Resource list

A list of the best resources on lean startup, design sprints and new ways of working.

Getting started

• Why the lean startup changes everything — Steve Blank’s Harvard Business Review article.
• From idea to business — An animated series by Alex Osterwalder’s company.
• The lean approach — A video series on lean startup taught by Steve Blank.

Articles

• Do things that don’t scale — The heart of lean startup do things that don’t scale.
• The only thing that matters —The only thing that matters is Product/market fit.
• Talk to customers — A summary of the book the mom test.
• Startup Playbook — Sam Altman’s best advice.
• YC’s essential advice — A summary of Y Combinator’s best advice.

Books

• How Google works — The Google CEO explains how they become the world’s most iconic technology company.
• The Amazon way — A former Amazon executive give insight into Amazon’s management philosophy.
• The lean startup — An introduction to the lean startup methodology.
• Sprint — An introduction to Google Venture’s design sprint process.
• Talking to humans — How to interview customers by Giff Constable.
• The mom test — How to do customer discovery with out messing it up.
• The corporate startup — How established companies can develop innovation ecosystems.

Blogs

• Steve Blank blog — The father of lean startup and customer discovery share’s his insights.
• The startup playbook — Y Combinator (the world’s most successful accelerator) gives their best startup advice.
• Paul Graham blog — Paul Graham’s legendary startup essay’s a must read.
• Sprint stories — Stories on how startups and large organisations are using design sprints.
• #JTBD — A blog on the latest Jobs-to-be-done framework.

Videos

• Steve Blank’s customer discovery checklist — A series by Startup Weekend on how to do customer discovery.
• The lean startup conference — Hundreds of videos by lean startup practitioners.
• Startup school — Y Combinator annual 10-week massively open online course (MOOC).
• WMD — 500 startups growth marketing conference.