Crush the entrepreneurial learning curve, reduce risk, and up the chances for success with these resources.
Here is a list I have been compiling of books, online courses, incubators and accelerators geared to codifying the startup process and helping entrepreneurs reduce risk and up the chances for success.
Its incredible the level of professionalism, sophistication and tested results oriented material and expertise that is freely available. If you don’t expose yourself to it and take advantage of it, its your own fault. No more excuses!
I would really appreciate any comments about things I have overlooked or left out and what of these resources are the most helpful. Thanks!
Startups and Entrepreneurship
Incubators, Accelerators, Books and Courses
Udacity Steve Blank
https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245
This is the place to start. This is the definitive material.
This book is a must read in order to better understand and perform customer discovery and validation. And amazingly generous: it free to download. The author Giff Constable deserves our thanks!
WeWork
WeWork is a global network of workspaces where companies and people grow together. High design, super amenities.
Y Combinator
https://www.startupschool.org/
Startup School is a free 10-week massively open online course (MOOC). From Y Combinator.
YC Blog
Just to keep everything from Y Combinator in on place, here are some great blog posts from YC folks:
One Order of Operations for Starting a Startup
This guide can help you walk the path from nothing to a launched minimal viable product (MVP). This is by no means the…
blog.ycombinator.com
YC's Essential Startup Advice
A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some…
blog.ycombinator.com
Essays
This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California
www.paulgraham.com
Plug and Play
http://plugandplaytechcenter.com/
A global innovation platform for startups, corporations, and investors.
CB Insights
The CB Insights tech market intelligence platform analyzes millions of data points on venture capital, startups, patents, partnerships and news mentions to help you see tomorrow’s opportunities, today.
GAN Global Accelerator Network
USASBE
The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship® (USASBE) is the largest independent, professional, academic organization in the world dedicated to advancing the discipline of entrepreneurship.
Trepedhelp
The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship® (USASBE) is the largest independent…
www.trepedhelp.com
Disciplined Entrepreneurship
http://disciplinedentrepreneurship.com/
Bill Aulet is a long time practicing entrepreneur and an instructor at MIT, one of the most rigorous institutions in the world. He has both created hundreds of millions of dollars of market value leading entrepreneurial ventures and also taught thousands of entrepreneurs in the past decade.
National Science Foundation iCorps
https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/resources.jsp
The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) curriculum is built on a special, accelerated version of Stanford University’s Lean LaunchPad course with additional elements designed just for I-Corps grantees.
Book list
http://www.mba-asap.com/index.php/top-10-startup-entrepreneur-books/
Books I have found extremely useful on entrepreneurship and startups.
Video Book Summaries
This links to a playlist on my YouTube channel where I collect, compile, and curate interesting book summaries related to entrepreneurship and startups
Leaning Curve
Below links to a playlist on my YouTube channel with interesting videos about learning key concepts about learning quickly and retaining information.
TechStars
500 Startups
Kaufman Foundation
Entrepreneurship.org
https://www.entrepreneurship.org/
Steve Blank etc.
Fast Trac
Podcasts
Masters of Scale
Reid Hoffman
a16z
Podcast from the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz
How I Built This
Guy Roz from NPR
Tim Ferriss
MBA ASAP http://bit.ly/2fCWs8s
John Cousins
Blogs
There is tons of great information and inspiring insights available from bloggers. Here are some of the best.
Here is a must read! Gif
Constable’s blog post “12 Tips for Early Customer Development
Interviews” This is required reading.
Here is another must read Niche to Win, Baby.
Ash Maurya BOOTSTART https://blog.leanstack.com/the-bootstart-manifesto-65b41da6216
Cap Table Simulator https://medium.com/yanda/cap-table-simulator-11bcb415eac3
Seth Godin
Tim Ferriss
Sean Ellis
Here is an archive of the best articles from
Marc Andreessen’s original blog blog.pmarca.com
Pmarchive - Home
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen's original blog.pmarca.com
pmarchive.com
Slide Decks
Guy Kawasaki
10 slides
https://guykawasaki.com/the-only-10-slides-you-need-in-your-pitch/
Great template for pitch decks and presentations for demo day.
Donatas Jonakis
Startup Curve
Lots of helpful Downloads and swipe files and a short diagnostic quiz. Download 100 pages from his book.
Check out my podcast episode with Donatas. MBA ASAP http://bit.ly/2EQF1tc
MBA ASAP
Book Amazon http://amzn.to/2fc9mdC
Course Udemy http://bit.ly/2AzyEuS
Podcast http://apple.co/2uOcodG
MOOCs
Coursera
University of Maryland program
Wharton on Coursera
EdX
YouTube
Big Think: Finance in one hour with Bill Ackman
This is a great video where the billionaire hedge fund genius Bill Ackman walks through starting a company and the dynamics of scaling. He uses a lemonade stand as the model and builds up financial statements. It is entertaining and well produced. I have watched it at least twenty times in classrooms.
Getting from Business Idea to Business Model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwShFsSFb-Y
Visualizing Your Business Model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlKP-BaC0jA
Entrepreneurship
Here is a video of introductory thoughts on Entrepreneurship in a video and a slide deck on the mindset we must develop.
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