Awesome Entrepreneur

Curated list of resources to learn Entrepreneurism. See how to contribute here.

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Having an Idea

Articles about how to start

• Sam Altman's Startup Playbook.
• Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas.
• Ideas for Startups.
• The Hardest Lessons for Startups.
• Do Things that Don't Scale.
• ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up.

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Starting a Startup

Tools for Teams

• Startup deals.
• GSuite.
• Notion.
• Trello.
• Gusto.

Tools for Marketing and Sales

Articles

• Learn SEO in 2020.
• We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To.

Marketing Tools

• Gleam: business growth platform.
• Short Stack: growth with contests.

SEO Tools

• Google Trends.
• Buzzsumo
• Google KeywodPlanner.
• Wordtracker.
• Redditlist.
• Keyworda Everywhere.
• SEMRush.
• Keyword Tool.
• Soovle.
• Ahrefs Keyword Explorer.
• Keyword Snatcher.
• KWFinder.
• KTD.
• Lots of resources here.

CRM and Customer Data Tools

• Mailchimp.
• Segment.
• Zendesk Customer Support.

Competitors

• Tools to learn about your competition..

Tools for Design and Website building

Resources to build a Website

• Hugo.
• Reaction Commerce.
• Shopify.

Stock Photos

• Public Domain Pictures.
• Pixabay.
• Little Visuals.
• Isorepublic.
• Bucketlistly.
• Cupcake.
• Unsplash.
• I am creator.
• Free Photos.
• RGB Stock.
• Free Digital photos.
• Food images.
• Pic Jumbo.
• Designer Pics.
• Mazwai.
• Foca.
• Free Images.
• Stock Snap.
• Kaboom Pics.
• Picrographyt.
• Free Nature Stock.
• Morguefile.
• Stock Vault.
• Refe.
• Free Range.
• Imagefree.
• Life of Pix.

Editing Pictures

• Clipping Magic: magically remove backgrounds from pictures.
• TinyPNG: smart image compression.
• Find HTML color code form an image.

Creating Logos

• Hatchful.

Copy and Documents

• The Cult of NDA.
• Privacy Policy generator.
• Terms of Service Generator.

Deplopying

• Zeit.co.

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Fund-raising

• Y Combinator Serie A Guide.
• Signal: fundraising CRM for startup founders.
• List of microgrants.
• A Fundraising Survival Guide.

Incubators and Accelerators

• Ycombinator.
• Entrepreneur First.
• Boost VC.
• XX.
• TechStars.
• Tandem Launch.
• Alchemist.

Angels and VCs

• Acme.
• Harlen.
• Atomic.
• Gust.
• Bonfire.
• Abies.
• Ahren.
• Ame Cloud.
• Amplify Partners.
• Airbus.
• 180 Degree.
• 415.
• Saphire.
• Republic.co.
• 8vc.
• 1517fund.
• Basf.
• Battery.
• BoxGroups.
• Bloomberg.
• Cantos.
• Citigroup.
• AI Seed.
• Civilization.
• CME.
• Bezos Expeditions.
• Creative.
• Comcast.
• BTOV.
• CIC.
• DC.
• Crosslink.
• Correlation.
• BatShitCrazy.
• Cota.
• Ecliptic.
• Fenox.
• Canaan.
• Amadeus.
• Firebold.
• DFJ.
• Deshaw.
• BDC.
• a16z.
• Fifty.
• Dymonasia.
• Eniac.
• Sinai.
• GPV.
• Fluxus.
• Georgia.
• Fidelity.
• Growth Works.
• Fitzgate.
• HP.
• Horizon.
• KEC.
• Founders Fund.
• IQ Capital.
• KCPL.
• Liquid.
• IP Group.
• Kindred.
• IQT.
• LSVP.
• LUX.
• LCIF.
• MSEQ.
• Maverick.
• Mantaray.
• Marlet.
• Morado.
• Apex.
• Maki.
• Anri.
• Inovia.
• Mubadala.
• Balderton.
• Industrial.
• Georgian Partners.
• Newground.
• Mig.
• Pender.
• PSP.
• Oxford Science.
• Overkill.
• OUP.
• Radical.
• RTF.
• Real.
• RBS.
• Seier.
• Sansug.
• S28
• Sequoia.
• Sierra.
• Shasta.
• DV.
• Quantum Valley.
• RBVC.
• Social Capital.
• Sparx.
• Susa.
• SHV.
• Quantonation.
• Space Angels.
• SV.
• SVB.
• Octopus.
• Sginnovate.
• Engine.
• Tesi.
• Streamlined.
• Propagator.
• Casa Verde.
• Tao.
• TLV.
• Vaned.
• Stanhill.
• UVC.
• Phystech.
• Open Ocean.
• Pentech.
• Prelude.
• World Quant.
• Vitp.
• Western Tech.
• UCLTF.
• Omers.
• Nea.
• Tribeca.
• VenRock.
• Flybridge.
• Felicis.
• AI Capital.
• Gron.
• Pillar.
• Halogen.
• Crosscut.
• Pitango.
• Anubix.
• General Catalyst.
• 37 Angels.
• All Raise.
• Thirtyfive.
• BBG ventures.

Specific Capital

• Quantum Computing capital.
• Female founders.
• Open Source Capital.

Pitching

Writing Decks

• How to write a killer deck and get funded.

How to Pitch

• How to Present to Investors.
• The Hacker Guide to Investors.
• Ycombinator: Meeting with investors.

Equitities, Valuation, Finances

• The Equity Equation.
• On Valuation.
• Safe Financing Documents.
• Managing Startups Finances.
• Modern Startup Funding.

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Running a Startup

Not dying

• How to Not Fail.
• How to raise money and How to succeed in the long term.

OKR

• Awesome List on ORK.

Outreaching

• Places to post your startup.

Hiring

• 40 Favorite Interview questions from some of the sharpest folks we know.

Tools

• Goodtime - Hiring platform.

Being a CEO

• Gitlab CEO Manifest.
• How A CEO can Effectively Build a Sustainable Company.

Being a CTO

• Documenting Architeture Decisions.
• A list of Curated Manager Readmes.
• Looking at the life of the CTO through the stages.
• Becoming the Leader you need.

On Monitoring and Security

• The SaaS CTO Security Checklist.
• Observability and Monitoring Best Practices.
• Grafana's article on logs and metrics and graphs.
• Monitoring: Not Just For Outages.

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