The Founder's Library
Welcome. This collection of articles is hand-picked to provide actionable advice, useful insight, or practical tools and techniques for startup founders. If you are a founder, or you want to become one, this collection is for you. It contains the kind of advice that we wish we'd had when we got started with startups, years ago. Hopefully, you will find it useful.
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The Articles
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Which metrics do Valley investors tend to check first? [a16z.com]
Saturday, 04 April 2015
Disrupt or compete [blog.innosight.com]
Estimating your market size from non-technical sources [valuechaingeneration.com]
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
How you grow affects your defensibility [paulbennetts.postach.io]
Friday, 06 March 2015
Hidden cofounders [techcrunch.com]
Tuesday, 06 January 2015
True ecosystems [blog.foundercentric.com]
Sunday, 14 December 2014
The fatal pinch [paulgraham.com]
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
The psychology of a VC, and how to take advantage of it [venturebeat.com]
Monday, 06 October 2014
I don't know [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Friday, 26 September 2014
Advice for ambitious 19-year olds [blog.samaltman.com]
Monday, 08 September 2014
The idea funnel [medium.com]
Monday, 01 September 2014
Antilogs: How To Draw The Right Lesson Learned
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Non-violent communication [firstround.com]
Thursday, 21 August 2014
Coding isn’t easy, but it is learnable [medium.com]
Saturday, 09 August 2014
More about NDAs [medium.com]
Tuesday, 05 August 2014
Building international relationships [medium.com]
Friday, 01 August 2014
Take pleasure in the journey [blog.asmartbear.com]
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
How to ask for introductions [blog.eladgil.com]
Where does the customer's story actually begin? [insideintercom.io]
The choices we make when we build startups [joel.is]
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Lumosity spiked active users through complexity, not simplicity [firstround.com]
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Good looking emails are killing your customer conversations [medium.com]
Monday, 09 June 2014
Customer Development is not a Focus Group [steveblank.com]
Monday, 31 March 2014
How to work as a CEO/COO team [joel.is]
An easy way to increase startup success rates [www.forbes.com]
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Mutual Respect and the barking of dogs
Wednesday, 05 February 2014
Read advice in between the lines [dcurt.is]
Friday, 31 January 2014
Don't let me know how I can help [letsworkshop.com]
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Count your fingers [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Guide to customer growth [growthhackers.com]
Firing yourself, again and again [joel.is]
Monday, 27 January 2014
Four misconceptions about Lean startup [experiencinginformation.wordpress.com]
What to look for when picking a VC [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Sunday, 26 January 2014
Definition of Product Market Fit [www.svproduct.com]
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Toxic investment [medium.com]
Monday, 20 January 2014
Balance in the startup life [scott.a16z.com]
Thorough guide to scalable link-building the right way [moz.com]
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Don't build a product without validation [pando.com]
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Why new features usually flop [insideintercom.io]
Monday, 13 January 2014
Do you really need investment? [blog.woorank.com]
Friday, 10 January 2014
Running a business vs building a product [blog.eladgil.com]
Money and wealth
Thursday, 09 January 2014
Perils of founder fighting [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Why most VCs give bad advice [blog.venturelynx.com]
Pick a goal [blog.kirigin.com]
Wednesday, 08 January 2014
How to get users through business partnerships [brianbalfour.com]
Tuesday, 07 January 2014
How boards need to evolve over time [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
The law of averages [blog.bufferapp.com]
Monday, 30 December 2013
Growth vs Capital Efficiency [versiononeventures.com]
Sunday, 29 December 2013
More on thinking small [joel.is]
Learn to think big and small [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
Friday, 27 December 2013
The real use of money is to buy freedom [paraschopra.com]
Investment increases your risk
Monday, 23 December 2013
Tech founder's guide for picking a non-tech founder [onstartups.com]
Three modern organisational structures [medium.com]
Sunday, 22 December 2013
Don't reinvent management [startupmanagement.org]
Saturday, 21 December 2013
Why transparent salaries make sense [blog.granttree.co.uk]
Friday, 29 November 2013
Developing a good culture takes constant vigilance
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Embrace the desire to make money
Monday, 22 July 2013
Friends, Family and Fools: the worst investors
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Understanding your competitors [insideintercom.io]
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Hardware startups and quality [marcbarros.com]
Sales or die [spencerfry.com]
Ring the freaking cash register [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Friday, 14 June 2013
Three kinds of games
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Will you make it past being a founder? [marcbarros.com]
Thursday, 06 June 2013
The cost of funding may be your freedom [kirill.io]
