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Sep 28 2011

The Startup Primer

[box]Welcome to the Startup Primer – a collection of 55 articles about the challenges of startups. If you are launching your startup, preparing to start, or if you’re already on the way to living the entrepreneurial dream, you need to read these articles.[/box]

Table of Contents

  1. Before You Start
  2. On Founders
    1. Just for Non-Technical Founders
  3. Team
    1. Starting the Team (Co-Founders)
    2. Building the Team
    3. Keeping (and motivating) the Team
  4. Boards and Advisors
  5. Marketing
    1. Social Media
  6. Product

Before You Start

  • A startup is an organization formed to search for (not execute) a repeatable and scalable business model – http://bit.ly/f5qcGv
  • So you want to do a startup, eh? – http://slidesha.re/iQrovv
  • 5 things you should know before starting a company – http://bit.ly/ql9xcj
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On Founders

  • How Great Entrepreneurs Think – http://bit.ly/fbewnn (Hint: Effectual Reasoning)
  • How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think – http://bit.ly/qVzb8W
  • The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur: 47% of successful entrepreneurs have at least a Master’s degree – http://t.co/kj4WICE
  • 5 Surprising Traits Of Successful Entrepreneurs – http://huff.to/nuHzPu
  • What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology – http://tcrn.ch/gOxnNf
  • 13 Things You Must Do Every Week As A Startup CEO – http://bit.ly/gLuaCK
  • Before product-market fit, find passion-market fit – http://bit.ly/qvczRJ
  • “The notion that working longer hours is correlated to better business results is a pernicious social pathology” – http://bit.ly/peikcO
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Just for Non-Technical Founders

  • Tips For Getting Started For The Non-Technical Web Entrepreneur – http://bit.ly/juR4ZG
  • How to pull your weight as a non-technical co-founder – http://bit.ly/ne66h1
  • Please, please, stop asking how to find a technical co-founder. “You don’t find a technical co-founder, you earn one.” – http://bit.ly/j9K54Z
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Team 

Starting the Team (Co-Founders)

  • The Co-Founder Mythology – http://bit.ly/ksqNiA
  • How to pick a co-founder – Venture Hacks – http://bit.ly/fwZddI
  • 10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Picking a Business Partner – http://bit.ly/pXfVxr
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Building the Team

  • The Best Resources on Hiring for Founders – http://bit.ly/jCikuW
  • One of the best essays on recruiting a high performing team for your startup – http://bit.ly/fYcqj9
  • What to look for in a UI designer – http://bit.ly/ecXnfM
  • Hiring Developers: You’re Doing It Wrong – http://bit.ly/gbNFxs
  • Why Engineers Distrust Business People – http://bit.ly/lS4rVk
  • How Designers Want to be Contacted – http://bit.ly/p9dPQN
  • Don’t Hire Senior People, Hire People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class – http://read.bi/ibVrw6
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Keeping (and motivating) the Team

  • Reminding your team “why?” can double productivity. Why does your organization exist? – http://bit.ly/fn4MYk
  • Bored People Quit – http://bit.ly/ofhvwn
  • Do it Without Titles – http://bit.ly/pNqAF3
  • 5 Reasons Why Your Business Should Embrace The Virtual Office – http://bit.ly/oTBAJj
  • Caring – http://bit.ly/mItMB6
  • Three Signs You Have A Management Problem, And That Problem Might Be You – http://read.bi/eBBwxZ
  • How to Build a Bootstrapping Culture – http://bit.ly/gNmzdL
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Boards and Advisors

  • It’s Time to Reinvent the Boardroom – http://bit.ly/pVShG9
  • The Benefits Of The Perfect Independent Board Member – http://t.co/8P5juNX
  • How to ask for help – http://bit.ly/kSx2gH
  • Don’t hate on VCs; Generalizing is dangerous – http://awe.sm/5Ilib
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Marketing

  • 17 Mutable Suggestions For Naming A Startup – http://bit.ly/pfGuNZ
  • The New Rules of Branding Your Business Online – http://bit.ly/egoqGS
  • The 5 Minute Guide To Cheap Startup Advertising – http://bit.ly/ih8O24
  • “My Friends” is Not a Market Segment – http://bit.ly/lT04Qy
  • How Engineering-Based Marketing can “beat the stuffing” out of Traditional Marketing – http://bit.ly/pZD9cb
  • Do Not Build Your Startup Messages for Your Grandmother – http://bit.ly/oYB01O
  • Email Is (Still) Important And Here Is Why – http://bit.ly/q2oVOg
  • When failure is cheap, why not give it a go? – http://bit.ly/gqLlBx
  • The real reasons why startups go into stealth mode – http://bit.ly/gW3dsV
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Social Media

  • How to Use Social Networking Sites to Drive Business – http://bit.ly/eIoANf
  • 5 Tips To Make Your Startup’s Twitter Account Stand Out – http://t.co/YUI03lc
  • Why I Will Never, Ever Hire A “Social Media Expert” – http://read.bi/kwh0b3
  • Gary Vaynerchuk: “99.5% of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns” – http://tcrn.ch/kctz9Q
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Product

  • How to start your startup in 4 steps – http://bit.ly/l4KuQZ
  • Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.” – http://awe.sm/5Iix1
  • Personas: The Foundation of a Great User Experience from @uxmag – http://bit.ly/hivV32
  • Crash Course: Design for Startups – http://bit.ly/g8Chci
  • Business Objectives vs. User Experience – http://bit.ly/dYDnZk
  • Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it – http://bit.ly/gavKUj
  • Launch your site too soon – http://bit.ly/kyUsdX
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Special Bonus: Equity and Funding

    This primer is not intended to be a comprehensive resource for those seeking investors but these articles should give you a starting point for exploring your options.

  • Intro to Stock and Options for Startup Employees and Founders – http://bit.ly/U5Ro6z
  • Where to Look for Different Amounts of Funding – http://bit.ly/lSsHfp
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Written by Teague Hopkins · Categorized: Main · Tagged: Business, Culture, Entrepreneur, Failure, Management, Marketing, Productivity, User

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