Startups

and enterprise/corporate. to heavily refactor.

General

• http://ircstartups.pbworks.com/ - #startups, non-official hn channel (see also ##hackernews)

• http://www.startups.co.uk/

• http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=251

• http://startupguide.com/entrepreneurship/startup-ceo/

• http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/

• http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
  • http://benwerd.com/blog/2012/11/20/recipes-for-startup-failure/

• https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306 [1]

• What You Really Need Is A Market, Not An Idea

• Rethink your Startup Website: Make a Net, not a Funnel

• http://joel.is/post/36051780992/the-maker-manager-transition-phase

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_pitch

• http://hbr.org/

• https://www.docracy.com/mobileprivacy/

• http://www.slideshare.net/Flippadotcom/how-do-websites-make-money-16613130
• https://hackpad.com/EgXuEtSibE7#Web-And-Mobile-Revenue-Models-(final)

• The Start-Up Trap

• http://www.pranavpiyush.com/communication-for-startup-co-founders/

• http://www.cstthegate.com/davetrott/2013/03/working-while-youre-asleep/

• Don't Follow Your Passion: A Smarter Way to Find a Product to Sell
• Making Sense of Minimum Viable Products
• http://appbot.co/blog/lessons-learned-launching-a-minimum-viable-product
• Ask HN: Is a starting an enterprise software startup worth the hassle?

• Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?

• LearningJar: Start Your Own Business
• 37signals: Getting Real - The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application

• Gamification: The Art of Attracting and Keeping Users
• Traction mistakes
• http://blog.press42.com/index.php/2012/11/05/storytelling-video-pitch/

• http://cluetrain.com/

• http://philosophically.com/dont-launch-your-product

• http://insideintercom.io/four-pricing-principals-to-never-forget/

• http://thebln.com/2011/09/context-core-geoffrey-moore-at-business-of-software-video-transcript/

• http://venturehacks.com/archives

• http://dcurt.is/startups-ruin-you

• http://founderswiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

• Startup Growth Calculator [2]

Pitch

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_pitch

• If you can’t explain what you do in one paragraph, you’ve got a problem

• Advice on pitching - Aaron Harris, Tutorspree, Y Combinator Partner [3]

• https://pitchdeck.improvepresentation.com/what-is-a-pitch-deck

• http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/10/23/what-should-be-in-a-pitch-deck/

• Pitchency - Showcasing only the best startup pitch decks

• http://bestpitchdecks.com/

• Ask HN: Let's open-source our unused pitch decks

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305196

• http://www.sketchdeck.com/blog/what-we-learned-from-designing-200-pitch-decks [4]

• Problem & Value Proposition
• Seed: 18 slides, Series A: 24 slides
• The most popular (60%) primary colour is BLUE
• For a $2,000,000 raise, companies on average spend $1,100 on design

• Finding Your Voice With the Media: How to Pitch a Journalist

• Build Your Target Media List
• Ready Your Release for Distribution
• Distributing the Press Release
• Sending the Supplemental Pitch

• https://www.dotdotdot.me/Luke-Meyer/Pitch-Your-Thing-To-Journalists---PR-101 - no archive?

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22451415

Entrepreneurship

• Open Source Entrepreneurship
• http://postmasculine.com/33-things-every-aspiring-entrepreneur-should-know

• http://benogle.com/2013/03/25/an-idea-for-non-technical-founders-service-first-business.html

• You Fuckers Are Adorable
• http://www.startupengine.org/2013/07/developing-traction.html

• http://blog.reemer.com/why-only-fools-write-code-first [5]

• http://www.bootstrappers.io/ [6]

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10090806

Concepts

• Startup Toolchain - progress and solution ideas

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_ecosystem

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reseller

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_reseller

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_proposition

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_advantage

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_driver

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_addressable_market

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_chain

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_integration

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-level_agreement

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_intelligence

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence

• http://www.sourcecon.com/news/2011/07/13/best-practices-for-the-creation-of-a-successful-sourcing-model/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_measurement

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_performance_indicator
  • http://kpilibrary.com

• OpsDog - KPIs, etc.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insourcing
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_insourcing

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inshoring

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshoring

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_outsourcing

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Model_Canvas

Personel

• Hiring your first employee (a UK guide)
• How I hire writers
• http://ryancarson.com/post/26412233938/hiring-your-first-employee
• http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/
• http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=898

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915809

• http://collabfinder.com/project

• Velocity 2010 - Adam Jacob on DevOps

• http://sivers.org/delegate/

• http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187296/How_Valve_hires_how_it_fires_and_how_much_it_pays.php#.US0ViYe8Koy

• How I ended up conducting successful tech interviews with just 1 question [7]
• http://www.runtime-era.com/2013/03/my-interview-questions-for-potential.html
• https://github.com/darcyclarke/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
• http://refer.ly/blog/most-revealing-interview-question/

• https://www.kennethnorton.com/essays/productmanager.html

• http://www.themuse.com/careerpaths/productmanagement

• Product Management Search Engine - 1000+ articles recommended/written by PMs at Google, FB + almost every other major tech co/startup. No videos/books/product placement, just articles. To suggest new articles, comment on this map. Also accessible at bit.ly/pmengine. [8]

• http://www.fastcompany.com/1815287/hacker-school-helps-solve-silicon-valleys-hiring-problem

• http://hackertourism.com/post/44454709336/growing-by-shrinking
• https://medium.com/lessons-learned/80ba19c55883

• The Orange Juice Test - [9]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills - a metaphor used in job recruitment to describe the abilities of persons in the workforce. The vertical bar on the letter T represents the depth of related skills and expertise in a single field, whereas the horizontal bar is the ability to collaborate across disciplines with experts in other areas and to apply knowledge in areas of expertise other than one's own.

Incubators / accelerators

• http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators
• http://www.davidgcohen.com/2013/08/29/a-shocking-accelerator-story-that-youll-need-to-read-twice/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10219420

Sourcing

• http://www.zdnet.com/time-to-spread-your-outsourcing-risk-3039288106/
• http://www.out-law.com/page-6322

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisourcing
  • http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/13966
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_management_system

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner

• http://www.itbusinessedge.com/slideshows/show.aspx?c=79766

• sourcing guide

• http://www.waterstechnology.com/inside-market-data/discussion/1685477/paris-financial-information-summit-multi-sourcing-holds-key-data-quality

• http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp

• http://www.forbes.com/sites/drewhansen/2013/02/18/whats-the-source-of-y-combinators-success/

• http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-contact-how-to-negotiate-the-long-slow-saas-ramp-of-death/

• http://www.donnfelker.com/how-to-hire-outsourced-developers/ [10]

PR

• http://www.mcraeandcompany.co.uk/

Media

• VoiceBunny - Fast and professional voices for any type of project.

Other

• https://medium.com/@oscargodson/thatll-do-pig-that-ll-do-8998f9df9f77#.65ygnw6fy [11]

• https://github.com/leonar15/startup-checklist - USA [12]