Birmingham Startup Summit
Overview
Speakers
Schedule
Sponsors
2012 Recap
2012 Birmingham Startup Summit
Event follow-up and a virtual takeaway
Photos & videos
All Photos →
All Videos →
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
Six Metrics You Should Track
"API = self-serve biz dev. -@paulg"
The 10X Product Launch
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
Y Combinator’s Startup Library
Birmingham Angel Network YouTube video channel
Business Insider’s Instant MBA
Inc. Magazine Videos
Fast Company Magazine’s 30 Second MBA
Foundation - Interviews by Kevin Rose (digg) with founders
AVC’s MBA Mondays
Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner
Timing to Start a Business
“Otherwise do something else”
Why Entrepreneurs Fail And Most Startups Are DOA
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
Startup metrics for pirates: AARRR!
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
Inspiration
Startup School videos
Mint’s CEO on Startups
Birmingham
"We would do Birmingham a great disservice if we dream too-little dreams." -Dr. Volker (1st UAB Pres.)