Aggregated references and lists from around the web Sonal Mane @sonalpmane
Startup reference guide
Aug 26, 2014
This reference guide is an aggregation of everything I know about entrepreneurship sources. I've scoured through several sites and come up with this high quality reference guide meant to help answer any question related to startups!
A few weeks back I was in a mentoring session with an entrepreneur based outside the US. Gradually, through our conversation, I realized that there were so many resources that I had learned about over the years and wanted to share with her but, hadn't been able to capture them in one place. I started creating this reference guide for startups and before I knew it, I was scouring through various sites and rediscovering things. This reference guide is meant to be just that, 'a reference'. If you're looking for books to read, blogs to watch, news, videos or anything as it relates to entrepreneurship, I've tried to capture it here.
Obviously, it's not complete and I'm sure there are many more resources out there that I may have missed. Feel free to comment and share the ones you want to see added and I'll try to keep this updated from time to time. Meanwhile, feel free to browse through and let me know what you think!
A few weeks back I was in a mentoring session with an entrepreneur based outside the US. Gradually, through our conversation, I realized that there were so many resources that I had learned about over the years and wanted to share with her but, hadn't been able to capture them in one place. I started creating this reference guide for startups and before I knew it, I was scouring through various sites and rediscovering things. This reference guide is meant to be just that, 'a reference'. If you're looking for books to read, blogs to watch, news, videos or anything as it relates to entrepreneurship, I've tried to capture it here.
Obviously, it's not complete and I'm sure there are many more resources out there that I may have missed. Feel free to comment and share the ones you want to see added and I'll try to keep this updated from time to time. Meanwhile, feel free to browse through and let me know what you think!
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Aggregated references and lists from around the web
Sonal Mane
@sonalpmane
Here are a few resources to get you started, Harvard Startup Guide
YCombinator startup library
Startup guide blog by Ryan Allis
A student’s guide to startups by Paul Graham
Starting a business from SBA.gov
Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Center - http://ecorner.stanford.edu/
MIT Venture Lab - http://www.vlab.org/#
Techstars U Videos
Cornell eClips
Steve Blank’s course
Kauffman Foundation and Kauffman Founders School
Lean Launchpad course and Steve Blank videos
Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours
The Lean Startup Machine - Launch a Startup in 48 hours
Startup Monthly – Launch a Startup in a month
Startup Grind - community looking to be educated, and network with the smartest startup minds
Lean Startup Circle - Group for startup advice
LUXr – Lean UX residency
Women 2.0 – Launch a startup for women
Meetup – Meet people you’re interested in
Top Startup Conferences (North America)
http://www.quora.com/Entrepreneurship
http://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital
http://www.quora.com/Lean-Startups
http://www.quora.com/Startups
http://www.quora.com/Entrepreneurship/Does-getting-an-MBA-make-someone-a-better-entrepreneur
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-common-mistakes-first-time-entrepreneurs-make/answer/Henry-Wong-7
http://www.quora.com/How-much-time-should-entrepreneurs-spend-reading-books-or-online-materials
Master list of Tools and blogs for entrepreneurs from Steve Blank including market research, business model canvas, customer development, design, development, testing, project management and much more!
Brad Feld’s Term Sheet Series
Slides and presentations from Steve Blank
Open source entrepreneurship from Steve Blank
Personal MBA
Startup resources from VC Cafe
Startup toolbox from The Startup Foundry
Books, blogs, videos…
Ben Horowitz
Steve Blank
Fred Wilson on tumblr and personal blog
Dharmesh Shah
Bill Gurley
Brad Feld
Paul Graham
Chris Dixon
Both sides of the table
• Eric Reis
• Steve Sinofsky
• Bipul Sinha
• Andreessen Horowitz
• NVCA Full list of VC blogs
For Entrepreneurs
Pitchbook
ChubbyBrain
PE Hub
Dealbook
CB Insights
Crunchbase
Gigaom
Ventureburn
VentureHacks
Venture Capital Journal
Chuck Eesley – Prof at Stanfard teaching Technology Entrepreneurship
Ycombinator
Ecorner - Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner offers videos featuring entrepreneurship and innovation thought leaders.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
This week in startups - Rotating group of guest experts bring you this weekly take on the best, worst, most outrageous and interesting stories from the world of Web companies
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
The Startup of You
The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
The Lean startup
The four steps to epiphany
Delivering Happiness
Do More Faster
The Innovator's Dilemma
The Innovator's Solution
Art of the Start
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
The Design of Everyday Things
Startup Communities
Disciplined Entrepreneurship
Mastering the VC Game
Venture Deals
Never Eat Alone
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Founder's Dilemmas
The Entrepreneurs Guide to Customer Development
The Tipping Point
Business Model Generation
Founders at Work
Getting Things Done
Made to Stick
48 Laws of Power
Book authored by Brad Feld
Books recommended by Steve Blank
Quora
What books should entrepreneurs read
Must-read books
Books for web startups
So you’d like to…Start a Silicon Valley Dot-Com – Book guide Meng Won
Search, Browse or quickly go through the full lists of books for entrepreneurs below
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen #9781578518524
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham #9781449389550
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh #9781591843474
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove #9780679762881
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande #9780312430009
