[10/28/2021] Create inventory of all the Startup resources I've gone through

Books

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel

• Startup Notes

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

• Running Lean by Ash Maurya - A practical guide to the Lean Startup

• Founders At Work by Jessica Livingston - A collection of interviews about the early days of popular technology companies

• The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman - Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.

• Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

• Venture Capitalists at Work by Tarang Shah and Sheetal Shah - Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes offers unparalleled insights into the funding and management of companies like YouTube, Zappos, Twitter, Starent, Facebook, and Groupon. The venture capitalists profiled—among the best in the business—also reveal how they identify promising markets, products, and entrepreneurs.

• Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

• The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action - The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth--offer a balance between short-term and long-term objectives, between outcomes desired and performance drivers of those outcomes, and between hard objective measures and softer, more subjective measures. This is a great tool for all companies, but importantly early stage companies, to help them translate data to data execution into actionable and measurable outcomes, across the business.

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't - Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.

• The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth - Helpful to growth stage companies who are moving beyond their initial successful product, provides a great framework for how to invest beyond the core.

• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - Seth Godin stresses the importance and benefits of knowing your audience and staying hyper-focused on them to build a loyal following. “With his signature wit and storytelling flair, Godin presents the three steps to building a tribe: the desire to change things, the ability to connect a tribe, and the willingness to lead.

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies - Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond.

• Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results - shows how leaders can achieve record-breaking results by quickly and effectively shaping their organizational culture to capitalize on their greatest asset-their people.

• 27 books every startup ought to read

Videos, Courses and Blogs

• Steve Jobs' Vision of the World (video)

• VLDB - Turing Award Lecture Michael Stonebraker (video, transcript)

• Startup Movies

• The Lean Launchpad by Steve Blank (Udacity) - Learn the key tools and steps to build a successful startup (or at least reduce the risk of failure). An introduction to the basics of Steve Blank's famous Customer Development process, where entrepreneurs "get out of the building" to gather massive amounts of customer and marketplace feedback, and then use that feedback to continuously iterate and evolve their startup business models, improving the chances of success at every step.

• Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies (Coursera) - Explore how to identify and develop great ideas into great companies. Learn how to identify opportunities based on real customer needs. Develop solid business models. Create successful companies.

• 500 Startups #500distro conference videos

• YC Startup School 2012, 2013, 2014 videos

• How to Start a Startup

• Authors @Google: Eric Ries "The Lean Startup"

• Marc Andreessen & Dave McClure: The Future of Startups, VC's, and Technology

• Sam Altman's blog

• Paul Graham's essays

• How to get startup ideas

• Do thing's that don't scale

• 18 Mistakes that kill startups

• How to raise money

• The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni - Patrick Lencioni delivers a provocative message. CEOs mainly have themselves to blame when things go wrong. If you're a CEO (or a manager for that matter), do you have the courage to face it? Doing so could change your future -- for the better.

• The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: The Four Disciplines at the Heart of Making Any Organization World Class by Patrick Lencioni - In this follow-up to his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni's focus is on a leader's crucial role in building a healthy organization--an often overlooked but essential element of business life that is the linchpin of sustained success.

• Employee Engagement: The Wonder Drug For Customer Satisfaction - short article showing the high correlation between employee engagement and customer satisfaction. Satisfied customers and happy/engaged employees produce the most amazing start-ups - or any type of company for that matter.

Resources