How to build a startup and pitch a Venture Capitalist?
Are you an entrepreneur looking to found a company but don't know where to start? This section offers Stanford lectures on how to start a startup, presents key metrics VCs look into in a startup and all the tips you need when pitching to an investor.
Read Marc Andreessen’s Guide to Startups
Watch the lectures Y Combinator gave at Stanford on How to Start a Startup
Read Paul Graham’s How to Get Startup Ideas and A Student’s Guide to Startups
How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with
First-Time Founders Resource Guide
16 Startup Metrics by a16z
16 More Startup Metrics by a16z
Product-Market Fit by a16z
A seed round manual for founders: strategies, pitch prep, valuation, traps, tips and more
What VCs talk about when they discuss startups
Sequoia Capital Pitch Deck Template
100+ Pitch Deck Examples From the Most Successful Startups
Why your startup idea isn’t big enough for some VCs
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Book)
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Book)
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Book)