Entrepreneurship
- Podcasts at angelinvestboston.com with leading Boston angel investors. See the Ben Littauer and Christopher Mirabile episodes.
- The Seraf Investor blog
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Product-Driven Founders, by Parul Singh (Sept 2018)
- Patrick Campbell’s blog on freemium, SAAS revenue, marketing and sales strategy. If Patrick was not running a business, he could be an economics professor.
- BostInno: monthlly investment roundups, list of events
- MassGeneral Innovation Mesh Network
- Acquired podcast
- Jackson Lu
- MIT Course 15.393: Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures (2025)
- Mindy Garber: Negotiation Skills
- Rich Kivel: Business Models
Books
- Steve Blank: The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win (2007, fourth ed)
- Matt Mochary: The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building (2019), Mochary Method Curriculum
- Bill Oulet: Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (2013)
- Elad Gil:
- Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (2014)
- Peter Thiel: Zero to One (2001)
- David S. Landes (editor) et al: The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times (2010)
- Noam Wasserman: The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (2013). Reader review
- Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson: Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, 4th ed. (2019)
- Carlota Perez: Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages (2003)
- William H. Janeway: Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators and the State (2018)
- Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1987)
- Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman: Poor Charlie’s Almanack
- Matthew Dixon, Ted McKenna: The Jolt Effect: How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision (2022)
- Jimmy Soni: The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley (2022)
- Ben Horowitz: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (2014)
- Deep Work, by Cal Newport (2016)
- Surrounded by Idiots, by Thomas Erikson (2020)
- Burn the Boats by Matt Higgins (2023)
- Leading without Authority, by Keith Ferrazzi and Noel Weyrich (2020)
- The End of Average, by Todd Rose (2017)
- Disrupt You, by Jay Samit
- Robert M Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (2006)
- Amartya Sen: The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity (2006)
Blog posts
- Mark Andreesen (mirror of his 2007 now-defunct blog)
- J. Vrionis, S. Hedge: How to find product market fit: the counterintuitive secrets (2023)
- Sandeep Mishra: Tinbergen’s four questions and variance explained: Why business (and all behavioral science) needs evolutionary theory (2018)
- Harj Taggar:
- Robert M Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (2006)
Meetups in Boston
Hackathons
Talks
- Aaron Harris: How to Get Meetings with Investors and Raise Money by Aaron Harris (2018)
- Blitzscaling 08: Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google (2015)
- How to Start a Startup Lecture 13: How to Be a Great Founder with Reid Hoffman (2014)
- Sarah Guo, Elad Gil: No Priors Podcast
- Ep. 5: With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue. Andrei’s summary
- Ep. 11: With Matei Zaharia, CTO of Databricks
- Ep. 14: With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil (Apr 2023)
- Ep. 16: With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection
- Ep. 19: With Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf. Andrei’s summary
- Ep. 20: With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- Ep. 21: With Datadog Co-founder/CEO Olivier Pomel Andreis summary
- Ep. 22: With Instacart CEO Fidji Simo
- Ep. 23: With Snowflake’s CEO Frank Slootman
- This Week in Startups
- Tomorrow Talk:
- Fireside Chat w/ Elad Gil:
- TechCrunch
- Jason Calacanis:
- Tony Kulesa:
- A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place - Explaining Y Combinator (2023)
- Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world (2021)
- Paul Graham Essays, Andrei’s backup
- Earnestness (2020)
- Coding VC, Leo Polovets:
- How to De-Risk a Startup (2016)
- Behind the Scenes at a VC Fund
- Y Combinator
- How Palantir’s Business Model Built A $15 Billion Growth Engine (2023)
- Chris Gardner: How to Build a Product that Scales into a Company (2023)
- Lenny’s Podcast: Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups - Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb) (2023)
- Venture Fizz Podcast: Reed Sturtevant, General Partner at Engine Ventures (2023),summary
- Kunal Shah:
- Lenny’s Podcast: Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more (2024)
- The Knowledge Project: Core Human Motivations: Kunal Shah (2022)
- CRED: Kunal Shah in conversation with Carl Pei (2022)
- Mint: CRED’s Kunal Shah’s Advice To Start Up Founders: Think About What Your Family Will Pay For (2024)
- CRED curious: Nithin Kamath in conversation with Kunal Shah (2020)
- CRED curious: Anand Gandhi in conversation with Kunal Shah (2021) - the Biology of Money
- SparX by Mukesh Bansai: Risks, Growth, and Ethics of Entrepreneurship - Kunal Shah (2023)
- Fady Hawatmeh - The Real Slim Fady Show (2024)
- Fady Hawatmeh on Entrepreneurship, my blog post abour his podcast
- Episode 1: Finance is the last role companies hire: why that’s dangerous & smart
- Episode 2: Bootstrapping vs Using VC Money
- Episode 3: The difference between a CEO and a CFO mindset
- Episode 4: Raising money in the midwest vs raising money on the coasts
- Episode 5: Smart money vs dumb money, why you need both
- Episode 6: Most CFOs suck, and this is why
- Episode 7: Trends in accounting. Difference in market services between bookkeeper, accountant, CFO. Hire slower, fire faster. A conversation with serial entrepreneur, Michael Ly
- a16z: How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster (2024)
LLCs
- Jim Hart:
- Clint Coons:
- Mark J. Kohler:
- LLC vs S-corp
- How to Create a 1 Million Dollar ROTH IRA Part 1, Part 2
- MEGA ROTH 2023: How To Make A Million Tax Free
- Toby Mathis:
Funding
- See Funding for Entrepreneurship
- DOD Grants
- Venture Hacks: The Option Pool Shuffle (2007)
Founders
- Paul Graham:What to look for in founders (2010)
- Margaret Heffernan: Want to Start a Business? First, Find a Partner (2012)
- Pejman Pour-Moezzi: How to Find That Special Someone: Your Co-Founder (2012)
- Helge Seetzen: 5 Rules for Cofounder Heaven (2012)
Management
- Andreas Klinger: How to use Gmail more efficiently (2013)
Business Models
- Alexander Osterwalder
- Optima Training
- IIBA: Business Model Canvas Technique - Business Analysis Live
- Nick Himo
Startup Surveys
Pitching in Boston
- Startupalooza: Pitch Angel VCs at CIC Boston, meetup
- Angel Investors in MA
- Top Ten Angel Investors in Boston
- 10 Angel Groups Every Boston Entrepreneur Should Know
- MIT’s The Engine
- HBS Angels of Boston
- TiE Boston
- @RussWilcox
- Pillar
- Underscore
Incubators
- MassRobotics, @MassRobotics
- Flagship Pioneering, @FlagshipPioneer
- Techstars, @Techstars
- AWS Startup Loft Accelerator
Incorporation
- Stripe Atlas
- Clerky
- Legal Zoom
- Reviews
Startup Software Deals
- The 27 Best Startup Software Deals (2019)
- AWS
Company Website
- Wordpress Astra Theme
- Image Libraries
News
Boston Startup Resources
- Startup Boston: community events
- VentureFizz: tech industry company profiles
- The Boston Business Jounal’s startup news – though the Globe has occasional startups coverage (and Scott Kirsner’s always-excellent column), for my money the BBJ is the most consistent, best quality Boston startup reporting currently available.
- Coworking spaces: CIC, VentureLane, and WorkBar
- Mass Fintech Hub
- Fintech Sandbox
Other
- Stanford eCorner