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
Startup advice by Sam Altman [blog.samaltman.com]
Startup founders vs Entrepreneurs
Friday, 31 May 2013
Max Levchin's hiring tips [firstround.com]
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
How to learn to program without going on a £1,000 training course
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
All startup advice is wrong? [medium.com]
More about pricing books [sachagreif.com]
Four pricing principles [insideintercom.io]
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Sometimes, failure is your best option [www.feld.com]
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Corrosive Acquihires [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Stop looking for a cofounder [www.openforum.com]
Friday, 15 March 2013
Taking the leap
Ultimate guide to dropshipping [ecommerce.shopify.com]
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Zombie Startups [www.daniellemorrill.com]
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Shutting down blaster.fm [joshsharp.com.au]
Monday, 25 February 2013
Email-first startups [ryanhoover.me]
B2B SaaS growth techniques [blog.kissmetrics.com]
Sunday, 24 February 2013
What should you do if an experienced mentor tells you it's a bad idea? [steveblank.com]
If you ever feel alone in this... [bubs.co]
What could go wrong? [leostartsup.com]
Friday, 22 February 2013
Transparency in startups [cristinajcordova.com]
Thursday, 21 February 2013
The truth about a failing startup [pastebin.com]
Friday, 30 November 2012
Sales comes out of who you genuinely are
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
More about side projects and creativity [blog.rocketr.com]
Monday, 12 November 2012
Hiring well is hard [blog.favour.it]
Your top 3 challenges [joel.is]
Perspective [dcurt.is]
A moral obligation to society? [burakkanber.com]
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Start something small [joel.is]
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Modern mass marketing techniques [www.startupremarkable.com]
Tuesday, 06 November 2012
Side projects [andrewdumont.me]
A design for each budget [blog.folyo.me]
Monday, 05 November 2012
Leading indicators of engaged users [www.richardprice.io]
Sunday, 04 November 2012
Build relationships, don't send PR releases [onstartups.com]
Working over capacity [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Dealing with conflicts in your business [onstartups.com]
Hair of the dog [techcrunch.com]
Dropping out for a startup [joel.is]
Only work on single-miracle startups [blog.eladgil.com]
Monday, 29 October 2012
Idea stagnation [noahpinionblog.blogspot.co.uk]
Business Model Environment [www.saintsal.com]
Surviving and thriving in a two-sided market [blog.intercom.io]
Sunday, 28 October 2012
What goes wrong with startups [www.foundersatwork.com]
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Standing out as a marketing strategy [www.virool.com]
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Civilisation, productivity, and choice [sethgodin.typepad.com]
Friday, 05 October 2012
Doing more by doing less
Saturday, 22 September 2012
How to hire a salesperson [blog.filepicker.io]
Startups and growth rate [paulgraham.com]
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Start charging right away [influencehacks.com]
SaaS pricing model and revenue [www.kalzumeus.com]
The Fool on the Hill, with commentary
Sunday, 12 August 2012
Pricing experiments [conversionxl.com]
Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Fighting online fraud [www.binpress.com]
Saturday, 04 August 2012
B2B is so unsexy?
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Outbound VC dialing [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Monday, 23 July 2012
All content is marketing [blog.intercom.io]
Dispelling the overnight success myth [joel.is]
Friday, 20 July 2012
Judging people based on grammar [blogs.hbr.org]
How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back
Focus and myopia [onstartups.com]
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Ramen profitability and long-term, sustainable profitability [blog.asmartbear.com]
How VC firms are managed [jtangovc.com]
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The value of time, or not [jackg.org]
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Entreporn: learning vs doing vs wasting time
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Startup jobs [michaelochurch.wordpress.com]
Monday, 09 July 2012
Don't answer questions, tell a story [blog.rocketr.com]
Friday, 29 June 2012
The myth of the serial entrepreneur
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Recruiting in the Valley: the recruiter honeypot [www.ewherry.com]
Monday, 25 June 2012
Don't register your idea as a company [joel.is]
Friday, 22 June 2012
No risk to startups? [www.instigatorblog.com]
Thursday, 21 June 2012
How to run an evening event [lanyrd.com]
Swinging for the fences [danshipper.com]
Monday, 18 June 2012
Entrepreneurship is the safest career
Sunday, 17 June 2012
Why VCs lie [acrowdedspace.com]
When do you kill your startup? [ryancarson.com]
"Of course, this company is for sale" [www.danshapiro.com]
Monday, 11 June 2012
Customer churn and engagement [blog.intercom.io]
What kind of startup should you copy? [thenextweb.com]
Thursday, 07 June 2012
Peter Thiel: Founder as Victim, Founder as God [blakemasters.tumblr.com]
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
Selling your company doesn't make you happy [ryancarson.com]
Startup risks
Different types of risk [cdixon.org]
Friday, 01 June 2012
Charging multinationals $150/m [www.inc.com]
