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
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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
First Round Review
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.
Self-Service Tools
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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