Startups
and enterprise/corporate. to heavily refactor.
General
- http://ircstartups.pbworks.com/ - #startups, non-official hn channel (see also ##hackernews)
- http://www.slideshare.net/Flippadotcom/how-do-websites-make-money-16613130
- https://hackpad.com/EgXuEtSibE7#Web-And-Mobile-Revenue-Models-(final)
- 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?
- 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/
Concepts
- 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/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
Entrepreneurship
- Open Source Entrepreneurship
- http://postmasculine.com/33-things-every-aspiring-entrepreneur-should-know
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
- 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://hackertourism.com/post/44454709336/growing-by-shrinking
- https://medium.com/lessons-learned/80ba19c55883
Investment
- http://www.paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html
- http://iamwil.posterous.com/i-got-into-yc-after-applying-six-times-heres/
Management
to sort
See also Organisation
- 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/
- Long, Slow, SaaS Ramp of Death - Gail Goodman, Constant Contact
- 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/
- 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
- Do you use source control?
- Can you make a build in one step?
- Do you make daily builds?
- Do you have a bug database?
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
- Do you have a spec?
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
- Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- Do you have testers?
- Do new candidates write code during their interview?
- Do you do hallway usability testing?
Remote
Lean
- 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
Managerless
- http://ryancarson.com/post/61562761297/no-managers-why-we-removed-bosses-at-treehouse [7]
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7023299
Salary
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/
Process
Outsourcing
- http://www.zdnet.com/time-to-spread-your-outsourcing-risk-3039288106/
- http://www.out-law.com/page-6322
PR
Media
- VoiceBunny - Fast and professional voices for any type of project.