You should probably send more email than you do [www.kalzumeus.com]
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Stop asking how they'll make money [andrewchenblog.com]
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The SaaS market in Japan [www.makeleaps.jp]
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Cheap startup advertising [onstartups.com]
Cyclical tools [farmerandfarmer.org]
Why pitches fail [venturehacks.com]
Comic books and web pages [www.uxbooth.com]
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The mid-size market [blog.asmartbear.com]
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Perspective on the billion-dollar exit [smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com]
How to increase user engagement [blog.intercom.io]
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The bastards book of Ruby [ruby.bastardsbook.com]
How to generate startup ideas [wesleytansey.com]
Monday, 14 May 2012
Cold calling versus AdWords [blog.asmartbear.com]
How to scale a development team [adam.heroku.com]
Friday, 11 May 2012
The right kind of ambition [bhorowitz.com]
The salesman and the developer
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Bootstrapping and knowing how to make things [thestartuptoolkit.com]
Eleven compelling startup pitch archetypes [www.jasonshen.com]
Monday, 30 April 2012
Advisors: stop screwing startups [learntoduck.net]
The Startup resume [justinkan.com]
Monday, 16 April 2012
Advice for dealing with journalists [randfishkin.com]
Building a viable business in 4 months [www.reddit.com]
Why I won't sign your NDA [blog.jpl-consulting.com]
Monday, 19 March 2012
Startup Skill Set #6: The Startup Manager
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Never negotiate piecemeal [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Criticism and two-way streets [blog.intercom.io]
Successful people are successful
Frighteningly ambitious startup ideas [paulgraham.com]
Friday, 09 March 2012
Why VCs do what they do [www.danshapiro.com]
What being on the front page of HN will do for you [37signals.com]
Tuesday, 06 March 2012
Don't ask customers what they'll pay: tell them [blog.spark59.com]
How to hire a programmer [www.codinghorror.com]
Saturday, 03 March 2012
Sad, tired and alone - or not [zakhomuth.com]
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
How to choose a cofounder [blog.eladgil.com]
You can't apply startup methods blindly [steveblank.com]
Bait and switch acquisition offers [venturebeat.com]
Monday, 27 February 2012
Modafinil and startups
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Should you learn to code? [eu.techcrunch.com]
Saturday, 25 February 2012
A simple point that shouldn't need to be made [cdixon.org]
People will do what they want to do [javlaskitsystem.se]
Friday, 24 February 2012
Time management for startups [hackfwd.tumblr.com]
Monday, 20 February 2012
Detailed case study of validating a project idea [thestartuptoolkit.com]
Sunday, 19 February 2012
Paid iPhone apps vs in-app purchases [www.tonywright.com]
Thursday, 16 February 2012
To raise or not to raise [stu.mp]
Look for opportunities rather than ideas
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Is it the right idea? [paraschopra.com]
How designers and developers can work together [mattgemmell.com]
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Using advisors to raise money [www.kernelmag.com]
Management is a support function [www.avc.com]
Process cults [al3x.net]
Friday, 27 January 2012
How to create your own video [blog.kissmetrics.com]
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Acquiring startups for a living [www.softwarebyrob.com]
Tough choices
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
You don't need a million dollars
Monday, 23 January 2012
The startup skill set
Is your MVP really an MVP? [22ideastreet.com]
Public speaking for normal people [www.humbledmba.com]
Saturday, 21 January 2012
How to develop your fund-raising strategy [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Terrifying uncertainty [blog.asmartbear.com]
Friday, 20 January 2012
How to get actionable data from Google Analytics [blog.kissmetrics.com]
Premature design optimisation [blog.intercom.io]
How to: track your expenses (UK)
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Idea reach and the cofounder myth
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The "Army of One" entrepreneur
Friday, 13 January 2012
How to: deal with your Corporation Tax (UK)
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Stop looking for a cofounder [sachagreif.com]
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
The processes that drive your business
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Unintentional plagiarism - your ideas belong to everyone
Monday, 09 January 2012
Startup skills vs startup ideas
Saturday, 07 January 2012
How to: register a company in the UK
Friday, 06 January 2012
Horizontal vs vertical products [www.joelonsoftware.com]
The one-minute entrepreneur
Wednesday, 04 January 2012
Who is swombat.com for?
Tuesday, 03 January 2012
Impatience
Monday, 02 January 2012
Questorming: exploring the unknown unknowns
Accounting 101 for US startups [blog.capography.com]
Sunday, 01 January 2012
Creating serendipity by hanging out in the right places [thestartuptoolkit.com]
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Recruiting programmers to your startup [cdixon.org]
Friday, 30 December 2011
Mocked and misunderstood [www.avc.com]
How to become a must-have [smartfaststartup.com]
Friday, 23 December 2011
What is your definition of "success" as an entrepreneur?
