blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters

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…

The Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business

What you need to know about the next big startup archetype

Come for the tool, stay for the network

programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups

Open Sourcing a Failed Startup - Kevin Menard's Weblog

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

When To Join A Startup

<p>Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around ...

Field Guide

The Startup Field Guide provides essential tools and insights to support early-stage founders on their journey to success.

NDAs for Startups: A Guide for Founders | Stripe

Here’s a guide to NDAs for startups—from why your startup might need an NDA to what happens if one is breached.

All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders | Andreessen Horowitz

As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He himself used to hold the “engineer-centric” view that if...

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 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2018

We've rounded up 30 of the best insights from the articles we published over the last year. Read on for a time-capsule-like toolkit, full of the best tactical wisdom that seasoned company builders had to offer in 2018.

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.

Later Stage Advice for Startups

Read more on Y Combinator's blog.

StartupWiki - AI Startup Research Directory

Community-driven AI-powered research directory of global startup ventures.

Idea Generation

The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea...

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 […]