Information Sources
The following 80+ resources are of great assistance to entrepreneurs. Most are free or relatively inexpensive.
The following 80+ resources are of great assistance to entrepreneurs. Most are free or relatively inexpensive.
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Free or "Freemium" Model
99U www.99u.com "At 99U, we deliver the action-oriented insights that you didn’t get in school, highlighting real-world best practices for making ideas happen." 99designs Resource Center www.99designs.com/resource-center Lots of good information about logos, design, marketing, branding, etc. Alexis Ohanian's Blog www.alexisohanian.com A great blog from the Founder of Reddit and Hipmunk. Presently a Partner at Y Combinator. Andreessen Horowitz Blog www.a16z.com An extensive set of resources from one of the preeminent early-stage tech investors. Autopsy.io www.autopsy.io Lessons from failed startups. Backerjack www.backerjack.com Covering the world of crowdfunded product innovation. BASES (Stanford) www.stanfordbases.wordpress.com Excellent weekly list of Bay Area startup events. Beta List www.betalist.com Discover tomorrow's startups, today. Get early access to over 100 new Internet startups each month. Could be an excellent source of information on your potential competition. Block Shelf www.blockshelf.com Quotes / Lessons / Videos for Entrepreneurs and Startups. Book reviews and summaries for time-challenged entrepreneurs. c|net's news.com and e-newsletters www.news.com Extensive tech industry news. Tends to be more business oriented, rather than hardcore techie. CB Insights www.cbinsights.com "CB Insights helps you track the world's most promising private companies, their investors, their acquirers and the industries they compete in." (freemium model) CEO.com www.ceo.com Excellent management wisdom; fantastic website and daily e-mails. CEOexpress www.ceoexpress.com Incredible collection of business news, research, tools and travel links. Charged www.char.gd Charged a weekly newsletter that helps you keep up with what's going on in tech, find cool startups and interesting reads, without you needing to decipher cryptic stories. Compiled weekly by Owen Williams, Editor at The Next Web and delivered to your inbox in the weekend, it's the easiest way to keep up with the rapidly moving tech industry. Codementor www.codementor.io "Live 1:1 help from expert developers. Codementor is your live 1:1 expert mentor helping you in real time." Crunchbase.com www.crunchbase.com The world's most comprehensive dataset of startup activity and funding - free! DesignNews www.designnews.com "Design News provides a channel for two-way communications amongst the engineering community. The content can take the form of design application articles, blogs, product teardowns, webinars, and so forth. DesignNews is also the leader in online education." Dharmesh Shah's OnStartups Blog www.onstartups.com Fantastic blog by Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder at HubSpot [IPO in 2014]. Digiday www.digiday.com Digiday - The Authority on Digital Media, Marketing and Advertising. Digiday is a media company and community for digital media, marketing and advertising professionals. We focus on quality, not quantity, and honesty instead of spin. We cover the industry with an expertise, depth and tone you won’t find anywhere else. The Digiday team strives to produce the highest quality publications, conferences, and resources for our industry. Entrepreneur.com www.entrepreneur.com Lots of great stories, advice, trends, lists of innovative companies, etc. Entrepreneurship.org www.entrepreneurship.org For people growing great ideas. An online educational resource dedicated to entrepreneurship. Essays From Paul Graham www.paulgraham.com/articles.html A series of great articles for entrepreneurs from the Founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb, the first software as a service (SaaS) company. Fast Company www.fastcompany.com Inspiring a new breed of innovative and creative thought leaders who are actively inventing the future of business. Magazine and daily e-mails. FeldThoughts - Brad Feld's Blog www.feld.com A great blog from Brad Feld of Foundry Group, a successful entrepreneur and one of the preeminent early-stage tech investors. Female Founder Stories www.femalefounderstories.com Welcome to Female Founder Stories, a collection of interviews with some of Y Combinator’s female alumni. Learn about things like how they got started, their experience at Y Combinator, their experience as female founders, and what they wish they'd known when they were younger. As you'll see, their answers are fascinating, both individually and in their variety. Femgineer www.femgineer.com We educate forward-thinking tech professionals who are interested in entrepreneurship and leadership. While we care deeply about advancing women, we are open to supporting all humans who want to learn. FierceWireless, FierceMobileContent, etc. www.fiercewireless.com "The first place industry insiders turn to find out what’s shaping and revolutionizing the wireless landscape." GeekWire www.geekwire.com Tech news, commentary and other nerdiness from Seattle, covering Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Internet, startups, mobile, PCs, geek culture, more. GigaOM www.gigaom.com Gizmodo www.gizmodo.com A leading design and technology blog. GrowthHackers www.growthhackers.com Get the web's best growth posts, straight to your inbox. Every week. 62,000 growth professionals from companies like Uber, Pinterest, and Twitter get our Top Post Email. Hacker News www.news.ycombinator.com Excellent aggregation of interesting tech news and articles from around the world. Kauffman Foundation www.entrepreneurship.org KillerStartups www.killerstartups.com Mapped In Israel www.mappedinisrael.com A great interactive map covering 1,200+ startups, 40+ accelerators, 60+ investors, 90+ service providers and more in Israel, the "Startup Nation." Mattermark www.mattermark.com Research, prospect, and track the fastest growing private companies with deal intelligence. Covers 800,000+ companies. We also publish a daily curated selection of reading from investor and founder bloggers, events to check out, companies to watch, and other worthwhile things we find. (freemium model) Meetup www.meetup.com "Neighbors getting together to learn something, do something, share something…" MIT / Stanford VLAB www.vlab.org "VLAB connects the entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and thought leaders