (Coursera)</a> - 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.</p></li>
<li><p><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOStnEM8wBOZMOr_jwoK4-EtPuX5fJrzK">500
Startups #500distro conference videos</a></p></li>
<li><p><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg/playlists">YC
Startup School 2012, 2013, 2014 videos</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://startupclass.samaltman.com/">How to Start a
Startup</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://ycuniverse.com/">Y Combinator
Universe</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://courses.platzi.com/classes/startup-class/">Y
Combinator Startup Class</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.startupschool.org/">Y Combinator’s startup
School</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.edx.org/learn/starting-business">Startup
courses at Edx</a> - Learn how to start your new business venture with
free online entrepreneurship and business development courses from MIT,
IIMB and other top schools.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEvKo90qBns">Authors
<span class="citation" data-cites="Google">@Google</span>: Eric Ries
“The Lean Startup”</a></p></li>
<li><p><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLNQZegq7KA&amp;app=desktop">Marc
Andreessen &amp; Dave McClure: The Future of Startups, VC’s, and
Technology</a></p></li>
<li><p><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=7PmBk7hgUqg">Foundation
37 // David Byttow</a></p></li>
<li><p><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtiqGX-_f8kA0MZkQ4yPJ5g">How to
Start a Startup - IIM A</a></p></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="general">General</h1>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous/dp/0307887898">The
Lean Startup - Eric Ries (book)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Works-Series/dp/1449305172">Running
Lean - Ash Maurya (book)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/0989200507">The
Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steve Blank (book)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/">Sam Altman’s blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/startup-advice-briefly">Startup
advice, briefly</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html">Paul Graham’s
essays</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html">How to get
startup ideas</a></li>
<li><a href="http://paulgraham.com/ds.html">Do thing’s that don’t
scale</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html">18 Mistakes
that kill startups</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/fr.html">How to raise
money</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884">High
Output Management - Andrew S. Grove (book)</a></li>
<li>Three business fables by <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Lencioni">Patrick
Lencioni</a> that are powerful tools to be a better leader:</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21343.The_Five_Dysfunctions_of_a_Team">The
Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni</a>
- 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.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49146.The_Five_Temptations_of_a_CEO">The
Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni</a> -
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.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49172.The_Four_Obsessions_of_an_Extraordinary_Executive">The
Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: The Four Disciplines at
the Heart of Making Any Organization World Class by Patrick Lencioni</a>
- 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.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="resources">Resources</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.producthunt.com/">Product Hunt</a></li>
<li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/">Hacker News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/">Crunchbase</a></li>
<li><a href="https://angel.co/">AngelList</a></li>
<li><a href="https://betapage.co/">BetaPage</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.startupjohn.com/">StartupJohn</a></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="accelerators">Accelerators</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://alchemistaccelerator.com/">Alchemist</a> -
Enterprise sales accelerator</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/about/">YCombinator</a> - Seed
funding for startups (from the creators of HackerNews)</li>
<li><a href="https://500.co/">500 Startups</a> - One of the top
accelerators with a global presence</li>
<li><a href="https://www.techstars.com/">Techstars</a> - One of the
world’s leading accelerators offering a range of programs</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="finance">Finance</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.brex.com/about/">Brex</a> - Banking for
newly-founded tech startups made easy</li>
<li><a href="https://www.revolut.com/business/business-account">Revolut
Business</a> - Control your payments, company cards, expenses and more
from one app</li>
<li><a href="https://ramp.com/">Ramp</a> - Cards, bills, payments,
approvals, and more for startups</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="reading">Reading</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://sivers.org/multiply">Ideas are just a multiplier of
execution</a></li>
<li><a href="http://paulgraham.com/ds.html">Do things that don’t scale
by Paul Graham</a></li>
<li><a href="http://paulgraham.com/growth.html">Startup = Growth by Paul
Graham</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html">What startups are
really like by Paul Graham</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/startup-advice">Startup Advice by
Sam Altman</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130819204919-62614725-my-best-advice-for-entrepreneurs">My
Best Advice for Entrepreneurs: Learn to Speak</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/issie-lapowsky/how-paul-graham-became-successful.html">Paul
Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://firstround.com/article/30-Best-Pieces">The 30 Best
Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2013</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://avc.com/2014/07/the-dentist-office-software-story/">The
Dentist Office Software Story</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hitenism.com/startup-books/">27 books every startup
ought to read by Hiten Shah</a></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="engineering">Engineering</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://argonaut.dev/">Argonaut</a> - Deploy apps and
infrastructure on your cloud in minutes. Support for custom and
third-party app deployments on Kubernetes and Lambda environments. Free
forever startup tier allows unlimited apps and deployments for 5
environments and 2 users.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/">Datadog</a> - Modern app
monitoring and security for applications</li>
<li><a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200728004935if_/https://firstround.com/review/The-one-cost-engineers-and-product-managers-dont-consider/">The
one cost engineers and product managers don’t consider</a></li>
<li>Software Engineering and Development is expensive and delicate. Use
<a href="https://www.spurwing.io/">Spurwing</a> instead of reinventing
the wheel when it comes to time management solutions. Spurwing is like
Stripe but for appointment scheduling. This API makes it easy to add
robust appointment booking and calendaring features to any application.
