A list of resources to get you started in the world of startups / venture capital
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2 min readOct 20, 2014
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I’ve begun compiling a list of resources that I’ve gathered along the way, as I continue to learn more about the world of startups and venture capital. Let me know if there’s anything that you feel is missing from me, and I’d love to add it!
Videos
- How to pitch to investors w/ 13 slides in under 10 min
- David S. Rose: 10 things to know before you pitch a VC
- Guy Kawasaki: The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs
- Bill Reichert: Top 10 Lies VCs Tell Entrepreneurs — Stanford Grad School of Business
Books
- The Startup pitch: A proven formula to win funding
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or how to Build the Future — Peter Thiel
- The innovators: How a group of Hackers, Geniuses, & Geeks Created the Digital Revolution — Walter Isaacson
- Lean In: Women, Work & the Will to Lead — Sheryl Sandberg
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business — Clayton Christensen
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses — Eric Reis
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers — Ben Horowitz
- Me, Grimlock — The Book of Awesome
- The Leanest Startup Book Ever Made
Podcasts
Blogs to follow
- Fake Grimlock
- Stratechery
- Joel Spolsky
- Mark Andreessen
- Fred Wilson
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Chris Dixon
- Mark Cuban
- Peter Levine
Social Network Tools
- Feedly (Pro)
- Buffer App (Pro)
- Wordpress (included with BizSpark)
- Google Analytics
- MailChimp
- Survey Monkey
- Reddit/r/Statups
