Startup Resources to Grow Your Startup

In this week’s post, we bring you a great list of startup resources in various categories. Starting a startup is overwhelming. There are many things to keep track of and often it is all new information. Luckily, there are great resources out there so you can get help! Our favorite category is, of course, recruitment! But there’s plenty of titles to help grow your business, and build a world-class team and product. Check it out!

Startup General:
Books

• The Agile Startup: Quick and Dirty lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know
• The Startup Playbook
• Founder’s Dilemma
• Startup Weekend
• The $100 Dollar Startup
• All in Startup
• The Tech’s Entrepreneur Survival Guide
• The Lean Startup
• The Startup Owner’s Manual
• Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
• Zero to One
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
• Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City

Here are few resources with Canadian context here:

Canadian Context

• Starting a Successful Business in Canada
• The Complete Canadian Small Business Guide
• Everyday Entrepreneur Making it Happen
• Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

Canadian Blogs:

• Business. Startups. Technology. @Lidiasworld: https://lidiasworld.com/
• April Dunford blog on marketing: http://www.rocketwatcher.com/

Ideation:

• Where to do great ideas come from? http://goo.gl/LImzkP
• Why it’s not about idea: https://goo.gl/KQRx7

Marketing & Sales:

• Inbound marketing
• Purple Cow
• All Marketers are Liars
• The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing
• The Challenger Sale
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• Marketing canvas: http://bit.ly/21OjwN8
• The Sales Development playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales
• Growth Hacker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 100 proven Growth Hacks for the Digital Marketer

Product Development

• Well designed
• Hooked

We have recruiting here!

Recruitment & Hiring

• How to Find a Cofounder in Canada: https://goo.gl/czznS0
• Finding a cofounder: http://entm.ag/1qoRvA6
• Recruitment Resources for Startups: http://goo.gl/H5zzoW
• Building the “Core Team”: http://goo.gl/MtVleW
• Managing remote teams: http://goo.gl/I3LwyE
• Onboarding tips for new hire: https://goo.gl/A983Np
• Hacking startup recruiting: https://goo.gl/M7mFal
• How to Hire: https://goo.gl/uq6Asz
• Team Building Khosla Ventures: http://bit.ly/1MMMgUT

Accounting

• Startup Financial Planning: http://goo.gl/a82pGC

Podcasts

• Founder Institute series: https://goo.gl/6zyHKH

Videos

• How to start a startup Y Combinator series: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/
• Harvard Innovation Lab Series: http://bit.ly/1POaEA6
• Startup School: http://bit.ly/1SvmNMi
• Product Development: http://bit.ly/1MKwz0g

We can’t wrap up the post without mentioning startup movies and culture.

Startup Movies

• Startup movies and entrepreneurship movies: http://bit.ly/1qfd85J

Web and Mobile Apps

• Free course on design and user experience. iOS 8 Mobile App Design: bit.ly/1V1HyE2

Articles

• Building a marketplace: http://versionone.vc/marketplace-handbook/
• Startup Playbook: http://playbook.samaltman.com/
• How to Network in Your PJs: http://bit.ly/1TA9DlT

Courses

• Entrepreneurship 101 by MaRS. Free yearly course.
• Free online Sales Course by Kevin Smith and MaRS: http://bit.ly/1Y466eO

Hardware Startup

• Hardware Startup Link Summary: http://bit.ly/1qKBch6

Do you have a favorite startup resource? Send us a tweet @KeyobiTalent!

Originally published at recruiterblog.keyobi.com.