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Getting started with your (tech) Startup

tips and advice for entrepreneurs getting started with your (tech-based) startup idea

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Article paulgraham.com

How to Start a Startup | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay

Build something users love, and spend less than you make. YCombinator. Paul Graham essay. March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harv...

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Article playbook.samaltman.com

Startup Playbook | YCombinator. Written by Sam Altman

Startup advice from many YC partners distilled into one document. YCombinator. Written by Sam Altman We spend a lot of time advising startups. Tho...

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Article techcrunch.com

20 critical startup truths no one will tell you | TechCrunch

Some knowledge is so important, everyone assumes everyone already knows it. But they don't, especially in the tech world where things move so fast that ...

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Video youtu.be

TED talk: The single biggest reason why startups succeed | Bill Gross

Published on Jun 1, 2015 Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others f...

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Video youtu.be

How and Why to Start A Startup - Sam Altman & Dustin Moskovitz - CS183F

Stanford University: Published on Apr 5, 2017 Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook and Asana, kick off th...

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Article firstround.com

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2017 | First Round Review

The most insightful and transformative pieces of advice we published on the Review in 2017, curated for your perusal and continued excellence. Relevant ...

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Article paulgraham.com

The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn | YCombinator. Paul Graham's essay

YCombinator. Paul Graham's essays: April 2006. (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2006 Startup School.) The startups we've funded so far are p...

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Article paulgraham.com

Startups in 13 Sentences | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay

Above all, understand your users. YCombinator. Paul Graham essay: February 2009 One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned ...

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Article paulgraham.com

Ideas for Startups | YCombinator. Paul Graham Essay

YCombinator. Paul Graham Essay: October 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2005 Startup School.) How do you get good ideas for start...

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Article paulgraham.com

The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay

YCombinator. Paul Graham essay: October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there g...

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Article medium.com

Don’t Build a Startup, Build a Movement

How to move the masses by going beyond selling just software. In today’s most cluttered marketplace in history, building a movement is more important t...

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Article blog.ycombinator.com

Read This Before You Build Uber for X | YCombinator, Sam Madden

YCombinator, Sam Madden, 2017: "We still hear it all the time: “I’m building the Uber for X.” That idea – an app that lets consumers get a specific ser...

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Watch the "Snapstorms" from Mark Suster for fund raising advice

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Article richg42.blogspot.com

Things learned while running your own self-funded startup

Here's a brain dump of the things we've learned while running our business and shipping our first product (Basis). My experience at Valve ...

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Video youtu.be

Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel | Stanford "How to Start a Startup"

Y Combinator Published on Mar 22, 2017 Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal and Palantir, discusses business strategy and monopoly theory in "Competition ...

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Video youtu.be

The Business Model Canvas - 9 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Model - Star...

The Business Model Canvas - 9 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Model - Startup Tips The Business Model Canvas, is a strategic management and entr...

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Article blog.ycombinator.com

Why Toys? – Y Combinator

Some of the biggest technology companies look like toys in the beginning. From a classical business building perspective, this shouldn't happen. Toys ar...

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Article avc.com

The Co-Founder Relationship – Fred Wilson AVC

If you were making a list of things that could go wrong on an seed, angel, or Series A investment, you would have to put the co-founder relationship rig...

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Video youtu.be

Jessica Livingston - What's Different about "Unicorns"

Y Combinator Published on Jul 24, 2017 Jessica gave this talk at the 2017 Female Founders Conference.

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Article collaborativefund.com

Sustainable Sources of Competitive Advantage · Collaborative Fund

“As soon as a smart product or business idea becomes popular, the urge to copy it and commoditize it is the strongest force economics can unleash. Jeff ...

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Article entrepreneur.com

The Definitive Guide to Licensing: When You Get a Great Idea, What Do You Do Next?

An entrepreneur who sees somebody's good idea get licensed once a week tells you exactly how to pursue your own good idea.

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Article venturebeat.com

When a big company enters your startup's space, it's a good thing | VentureBeat

Guest Whatever your niche as a startup, don’t be afraid when the big players enter your space. Relish it. Their presence will bring you a lot of advanta...

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Book docs.google.com

The Great CEO Within - (free Google Docs)
The Great CEO Within (Formerly: Founder to CEO) How to build a category-killing company from the ground up By Matt Mochary Table of Contents Introduc...

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Podcast a16z.com

a16z Podcast: Earned Secrets – Andreessen Horowitz

What does it really take to start a startup (or work at one)? In this episode of the a16z Podcast -- based on a Q&A with Ben Horowitz as part of an even...

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Article atrium.co

Why Founders Should Start With a Website, Not a Mobile App - Founders Guide by Ka...

When I was a Stanford undergraduate in 2012, everyone seemed to be building apps. The sexiest tech startups—Snap, Uber, Facebook—were…

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Article defmacro.org

57 startup lessons

There are already very good lists of startup lessons written by really talented, experienced people (here and here). I’d like to add another one. I lear...

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Article nytimes.com

How to Reduce the Risk of the Scary Thing You Want to Do - The New York Times

Ready to start a restaurant? Make a big investment? Quit your job? First, try a small test of your big idea.

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How to Start a Startup | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay

Startup Playbook | YCombinator. Written by Sam Altman

20 critical startup truths no one will tell you | TechCrunch

TED talk: The single biggest reason why startups succeed | Bill Gross

How and Why to Start A Startup - Sam Altman & Dustin Moskovitz - CS183F

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2017 | First Round Review

The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn | YCombinator. Paul Graham's essay

Startups in 13 Sentences | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay

Ideas for Startups | YCombinator. Paul Graham Essay

The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups | YCombinator. Paul Graham essay

Don’t Build a Startup, Build a Movement

Read This Before You Build Uber for X | YCombinator, Sam Madden

Watch the "Snapstorms" from Mark Suster for fund raising advice

Things learned while running your own self-funded startup

Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel | Stanford "How to Start a Startup"

The Business Model Canvas - 9 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Model - Star...

Why Toys? – Y Combinator

The Co-Founder Relationship – Fred Wilson AVC

Jessica Livingston - What's Different about "Unicorns"

Sustainable Sources of Competitive Advantage · Collaborative Fund

The Definitive Guide to Licensing: When You Get a Great Idea, What Do You Do Next?

When a big company enters your startup's space, it's a good thing | VentureBeat

a16z Podcast: Earned Secrets – Andreessen Horowitz

Why Founders Should Start With a Website, Not a Mobile App - Founders Guide by Ka...

57 startup lessons

How to Reduce the Risk of the Scary Thing You Want to Do - The New York Times

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