References

• Do Things That Don’t  Scale. Startups take off because the founders make them take  off.

• Startup Guidebook. Startup advice from many YC partners distilled into one  document.

• How to Start a  Startup. Build something users love, and spend less than you  make.

• Essentials for Startups. What experts at YC consider the most important, most transformative advice for  startups.

STARTUP IDEAS

• Why Smart People Have Bad  Ideas. A hacker who has learned what to make, and not just how to make, is extraordinarily  powerful.

• Startup Ideas. The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup  ideas.

• Ideas for Startups. The initial idea is not a blueprint, but a  question.

HOW TO STAY ALIVE

• How Not To  Fail. Jessica Livingston’s keynote from our third annual Female Founders  Conference.

• Be Relentlessly Resourceful. You have to keep trying new  things.

• The 18 Mistakes that Kill  Startups. If you avoid every cause of failure, you  succeed.

• The Hardest Lessons for Startups to  Learn Some things about startups are kind of  counterintuitive.

• How Not to  Die. Startups run on  morale.

• ArsDigita: From Start-Up to  Bust-Up. Within a few weeks of Allen’s arrival, I found people telling me that I had no power at  all.

FUNDRAISING

• How to Fund a  Startup. Venture funding works like  gears.

• The Hacker’s Guide to  Investors. Hackers don’t know how little they know about this strange  world.

• How to Present to  Investors. Explain what you’re doing and why users will want  it.

• The Equity Equation. You should always feel richer after trading  equity.

• A Fundraising Survival  Guide. Founders have to treat raising money as a dangerous  process.

• The Venture Capital  Squeeze. Why not let the founders have that first million, or at least half  million?

• Elements of Sustainable  Companies What a top VC firm looks for, and the format they want to see it  in.

• How to write a killer deck, and get  funded. Your presentation is one of the first steps to articulating your  idea.

• Valuation. It is much better to think of a venture capital deal as a loan plus an  option.

Free Courses

Udacity – How to Build a Startup Y Combinator – Startup School

University of Pennsylvania – Entrepreneurship

École Polytechnique HEC Paris – Creating and Developing a Tech Startup

University of London – How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC

Israel Institute of Technology – From Idea to Startup

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – Finance for Startups

Launch Your Startup: New Courses in Entrepreneurship and Innovation