Resource Links from Trajectory: Startup

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List of Books (Bibliography)

4 Hour Work Week – Tim Pharris
A Curious Mind – Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman
Abundance – Peter Diamandis
Blackbox Thinking – Matthew Syed
Blitzscaling – Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
Blue Ocean Strategy – Kim
Business Model Generation – Osterwalder
The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
Creative Confidence – Tom Kelley & David Kelley
Creativity Inc. – Ed Catmull
Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore
Founders Dilemma – Wasserman
Four Steps of an Epiphany – Steve Blank
Good to Great, Jim Collins
Industries of the Future – Alec Ross
Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
Innovators Solution– Clayton Christensen
Lean Customer Development –
Lean Startup – Eric Reis
Measure What Matters – Doer
Mindset – Duckworth
Play Bigger -Al Ramadan
Reboot – Jerry Colonna,
Secrets of Sand Hill Road – Scott Kupor
Start With Why, Simon Sinek’s
Story Brand – Don Miller
Thinker Toys – Michael Michalko
The Third Wave – Steve Case
Traction & Get a Grip – Gino Wickman and Mike Paton
Venture Deals – Brad Feld
Winning with Data – Tomasz Tunguz
Zero to One, Peter Thiel

Blogs

Andreessen Horowitz Blog
Tren Griffin Blog
Sean Ellis Blog

Videos

Simon Sinek –

Start With Why – original Seattle TED talk

Tools

Calendly.com
TextExpander
Hubspot
Crunchbase
Medium

Newsletters

Startup Digest – for regional and city news on startups worldwide (including my Prepping for Exit news)
Techcrunch – all you would expect for Silicon Valley
Geekwire – Seattle and the PNW News for tech
Magnitt – startup news from the Middle East

Introduction

Elizabeth Yin, Hustle Fund

Chapter 1

Resources:

Simon Sinek – To-do-List Video

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Venture Ready Survey

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Lean Launchpad
Business Model Generation and Blog

Blogs

Neil Patels’ Customer Interviewa Resources
Justin Wilcox’s Customer Development Lab
Mike Fishbein’s Ulitmate List of Customer Development questions
Foundrs.com
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Tools

Google Forms [Sc1]
Google Sheets, too?
Instapage
Launchrock.com
Mailchimp
Smartsheet
Lightboard
SEO Stats –
SEM Rush

Books

<listbullet>Slicing Pie
The Founder’s Dilemma
Lean Customer Development
The Innovator’s Dilemma
The Innovator’s Solution
The Lean Startup
Lean LaunchPad

Chapter 8

Books

Building a Story Brand – Donald Miller

Wordstream–7 of the Best Value Propositions
The Value Proposition Canvas by Peter J Thomson
The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen

Tools

WireframeApp.io
Balsamiq.com
Fiverr.com
Upwork.com
Github.com

Technologies

Ruby
JavaScript
Python
No-Code options
- Airtable
- Bubble

Chapter 9

Resources

Slideshare.net – The original Models and Methods presentation
Wix.com
Workdpress.org – via a Cloudways Server
Launchrock.com
Moz.com SEO Beginners Guide
forms.google.com
www.wufoo.com
HitTail
Typeform
SurveyMonkey
Google Ads
Google Keyword Tool
Neil Patel Blog
Inc Magazine
Kickstarter
www.quora.com
US SEC Edgar database

Books

HubSpot Growth playbook

Tools

leandomainsearch.com
namechk.com
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/
Marketing Funnel Download

Chapter 10

Series Seed Docs
YC Safe Docs
OneHub
Dropbox
CARTA
99Designs for logo and graphics

Books

Brad Feld’s Venture Deals
Scott Kupor’s Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma

Resources (Blogs/Video)

Fred Wilson Venture Power Law

Pitch Resources

<listbullet>Startup Weekend[Sc1]
- Best Startup Pitch decks [Sc2]
- Guy Kawasaki “10 Slides [Sc3]

[Sc1]http://www.startupweekend.org/

[Sc2]http://bestpitchdecks.com/

[Sc3]http://www.inc.com/larry-kim/your-startup-s-pitch-only-needs-these-10-slides.html

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Books

Good to Great, Jim Collins
Blitzscaling, Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh

Resources

www.VentureReadyModels.com

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Books

Startup Community, Brad Feld
The Startup Community Way, Brad Feld

Resources

Epilogue

Books

Lost and Founder, Rand Fiskin

Resources