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://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/

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

Organisation

See also Organisation

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

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

Sales and Pricing

• https://strideapp.com/beginners-guide-to-sales/

• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/13/pricing-tables-showcase-examples-and-best-practices/

• http://www.slideshare.net/kissmetrics/ultimate-guide-to-saas-pricing#btnPrevious

Marketing and PR

• A 50-Point Checklist For Creating The Ultimate Landing Page

• http://orangethirty.github.com/marketing_bits/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_collateral
• http://www.noisyzine.co.uk/resources/presspack.pdf

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_presence_management
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Marketing_Collateral

• http://www.peterjthomson.com/2011/06/how-to-choose-tagline-for-tech-startup.html

• Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous

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

• http://samuelmullen.com/2012/08/the-introverts-networking-survival-guide/

• http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/06/youve-got-a-problem/

• http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/08/14/teachable-moments-in-pr-crisis-management/

• https://www.dotdotdot.me/Luke-Meyer/Pitch-Your-Thing-To-Journalists---PR-101

• http://sivers.org/hi

• http://customer.io/learn-to-write-better-emails.html
• https://segment.io/academy/email-is-the-easiest-way-to-improve-retention

• Are “Shameless Plugs” Worth It? Some data

Hiring

• 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

• 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

• 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

Investment

• http://ycombinator.com/hdp.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.seed-db.com/accelerators

Management

to sort

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

• How do you manage?

• Zaarly Employee Handbook

• HN: A Short Rant About Working Remotely

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

• Lean Canvas - Business Model Canvas Optimized for Lean Startup

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

• [http://kkovacs.eu/free-project-management-template-mil-std-498 A forgotten military standard that saves weeks of work

(by providing free project management templates)]

• http://www.refactory.com/

• 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://blog.gittip.com/post/26350459746/the-first-open-company
• http://www.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-lessons

• http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/87899/Seven-Things-I-Hate-About-Agile.aspx [1]
• http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/09/12/why-im-done-with-scrum/

• http://zachholman.com/posts/chat/

• http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2013/02/some-ideas-matter-just-not-the-ones-you-think.html

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

• http://pandodaily.com/2013/03/08/attention-ctos-culture-matters/
• https://medium.com/about-work/1b416524b519

Lean

• http://theleanstartup.com/
• http://www.lean.org/whatslean/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing

Concepts

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

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

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

Process

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

Outsourcing

• 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/

PR

• http://www.mcraeandcompany.co.uk/

Media

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