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Learning The Basics
Free Books, Essays etc.
- [PDF] Instant Startup Guide – Entrepreneur
- [PDF] Startup Guide – Harvard University Office Of Technology Development
- Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup – Class 18 Notes Essay
- Straight up Startup advice from experienced entrepreneurs
- Creative Entrepreneurship
- 101 Awesome Marketing Quotes
- Beyond The Blog – Business School For Startups
- Building the Marketing Plan: A Blueprint for Startups
Free online courses about startups and entrepreneurship
- How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman
- How to Build a Startup on Udacity
- Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship on Coursera
- Startup Engineering on Coursera
- Introduction to Finance on Coursera
- Law and the Entrepreneur on Coursera
- Competitive Strategy on Coursera
- Design Thinking for Business Innovation on Coursera
- Entrepreneurial Finance on MIT Open Courseware
- New Enterprises on MIT Open Courseware
- Pricing on MIT Open Courseware
- Entrepreneurial Marketing on MIT Open Courseware
Inspirational videos about entrepreneurship and startups
- Startup grind – A global startup community designed to educate, inspire and connect entrepreneurs
- Steve Jobs‘ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
- Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread
- Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do
- Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance wor
- Sebastian Wernicke: Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks)
- Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career
- Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world
- Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex
- Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
- Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff
- Richard Branson: Life at 30,000 feet
- David S. Rose: How to pitch to a VC
- Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile
- Cameron Herold: Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs
- Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
- Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
See also:
- 30+ Startup/Entrepreneurship related podcasts
- Top Digital Marketing Tools & Hacks For Startups In 2015
- 11 Simple Concepts to Become a Better Leader
- 5 Business Lessons of Sporting Success
- How to Differentiate Great Leaders from Good Leaders
- 6 Fundamentals Every Modern Entrepreneur Needs to Succeed
- 9 Easy-To-Steal Habits Of The Super Successful
- The Power of Conceptual Thinking to Strengthen Your Leadership
- 10 Ways To Make Each Day A Leadership Masterpiece
- 4 Practical Tips for Being a Better Thought Leader
- 10 Awesome Tips for Being a Better Leader
- Master the 4 Secrets of Awesome Leadership
- 3 Ways to Boost your Leadership Agility
- Eight Leadership Lessons From The World’s Most Powerful Women
- 5 Lessons In Learning And Leadership
- 7 Tips For Thought Leadership On A Startup Budget
- How to Brand Yourself as a Thought Leader
- How to Get Startup Ideas by Paul Graham
- Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas by Paul Graham
- Idea Evaluation Worksheet
- Checklist: 10 Rules for a Great Startup Idea
- Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
- How I found my next app idea without looking
- How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend
- How to find start-up ideas
- Five Sources of Start-up Ideas
- StackShare – The top stacks and combinations of tools and services
- The Technology Stack of Billion Dollar Startups
- How to choose the right Technology Stack for your Startup?
- Which Technologies Do Startups Use? An Exploration of AngelList Data
- How We Get Things Done – Productivity Stacks For Tech Startups
- Building the perfect startup marketing tech stack
- How to Fund a Startup by Paul Graham
- An Introductory Guide to Startup Funding
- Best Practices for Managing Your Costs & Revenues
- 6 Tips for Overcoming a ‘No’ When Seeking Funding
- Monetize Your Passion!
- Six Ways to Monetize Your Business and Increase Profits
- The Right Tools for a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
- 6 Bootstrapping Tips From an Entrepreneur Who Turned $3,000 Into Millions
- Everything You Need to Know About Attracting Venture Capitalists
- Successful Entrepreneurs Offer 5 Tips for Finding Elusive Startup Funding
- Where Startup Funding Really Comes From (Infographic)
- Y u no like us? What we learned from the Y Combinator interview
- How to raise money from VCs? Romance.
- Monetization – A free resource exploring the strategy behind monetizing web based businesses and startups.
- Customer Development for Startups: What I Learned Talking to 500 Customers in 4 Weeks
- How Important is UX to Your Product’s Growth?
- Real growth hacking is really about communication hacking
- No, Your Problem isn’t Product / Market Fit
- List of the best places to submit your startup
- Super successful companies by Sam Altman
- 10 ways you’ll probably f**k up your startup
- Making an App for Runners: Thoughts and Lessons Learned
- 6 Tough and Timeless Startup Lessons
- Listening To Our Customers Almost Killed Our Startup
- All the Startup Advice You Read is Wrong
- Ten Things I Learned Researching Ten of the World’s Fastest Growing Startups
- 5 Things I Learned Growing $2,000 Into a Multi-Million Dollar Business
- The Single Biggest Reason Most Entrepreneurs Fail
- Why you should not start a startup
- Start Something: The Power of Side Projects
- Startups, Go Big Or Die.
- Entrepreneurship Survival Guide
- Why Online Business Models Fail
- 29.5 tips for wantrepreneurs
- How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store
- 9 Extremely Clever Startup Funding Stories
- How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up
- Vube: A Tech Startup Success Story
- Stay Inspired: 10 Startup Weekend Success Stories
- The Not-So Glamorous Story Of Real Startup Success
- 7 Start-up Success Stories
- Third life: Flickr co-founder pulls unlikely success from gaming failure. Again
- These college roommates made six-figure incomes recruiting Lyft users
- Seven reasons of failure at my first startup, SchoolGennie
- My startup failed, and this is what it feels like…
- Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup: Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of Sonar
- Out of the picture: why the world’s best photo startup is going out of business
- Why Startups Fail: A Postmortem For Flud, The Social Newsreader
- The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast
- The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story
- Formspring – A Postmortem
- Why Wesabe Lost to Mint
- 10 lessons from a failed startup
- Lessons from a startup failure
- Startup failure story: 300 users, 2 years and zero revenue
- Today my startup failed
- 33 Startups That Died Reveal Why They Failed
- QuickSprout by Neil Patel, co-founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar and KISSmetrics
- Kate Kendall, co-founder and CEO of CloudPeeps
- Gary Vaynerchuck, CEO of VaynerMedia, founder of his own seed fund, and author
- A VC by Fred Wilson, Managing Partner of two VC firms, Flatiron Partners and Union Square Ventures
- How to Change the World by Guy Kawasaki, creative brand ambassador
- Seth Godin’s Blog
- The Growth Guy by Verne Harnish,
- Steve Blank’s Blog
- Joel Gascoigne, co-founder of the social sharing app Buffer
- Danielle Morrill, CEO and Founder of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Referly
- John O’Nolan, Founder of London-based open source publishing platform Ghost
- Marcin Treder, CEO UXPin
- Martin Varsavsky, CEO of FON, a company building the world’s largest WiFi community.
Getting Started
Become A Leader
The Idea
Startups’ (Tech) Stack
Funding
Development And Growth
Learn about new tools and startups
Lessons, Experience And Tips From Entrepreneurs
Success Stories
Failure Stories
Blogs
Founder / Entrepreneur blogs you should follow
