- Startup Tools
- Startup Science
- Product Hunt
- Meetup groups
- 16 lessons on scaling from Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman, Marissa Mayer, Brian Chesky, Diane Greene, Jeff Weiner, and more.
- How to Start a Startup (Youtube playlist)
- Technology-enabled Blitzscaling (Youtube playlist)
- What did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A?
- The Single Biggest Reason Most Entrepreneurs Fail
- Now is a Great Time to be Unfundable
- On product/market fit for startups
- Dropbox: startup lessons learned
- Product Hunt Began as an Email List
- Why startups fail, according to their founders
- Autopsy (collection of failed startups)
- 146 Startup Failure Post-Mortems
- StartupStash (tools)
- Slack (collaboration tool)
- Angel List (startup database)
- Conversation with Paul Graham
- How things get done by Sam Altman
- So You Want to Compete Against Amazon?
- Marc Andreessen on Big Breakthrough Ideas and Courageous Entrepreneurs
- The idea maze
- Competition is for Losers (Peter Thiel)
- Business Ideas
- Fear of bad ideas
- What are the best ways to think of ideas for a startup?
- What makes things "ahead of their time"?
- Zero to One (book)
- Competition: How do you assess the value of a new product or service vs an incumbent's?
- Activate Tech and Media Outlook 2016
- The Manual-First Startup
- Hustling for Traction and Doing Things That Don't Scale
- 15 ways to test your minimum viable product
- Idea to paying customers in 7 Weeks
- The Hustler's Guide To Experimentation
- How did Uber grow and scale so quickly?
- Laura Klein: Identify and Validate Your Riskiest Assumptions
- And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’
- Laura Klein, Beyond Landing Pages: Five Ways to Find Out if Your Idea Is Stupid
- A Guide To Validating Product Ideas With Quick And Simple Experiments
- An MVP is not a Cheaper Product, It’s about Smart Learning
- Minimum Desirable Product
- Demand Validation — Learnings from Steve Cohn at Validately
- Product/Market Fit = 1 Function Done Well
- Building a Compelling Value Proposition
- The startup framework to validate your idea before you spend $1
- So long MVP. Hello Minimum Loveable Product
- Using Vaporware To Validate A Product Idea And Generate Demand For Your Startup
- Keynotopia (tool)
- How to Validate Demand with Prototypes
- Focus groups are worthless
- When You’re Innovating, Resist Looking for Solutions
- Interviews, Timeline, Forces, Job Stories — what’s the difference?
- The Persona Core Poster
- Creating Personas
- Empathy Maps: A Complete Guide to Crawling Inside Your Customer’s Head
- Don’t Listen to Your Users
- The Customers You Do Not Want
- Customer Interviews: So you’ve decided to take your startup seriously.
- Doing customer development
- Frank Rimalovski, Talking to Humans: Success Starts with Understanding Your Customers
- 95 Ways to find your first customers for customer development or your first sale
- Analytics & Research Tools That Help Inform Design Decisions
- GV guide to research
- Using Facebook Audience Insights for Market Research
- Building the right thing, for the right people by using customer interviews
- How to Create a Customer Journey Map
- The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions
- Why Asking for Stories Beats Asking Questions
- Customers Need to Fire Something Before They Can Hire Your Product
- Lessons From A Study of Perfect Pitch Decks: VCs Spend An Average of 3 Minutes, 44 Seconds On Them
- Universal Startup Pitch Deck
- Want a Better Pitch? Watch This.
- You Can Never Size a Market in Excel
- Start with why: how great leaders inspire action
- How To Create An Early-Stage Pitch Deck For Investors
- LinkedIN Series B Pitch to Greylock
- Who Y Combinator Companies Want
- How to pick a co-founder
- What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?
- How do we set the valuation for a seed round?
