| Attitude of an Entrepreneur |
| The Race Is Long - Charlie O'Donnell |
| If they aren't ready to listen, it doesn't matter what you say - Don Dodge |
| Tenacity - Mark Suster |
| Street Smarts - Mark Suster |
| Ability to Pivot - Mark Suster |
| Resiliency - Mark Suster |
| Inspiration - Mark Suster |
| Perspiration - Mark Suster |
| Willingness to Accept Risk - Mark Suster |
| Attention to detail - Mark Suster |
| Competitiveness - Mark Suster |
| Decisiveness / Gets Things Done - Mark Suster |
| Domain Experience - Mark Suster |
| The 7 deadly sins and 10 lessons of a failed startup - Don Dodge |
| Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes - Mark Suster |
| Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid - Mark Suster |
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| Ideation |
| Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon |
| A Serial Entrepreneur’s Guide To Uncovering Awesome Startup Ideas - John Greathouse |
| Brainstorming for New Startup Ideas: A Framework to Spur Creative Thinking - David Skok |
| Ideation: How to stumble upon a great business idea. - Viktoras |
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| Naming the Startup |
| Naming your startup - Chris Dixon |
| Six naming myths to ignore - The Name Inspector |
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| Equity Structure |
| Dividing equity between founders - Chris Dixon |
| Cap Tables - Fred Wilson |
| Founders, Ownership and Prenuptials - Mark Suster |
| The Equity Equation - Paul Graham |
| The Option Pool Shuffle - Nivi |
| How to make a cap table - Nivi |
| Startup Equity - How To Slice Your Pie - Amanda Frazier |
| How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get - Nathan Hurst |
| CTO Equity - Negotiation After Funding - Tony Karrer |
| What is the best way to divide up ownership in a startup?- Tristan Kromer |
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| Teaming and Hiring |
| How do you do concrete interviews for non-technical people? - Andrew Chen |
| How do you find a badass co-founder? - Andrew Chen |
| Building the initial team for seed stage startups - Andrew Chen |
| How do you find a badass co-founder? (part 2) - Andrew Chen |
| Recruiting programmers to your startup - Chris Dixon |
| What to look for in hiring a VP Engineering for your internet startup - Chris Dixon |
| VP Finance vs CFO - Fred Wilson |
| VP Engineering Vs CTO - Fred Wilson |
| 8 Things to Look for When Hiring Startup Talent - Ben Yoskovitz |
| 10 Steps to Successfully Sourcing and Recruiting Startup Talent - Ben Yoskovitz |
| The Key to Startup Hiring: Build a Magnet - Ben Yoskovitz |
| Idea: Y Combinator for Startup Recruiting - Adam Smith |
| Building a Successful Startup Team - Michael Cole |
| Hiring at a Startup? Know Thy Weaknesses - Mark Suster |
| Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door - Mark Suster |
| 9 Tips for Hiring & Managing Interns at a Startup - Andrew Cohen |
| Hiring a CTO for Your Startup - Tony Karrer |
| How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide - Tony Karrer |
| How I Found a Great CTO - Mariam Naficy |
| HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO - Scott Gerber |
| Places to Find Developers in Exchange for Sweat Equity - Jason Mandelson |
| Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data - Tony Karrer |
| A Minimum Viable Team is more important than a Minimum Viable Product - Tristan Kromer |
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| Finding Your Co-founder |
| How to pick a co-founder - Naval |
| The Co-Founder Mythology - Mark Suster |
| Finding Your Co-Founders - Seth Sternberg |
| Picking Your Co-Founders - Spencer Fry |
| How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder - Sean Ammirati |
| Why you can('t) recruit a technical cofounder - Jennifer Chin |
| Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders - Tristan Kromer |
| Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First - Charlie O'Donnell |
| Nailing that elusive technical co-founder - Andy Young |
| 6 Ways to Find A Technical Co-Founder - Matthew Bellows |
| Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup - Daniel Kehoe |
| Finding a technical co-founder: You’re doing it wrong - Eric Siegfried |
| How to find a technical Cofounder - Chris Schultz |
| Technical Cofounders are Overrated - Will Miceli |
| 7 Startup Co-Founders That Can Lead to Conflict - Martin Zwilling |
| Ten Steps in Choosing the Right Startup Partner - Martin Zwilling |
| Lockboxer CEO: You Don’t Need A Technical Co-Founder To Start A Web Business - Daniel Goh |
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| Board & Advisors |
| Selecting, Electing & Evolving - Fred Wilson |
| Role and Responsibilities - Fred Wilson |
| Should Your Startup Have an Advisory Board? - Mark Suster |
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| Startup Legal |
| Entrepreneurs need to learn some law - Chris Dixon |
| How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup - Mark Suster |
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| Raising Angel Round |
| Angel Funding Advice - Mark Suster |
| Raising Angel Money - Angel money pricing - Mark Suster |
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| Raising Venture Capital |
| Best practices for raising a VC round - Chris Dixon |
| The problem with taking seed money from big VCs - Chris Dixon |
| The most important question to ask before taking seed money - Chris Dixon |
| VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean - Chris Dixon |
| The problem with tranched VC investments - Chris Dixon |
| Later-stage rounds and “setting the bar too high” - Chris Dixon |
| Notes on raising seed financing - Chris Dixon |
| How to pitch a VC - Dave Mcclure |
| Choose Your VC Investor Carefully - Mark Suster |
