Newsletters, curated resources for founders, and articles that don't fit in other categories.
Founders Startup Stack
A categorized and curated collection of tools aimed at startups. Includes discount codes for many of these tools.
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How to run a startup Board meeting
OnlyCFO’s guide to preparing for and running a successful Board meeting.
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Co-founder equity calculator
Quick online form with a series of questions that can help you arrive at an equity split for founders.
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Sequoia Capital - Preparing a Board Deck
Strategies and best practices for preparing a presentation for your Board.
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Techstars Entrepreneurial Toolkit
A 20-part collection of curated videos from Techstars mentors aimed at supporting entrepreneurs in their journey. Categories like 'Navigate Cofounder Relationships', "Build a Diverse Workforce", and "Entrepreneurs & Mental Health" are best-in-class guides, although all of the videos are worth your time.
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Startup Collections
A collection of tools to help founders build product efficiently and at lowest cost. Different than this guide in that it primarily focuses on building software product.
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Free tools & Resources from Growth Supply
400+ links to tools and other resources that are either entirely free or have a free tier. Useful when you need to find something specific to fit a need for your startup.
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YCombinator Resource library
A searchable, categorized portal for podcasts, videos, and essays published as part of the YCombinator accelerator. Much of this material has been incorporated into Startup School.
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First Time Founder Resource List
Founder Library
A massive, curated collection of links, documents, resources and articles for founders and early-stage companies.
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Brand Positioning Slide Walkthrough
Examples of good brand positioning slides to help you communicate where you fit in a product category, and why it's exciting.
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Community Playbook for Founders
An overview of best practices for building a community around your startup or building a community-based startup.
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SaaS key metrics
Mattermark blog
Founder & startup-focused articles. An excellent resource for startup sales and marketing best practices.
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Quantitative approach to product/market fit
TAM Modeling tool
Guidelines and a spreadsheet template for modeling total addressable market
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First Round Review
Newsletter focused on guides and articles for early-stage founders
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How to start a startup at Carnegie Mellon
Collection of links and resources from Contrary Capital. Focused on CMU startups but some links are broadly applicable to any founding team.
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Gust-s co-founder equity calculator
A self-paced questionnaire backed by data from Gust to help you find an appropriate co-founder equity split.
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Curated SEO Tools
A meta-list of 257 categorized tools to implement and manage SEO.
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Startup Stash
A categorized list of tools that can be leveraged by startups. Identifies tools with a free tier and includes a powerful search/filter function.
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Latham Drive 'Book of Jargon' for early-stage companies
An incredibly useful database of terms used in early-stage companies, mainly centered around investment terminology. Potential investor used a term you aren't familiar with or reviewing your first term sheet? Check here.
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MaRS Startup Toolkit
A very in-depth set of resources for early-stage companies, with a particular emphasis on specific vertical industries. Maintained by MaRS, an innovation hub located in Toronto, Canada.
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Satchel startup product recommendations
A well-researched list of best-of-category self-service (SaaS) tools for early-stage companies. Categories include startup incorporation, payroll, CRM, money store, project management tool, and more. Site ceased updates in 2020 but existing recommendations are still valid.
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Google’s Effective Founders Research Project
An extremely thorough study of startups that provides insight about the characteristics of successful founding teams. Specifically the article covers topics like cofounder dynamics and self-care.
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Building Out Loud Podcast
Mac Conwell and Liam Gill discuss important topics in the founder’s journey. They bring unique perspectives as founders and VC investors themselves.
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YCombinator Startup School’s finding a co-founder podcast
YCombinator’s Startup School is one of the best resources for founders out there. This video covers techniques you can use to find a co-founder and build a lasting partnership.
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The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
Considered the best resource for companies building marketplace business. Includes examples from companies in a variety of industries. This is a must-read.
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Employee 1 and beyond: A setup checklist
A guide from a 5-time founder with best practices for setting up systems to support your first hire and beyond.
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