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Failing in a unique and interesting way is hard
Monday, 19 December 2011
Let your team speak! [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Time-saving web design generators [www.awcore.com]
Getting over the fear of being someone
Saturday, 17 December 2011
What is a startup?
Friday, 16 December 2011
The zero-cost entrepreneur
Thursday, 15 December 2011
A startup escape path
The messy art of UX sketching [uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com]
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Building a great design and throwing it away [500.co]
Productised services: #3: The best of both worlds
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Productised services: #2: Services companies
Should you pay to pitch your startup? [www.betabeat.com]
When do you throw in the towel on a struggling project? [viniciusvacanti.com]
Monday, 12 December 2011
Productised services: #1: Product companies
Creating a great case study [blog.kissmetrics.com]
Three types of acquisitions [cdixon.org]
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Taking notes to supercharge your learning
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Startup sales: #7: Lead generation depends on people
Friday, 09 December 2011
Startup sales: #6: Pre-qualification and triage
Thursday, 08 December 2011
Investment as a cushion or a springboard
Wednesday, 07 December 2011
Picking technologies on the right side of history
Tuesday, 06 December 2011
Startup sales: #5: Follow-up meetings
Monday, 05 December 2011
Taking responsibility
Sunday, 04 December 2011
Startup sales: #4: Make it easier to say yes than no
Hand to wannabe "product guys" [techcrunch.com]
Saturday, 03 December 2011
Startup sales: #3: Cut out steps you don't need
How to reply to an angel investor intro [blog.eladgil.com]
Friday, 02 December 2011
Startup sales: #2: Sell at every step
How to find a business cofounder that doesn't suck [www.humbledmba.com]
Thursday, 01 December 2011
Startup sales: #1: Map your sales process
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
The obvious, the easy and the possible [37signals.com]
Startup gung-ho
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Starting up in a recession
Sleeping hard and working under your desk [www.jwz.org]
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Experienced entrepreneurs preserve equity [dealbook.nytimes.com]
Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Term sheet negotiations [permanentrecord.firstround.com]
Monday, 31 October 2011
Driving, and the art of running a business
Friday, 28 October 2011
Kapil Kale's underground guide to PR for startups [www.giftrocket.com]
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Think small, be specific [sahillavingia.com]
Retention and startup context [blog.thestartuptoolkit.com]
Choosing a Minimum Viable Cofounder [onstartups.com]
Networking in the middle [blog.favo.rs]
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
The CEO should personally email the first 1000 signups [blog.thestartuptoolkit.com]
Dropping out is probably not for you [jacquesmattheij.com]
Monday, 24 October 2011
Gabriel Weinberg on raising VC money [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
People, processes and tools
Product vs Business vs Company [www.avc.com]
Friday, 21 October 2011
Convertible Debt [www.feld.com]
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Startups and icebergs [blog.intercom.io]
Dilution infographic [bothsides.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com]
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Focus on one thing [blog.asmartbear.com]
Startups need a strong vision [blog.intercom.io]
Friday, 14 October 2011
Investor tricks to mess with valuations [www.theprivateequiteer.com]
Three years to build a business? [jacquesmattheij.com]
Saturday, 24 September 2011
How to explore and develop a business idea [www.fourhourworkweek.com]
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Habits of effective startup mentors [theleanstartupmachine.com]
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Don't shut up [www.businessinsider.com]
Are you building the right product? [techcrunch.com]
The steep startup learning curve [viniciusvacanti.com]
Reckless risk-taking [pud.com]
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Use the tools you're displacing [thestartuptoolkit.com]
Friday, 09 September 2011
Commit to being an entrepreneur [onstartups.com]
Entrepreneurial sales lessons [onstartups.com]
Sunday, 04 September 2011
How to evaluate founder exits [blog.eladgil.com]
Saturday, 03 September 2011
Business plans? I've heard of them [www.danshapiro.com]
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Avoid over-design [www.smashingmagazine.com]
Monday, 29 August 2011
Why blog? [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
SEOmoz's funding story [randfishkin.com]
Friday, 26 August 2011
Don't build a swiss-army knife product [contrast.ie]
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Selling dirt takes skill [shadyacres.tumblr.com]