The Spurwing API is a secure and feature-rich, accessible product for
building custom solutions, product integrations, scheduling and
calendaring widgets. You are only limited by your own imagination. Reach
out to <a href="ilya@spurwing.io">ilya@spurwing.io</a> for an intro
call.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="venture-capital-and-raising-money">Venture Capital and Raising
Money</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://paulgraham.com/swan.html">Black Swan farming by Paul
Graham</a></li>
<li><a href="http://paulgraham.com/convince.html">How to convince
investors by Paul Graham</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://tomtunguz.com/breaking-down-a-typical-vcstartup-diligence-process/">Breaking
Down a Typical VC/Startup Diligence Process</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://blog.samaltman.com/fundraising-mistakes-founder-make">Fundraising
Mistakes Founders Make</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://medium.com/boost-vc/5-rules-for-the-pitch-deck-d7c7bbc3185d">Pitch
Decks for VCs - You’re doing it wrong.</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://a16z.com/2014/09/26/valuation-this-is-the-advice-we-give-our-founders/">Raising
Capital: This is the Advice We Give Our Founders</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.figmafinder.com/figma-pitch-deck">Free Startup
Pitch Deck Templates for Figma</a></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="marketing-sales-metrics">Marketing Sales &amp; Metrics</h1>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070701074943/http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the-pmarca-gu-2.html">The
Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version">Startup
Metrics for Pirates by Dave McClure</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://brianbalfour.com/post/58798523560/new-user-acquisition-channels">How
New User Acquisition Channels Drive Change</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/">Guide to
SaaS metrics by David Skok</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.kissmetrics.com/marketing-guides/">Free
Marketing guides by Kissmetrics</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/09/01/elements-of-a-viral-launch-page/">Elements
of a viral launch page by SmashingMagazine</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://www.chargebee.com/resources/guides/self-service-saas-revenue-growth/">Self-Service
SaaS: A Beginner’s Guide to Maximizing Growth</a> - 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!</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="task-management-collaboration">Task Management &amp;
Collaboration</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://asana.com">Asana</a> - Track your team’s work &amp;
manage projects</li>
<li><a href="https://trello.com">Trello</a> - Create and manage kanban
boards</li>
<li><a href="https://todoist.com">Todoist</a> - The to do list to
organize work &amp; life</li>
<li><a href="https://monday.com/">Monday.com</a> - One platform, better
teamwork</li>
<li><a href="https://taskade.com">Taskade</a> - Collaborative task lists
and outlines</li>
<li><a href="https://airtable.com">Airtable</a> - Build flexible
spreadsheets that behave like a database</li>
<li><a href="https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira">Jira</a> - Issue
tickets, keep track of progress and plan your agile projects</li>
<li><a href="https://teams.microsoft.com/">Microsoft Teams</a> -
Business communication platform that offers workspace chat,
videoconferencing, file storage and 3rd party app integration</li>
<li><a href="https://wire.com">Wire</a> - The most secure collaboration
platform</li>
<li><a href="https://www.feedbear.com/">Feedbear</a> - Prioritize
feature requests to build your roadmap.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.notion.so/">Notion</a> - All-in-one workspace
for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.</li>
<li><a href="https://logit.io/">Logit.io</a> - Collaborative
visualisation platform with no limits on the number of users or
teams.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="marketing-tools">Marketing Tools</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://buffer.com">Buffer</a> - Social Media analytics and
Scheduling</li>
<li><a href="https://buzzsumo.com">BuzzSumo</a> - Find Most Shared
Content and Key Influencers</li>
<li><a href="https://quicktwit.com">QuickTwit</a> - Tools for finding
Trends in Topics</li>
<li><a href="https://hootsuite.com">Hootsuite</a> - Social Media
Management Tools</li>
<li><a href="https://socialblade.com/">SocialBlade</a> - Social Media
Statistics</li>
<li><a href="https://ifttt.com/">IFTTT</a> - Create custom triggers to
automate social media workflows</li>
<li><a href="https://zapier.com/">Zapier</a> - Alternative to ifttt :
triggers based automated workflows</li>
<li><a href="https://phantombuster.com/">Phantombuster</a> - Automate
social media via webscraping</li>
<li><a href="https://www.qapop.com/">QApop</a> - Find relevant Quora
questions to answer</li>
<li><a href="https://www.smartlook.com/">Smartlook</a>- Understand how
people interact with your website and improve conversion</li>
<li><a href="https://social-dog.net/">SocialDog</a> - All-in-one Twitter
marketing tool.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="coworking-virtual-offices">Coworking &amp; Virtual Offices</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wework.com">WeWork</a></li>
<li><a href="https://regus.com">Regus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://staples.com/studio">Staples Studio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://canadavirtualoffice.com">Canada Virtual
Office</a></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="leadership-people">Leadership &amp; People</h1>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement?language=en">How
to Start a Movement</a> - 3 minute video drawing parallels to leadership
and the importance of the people that follow the leader. Critical for a
start-up to achieve and maintain alignment</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2014/01/07/employee-engagement-the-wonder-drug-for-customer-satisfaction/#152c5aeb6d46">Employee
Engagement: The Wonder Drug For Customer Satisfaction</a> - 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.</li>
</ul>