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://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

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 [1]

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/

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
• 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 [2]

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

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/

• 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://swombat.com/2013/12/23/three-modern-organisational-structures [3]

• 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/

• 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

• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code

1. Do you use source control?
2. Can you make a build in one step?
3. Do you make daily builds?
4. Do you have a bug database?
5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
7. Do you have a spec?
8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
9. Do you use the best tools money can buy?
10. Do you have testers?
11. Do new candidates write code during their interview?
12. Do you do hallway usability testing?

• Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity [4]

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

Agile

• http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/87899/Seven-Things-I-Hate-About-Agile.aspx [5]

Scrum

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

Managerless

• HBR: First, Let's Fire All The Managers [6]

• 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 [7]
• 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

Salary

• We just set our salaries by... voting? [8]

• Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer: Our Transparent Formula and All Individual Salaries [9]

• Why transparent salaries make sense [10]

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

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.