Ultimate List of Lean Startup Resources

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10 min readJan 27, 2017

Continually updated list of Books, Talks, Blogs, Newsletters, Online Courses, People, Groups, Tools & Programmes for Lean Startups.

Books

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically…

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Getting Real: The bestselling book by 37signals

Our small team creates simple, focused software

gettingreal.37signals.com

Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))

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www.amazon.com

Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth

Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth [Ash Maurya] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying…

www.amazon.com

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean (O'Reilly))

Rated 4.6/5: Buy Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean (O'Reilly)) by Jez Humble…

www.amazon.com

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Rated 4.6/5: Buy The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox: ISBN: 9780884271956 …

www.amazon.com

Talking to Humans: Success starts with understanding your customers

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www.amazon.com

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win [Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford] on…

www.amazon.com

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Rated 4.8/5: Buy Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky…

www.amazon.com

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

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Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

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Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams

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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation…

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley…

www.amazon.com

Talks

90 second version

Steve Blank — Customer Development in Past, Present & Future

Lean Startup Circle

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Blogs

Steve Blank Entrepreneurship and Innovation

"Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the…

steveblank.com

Lessons Learned

by Eric Ries

www.startuplessonslearned.com

LEANSTACK Blog - Lean Startup and Lean Business Model Canvas Blog - LEANSTACK

The LEANSTACK blog provides tactical advice for launching and growing successful products using Lean Startup, Lean…

leanstack.com

GrasshopperHerder - Lean Startups & Innovation Ecosystems

(This is a guest post by Dan Toma, an Accelerator Manager and Coach, and author of the upcoming The Corporate Startup…

grasshopperherder.com

SKMurphy Blog - SKMurphy, Inc.

I ran into Shane Reiser (@ShaneReiser) at the Intrapreneur Conference in Silicon Valley and was impressed by his new…

www.skmurphy.com

Crisp's Blog

Yassal Sundman I gave a lightning talk at tonight's Lean Tribe Gathering in Stockholm about A/B testing at King, how we…

blog.crisp.se

Customer Development Labs - HOW to do Lean Startup

In last week's post, I described the one thing your MVP should do - check it out for good and bad examples of MVPs. To…

customerdevlabs.com

Brant's Rant | Market By Numbers

Mentoring is also a more significant part of the economy today than since, perhaps, apprentorship in the craftsman age…

market-by-numbers.com

Online Courses

How To Build A Startup: The Lean Launchpad | Udacity

In this course you'll learn from Steve Blank. Start learning the key steps to build a successful startup. Start your…

www.udacity.com

Rapid Prototyping | Udacity

Learning to prototype will save you time and money in the development process. You'll create quality apps faster and…

www.udacity.com

Product Design | Udacity

Learn product validation, UI/UX practices, Google's Design Sprint and the process for setting and tracking actionable…

www.udacity.com

How to Start a Startup

Everything we know about how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts.

startupclass.co

LEANSTACK Lean Academy - Learn Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas - LEANSTACK

You learn by doing -- not watching videos. All lessons are initially locked. You unlock lessons as you make your way…

leanstack.com

Lean-Agile Product Management

Website for Jez Humble's Lean-Agile Product Management class at UC Berkeley iSchool.

leanagile.pm

Programmes

Help me bring Lean Startup Machine to our city

World's leading startup workshop. LSM is a global movement of entrepreneurs and innovators who are changing the way new…

www.leanstartupmachine.com

Startup Weekend - Learn, Network, Startup

In just 54 hours, you will experience the highs, lows, fun, and pressure that make up life at a startup.

startupweekend.org

Lean LaunchPad® - VentureWell

"We've learned a lot about entrepreneurship. Perhaps our curriculum should reflect what we've learned?" Steve Blank…

venturewell.org

Newsletters

Lean Startup Digest

Lean Startup Digest is a weekly email newsletter for forward thinkers interested in Lean Startup, entrepreneurship…

leanstartupdigest.com

The Official Lean Startup Newsletter

The Official Lean Startup Newsletter Email Forms

theleanstartup.us2.list-manage.com

People

Eric Ries (@ericries) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Eric Ries (@ericries). Trying to change how startups are built. SF

twitter.com

Steve Blank (@sgblank) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from steve blank (@sgblank). Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford, Berkeley…

twitter.com

Ash Maurya (@ashmaurya) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Ash Maurya (@ashmaurya). Author of #RunningLean and Creator of #LeanCanvas. My new book:…

twitter.com

Jake Knapp (@jakek) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Jake Knapp (@jakek). Design Partner at GV, author of https://t.co/L1uRsLZlCD. San Francisco