| Do You Really Even Need VC? - Mark Suster |
| VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding! - Mark Suster |
| What Should I Send a VC Before the Meeting? - Mark Suster |
| On NDAs and Confidentiality - Mark Suster |
| First Round Funding Terms and Founder Vesting - Mark Suster |
| How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy - Mark Suster |
| WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC - Mark Suster |
| Tips from a ex-VC who helps entrepreneurs raise money - Bill Burnham |
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| Pitching Your Startup |
| Pitch yourself, not your idea - Chris Dixon |
| Pitching the VC partnership - Chris Dixon |
| A Tale of Two Pitches - Mark Suster |
| Deal with Your Elephant in the Room - Mark Suster |
| Do you need a Powerpoint deck for a VC meeting? - Mark Suster |
| Start with your team - Mark Suster |
| Tell us what you do - Mark Suster |
| The problem definition - Mark Suster |
| The solution - Mark Suster |
| The Demo - Mark Suster |
| Market sizing - Mark Suster |
| Market sizing (pitfalls) - Mark Suster |
| Competition - Mark Suster |
| The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint - Guy Kawasaki |
| Ten Tips for Pitching Your Company - Charlie O'Donnell |
| Business Plans, NDAs, and Traction - Nivi |
| 5 Steps to Better Financial Projection - Tim Berry |
| Limit an Investor Pitch to 10 Pages and 10 Minutes - Martin Zwilling |
| Great Startups Can Hook an Investor in 60 Seconds - Martin Zwilling |
| Pitch Perfect - Pre-pitch - Micah |
| Pitching without a pitch deck - Audrey Watters |
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| Term Sheet 101 |
| Don't shop your term sheet - Chris Dixon |
| Ideal first round funding terms - Chris Dixon |
| Backing out of a term sheet - Chris Dixon |
| Price - Brad Feld |
| Pay to play - Brad Feld |
| Right of first refusal - Brad Feld |
| IPO shares purchase - Brad Feld |
| Compelled Sale Right - Brad Feld |
| Founders Activities - Brad Feld |
| Information and Registration Rights - Brad Feld |
| Voting Rights and Employee Pool - Brad Feld |
| Protective Provisions - Brad Feld |
| Drag Along - Brad Feld |
| Conversion - Brad Feld |
| Liquidation Preference - Brad Feld |
| Board of Directors - Brad Feld |
| Anti-Dilution - Brad Feld |
| Dividends - Brad Feld |
| Redemption Rights - Brad Feld |
| Conditions Precedent to Financing - Brad Feld |
| Vesting - Brad Feld |
| Information Rights - Brad Feld |
| Restriction on Sales - Brad Feld |
| No Shop Agreement - Brad Feld |
| Indemnification - Brad Feld |
| Anti Dilution - Fred Destin |
| Liquidation Preference - Fred Destin |
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| Managing Public Relations & Media |
| Some tips for interacting with the press - Chris Dixon |
| Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares - Mark Suster |
| 10 Essential PR Tips for Startups - Erica Swallow |
| You don't know Jack about Public Relations - Steve Cody |
| PR for Startups - Tony Wright |
| How to use PR Firms at Startups - Mark Suster |
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| Managing Cash |
| Always have 18 months of cash in the bank - Chris Dixon |
| Burn Rate - Fred Wilson |
| Four Ways To Keep Burn Rates Low - Martin Zwilling |
| Burn Rate Vs. Runway - Mark MacLeod |
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| Pivoting and Plan B |
| Pivoting - Chris Dixon |
| Top 10 Ways Entrepreneurs Pivot a Lean Startup - Martin Zwilling |
| Pivot with Purpose - Jeff Cornwall |
| There are alternatives when your startup falters - Martin Zwilling |
| Pivot Now is Less Painful Than Turnaround Later - Martin Zwilling |
| Pivoting at the Speed of Light - Mark Birch |
| Pivot, don't jump to a new vision - Eric Ries |
| The Pivot (or How to Learn Humility in 4 Steps) - Tara Hunt |
| To pivot or not to pivot - Gabriel Weinberg |
| Panic at the Pivot - Aligning Incentives By Burning the Boats - Steve Blank |
| Business Plans, Plan A vs Plan B. Real or Friction - Tim Berry |
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| Performance Metrics & Lean Startup |
| Bootstrapping a Lean Startup - Ash Maurya |
| The Cohort Analysis - Fred Wilson |
| Startup Metrics for Pirates - Dave McClure |
| Startup Metrics - Tony Karrer |
| Cohort Metrics For Startups Revealed – Part I: Plain English - Dan Martell |
| Cohort Metrics For Startups Revealed – Part II: Aged Groups - Dan Martell |
| How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success - Mark Suster |
| A First Look at Some Metrics Numbers - Ash Maurya |
| Beware of Vanity Metrics (For Harvard Business Review) - Eric Ries |
| Lean analytics: Questions VCs should ask (and you’d better answer) - Alistair Croll |
| 10 Lean Startup Machine Tips and Tricks - Tristan Kromer |
| Three Lean Startup Principles to Live By - Tristan Kromer |
| The Challenging Pace of Lean Startup - Ben Yoskovitz |
| How to Structure Good Hypotheses for Your Lean Startup - Ben Yoskovitz |
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| Exiting the Startup |
| The Entrepreneurs Dilemma - Sell now for $Millions or holdout for $Billions? - Don Dodge |
| Selling Your Company - Fred Wilson |
| Here is Why You Need a Good Startup Exit Strategy - Martin Zwilling |
| How to Craft a Smart Startup Exit Strategy - Jason Lemkin |
| The how, when and why of exiting your startup - Mike Butcher |
| How to value your company for sale (part 1) - Jason Cohen |
| How to value your company for sale (part 2) - Jason Cohen |
| 3 Things Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know about Exit Strategies - Tim Berry |
| What's your Exit Strategy - Tim Rice |
| 333 Million Reasons to Have an Exit Strategy Plan - Dave Lavinsky |
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