How to fire an executive [bhorowitz.com]
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
How to survive a due diligence [www.jacquesmattheij.com]
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
5 reasons to sell your startup [blog.eladgil.com]
Saturday, 20 August 2011
The terrible costs of patents [techcrunch.com]
Friday, 19 August 2011
The copywriting difference [bvckup.tumblr.com]
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
37Signals' alternative option [37signals.com]
Monday, 15 August 2011
Paths and deterministic design [bhargreaves.com]
Saturday, 13 August 2011
Silence [wisdom.tenner.org]
Even Steve Jobs does it [blog.snapengage.com]
Friday, 12 August 2011
Setting up your accounting system [www.feld.com]
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Making all the decisions yourself [www.stephenwolfram.com]
Monday, 11 July 2011
Grow first and make money later? [andrewchenblog.com]
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Phantom user profiles for non-registered users [www.avc.com]
Government grants [www.avc.com]
Saturday, 09 July 2011
The (un)importance of design [blog.asmartbear.com]
Launching too soon? [housefed.tumblr.com]
Friday, 08 July 2011
Working for a no-shot startup [thestartupfoundry.com]
Notes on raising seed money [cdixon.org]
How to give software demos [www.betabeat.com]
Successful entrepreneurs find a way [lederhosenlabs.com]
Thursday, 07 July 2011
If you build it, they won't come [tbbuck.com]
Monday, 20 June 2011
Sell the emotional benefits first [thestartupfoundry.com]
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Signup page conversions 101 [blog.lessmeeting.com]
Giving advice [www.humbledmba.com]
How to deal with massive technological disruption [ownlocal.com]
Saturday, 18 June 2011
How to find a designer [www.attackofdesign.com]
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Three traffic triage questions [insight.io]
Friends and Family financing [www.avc.com]
Elad Gil's engineer hiring process [blog.eladgil.com]
Friday, 10 June 2011
The 90/10 rule [vincentjordan.com]
Cheapium instead of Freemium [jaredbrown.me]
Show it doesn't work [thenextweb.com]
Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Be specific in your requests [www.humbledmba.com]
Tuesday, 07 June 2011
Your product is not the product [www.ashmaurya.com]
Monday, 06 June 2011
Is there a peak age for entrepreneurship? [techcrunch.com]
Questions to ask a VC [rajibedi.tumblr.com]
Join a startup after graduating? [estromberg.com]
The born-again entrepreneur
Classic startup mistakes [www.foundora.com]
Sunday, 05 June 2011
Dealing with micro-burn-out [blog.asmartbear.com]
Giving discounts impacts your brand [www.readwriteweb.com]
A golden opportunity, or not [www.bubblefoundry.com]
Friday, 03 June 2011
Play/life balance [gbayer.com]
Wednesday, 01 June 2011
Work hard and get lucky [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Product scope: where to draw the line [contrast.ie]
Bootstrap marketing [spencerfry.com]
Random acts of violence
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Paths to $5m [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
Monday, 30 May 2011
What does the business guy do pre-launch? [techcrunch.com]
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Motivating your (technical) cofounder [findthetechguy.com]
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Software contracting legal clauses [sealedabstract.com]
The head of X [www.feld.com]
Positioning and differentiation [hackfwd.tumblr.com]
VC funding approach breakdown [informationarbitrage.com]
Ideas and equity split [k9ventures.com]
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Patrick McKenzie's work on the Fog Creek website [blog.fogcreek.com]
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Startup or big company after university? [www.jeanhsu.com]
Startup vs Lifestyle Business [www.corbettbarr.com]
Read up on SEO and Link Building [blog.kissmetrics.com]
Don't solve problems that you don't have [www.humbledmba.com]
Whatever works, works [paulbuchheit.blogspot.com]
How to find and recruit a killer advisory board [blog.earbits.com]
Thursday, 19 May 2011
A system for following up after conferences [baydin.com]
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Business storytelling [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
The right funding strategy [informationarbitrage.com]
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Old and new ideas [john.a16z.com]
Sunday, 15 May 2011
4 steps to starting a startup [joel.is]
Beware the Maximum Viable Product [informationarbitrage.com]
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
How to email busy people [www.humbledmba.com]
The startup founder dropout lie [www.bandwidthblog.com]
More on splitting equity 50/50 or not [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Start-up vs consulting vs corporate vs all three [vladlokshin.com]
Monday, 09 May 2011
How realistic should your icons/symbols be? [www.uxmag.com]
Friday, 06 May 2011
Getting users for your new startup [pud.com]
What sort of entrepreneur are you anyway?