twitter.com

Sean Ellis (@SeanEllis) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Sean Ellis (@SeanEllis). Key early growth/marketing exec @ Dropbox, Eventbrite, Lookout, LogMeIn…

twitter.com

Giff Constable (@giffco) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Giff Constable (@giffco). digital maker (VP of Product at https://t.co/xp6JEv73yJ); book at…

twitter.com

Jeff Gothelf (@jboogie) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Jeff Gothelf (@jboogie). Author: https://t.co/91EvIaGw8F & https://t.co/zRxqelwOkh Principles…

twitter.com

Tristan Kromer (@TriKro) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Tristan Kromer (@TriKro). #leanstartup coach, Innovation Ecosystem designer, T-shaped …

twitter.com

Spike Morelli (@spikelab) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Spike Morelli (@spikelab). Husband, social entrepreneur & startup guy trying to be kind over…

twitter.com

Barry O'Reilly (@barryoreilly) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Barry O'Reilly (@barryoreilly). Experimental by design, Free-thinker, Curious, Founder and CEO…

twitter.com

Rita Gunther McGrath (@rgmcgrath) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Rita Gunther McGrath (@rgmcgrath). Strategy & Innovation expert. Columbia Business School…

twitter.com

Alex Osterwalder (@AlexOsterwalder) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Alex Osterwalder (@AlexOsterwalder). Founder https://t.co/fQU45Sx5nU. Author. Business Model …

twitter.com

Kent Beck (@KentBeck) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Kent Beck (@KentBeck). Programming coach at Facebook, singer/guitarist, peripatetic. Learning to…

twitter.com

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Groups

Lean Startup Circle

Lean Startup Circle is dedicated to applying lean startup thinking and building lean startup leadership .

groups.google.com

Join LEANSTACK Community on Slack!

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slack.leanstack.com

Lean Startup Meetups - Meetup

Find Meetups about Lean Startup and meet people in your local community who share your interests.

www.meetup.com

Tools

LEANSTACK: Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas Tools, Content, and Coaching for Entrepreneurs

A battle-tested roadmap for validating and growing your business using Lean Startup, Lean Canvas, and Business Model…

leanstack.com

Similarweb.com — Digital World Market Intelligence Platform

SimilarWeb.com is a market intelligence platform that provides data driven insights for any Website, App or Industry…

www.similarweb.com

Clarity — On Demand Business Advice

Make faster & better decisions to grow your business. Clarity is your lifeline that instantly connects you with battle…

clarity.fm

Free iPhone Mockup Generator & App Demo Videos by Placeit

Insert your app screenshot into iPhone and iPad mockups templates for free. It’s much faster than using a PSD mockup…

placeit.net

Noun Project

Creating, Sharing and Celebrating the World’s Visual Language.

thenounproject.com

Free stock photos · Pexels

Free stock photos you can use everywhere. ✓ Free for commercial use ✓ No attribution required

www.pexels.com

Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software - Canva

Canva makes design simple for everyone. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers…

www.canva.com

Logos, Web, Graphic Design & More. | 99designs

The #1 marketplace for graphic design, including logo design, web design and other design contests. Start a contest now…

99designs.com

Toptal — Hire Freelance Talent from the Top 3%

Toptal enables start-ups, businesses, and organizations to hire freelancers from a growing network of top talent in the…

www.toptal.com

Affordable Legal Services, Free Legal Documents, Advice & Ask a Lawyer | Rocket Lawyer

Manage all of your legal needs online. Create legal documents and legal forms instantly with safe & secure storage, e…

www.rocketlawyer.com

Docracy - Free Legal Documents

Docracy is the web's only open collection of legal contracts and the best way to negotiate and sign documents online.

www.docracy.com

Fiverr — Freelance Services Marketplace for The Lean Entrepreneur

Fiverr is the world’s largest freelance services marketplace for lean entrepreneurs to focus on growth & create a…

www.fiverr.com

Keynotopia

Keynotopia is our favorite secret prototyping weapon! Create a new slide for each of your app screens, then copy…

keynotopia.com

Free Web & Mobile Prototyping (Web, iOS, Android) and UI Mockup Tool | InVision

Transform your Web & Mobile (iOS, Android) designs into clickable, interactive Prototypes and Mockups. Share and…

www.invisionapp.com

Free & Beautifully Human Online Forms | Typeform

Build beautiful, engaging, and conversational online forms, surveys, quizzes, landing pages, and much more with…

typeform.com

Simple and powerful user research with Lookback

Remove the guesswork. Easily capture your users’ experiences and make your product better.

