The Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business

What you need to know about the next big startup archetype

Startup idea checklist

I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these templates because they don’t exactly match my model of the world, so I wrote up my own list.

12 Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups | Andreessen Horowitz

#1 “If everyone loves your idea, I might be worried that it’s not forward thinking enough.”  Anyone thinking about starting a business should be searching for mispriced opportunities.  While markets are mostly efficient in eliminating opportunities for extraordinary profit, there are always areas of an economy in which there are significant uncertainty. These areas are...

The Startup Marketing Checklist

I tried dozens of side projects before starting Draft.dev, and now I’ve worked with hundreds of early-stage startups and established enterprises to help with growth marketing. So, a lot of founders ask me how to get started in marketing when your marketing budget is small and your product is new. I created this list to […]

Open Sourcing a Failed Startup - Kevin Menard's Weblog

Technical articles by Kevin Menard. Topics include Ruby, Java, machine learning, and general computing.

Founders Hub | Transform Finance

The founder playbook for building a company that lasts and stays true to why you started it. Research, case studies, and practical tools for incorporation, fundraising terms, board structure, ownership, and culture.

Indie Startups - Neil Thanedar

10 years ago, my entrepreneurial goal was to raise $100M+ and make one $1B+ startup. Now my goal is to 100% own many $1M+ startups.

The Secrets of Successful Open Source Business Models

Finding the right model for your open-source startup

Later Stage Advice for Startups

Read more on Y Combinator's blog.

Steve Blank How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business mo…

Open Source Startup: Why We Give Away All Our IP 🐝

Interview with Richard D. Bartlett, Loomio cofounder. Reposted with permission from Straight Up, a monthly startup resource that tackles…

A Simple Sales Methodology for B2B SaaS Startups

*New* A Simple Sales Methodology for B2B SaaS Startups Updated Jan 2023 Introduction In the early stages of most B2B SaaS startups life, it is often the CEO or Founder who acts as the initial Head of …