The Method Method: Seven Obsessions That Helped Our Scrappy Start-up Turn an Industry Upside Down by Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry #9781591843993
Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry by Marc Benioff #9780470521168
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely#9780061854545
The Four Steps to the Epiphany (Steven Blank)
Business Model Generation (Alex Osterwalder)
The E-Myth (Michael Gerber)
The Art of The Start (Guy Kawasaki)
Rework (Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson)
Crossing the Chasm (Geoffrey A. Moore)
Blue Ocean Strategy (W. Chan Kim)
Built to Last (Jim Collins & Jerry Porras)
Good to Great (Jim Collins)
Innovator's Dilemma (Clay Christensen)
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
Nail It Then Scale It (Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom)
The Autobiography (Andrew Carnegie)
The Second Coming (Steve Jobs)
Inside Steve's Brain (Leander Kahney)
Losing my Virginity (Richard Branson)
Screw it Let's do it (Richard Branson)
Business Stripped Bare (Richard Branson)
Screw Business as Usual (Richard Branson)
Joel on Software (Joel Spolsky)
Dreaming in Code (Scott Rosenberg)
Hackers and Painters (Paul Graham)
Dethroning the King (Julie MacIntosh)
All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough (A. L. Williams)
What Customers Want (Anthony W. Ulwick)
Running Lean (Ash Maurya)
The Creation of Wealth (RM Lala)
Crush It (Gary Vaynerchuk)
Getting Real (Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson)
Making Ideas Happen (Scott Belsky)
New Rules for the New Economy (Kevin Kelly)
A Stake in the Outcome (Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham)
Brandsimple: How the Best Brands Keep it Simple and Succeed, by Allen P. Adams
Good to Great: Why Some Companies…, by Jim Collins
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, by John C. Maxwell
The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene
The Culting of Brands: Turn Your Customers into Believers, by Douglas Atkin
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit, by Seth Godin
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting…, by Peter F. Drucker
The E Myth Manager: Why Most Managers Don’t Work…, by Michael E. Gerber
The Innovators Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book…, by Clayton M. Christensen
Winning With People: Discover the People Principles…, by John C. Maxwell
All Marketers are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories…, by Seth Godin
Gimme! The Human Nature of Successful Marketing, by John Hallward
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Marketing Outrageously: How to Increase Your Revenue…, by Jon Spoelstra
Ogilvy on Advertising, by David Ogilvy
The Little Blue Book of Advertising: 52 Small Ideas…, by Steve Lance and Jeff Woll
The Publicity Handbook: The Inside Scoop…, by David R. Yale and Andrew Carothers
The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource, by Jeffrey H. Gitomer
Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist…, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
Small is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants…, by Seth Godin
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, by Chris Anderson
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s…, by Richard Florida
The Tipping Point: How the Little Things Can Make…, by Malcolm Gladwell
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, by Paco Underhill
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration…, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success…, by Leil Lowndes
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
Getting to Yes: Negotiating…, Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, and Bruce Patton
Yes! 50 Scientifically…, by Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, and Robert B. Cialdini
You Inc.: The Art of Selling Yourself, by Harry Beckwith and Christine C. Beckwith
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas of the Computer Age by Paul Graham http://amzn.com/1449389554
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions by Dan Arielyhttp://amzn.com/0061353248
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson http://amzn.com/0307463745
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen http://bit.ly/ZqKIAt
The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen http://amzn.com/1578518520
Warfighting by the US Marine Corp http://amzn.com/0385478348
Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out by Douglas Rushkoff http://amzn.com/0060758708
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta http://amzn.com/0143118048
The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies by Jonathan Knee http://amzn.com/B003B3NW12
Planet Google by Randall Stross http://amzn.com/1416546960
Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller http://amzn.com/B002ZNJWHW
Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki http://amzn.com/1591840562
The Search by John Battelle http://amzn.com/B000QRIHXE
The Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, The Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World by Michael Moritz http://amzn.com/0688039731
The Monk & The Riddle by Randy Komisar http://amzn.com/1578516447
The New New Thing by Michael Lewis http://amzn.com/0140296468
Word of Mouth Marketing by Andy Sernovitz http://amzn.com/1427798613
Four Steps to Epiphany by Steven Blank http://amzn.com/0976470705
Guerilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson http://amzn.com/0618785914
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston http://amzn.com/1430210788
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug http://amzn.com/0321344758
Theory of Fun by Raph Koster by Jesse Schell http://amzn.com/1932111972
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell http://amzn.com/0123694965
Losing my Virginity by Richard Branson http://amzn.com/0812932293
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin http://amzn.com/0743270754
Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman http://amzn.com/1591391849
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman http://amzn.com/0312425074
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman http://amzn.com/B002BWQ504
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwellhttp://amzn.com/0316010669
