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Virtual Takeaway A curated list of online resources, articles, blog posts, and more related to startups
From Ideas to Actually Starting a Business
- How to evaluate your startup idea
- How to Start a Startup
- How to Create a $1M Business This Weekend
- Is My Business Idea Good Enough?
- Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur?
Funding
- Ideal first round funding terms
- Understanding How Dilution Affects You at a Startup
- How Much Money Should a Startup Have in the Bank?
- Fundraising from $1,000 to $1 Million
Building a Team
- Finding a technical co-founder
- Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire Fast
- "You can tell a lot about a person by how quickly they dismiss something they don't understand" -@jasonfried
Scaling
Lessons Learned
- Startups in 13 Sentences
- Ten Lessons from GitHub’s First Year
- What I Wish Someone Had Told Me 4 Years Ago
- Some lessons learned
- Seven Startup Sins to Avoid
More Collections of Resources
Timing to Start a Business
Sales
- The Story of the Corcoran Group
- Engineering Your Marketing Outcomes
- Mark Suster’s blog “Both Sides of the Table” - Sales & Marketing topics
- Huthwaite’s SPIN Sales Newsletters
- Miller Heiman Knowledge Center
Strategy
Failure & Doubt
- The Myth of the Overnight Success
- The Terror of Firsts
- Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched
- Ask Hacker News: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic failures?
- How Getting Rejected By Founder Collective Helped Save Our Startup