of Silicon Valley. Stay Connected." Nolo Small Business Information www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/small-business Start your own business: 50 steps and lots of other useful information One Pagers www.onepagers.io One Pagers to Understand and Follow Tech Trends. Panda www.usepanda.com Find the best content. Be informed. Stay inspired. The newsfeed dashboard for 100,000+ designers, developers and entrepreneurs. PandoDaily www.pando.com We have one goal here at PandoDaily: To be the site-of-record for that startup root-system and everything that springs up from it, cycle-after-cycle. That sounds simple but it’ll be incredibly hard to pull off. I t’s not something we accomplish on day one or even day 300. It’s something we accomplish by waking up every single day and writing the best stuff we can, and continually adding like-minded staffers who have the passion, drive and talent to do the same. PE HUB Wire www.pehub.com/pewire-signup "A community for professionals in private capital." PowerBooks www.powerbooks.strikingly.com A curated list of the 30+ most powerful books for entrepreneurs. Yes, you. The innovator, the startup founder, the creative. All book suggestions are sourced directly from people like you on Reddit, forums, and the 'How to Start a Startup' Facebook group. All books have a bite-sized summary and some of them are ready to read as PDFs. Product Hunt www.producthunt.com "The place to discover your next favorite thing." Quibb www.quibb.com Quibb is a professional network to share industry news and analysis. We're members-only and accept 41% of applications. re/code www.recode.net Get the latest independent tech news, reviews and analysis from Re/code with the most informed and respected journalists in technology and media. Red Herring www.redherring.com Excellent source of startup funding data and Top 100 industry lists. Seth Godin's Blog www.sethgodin.typepad.com Amusing blog from a great startup marketer who went on to write 17 books, including a New York Times bestseller. Sidebar www.sidebar.io Sidebar delivers a list of five great design links daily. But unlike a regular linkblog, it's collaborative and manually curated by a couple great editors. Silicon Beach LA www.siliconbeachla.com "The home of the LA tech and startup community." Silicon Valley Business Journal www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news (freemium model) SimilarWeb www.thunderclap.it "Get insights for any website or app. We're a group of developers, designers, mathematicians, data scientists, researchers and marketeers that work relentlessly to measure online behavior worldwide and to generate marketing insights. Together, we are shaping the future of web measurement and competitive intelligence." Springwise.com www.springwise.com "Your weekly fix of entrepreneurial ideas." StackExchange www.stackexchange.com "Expert communities. | The right answer. Right on top. | Share knowledge. Earn trust." Startup Collections www.startupcollections.com "provides resources and tools for entrepreneurs, designers, developers and marketers to help them save time, energy and money." Startup Digest www.startupdigest.com Great weekly list of startup events (localized versions available) Startup Funding www.startupfunding.io "A fresh dose of startup funding resources every week." Startup Grind www.startupgrind.com "The largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting 215,000 founders in over 185 cities." Startup Ultility www.startuputility.com Excellent resource featuring links to the best sources of startup information, including: websites, blogs, twitter feeds, books, tools, podcasts, classes and swag sources. StartupDefinition.com www.startupdefinition.com Excellent glossary of common startup and VC ecosystem terms. StartupLi.st www.startupli.st List of local startups with status: Alpha, Private Beta, Beta, Public Beta, Public. You can find, follow or recommend startups. Startups List www.startups-list.com Interesting list of the best local startups in 50+ cities around the world. StartupStash www.startupstash.com A curated directory of resources & tools to help you build your startup. Steve Blank's Blog www.steveblank.com A great blog from a high-profile entrepreneur and author of "Four Steps to the Epiphany." It’s been called the book that launched the Lean Startup movement. Teamstory www.teamstoryapp.com Share and Discovrer startup moments. Teamstory is the community for entrepreneurs & startups. Working on the next big thing? Worried about funding? No matter what the story, we get what you're going through. Share your unique startup moments as they unfold and discover other like-minded individuals along the way. TechCrunch www.techcrunch.com A leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news. TechMeme www.techmeme.com Techmeme is the foremost source for tracking changes in the tech world. By presenting a summary of the day's essential reports and analysis on a single page, Techmeme has become the technology news site of record for people both within and beyond the industry. The Information www.theinformation.com The most valuable source of news about the technology industry for the world’s professionals. The Next Web www.thenextweb.com The Next Web is a technology focused media company founded in 2008. It manages several initiatives focused on international technology news, business and culture. Includes the TNW Blog and TNW Events. The Pipe www.thepipe.io Self-published design, technology, and business ebooks hand-picked just for you. theStarterKit www.thestarterkit.info Curated resources for web developers and visual designers. Top 50 Entrepreneur Stories www.entrepreneur.com/popular Entrepreneur stories that score highest in page views and social engagement. Upstart Business Journal www.upstart.bizjournals.com 17 great pieces of advice from 2014 on productivity, email, meetings and more Venture Hacks www.venturehacks.com "Good advice for startups" VentureBeat / FeedBlitz www.venturebeat.com Great website and daily e-mails. VentureLoop Startup Newsletter www.ventureloop.com A useful startup newsletter. Wired www.wired.com In-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology - website and magazine. WorkIt www.workit.com "A Guide to Local Events and Resources" Paid LinkSV www.linksv.com Great source of info on Silicon Valley people, companies and investors. VentureDeal www.venturedeal.com "Venture Capital and Startup database." WSJ Pro Venture Capital (fka VentureWire) www.projoin.origin.wsj.com/venturecapital/ |