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell http://amzn.com/0316346624
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell http://amzn.com/0316017922
Built to Last by Jim Collins http://amzn.com/0060566108
Good to Great by Jim Collins http://amzn.com/0066620996
Good to Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins http://amzn.com/0977326403
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins http://amzn.com/0977326411
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein http://amzn.com/0195334760
Weird Ideas that Work by Bob Sutton http://amzn.com/0743227883
Influence: Science and Practice (5th Edition) by Robert Cialdini http://amzn.com/0205609996
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Roberto Cialdini http://amzn.com/006124189X
Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind http://amzn.com/1591840538
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath http://amzn.com/1400064287
Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up by Patricia Ryan Madsonhttp://amzn.com/1400081882
Art of War by Sun Tzu http://amzn.com/1936041383
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore http://amzn.com/0060517123
Inside the Tornado by Geoffrey Moore http://amzn.com/0060745819
High Technology Marketing by William Davidow http://amzn.com/002907990X
The Breakthrough Imperative by Schaubert Gottfredson http://amzn.com/B001IDZJ4U
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne http://amzn.com/1591396190
48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene http://amzn.com/0140280197
Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter http://amzn.com/0684841487
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene http://amzn.com/0142001198
33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene http://amzn.com/0143112783
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay http://amzn.com/051788433X
Presentation Zen and Presentation Zen: Designs by Carr Reynolds http://amzn.com/0321668790
Term Sheet & Valuations by Alex Wilmerding http://amzn.com/1587620685
Agile Estimating & Planning by Mike Cohn http://amzn.com/0131479415
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzikhttp://amzn.com/0887309895
Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Speed of Trust, & Divide or Conquer by Patrick Lencionihttp://amzn.com/0787960756
Customer Centric Selling by Michael Bosworth, John Holland http://amzn.com/0071637087
The Ultimate Question & Answering the Ultimate Question by Richard Owens and Laura Brooks http://amzn.com/0470260696
Behind the Cloud by Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler http://amzn.com/0470521163
The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker http://amzn.com/0071392319
Pow! Right Between the Eyes: Profiting from the Power of Surprise by Andy Nullmanhttp://amzn.com/0470405503
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer http://amzn.com/044654146X
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich http://amzn.com/0307740986
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman http://amzn.com/0465067107
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill http://amzn.com/0449214923
High Tech Ventures by Gordon Bell http://amzn.com/0201563215
Mastering the VC Game by Jeffrey Bussgang http://amzn.com/1591843251
Delivering Profitable Value: A Revolutionary Framework to Accelerate Growth, Generate Wealth, and Rediscover the Heart of Business by Michael J. Lanning http://amzn.com/0738201626
The Stand by Stephen King http://amzn.com/0451169530
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn http://amzn.com/0226458083
Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams by David A. Kaplan http://amzn.com/0613913450
Essentials of Entrepreneurship: What it Takes to Create Successful Enterprises by TiE: The Indus Entrepreneurs and TiE http://amzn.com/0471444537
Small Business Start-Up Kit for California by Peri H. Pakroo http://amzn.com/1413311008
Change by Design by Tim Brown http://amzn.com/0061766089
The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick http://amzn.com/1439102120
The Whuffie Factor by Tara Hunt http://amzn.com/0307409503
High Stakes No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson http://amzn.com/1587990652
Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneurhttp://amzn.com/0470876417
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi http://amzn.com/0385512058
Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky http://amzn.com/159184312X
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie http://amzn.com/0671723650
E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber http://amzn.com/0887307280
The 80 Minute MBA by Richard Reeves (for non business/non management background people) http://amzn.com/0755318900
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by C.K.Prahalad http://amzn.com/0131467506
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by DeMarco and Lister http://amzn.com/0932633439
Naked in the Boardroom by Robin Wolaner http://www.amzn.com/0743282841
Practically Radical by William C. Taylor http://www.amzn.com/0061734616
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 by Tina Seelig http://amzn.com/0061735191
Get Noticed by Marcus Taylor & Rob Lawrence http://www.wegetnoticed.com
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish
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Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross http://www.amazon.com/Predictabl...
The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al and Laura Ries http://www.amazon.com/22-Immutab...
The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman http://www.amazon.com/The-Founde...
Business the ultimate resource - by various authors http://www.amazon.com/Business-Ultimate-Resource-Jonathan-Law/dp/140812811X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373150559&sr=8-1&keywords=business+the+ultimate+resource
QFINANCE 2ND EDITION: The Ultimate Resource: Various Authors: 9781849300056: Amazon.com: Books
Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead: The Ten Most Innovative Lessons from a Long, Strange Trip: Barry Barnes, John Perry Barlow: Amazon.com: Books
Culture & Empire - Digital Revolution by Pieter Hintjens(the essence of communities)
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