lookback.io

Get a Peek Into Your Site or App’s Usability

See and hear a 5 minute video of a real person using your site or app with Peek, the free usability tool brought to you…

peek.usertesting.com

Launchrock — The Fastest Way to Acquire Customers

A website builder dedicated to early customer acquisition. Publish a landing page in minutes and validate your startup…

www.launchrock.com

Website Templates & Themes from ThemeForest

Discover 30,774 Website Templates and Themes from $2 on ThemeForest, the #1 marketplace for Website Templates.

themeforest.net

Leadpages Landing Page Builder & Lead Gen Software

Generate leads and increase revenue using the industry-leading landing page builder with accompanying suite of lead…

www.leadpages.net

Ecommerce Software — Best Ecommerce Platform Made for You — Free Trial

We’re not just an ecommerce software, Shopify is the best ecommerce platform that has everything you need to sell…

www.shopify.com

Gumroad

Sell music, comics, software, books, and films directly to your audience.

gumroad.com

Kickstarter

Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. A home for film, music, art, theater, games…

www.kickstarter.com

The Big Badass List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources

Extends Bootstrap’s native modals to provide additional functionality. Introduces a ModalManager class that operates…

www.bootstraphero.com

Cloud Application Platform | Heroku

Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in…

heroku.com

Firebase | App success made simple

Firebase gives you the tools and infrastructure you need to build better apps and grow successful businesses.

firebase.google.com

Add Powerful File Uploading To Your Website or Mobile App

Upload, view and export files, transform images, convert documents, transcode audio and videos, store content and…

www.filestack.com

OptinMonster - Best Lead Generation Software for Marketers

I hate popups, so I was hesitant to try one on my site. But the results from OptinMonster's Exit Intent® popup speak…

optinmonster.com

Guides | Pendo - Understand and Guide Your Users

Pendo extends your product to capture user behavior, gather feedback, and guide users. By partnering with Pendo you can…

www.pendo.io

Swiftype - Site search and enterprise search

Power your website or business with relevant, customizable search that takes minutes to set up, not months. Start your…

swiftype.com

StartSSL™ Certificates; Public Key Infrastructure

√ UNLIMITED number of 3-year Organization Validation SSL Certificates for FREE - multi-domain and wildcard

www.startssl.com

Communication APIs for SMS, Voice, Video and Authentication

Cloud communications platform for building SMS, Voice & Messaging applications on an API built for global scale. Get…

www.twilio.com

Stripe

Stripe is a suite of APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

stripe.com

Electron

Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

electron.atom.io

Continuous Integration and Delivery

Rapidly release code with confidence on CircleCI's modern continuous integration and delivery platform. Offered on…

circleci.com

CodePush

Push code updates to apps, instantly

microsoft.github.io

Hotjar — Heatmaps, Visitor Recordings, Conversion Funnels, Form Analytics, Feedback Polls and…

See how visitors are really using your website, collect user feedback and turn more visitors into customers.

www.hotjar.com

Optimizely: Optimizely: The World's Leading Experimentation Platform

Be brave, experiment everywhere, and transform your customer experience with Optimizely.

www.optimizely.com

Customer Messaging Platform | Intercom

We make customer messaging apps for sales, marketing, and support, connected on one platform. Our mission is to make…

www.intercom.com

Mixpanel | Product analytics for mobile, web, and beyond

Learn how people use your app with the world’s most advanced mobile & web analytics. Try it for free.

mixpanel.com

Baremetrics: Subscription Analytics & Insights for Stripe, Braintree and Recurly

Baremetrics is Subscription Analytics and Insights: One click and you get hundreds of valuable metrics and business…

baremetrics.com

Metabase

The fastest, easiest way to share data and analytics inside your company. An open source Business Intelligence server…

www.metabase.com

Statsbot | Google Analytics, Mixpanel Bot for Slack

Statsbot is an analytics bot that works inside Slack and helps you track your metrics. Most popular bot featured by…

statsbot.co

App Analytics by Appfigures

Appfigures is a mobile app analytics and insights platform for mobile app developers. Take control of your app…

appfigures.com

Embedly Documentation

Documentation for Embedly's API.

docs.embed.ly

Connect

Supercharge Gmail and see everything about your contacts

connect.clearbit.com

Find email addresses in seconds * Hunter (Email Hunter)

Hunter is the easiest way to find professional email addresses. Give a domain name and get the list of all the emails…

hunter.io

A simple solution for email outreach.

