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Lean Startup and Business Model Validation

  • Lean Startup Online Class by Steve Blank and Eric Ries
  • Creating Startup Success 101 - Alex Osterwalder and Steve Blank
  • Customer Development - Steve Blank’s The Four Steps to the Epiphany
  • Creating Startup Success – Customer Development + Business Model Design - Steve Blank
  • Video of Steve’s Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups talk on justin.tv
  • First three chapters of The Four Steps to the Epiphany
  • Eric Ries’ Review and takeaways
  • Venture Hacks article on Steve’s class at Haas
  • Startup Tools and resources list on Steve Blank's blog
  • Startup Books list, lots of b-school must reads, also from Steve Blank's blog
  • Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford
  • How to find early adopters by Brant Cooper
  • Startup Metrics for Pirates from Dave McClure - required primer on how to use metrics for decision making if you want to run your company as a lean startup.
  • Ten Top Product Pricing Models for Startups
  • Steve Blank, “Lessons Learned – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch”
  • Steve Blank, “Raising Money Using Customer Development”
  • The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint by Guy Kawasaki

Books

  • "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" by Steve Blank
  • "Business Model Generation" by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur (free preview downloadable here)
  • "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development" by Brant Cooper et al.
  • "The Art of Start" by Guy Kawasaki
  • "Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model" by John Mullins and Randy Komisar
  • "The Monk and the Riddle" by Randy Komisar
  • "So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur" by Jon Gillespie-Brown
  • "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries
  • Agile Project Management with Scrum- Ken Schwaber
  • Agile Estimating and Planning- Mike Cohn
  • Agile Retrospectives- Esther Derby and Diana Larsen 
  • Agile Testing- A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams- Lisa Crispin
  • Lean Software Development- An Agile Toolkit- Mary Poppendieck

Lean Mobile apps development

  • Lean Startup on Mobile phone

Legal

Co-Founder
  • Topics co-founders should agree on
  • The founder advisor standard template
Equity split amongst founders and investors
  • Intro to Stock Options
  • Bringing on that third early contributor
  • Equity split between co-founders
  • Some useful calibration info on how much some early stage investors take in equity in exchange for initial seed rounds

Online resources
  • Business Plan - http://www.sba.gov/
  • Main financing documents http://www.nvca.org

Other

  • Ezra Roizen's 3 million startup slides presented at the Haas >Play Conference. Useful insights and a projections spreadsheet to crib from to calibrate your numbers. 
  • Foursquare's first pitch deck
  • Kip Mc Clanahan's pitch deck example and detailed comments
  • KieranFarr's OnlineVideoForBusiness
  • 11 tips for entrepreneurs on dealing with the press
  • Things You Must Do to Be a Market Leader 
  • Tools to Make Your Marketing Videos Wow!
  • A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley

Blogs

  • Eric Ries - http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/
  • Steve Blank - http://steveblank.com/
  • Venture Hacks
  • answers.onstartups.com
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