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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/

• 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 [1]

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 [2]

• http://www.bootstrappers.io/ [3]

Concepts

• 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/

• 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

Management

to sort

See also Organisation

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_directors
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors%27_duties

• http://blog.hirelite.com/warning-signs-in-a-non-technical-cofounder-ca
• http://humbledmba.com/please-please-please-stop-asking-how-to-find
• http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/15/stop-looking-for-a-technical-co-founder/

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

• http://montyprogram.com/hacking-business-model/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8080442

• http://www.talkingquickly.co.uk/2015/04/what-id-tell-myself-about-startups/ [4]

• What’s the effect on requirements engineering when switching from Scrum to KanbanScrum & technical debt

• https://hackpad.com/Peter-Corbetts-Management-Hacks-3KJiKExlH74

• Long, Slow, SaaS Ramp of Death - Gail Goodman, Constant Contact

• How do you manage?

• http://meta.genius.com/Genius-the-genius-isms-annotated [5]

• http://swombat.com/2013/12/23/three-modern-organisational-structures [6]

• Zaarly Employee Handbook

• Greg Wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True

• A forgotten military standard that saves weeks of work (by providing free project management templates)

• http://www.refactory.com/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8406507

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

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-creation

• http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/venture-assistance-a-philosophical-view-of-what-boards-should-and-should-not-do/

• http://life-longlearner.com/bd-101-less-obvious-ways-to-find-a-decision-maker/
• http://life-longlearner.com/how-to-find-a-decision-maker-part-1/

• http://www.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-lessons

• Chat Trumps Meetings

• Some ideas matter, just not the ones you think

• Building Technical Literacy in Business Teams
• Attention CTOs: Culture matters

• Peopleware - This book was written by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister.

• Do you want to be an engineer? Entropy Crushers - A project manager is responsible for shipping a product, whereas a product manager is responsible for making sure the right product is shipped. A program manager is an uber-mutated combination of both that usually shows up to handle multiple interrelated projects. Communication, Decisions, Error Correction

• Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity [7]

• http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/01/the-open-office-trap.html [8]

• http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/in-silicon-valley-mergers-must-meet-the-toothbrush-test/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8572493

• http://www.mindbench.com/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_%28engineer%29#Kelly_Johnson.27s_14_Rules_of_Management [9]

• Improve as a Leader: Stop Lying

Corporate

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

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

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

• http://www.corporateinformation.com/Top-100.aspx?topcase=b

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler
  • PDF: Managing Without Managers by Ricardo Semler
  • Ricardo Semler - Leading by Omission - If successful business depends on innovation, wonders Ricardo Semler, why are automobiles made essentially the same way today as they were in Ford's first assembly line 100 years ago? Parallel parking is one of " the stupidest things we do," says Semler, "If we had a day, could we not by tomorrow afternoon figure out a way to make a car" that handles better in this common situation -- or, on a grander scale, escape from the "silly concept" of oil dependent transportation altogether? The problem, Semler figures, is that there's "something fundamental about organizations and ' leadership that makes it almost impossible for people inside a business to change their own industry." Industries are based on "formats that are basically legacies of military hierarchies," says Semler, which neglect or deny the power of human intuition and democratic participation. In Semler's own firm, there are no five-year business plans (which he views as wishful thinking), but rather "a rolling rationale about numbers." A project takes off only if a critical mass of employees decides to get involved. Staff determine when they need a leader, and then choose their own bosses in a process akin to courtship, says Semler, resulting in a corporate turnover rate of 2% over 25 years. "We'll send our sons anywhere in the world to die for democracy," says Semler, but don't seem to apply the concept to the workplace. This is a tragic error, because "people on their own developing their own solutions will develop something different.

Remote

• HN: A Short Rant About Working Remotely

Lean

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

• http://theleanstartup.com/
• http://www.lean.org/whatslean/
• Lean Canvas - Business Model Canvas Optimized for Lean Startup

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369577

Agile

• http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/87899/Seven-Things-I-Hate-About-Agile.aspx [10]

Scrum

• http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/09/12/why-im-done-with-scrum/

Managerless

• HBR: First, Let's Fire All The Managers [11]

• http://boingboing.net/2012/04/22/valve-employee-manual-describe.html
  • http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/varoufakis_on_v.html

• http://ryancarson.com/post/61562761297/no-managers-why-we-removed-bosses-at-treehouse [12]
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7023299

• http://blog.gittip.com/post/26350459746/the-first-open-company

• http://holacracy.org/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205013

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9301151

Salary

• We just set our salaries by... voting? [13]

• Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer: Our Transparent Formula and All Individual Salaries [14]

• Why transparent salaries make sense [15]

Innovation

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_management
• http://www.articulateventures.com/thoughts-on-being-an-employer/why-innovation-experts-are-selling-snake-oil/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_foresight

• https://c1.cognician.com/ - software that frames issues by asks questions
• http://drupal.org/project/ideation - crowdsourced feedback, us education ept.

• http://www.huddle.com/this-is-huddle/about-huddle/
• http://goachiev.com/
• http://www.brightidea.com/
• http://www.imaginatik.com/
• http://www.spigit.com/
• http://www.managementinnovation.net/
• http://www.outsystems.com/

• http://ryanabbott.com/side-projects-learning-experience-vs-distraction

• Inspire Talk

• Marissa Mayer at Stanford University

Process

• http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/1733220/ask-slashdot-documenting-scattered-sites-and-systems

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

• 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 [16]
• 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

• 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

Investment

• http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html
• http://paulgraham.com/fr.html

• http://www.paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html
• http://iamwil.posterous.com/i-got-into-yc-after-applying-six-times-heres/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5370427

• http://leoexplor.es/angel-investing/2013/03/13/what-do-angel-investors-actually-do-part-1/

• http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-14/waiting-for-the-accelerator-bubble-to-pop#r=hpf-s

• https://angel.co/

• http://www.investopedia.com/

• https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/so-you-wanna-build-a-crowdfunding-site/#

• http://ycombinator.com/tredennick.html

• http://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-safe-a-replacement-for-convertible-notes [17]

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6882744

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7059919

• http://indie.vc/ [18]

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/

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/ [19]

PR

• http://www.mcraeandcompany.co.uk/

Media

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