Thursday, 05 May 2011
Always drill down to fundamental metrics [visualwebsiteoptimizer.com]
What is your brand? [savagethoughts.com]
Wednesday, 04 May 2011
How to stop startups from failing in 4 common ways [blog.eladgil.com]
Best practices for raising a VC round [cdixon.org]
Tuesday, 03 May 2011
How to build and maintain momentum [the99percent.com]
How to start a startup [paulgraham.com]
Monday, 02 May 2011
VisualMess guide to design [www.visualmess.com]
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Use good copywriting to reduce customer support load [blog.idonethis.com]
Finding a great startup advisor [www.humbledmba.com]
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Never say "no", but rarely say "yes" [blog.asmartbear.com]
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Don't wait to work on exciting ideas [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
Getting into a startup right after university [www.jeanhsu.com]
Services vs Product business [techcrunch.com]
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Using LinkedIn for Cold Calling [mygengo.com]
Questions asked at YC interviews [www.hyperinkpress.com]
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Advice for a young entrepreneur [www.stubbleblog.com]
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
What should you bring a "business guy" on for? [www.softwarebyrob.com]
How to get a job at a startup if you aren't a developer [estromberg.com]
How to rely on other businesses
Monday, 18 April 2011
Startup failure and startup mediocrity [onstartups.com]
Principles of pitching
Thursday, 14 April 2011
How to choose a domain name [www.thenameinspector.com]
Joel Spolsky's method for splitting shares in a startup [answers.onstartups.com]
Anything worth copying will be copied [blog.kissmetrics.com]
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
How to keep your sanity during launches [sprouter.com]
Saturday, 02 April 2011
How to find startup ideas that make money [paraschopra.com]
Corporations and companies are a responsibility [heyhamza.com]
Thursday, 31 March 2011
More about finding cofounders [www.quora.com]
Where to find a business partner [sharedstatus.com]
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Gabriel Weinberg's startup advice flowchart [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
How to interview developers [devinterviews.pen.io]
Your job as a CEO [blog.eladgil.com]
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Online advertising for bootstrapped startups [onstartups.com]
Monday, 28 March 2011
How to cold-pitch news sites [viniciusvacanti.com]
How to evaluate a non-technical cofounder [blog.hirelite.com]
A great cold email to an angel [www.davidgcohen.com]
Thursday, 17 March 2011
How to optimise facebook campaigns [insight.io]
How to raise a Series A round [blog.eladgil.com]
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Hustling your first $25k of seed money [www.avc.com]
Monday, 14 March 2011
The MicroPreneur Manifesto [changethis.com]
Fit your product to the right market
Saturday, 12 March 2011
Put together effective designs quickly [codefastdieyoung.com]
Friday, 11 March 2011
Go for the win-win situations [blog.favo.rs]
Designing your sign-up pages [www.contrast.ie]
On being an early startup employee [www.jamesyu.org]
Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Failing faster [andrewbadr.com]
Saturday, 05 March 2011
Principles for designing and deploying internet-scale services [www.usenix.org]
Thursday, 03 March 2011
Let the acquirer name a price [www.theglobeandmail.com]
The large company sales cycle [blog.favo.rs]
Wednesday, 02 March 2011
Should you turn into a hacker to do a startup? [pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com]
Tools to find available startup domain names [blog.kashflow.com]
Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Pick a fight with the incumbent [www.wepay.com]
Anatomy of the long sales letter [visualwebsiteoptimizer.com]
Are startups 10x cheaper than ten years ago?
How to find a technical cofounder [www.jeffreytalajic.com]
What are the best metrics? [andrewchenblog.com]
Monday, 28 February 2011
How to deliver an elevator pitch [dondodge.typepad.com]
Friday, 25 February 2011
Kevin McDonagh on: How to attend a conference
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Solving the chicken and egg problem [viniciusvacanti.com]
Sell the dream, not the job [informationarbitrage.com]
Paulina Sygulska on: How to network effectively
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
How to sell your company [jacquesmattheij.com]
Send your (wrong-fit) customers to your competitors [understanding.uservoice.com]
How many VCs should you have? [techcrunch.com]
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Iqbal Gandham on: Generating B2B and B2C leads systematically
Monday, 21 February 2011
Getting feedback on your prototype [blog.paperbuff.com]
Cash vs Equity compensations [blog.asmartbear.com]
Jacques Mattheij on: Networking without going places
Saturday, 19 February 2011
How to use Business Development in a startup [www.slideshare.net]
Friday, 18 February 2011
How to get Facebook marketing to work [www.readwriteweb.com]
How to develop disruptive ideas [mashable.com]
How to choose your startup idea [blog.amirkhella.com]
Thursday, 17 February 2011
What's the most important question? [swombat.com]
How to become an online influencer [mashable.com]
Launch within 6 weeks, as a non-developer [www.limedaring.com]
Venture capital basics [www.vcic.unc.edu]
Working smarter in a startup [startingup.is]
