Curated content & templates for every step in your startup journey
How to get your first customers
Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO of Segment, shares his experience on finding product market fit
Effective Product Management
Building Products
The "Dirty" Secret of High Performing Product Teams
A Letter To A New Product Manager
Stop Running in Circles ans Ship Work that Matters
We are all doing high-frequency waterfall. Agile won’t save us
Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager
All the free product management resources and templates you need in one place
Applied to Product Managers & UX Designers
Startups don’t need product managers who are visionaries
What distinguishes the Top 1% of product managers from the Top 10%?
Here’s the fastest way to become a product manager
Collection of good writing on technology strategy
Vision Template by SalesForce Founder Marc Benioff
A technique for marking difficult decisions
Google Process on how to create an aligned team
Google Slides
Template by Lenny Rachitsky
Google Docs
The Ingredients of Success
Here are practical, battle-tested ways for you to improve the efficiency of your business
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
Paul Buchheit, creator of GMail, discusses how to listen to your users at Startup School 08
Vincent Woo gave a talk about building a small solo business at Dropbox in November 2015
Simply one of the best Lightning Talks ever from Patrick McKenzie
What if Direct Marketing is slowly going into extinction all together?
Tyler tringas (StoreMapper) talked about Micro Saas at B2B Rocks
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software
Ron helped tens of thousands of startup founders through books, podcasts, conference, and essays
Andrew asks challenging questions, which leads to real stories behind how startups made it
A podcast about great products and the people who make them
FounderCafe is an invite-only, online community of entrepreneurs helping each other succeed
Your task list made public. Get feedback, stay accountable and ship better products with us
Community of Y-Combinator
A private community for bootstrappers (Slack, forums, membership directory)
Entrepreneurs who don’t want to starve will all find valuable guidance in these pages
I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months
Why You Should Do A Tiny Product First
Bootstrapped to $50,000/year in 2 years (with live metrics)
Bootstrapping Side Projects To Profit
Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies
Shared lessons we learn by doing
A resource for everyone who wants to bootstrap their own business
News for bootstrappers, not VC hackers
Learn how to start a company, with help from the world's top startup accelerator
Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
Weekly digest of the best user-submitted articles featured
The podcast for people running bootstrapped software companies
Inspirational handbook from Saas company Basecamp
Bootstrapping a profitable SaaS Business
How to Start a Business with No Money
How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business
Lessons Learned Building a Successful Company from Scratch
When, If Ever, Should Profitable Bootstrapped Startups Raise Capital?
Which Path Will You Choose?
How to Bootstrap Your Startup
How to Get Funding For Your Startup That’s *Not* Venture Capital
How To Build A Service Business
Foundations of a Sustainable Bootstrapped Business
Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business
Customer Acquisition Plans for Bootstrappers
35 Big Companies that Started with Little to No Money
Master the Art of Business Strategy
Winning A Crowded Market
What are the benefits of understanding and managing impact?
The Revenue Model Hackpad
What is Amazon?
The Market Curve
The Hidden Patterns of Great Startup Ideas
This blog post is on what I call the “free parking” business model
This six-part series is designed to be an “Explain Like I’m (Twenty) Five” edition of Epic Games
Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb
A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
The Art of the Startup Pivot from a Founder-CTO POV
Startups & Miracles
The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy
Strong and weak technologies
YC Partner Kevin Hale goes over the fundamentals of pricing and monetization,
A brief look into how to start and run a startup
Pricing Your Product
Working with 30+ Seed and Series A B2B Startups
How Strategy Really Works
Dalton Caldwell, Y Combinator partner on pricing and how most startups undercharge
What is a network effect and why is it valuable?
Lead Bullets
How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling
Revenue Models - AVC
How to price your SaaS product
Michael Seibel, Managing Director at Y Combinator explains how to set your Key Performance Indicator
The proven six-step formula shaped from years of experience
A step-by-step guide for monetizing your freemium business
Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-founder of Box talks about how to build an enterprise software company
The Least Useful Slide In The Pitch Deck Is…
How to Decrease the Odds Your Startup Will Fail?
…the secret of Backcasting
Tim Brady explains how to calculate your companies burn rate, runway, and growth rate
Hierarchy of Engagement, Expanded
The Difference and Why It Matters