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Communities, Cohorts, Collectives
- On Deck is a collective of founders and their earliest supporters offering highly-curated connections and introductions to co-founders, resources, and capital.
- Section School (was Section4) Business education for builders, disrupters, doers, changemakers, builders. Hands-on experience taught by top professors.
- SaaS Academy has programs to help founders scale rapidly, improve their business operations.
References (Need to Sort ’EM)
- A startup miracle is the key difficult thing you need to pull off for your startup to work. (archive)
- Fast Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together. (archive)
- Small impressive things accomplished by small teams. (archive)
- How To Sell Your Startup Bilal Mahmood writes about the details of getting your startup/company acquired or sold. An articulate article if you are navigating an acquisition for the first time. (archive)
- How to Sell Your Company is a collection of some of the best HackerNews comment threads on when you need to get acquired. (archive)
- The Games People Play With Cash Flow is a brilliant article on how Cash Flow is king while
Profit is an Opinion
. (archive) - A Startup CTO’s Handbook by Zach Goldberg (Source)
- Sriram Krishnan have some good advice on How to write a cold email (archive).
- Starting a Startup by Julian Shapiro is a handbook to help tech startup founders improve their product, growth, recruiting, and fundraising.
- Index Resources are deeply-researched, practical, and definitive guides to key challenges facing entrepreneurs.
- Top CEOs trust Mochary Method for the practical tools they need to be effective leaders, provide top-notch products and services to clients, and lead their industries.
- Julian Weisser, co-founder of On Deck and an Angel Investor, has an interesting Newsletter of his texts with founders - Text with Founders.
- The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework by Sequoia Capital (archive)
- A Framework to Help B2B Founders Find Product-Market Fit by First Round