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Stealth mode startups [www.humbledmba.com]
Can you build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? [techcrunch.com]
Attention infrastructure vs fundamental businesses [blog.garrytan.com]
Seeing opportunities, and missing them [news.ycombinator.com]
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Appsumo's failed A/B tests [visualwebsiteoptimizer.com]
Visual dashboards for startups [blog.gengo.com]
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Who owns the rights to the stuff you do in your spare time? [answers.onstartups.com]
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Merchant accounts, or Paypal [www.softwarebyrob.com]
How to choose a business partner [sharedstatus.com]
Friday, 11 February 2011
You are your first investor [startingup.is]
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Internalising and externalising success and failure [www.whattofix.com]
How to use metrics in a startup
Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Don't let your rock stars do the customer support [understanding.uservoice.com]
User activity streams and cohort metrics [blog.500startups.com]
Tuesday, 08 February 2011
Being your own boss means taking responsibility [thesash.me]
Four kinds of entrepreneurial contexts [steveblank.com]
How to get your first 1,000 users [viniciusvacanti.com]
Monday, 07 February 2011
Lean Startup Machine learnings [www.startuplessonslearned.com]
Consulting company accounting [blog.asmartbear.com]
Your idea is worthless in finding a cofounder [go-to-hellman.blogspot.com]
How to use sales people in startups [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Sunday, 06 February 2011
Why it's hard to find technical cofounders [andrewchenblog.com]
Hangups about making money [www.sebastianmarshall.com]
Friday, 04 February 2011
Attention seeking for startups [www.telegraph.co.uk]
Don't underestimate simple ideas [williamwilkinson.com]
Dangerous data for startups [blog.chart.io]
Thursday, 03 February 2011
Traffic sources have a half-life [www.softwarebyrob.com]
Don't seek product feedback from friends [blog.500startups.com]
Analysis of 32 startup post-mortems [foundersblock.com]
Wednesday, 02 February 2011
Starting out? clone threewords.me [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
Power blogging hour: an approach to startup blogs [mygengo.com]
Tuesday, 01 February 2011
Increasing email capture conversion rate [visualwebsiteoptimizer.com]
Formula for elevator pitches [blog.500startups.com]
Monday, 31 January 2011
Freemium: make the cheapskates pay [onstartups.com]
Should you really be a startup entrepreneur? [techcrunch.com]
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Product/market fit vs profitability [wensing.tumblr.com]
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Dangers of data visualisation [www.contrast.ie]
Winding down a startup [informationarbitrage.com]
Soapboxes not optional in the startup business [news.ycombinator.com]
When to sell your company [bhorowitz.com]
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Beginner's guide to landing pages [blog.kissmetrics.com]
A/B testing product price [visualwebsiteoptimizer.com]
Build, polish, polish, polish [blog.oscardelben.com]
Meetup's "bet-the-company" moment [37signals.com]
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
How to set up meetings with customers, investors, mentors, ... [viniciusvacanti.com]
Monday, 24 January 2011
How to do "forgotten password" pages [blog.objectivedigital.com]
A starting point for better networking [blog.assetmap.com]
How to use PR firms at startups [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Self-employed vs business owners [sivers.org]
Bootstrapping on the side [joel.is]
Friday, 21 January 2011
Use your competitors' marketing budget for your campaigns [insight.io]
Hiring front-end engineers [www.computedstyle.com]
Thursday, 20 January 2011
How to write good startup advice articles
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Core peer groups [brianbalfour.com]
Hacking customer technology adoption [www.kalzumeus.com]
How not to recruit cofounders [grasshopperherder.com]
Monday, 17 January 2011
Details of a company sale [www.avc.com]
Developer-Driven Development [schacon.github.com]
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Behavioural change [www.behaviorwizard.org]
Dealing with a bad techcrunch review [foolishentrepreneur.tumblr.com]
Friday, 14 January 2011
Seed stage valuation guide [jordancooper.wordpress.com]
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Evolution of a dashboard: beware vanity metrics [www.contrast.ie]
How to approach an angel investor [urbanhorizon.wordpress.com]
Tips for customer development interviews [blog.localmind.com]
How to get your startup on Hacker News
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Running a startup without hiring [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
First time sales versus returning sales [www.softwarebyrob.com]
Customer development vs distribution channel development [www.ashmaurya.com]
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Quick and dirty application of Hypothesis Driven Development [www.johnwedgwood.com]
Get more out of your startup reading
Recall vs recognition for search [www.contrast.ie]
Not all products need to be pain killers [techcrunch.com]
Monday, 10 January 2011
Focus on the power users [blog.asmartbear.com]
Startups can't afford a cover-up culture [steveblank.com]
Make money from your web apps by starting with the market [paraschopra.com]
