Barry's killer list of startup resources

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Online Videos/Lectures/Podcasts/Essays

• Sam Altman (YC) - How to Start a startup
• Paul Graham's essays
• a16z podcast - rss
• Steve Blank podcast - rss
• Startup School Radio podcast - rss
• Entreprenurial Thought Leaders - Stanford podcast - rss

Banks

• Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)

Lawyers

• Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Startups / General
• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Startups / IP

Useful Documents/Apps

• How do they make money? (Compare business models)
• Cap table - xls
• LinkedIn Series B pitch deck - Reid Hoffman

Boilerplate Documents/Services

• YC model documents
• Clerky @
• eShares @
• CapShare @
• IronClad @
• Delaware LLC and C-corps IncNow

@ YC tools

Books

General

• The Startup of You - Reid Hoffman
• Only the Paranoid Survive - Andy Grove
• The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
• Getting Real
• Innovators Dilemma
• The Hard Things About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
• Zero to One - Peter Thiel

Case Studies / History

• Apple - The Little Kingdom - Moritz

Business Modelling

• Business Model Generation

Design

• Universal Principles of Design
• The Elements of Typographic Style

Developer/Coding

Course Providers

• The first - OpenCourseWare (OCW)
• Multi-campus, open courses - edX
• Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE)
• Udemy - free/$
• Udacity
• Coursera
• Codecademy software dev - free/$
• Codeschool software dev

Frontend

• JavaScript - Douglas Crockford talks - his links

Backend

• Ruby - Try Ruby
• Python - Learn Python

Mobile

• Stanford CS193P - iOS Development
• Android - Google Android resources

Management

• High Output Management - Andy Grove
• The Alliance - Reid Hoffman

For becoming an angel investor

• Angel Investing - Rose

Behavior

• Dataclysm

Owner Psychology

• How to Get Rich - Felix Dennis advice from a billionaire

Futurism

• Hackers & Painters - Paul Graham
• Technological Revolutions - Carlota Perez
• Dragons of Eden - Sagan

Social websites

• Angel List
• LinkedIn

News

• SkimFeed tech/startup news aggregator
• Hacker News Reddit for tech/startup news

VCs

• Investment is marriage.
• Only raise cash if you have validated traction and require it to scale. Otherwise, what's the point?
• There's tons of cash out there, find investor partners whom can add the most value and you can add value to their fund.
• Know your VCs, target a specific partner, staging/sizing and category conflicts.
• "If you want advice, ask for cash; if you want cash, ask for advice." Or maybe, just ask for what you know you need.
• Be fucking prepared, not the fingernail-clipping guy.
• Take sour-/tasty grapes on thefunded with several big grains of salt.
• Figure on 35-70 pitches in order to get someone to lead the Series A. The first raise of the first venture is the hardest.
• Follow pg's advice.
• Use HDP (Handshake Deal Protocol)

Generally Good VC Shops

• Andreessen Horowitz a16z (Ben H., Martin Casado - multi-stage/post-seed; ideal pitch time: early Mondays (because of partner and GP meetings) )
• Y Combinator (incubator/VC)
• Rincon Venture Partners
• SV Angel (Ron Conway - super angel - seed/1.5m)
• True Ventures
• Sequoia Capital (Michael Goguen)
• Accel
• Altos Ventures
• Greylock Partners (recommended by a16z)
• Benchmark (recommended by a16z)
• Google Ventures (recommended by a16z)
• Floodgate (superangel - Mike Maples Jr.)
• Trinity Ventures

Notable Mentions

• August Capital
• Baseline Ventures
• First Round Capital
• Founders Fund
• New Enterprise Associates (Greg Papadopoulos)
• Foundry Group
• Lowercase Capital
• Meritech Capital Partners
• Union Square Ventures (NY)
• (Jim) Breyer Capital (ex?-Accel)

Not as much, unless there's a good reason

• Alsop-Louie
• Battery Ventures
• Garage Ventures (closed)
• KPCB
• Khosla
• Most incubators
• Shops without rep

Other collections of useful links

• StartupStash