- Want To Raise A Million Bucks? Here’s What You’ll Need
- A guide to cap tables for the busy founder
- A founder-friendly term sheet
- Why You Should Find Product-Market Fit Before Sniffing Around For Venture Money
- Fundraising Mistakes Founders Make
- Mastering the VC Game
- Venture Deals (book)
- Securing A Huge Growth Round
- Funding options available for startups in Australia
- The Never Ending Road To Product Market Fit
- The Startup Pyramid by Sean Ellis
- Indispensable Growth Frameworks from My Years at Facebook, Twitter and Wealthfront
- Josh Elman on 4 keys to crush product growth
- The Valley’s Best Investors On “Distribution”
- Distrosnacks
- Under the Microscope: How Airbnb Thinks About Product/Market Fit, Team & More
- The Scientific Method: How to Design & Track Viral Growth Experiments
- Build a Growth Machine Like Andy Johns
- Unlocking the Secrets of Mobile Growth
- How to Start a Growth Team
- The Mobile Growth Stack
- 28 Clever Under the Radar Growth Hack Examples
- How we put Facebook on the path to 1 billion users
- HubSpot, Brian Balfour "Growth Is Good, But Retention Is 4+Ever
- Sean Ellis’ Secret Framework for Unlocking Organic Growth
- Growth Hacking Tactics That Every Startup Needs To Know
- The Ultimate Growth Hacking Sourcebook
- Why Most Startups Fail at Acquiring New Customers
- Traction Stack
- Traction (book)
- Gabriel Weinberg AMA
- Does anyone care about your new product? (Doing market research with Google’s Keyword Tool)
- When SEO Fails: Single Channel Dependency and the End of Tutorspree
- 10 A/B Testing Lessons I Learned The Hard Way
- 40 Tips for Dramatically Better Emails
- We Analysed The Homepages Of 20 Awesome Startups And Here Is What We Learnt
- A 50-Point Checklist For Creating The Ultimate Landing Page
- 51 Ways to Acquire Your First 100,000 Customers Without Any Marketing Budget
- Rand Fishkin - Helping Customers Find You Online. The Everchanging World of Online Marketing
- Tool: A Quick Walkthrough Lean Dashboard
- Don't launch
- 7 things I’ve Learned About Lean Startup
- Startups Always Have a Chasm to Cross
- The Lean Roadmap
- Assumption vs Hypothesis to the death
- The OODA Loop: Playing chess with half the pieces
- Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation
- Eric Ries on The Lean Startup, the law of sustainable growth, lessons learned, and looking ahead
- Should innovative companies "move fast and break things"?
- Before You Make That Pivot
- Top 10 Ways Entrepreneurs Pivot a Lean Startup
- The Lean Startup(book)
- Running Lean (book)
- How Marketing Funnels Work
- Dave McClure - Startup Metrics For Pirates
- Why You Need Cohorts to Improve Your Retention
- Google Ventures workshop: Lean analytics
- Lean Analytics (book)
- 16 Startup Metrics
- SaaS Metrics – A Guide to Measuring and Improving What Matters
- One metric that matters
- The 5 “Must Have” Metrics for Your SaaS Business
- 3 Rules to Actionable Metrics in a Lean Startup
- Easily Measure The Profitability Of Your Consumer Subscription Business
- Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics
- The AHA moment – How We Avoided Losing Visitors After The First Visit
- Facebook's Aha Moment Is Simpler Than You Think
- Inside Intercom (blog)
- How to Implement Hypothesis-Driven Development
- Atlassian's $5.5 Billion User Onboarding Magic
- Peer Review: How to Turn Product Feedback into Growth Strategy
- Come for the tool, stay for the network
- Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design
- Your Product is Your Product as Users Describe It
- How to introduce Jobs To Be Done to your organization
- Iterating Your Way to Product-Market-Fit
- Nir Eyal - Building Habit Forming Products
- The Psychology of a Billion-Dollar Enterprise App: Why Is Slack So Habit-Forming?
- We Don’t Sell Saddles Here (about Slack)
- Product strategy in a growing company (Des Traynor)
- 10x Not 10% - Product management by orders of magnitude
- User Onboarding is Product Management
- UserOnboard
- Conversion is Product Management
- Acquire New Users with Better Activation