Sunday, 09 January 2011
Create an illusion of space in checkout processes [baymard.com]
Startups and premature scaling optimisations [onstartups.com]
Saturday, 08 January 2011
5 lessons about building apps [feint.me]
Asking for a credit card upfront [www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com]
Friday, 07 January 2011
How Andrew Plotkin raised $24k on Kickstarter [money.cnn.com]
How to evaluate and implement startup ideas using Hypothesis Driven Development
Thursday, 06 January 2011
Don't drink your own kool-aid [blog.500startups.com]
How to get and measure traction [eu.techcrunch.com]
Startup cooking: don't eat pizza and ramen [blog.500startups.com]
The dark side of entrepreneurship [petewarden.typepad.com]
Wednesday, 05 January 2011
How to write a tech job ad [blog.hirelite.com]
Building a strong company trunk [spencerfry.com]
Aim for a lifestyle, not a jackpot [mixergy.com]
Engagement: Getting your users on-board [www.contrast.ie]
Progressive signup [www.quietwrite.com]
Tuesday, 04 January 2011
Business Basics eBook for entrepreneurs [www.thedailymba.com]
Metrics for social startups
Startup lessons from Constant Contact [davidcancel.com]
Monday, 03 January 2011
Register a business today
Faking initial user interest [sahillavingia.com]
Sunday, 02 January 2011
Don't choose freemium by default [kanebennett.wordpress.com]
Concept to launch in 24 hours [kylewritescode.com]
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Start with a prototype [www.businessinsider.com]
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
Get a VC to mentor you [gigaom.com]
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Build apps not businesses [sahillavingia.com]
Monday, 27 December 2010
Learn from your competitors [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Basics of selling your company [www.avc.com]
Don't dwell on startup mistakes [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
Startup or travelling lifestyle? [paraschopra.com]
The "thin edge of the wedge" strategy [cdixon.org]
How to talk about the competition [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Sunday, 26 December 2010
Luck, talent, positioning [michaelrwolfe.posterous.com]
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Test your startup ideas for $20 [blog.snootymonkey.com]
Take a pay cut to work at a startup
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Every entrepreneur should write [onstartups.com]
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Shorten your viral cycle time [www.gabrielweinberg.com]
How to set up an advisory board for your startup [www.favvas.com]
Monday, 20 December 2010
How to validate a startup idea [blog.asmartbear.com]
How do you intend to make money? [24waystostart.com]
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Dark patterns: good for business? [www.90percentofeverything.com]
Frog Driven Development [24waystostart.com]
Why your startup shouldn't hire a Marketer from Microsoft [www.rocketwatcher.com]
Saturday, 18 December 2010
How to invalidate your startup idea [blog.wepay.com]
Friday, 17 December 2010
How to work with designers [weblog.muledesign.com]
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Hiring from Craigslist [www.gettingmoreawesome.com]
Dangerous data: three kinds of lies [www.zurb.com]
Why you need to work for a big company [onstartups.com]
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Startup Therapy: Ten questions [blog.asmartbear.com]
Ask for forgiveness, not permission [24waystostart.com]
Impatience kills startups, but patience kills human beings [chrisyeh.blogspot.com]
How to handle lawyers threatening you [hustlebear.com]
What font should I use? [www.smashingmagazine.com]
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
How to safely store a password [codahale.com]
Hot markets and flying turkeys [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Hypothesis testing for startups [rashmisinha.com]
Monday, 13 December 2010
Build businesses, not apps [emphaticsolutions.com]
Anatomy of a landing page [www.formstack.com]
The Noun Project: Large collection of free symbols [www.thenounproject.com]
Properly following up [24waystostart.com]
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Deploying like a pro [www.kalzumeus.com]
Saturday, 11 December 2010
Case studies of successful cash cow business [www.fourhourworkweek.com]
Myths of building a great mobile team [techcrunch.com]
Designer, Architect, Developer [24waystostart.com]
Friday, 10 December 2010
Strategic investments in early startups [informationarbitrage.com]
How to reject a job candidate [nathanmarz.com]
Thursday, 09 December 2010
What have you done wrong? [24waystostart.com]
How to detect a toxic customer [www.softwarebyrob.com]
Wednesday, 08 December 2010
How Jason screwed up his Google acquisition [www.codusoperandi.com]
Tuesday, 07 December 2010
SaaS Economics [www.forentrepreneurs.com]
3 Lessons from launching a product [thinkvitamin.com]
Is it OK to Want to Make Money? [www.bothsidesofthetable.com]
Monday, 06 December 2010
Founder Control [paulgraham.com]
How to get better at writing
So you want to join a startup [blog.thirdyearmba.com]
Sunday, 05 December 2010
Freely available programming books [github.com]
Friday, 03 December 2010
7 startup post-mortems [37signals.com]
Why Ty Danco is investing in CardMunch [tydanco.com]
Get better at UI design [ui-patterns.com]
Wednesday, 01 December 2010
Gamification Wiki [gamification.org]
Product Launch Checklist [www.bootstrappingindependence.com]
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript [ofps.oreilly.com]