Resources in English

Must-read Articles

• It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur – J. Krauss – 2005.06.29
• The hardest lessons for StartUp to Learn – P. Graham – 2006.04
• Ten Rules for Web Startups – E. Williams – 2005.11.27
• Strategy Letter I: Ben & Jerry’s vs Amazon – J. Spolsky – 2000.05.12: to grow slowly, organically, and profitably, or to have a big bang with very fast growth and lots of capital. That’s the question.

Must-seen Videos

• Panel with 6 founders at ComunityNext 2007 conference: Panel with Akash Garg of hi5, Sean Suhl of Suicide Girls, Max Levchin of Slide, James Hong of HotorNot, Markus Frind of PlentyofFish and Drew Curtis of Fark

Mistakes

• The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups – P. Graham – 2006.10.18
• The top five mistakes entrepreneurs make when they market – S. Godin – 2006.08.17 – Workhappy.net

Companies mistakes:

• 2017.06 – The Shelf Life of John Mackey – Texas Monthly.
• 2014.04.07 – A broken place: The spectacular failure of the Startup that was going to change the world (Better Place) – Fast Company.
• 2014.03 – Life after Pi – Rythm & Hues.
• 2014.01.11 – Requiem for a Spring – Brent Schulkin.
• 2013.12.03 – Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media – Variety.
• 2013.11.05 – Everpix: Out of the picture: why the world’s best photo startup is going out of business – Casey Newton
• 2013.09.18 – Sonar: Post-morten of a venture-backed startup.
• 2010.10.01 – Wesabe: Why Wesabe lost to Mint – Marc Hedlund.
• 2010.09.27 – Xmarks: End of the road for Xmarks – Todd Agulnick.
• 2009.08.21 – Lookery: Couldery Shouldery – Scott Rafer.
• 2008.07.19 – Monitor110: Monitor110: A Post mortem – R. Ehrenberg.
• 2007.07.30 – Amp’d Mobile: Burning through 400 million $ in cash (2) – R. Ali & E. Sim.
• 2007.01.21 – Chandler: Chandler: The Big Picture – J. Spolsky.
• 2006.10.15 – Friendster: Wallflower at the Web Party – G. Rivlin.
• 2006.09.14 – Odeo: Evan Williams: How Odeo Screwed Up (2)- L. Gannes.
• 2006.08.18 – Kiko: Actual lessons from Kiko – R. White.
• 2006.04.04 – Flickr?: Why Flickr and not Fotolog? – G. Smith.
• 2006.01.24 – Bayosphere: From Dan: A Letter to the Bayosphere Community – D. Gillmor.
• 2005.11.10 – Blink: Getting it Right – A. Paparo.
• 2001 – GovWorks: StartUp.com (película) – C. Hegedus & J. Noujaim
• 2001 – Ars Digita: Ars Digita: From Start-up to Bust-up – P. Greenspun.
• 1999.01 – Digicash: How DigiCash blew up everything – NEXT.
• 1995.06 – Xanadu: The curse of Xanadu – G. Wolf.

Running a software company

• A Field Guide to Developers – J. Spolsky – 2006.09.07

Recommended Article Libraries

• Paul Graham Essays. Read them all!
• Y Combinator StartUp Library.
• Working Knowledge: Entrepreneurship by the Harvard Business School.
• MIT Enterprise Forum: Starting Up by Joe Hadzima.
• ChangeThis Manifestos.

Recommended Video Libraries

• Educators Corner: Entrepreneurship by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Vinod Khosla, John Doerr, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Jerry Kaplan, Guy Kawasaki, etc.
• Harvard Business Review Entrepreneurs: Scott Cook, Arthur Rock, etc. Real Player required.
• iinovate: Interviews with innovators, entrepreneurs and VCs. Andy Rachleff – VC at Benchmark Capital, David Kelley – founder of IDEO, Mike Ramsay – Co-founder of TiVO, Mark Leslie – founding CEO of Veritas, etc.
• nPost.com: Interviews with 140 entrepreneurs

Somewhat interesting

• Running your company on Web Apps – 2005.04.14 – evhead
• Entrepreneurial Proverbs – O’Reilly Radar

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