Startup Resources
This is a collection of videos, podcasts, articles, and books I recommend for founders and startup team members.
I lead marketing at early-stage startups, helping founders execute their vision through growth, operations, and culture.
As I come across great content, I share it here in an attempt to drive others’ desperation-induced focus.
The resources below helped me and I hope they help you.
My most recent notes on startups…
Featured
books
| Title | Author | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Founders at Work | Jessica Livingston | Innovation |
| Super Pumped | Mike Issac | Growth |
| High Growth Handbook | Elad Gil | Growth |
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things | Ben Horowitz | Culture |
| Creativity, Inc | Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace | Innovation |
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel | Innovation |
| Tools of Titans | Tim Ferriss | Productivity |
| Bad Blood | John Carreyrou | Culture |
| Trillion Dollar Coach | Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle | Leadership |
| Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | Growth |
| High Output Management | Andy Grove | Management |
| The Effective Executive | Peter F. Drucker | Leadership |
| Crossing the Chasm | Geoffrey A. Moore | Innovation |
articles
videos
| Title | People | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2,851 Miles | Bill Gurley | Success |
| How to Start a Hard Tech Startup | Sam Altman | Getting Started |
| Stop Chasing Money, Chase Wealth | Garry Tan | Getting Started |
| How to Raise Money | Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Parker Conrad | Fundraising |
| Building Your Board | Glenn Kelman | Fundraising |
| How High-Performing Teams Avoid Injury | Laura Simon | Culture |
| Why Amazon Makes No Profit | Jeff Bezos | Culture |
| Quit and join that risky tech startup? | Gary Tann | Culture |
| Steve Jobs’ Insult Response | Steve Johbs | Leadership |
| The Electricity Metaphor | Jeff Bezos | Leadership |
| Going from Zero to One | Peter Thiel | Growth / Marketing |
| Growth | Alex Schultz | Growth / Marketing |
| How to Get Users and Grow | Alex Schultz | Growth / Marketing |
| How to Talk to Users | Eric Migicovsky | Growth / Marketing |
| Launching Airbnb and the Challenges of Scale | Brian Chesky | Growth / Marketing |
| Why product-led growth is the future | Elena Verna and Lenny Rachitsky | Growth / Marketing |
| Success | Warren Buffett, Bill Gates | Success |
| Building Product | Michael Seibel | Product |
| Do You Have Product Market Fit? | Casey Winters | Growth |
podcast episodes
| Title | People | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Let Fires Burn | Masters of Scale | Product-Market Fit |
| The 10 Commandments of Startup Success | Tim Ferriss | Leadership |
| Your Startup Isn’t Your Baby | The Startup Chat | Leadership |
| Metrics and Mindsets for Retention & Engagement | Andrew Chen, Jeff Jordan, and Sonal Chokshi at a16z | Growth / Marketing |
| Prenups for Startup Founders | Alisa Cohn | Getting Started |
| Why Founders Should Prioritize Personal Development | Harley Finkelstein, President at Shopify | Culture |
| Innovating In Bets | Annie Duke, Marc Andreessen, Sonal Chokshi | Risk Taking |
| Designing the Life You Really Want | Dave Evans, Stanford Life Design Lab | Culture |
| Ben Horowitz | The Moment with Brian Koppelman | Innovation |
| Choosing Bad Competition | Reid Hoffman | Growth |
| Data Alone Is Not Enough: The Evolution of Data Architectures | Ali Ghodsi, Martin Casado | Innovation |
| Why your company needs new rituals | Shishir Mehrotra | Culture |
| What Managers Get Wrong About Feedback | HBR IdeaCast | Management |
| Slack’s Lane Collins on their ‘radical convenience’ approach to customer experience | Inside Intercom Podcast | Customer Service |
| ️Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Kupor | Recode Decode | Culture |
| Y Combinator Michael Seibel on a Decade of Learnings | SaaStr | Getting Started |