Simplest tool for cold email outreach for sales and marketing. Proven templates, bulk email, auto followups, track…

mailshake.com

Good Copy * Email copy from great companies

Email copy from great companies. Brought to you by Front.

www.goodemailcopy.com

Email Marketing Platform | MailChimp

MailChimp provides email marketing for more than 14 million people globally. Send better emails, connect your e…

mailchimp.com

Maître — The Ultimate Growth Hacking tool: Create Beautiful Viral Contests

GROW YOUR EMAIL LIST 10X. In 60 seconds and with zero tech-skills.

maitreapp.co

Trello

Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It’s free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the…

trello.com

Airtable: Organize anything you can imagine

Airtable works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power of a database to organize anything. Sign up for free.

airtable.com

Wachete - Wachete - Monitor web changes

Track and watch any webpage for changes. We will monitor the content and will send you a notification each time the…

www.wachete.com

Import.io | Extract data from the web

The world’s leading web data extraction platform for businesses and individuals.

www.import.io

The best apps. Better together — Zapier

Zapier makes it easy to automate tasks between web apps.

zapier.com

Parse Emails by Zapier

Signup and create your first mailbox with an email address (ex: shipping123@robot.zapier.com). Send us an email (auto…

parser.zapier.com

Amazon Lex - Build Conversation Bots

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Powered by…

aws.amazon.com

Google Cloud Machine Learning at Scale | Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Machine Learning provides modern machine learning services, including pre-trained models and a platform…

cloud.google.com

Product Hunt

Product Hunt is a curation of the best new products, every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and…

www.producthunt.com

Show | Hacker News

Show HN community what you’ve build

news.ycombinator.com

Ultimate List of Lean Startup Resources

Books

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically…

Edit description

Getting Real: The bestselling book by 37signals

Our small team creates simple, focused software

Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))

Edit description

Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth

Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth [Ash Maurya] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying…

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean (O'Reilly))

Rated 4.6/5: Buy Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean (O'Reilly)) by Jez Humble…

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Rated 4.6/5: Buy The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox: ISBN: 9780884271956 …

Talking to Humans: Success starts with understanding your customers

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The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win [Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford] on…

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Rated 4.8/5: Buy Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky…

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

Edit description

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

Edit description

Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams

Edit description

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation…

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley…

Talks

Steve Blank — Customer Development in Past, Present & Future

Lean Startup Circle

Blogs

Steve Blank Entrepreneurship and Innovation

"Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the…

Lessons Learned

by Eric Ries

LEANSTACK Blog - Lean Startup and Lean Business Model Canvas Blog - LEANSTACK

The LEANSTACK blog provides tactical advice for launching and growing successful products using Lean Startup, Lean…

GrasshopperHerder - Lean Startups & Innovation Ecosystems

(This is a guest post by Dan Toma, an Accelerator Manager and Coach, and author of the upcoming The Corporate Startup…

SKMurphy Blog - SKMurphy, Inc.

I ran into Shane Reiser (@ShaneReiser) at the Intrapreneur Conference in Silicon Valley and was impressed by his new…

Crisp's Blog

Yassal Sundman I gave a lightning talk at tonight's Lean Tribe Gathering in Stockholm about A/B testing at King, how we…

Customer Development Labs - HOW to do Lean Startup

In last week's post, I described the one thing your MVP should do - check it out for good and bad examples of MVPs. To…

Brant's Rant | Market By Numbers

Mentoring is also a more significant part of the economy today than since, perhaps, apprentorship in the craftsman age…

Online Courses

How To Build A Startup: The Lean Launchpad | Udacity

In this course you'll learn from Steve Blank. Start learning the key steps to build a successful startup. Start your…

Rapid Prototyping | Udacity

Learning to prototype will save you time and money in the development process. You'll create quality apps faster and…

Product Design | Udacity

Learn product validation, UI/UX practices, Google's Design Sprint and the process for setting and tracking actionable…

How to Start a Startup

Everything we know about how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts.

LEANSTACK Lean Academy - Learn Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas - LEANSTACK

You learn by doing -- not watching videos. All lessons are initially locked. You unlock lessons as you make your way…

Lean-Agile Product Management

Website for Jez Humble's Lean-Agile Product Management class at UC Berkeley iSchool.

Programmes

Help me bring Lean Startup Machine to our city

World's leading startup workshop. LSM is a global movement of entrepreneurs and innovators who are changing the way new…

Startup Weekend - Learn, Network, Startup

In just 54 hours, you will experience the highs, lows, fun, and pressure that make up life at a startup.

Lean LaunchPad® - VentureWell

"We've learned a lot about entrepreneurship. Perhaps our curriculum should reflect what we've learned?" Steve Blank…

Newsletters

Lean Startup Digest

Lean Startup Digest is a weekly email newsletter for forward thinkers interested in Lean Startup, entrepreneurship…

The Official Lean Startup Newsletter

The Official Lean Startup Newsletter Email Forms

People

Eric Ries (@ericries) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Eric Ries (@ericries). Trying to change how startups are built. SF

Steve Blank (@sgblank) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from steve blank (@sgblank). Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford, Berkeley…

Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth [Ash Maurya] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying…