Awesome Startup

A curated list of awesome books, videos, courses and resources about making a startup.

Books

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank - The Startup Owner's Manual lays out the best practices, lessons and tips that have swept the startup world, offering a wealth of proven advice and information for entrepreneurs of all stripes.
Running Lean by Ash Maurya - A practical guide to the Lean Startup
Founders At Work by Jessica Livingston - A collection of interviews about the early days of popular technology companies
The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman - Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.
Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
Venture Capitalists at Work by Tarang Shah and Sheetal Shah - Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes offers unparalleled insights into the funding and management of companies like YouTube, Zappos, Twitter, Starent, Facebook, and Groupon. The venture capitalists profiled—among the best in the business—also reveal how they identify promising markets, products, and entrepreneurs.
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Zero to One by Peter Thiel Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Hello, Startup - The "Hello, World" tutorial for building a startup

[Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't] (https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996) - Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - Seth Godin stresses the importance and benefits of knowing your audience and staying hyper-focused on them to build a loyal following. “With his signature wit and storytelling flair, Godin presents the three steps to building a tribe: the desire to change things, the ability to connect a tribe, and the willingness to lead.
Rise of the Revenue Marketer - The role of Marketing has dramatically evolved over the last decade. Historically seen exclusively as a cost-center for the business, this shift tasks Marketing with generating revenue. This book highlights these changes and outlines the organizational structure necessary to drive this accountability and growth.

The Lean Launchpad by Steve Blank (Udacity) - Learn the key tools and steps to build a successful startup (or at least reduce the risk of failure). An introduction to the basics of Steve Blank's famous Customer Development process, where entrepreneurs "get out of the building" to gather massive amounts of customer and marketplace feedback, and then use that feedback to continuously iterate and evolve their startup business models, improving the chances of success at every step.
Startup Engineering (Coursera) - Learn the engineering skills needed to build a technology startup from the ground up.
Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies (Coursera) - Explore how to identify and develop great ideas into great companies. Learn how to identify opportunities based on real customer needs. Develop solid business models. Create successful companies.
500 Startups #500distro conference videos
YC Startup School 2012, 2013, 2014 videos

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