Venture Capital & Private Equity Directory
Angel Investor List
Startup Advice
Best of Y- Combinator Startup Advice
Raising Venture Capital
Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice
Understanding Founder Equity
Fred Wilson Advice and spreadsheet
A List of Incubators
Startup Resources – The Startup Digest
Uber list of Startup Resources – Legal, Equity, etc.– Bottom Line Law Group
Executive - Advisory Board Compensation
Comp Study – Executive Compensation Website – unbelievably useful
Expert CEO Compensation page – also incredibly useful
SaaS Sales Team Compensation – Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners
VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards – great basics
Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents
Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents
Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet – WSGR
Series Seed Documents – Fenwick & West Seed Investment Standard Forms
TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents – Cooley Godward
Legal
Walker Law: Tips for Entrepreneurs
Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog
Yoichiro “Yokum” Taku – Startup Company Lawyer
Law & Disorder: ARS Technica Legal Blog
Likelihood of Confusion-trademark, copyright and Internet Law
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
American Bar Association Best Legal Blogs
Outsourced Manufacturing
Miscellaneous Tips
Running More Effective Board Meetings at Startups
Survey results regarding current state of the VC funding market (WSJ)
How To Pick A Co-Founder, by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks)
CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups
How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup (Mark Suster)
The Founders’ Pie Calculator (Frank Demmler)
When and Where to Incorporate, Corporation vs. LLC, etc. (Yokum Taku)
Types of Angel Financing (Scott Edward Walker)
Seed Funding Best Practices, by Mark MacLeod (“StartupCFO”)
Term Sheet Series by Brad Feld
Term Sheet Generator for Venture Financing at http://bll.la/55 (Antone Johnson)
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Advisors, by Babak Nivi (Venture Hacks) – http://bll.la/4h and http://bll.la/4i
How To Pump Up Your VC Valuation (Matt Bartus)
“Series Seed” Financing Documents at http://bll.la/55 (Antone Johnson)
Legal Issues for Social Media / User-Generated Content Sites (Antone Johnson)
Employment Law Traps for Technology and Media Startups
Books
"The Innovator’s Dilemma & The Innovator’s Solution" by Clayton M. Christensen
"Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers"
"Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley’s Cutting Edge"
"Dealing with Darwin : How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution" — all three by Geoffrey A. Moore
"The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" by Malcolm Gladwell
"Business Model Generation" by Alexander Osterwalder
Marketing
"Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind The 20th Anniversary Edition and The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk" by Al Ries, Jack Trout
"Relationship Marketing: Successful Strategies for the Age of the Customer" by Regis McKenna
"Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends, and Friends into Customers and Unleashing the Ideavirus" by Seth Godin
"Don’t Think of an Elephant!" by George Lakoff
Strategy
"Technology Ventures" – Tom Byers, Richard Dorf, Andrew Nelson
"The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty" – R.McGrath and I. MacMillan
"Delivering Profitable Value" – Michael J. Lanning.
"New Venture Creation Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century" – Jeffry A. Timmons
"Theory of Economic Development" – Joseph Schumpeter
"Concept of the Corporation and Innovation and Entrepreneurship" – Peter Drucker
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Thomas Cleary, or the one by Griffith
"The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi
"On War" by Carl Von Clausewitz’s Everyman’s Library Series
"Lanchester Strategy: An Introduction" by Taoka and/or
"New Lanchester Strategy: Sales and Marketing Strategy for the Weak (New Lanchester Strategy)" by Shinichi Yano, Kenichi Sato, Connie Prener
Sales
"Secrets of Question Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results and It Only Takes 1% to Have a Competitive Edge in Sales" by Thomas Freese
"Mastering the Complex Sale" – Jeff Thull
"Solution Selling: Creating Buyers in Difficult Selling Markets" By Michael T. Bosworth
"The New Conceptual Selling: The Most Effective and Proven Method for Face-To-Face Sales Planning and The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World’s Best Companies" by Stephen E. Heiman, et. al.
"Spin Selling and the Spin Selling Fieldbook" By Neil Rackham
"Lets Get Real or Lets Not Play" by Mahan Khalsa
"Sandler Selling System" www.sandler.com
"Miller Heiman Sales Process Consulting &Training" www.millerheiman.com
Getting Started
"Business Plans That Work" by Jeffry A. Timmons
"High Tech Start Up: The Complete Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies" by John L. Nesheim
"Engineering Your Start-Up: A Guide for the High-Tech Entrepreneur" by Michael L. Bair
"Term Sheets & Valuations – An Inside Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital" by Alex Wilmerding Aspatore Books Staff, Aspatore.com
"High-Tech Ventures: The Guide for Entrepreneurial Success" by Gordon Bell
Manufacturing
"The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt
"Lean Thinking" by James Womack
"Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production" by Taiicho Ohno.
"The Toyota Way" by Jeffrey Liker
Culture
"What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course in Making Your Way in the World" – Tina Seelig
"Founders at Work: Stories of Startups Early Days" - Jessica Livingston
"Hackers & Painters" – Paul Graham
"Good To Great and Built to Last" by James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras
"The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First" By Jeffrey Pfeffer
"Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers" by James N. Baron, David Kreps
"The Founder Factor" by Nancy Truitt Pierce
"The No Asshole Rule and Weird Ideas that Work and Good Boss, Bad Boss" by Robert I. Sutton
"Hard Facts and The Knowing-Doing Gap" by Robert I. Sutton and Jeffrey Pfeffer
"Competing on the Edge" by Shona L. Brown and Katheleen M. Eisenhardt
"Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur" by Stuart Skorman
"The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande
VCs
"Mastering the VC Game" by Jeffrey Bussgang
"Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet" by Michael Wolff
"Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" by Jerry Kaplan
"Eboys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work" by Randall E. Stross
"High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner’s Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars" by Charles H. Ferguson
"Pitching Hacks: The Book" from http://venturehacks.com/pitching
Misc
"Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century" by Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein
"A University for the 21st Century" - Duderstadt, J. J.
"Creating the Entrepreneurial University: The Case of MIT" - O’Shea, R., Allen, T. and Morse, K
"How boards can balance demands for entrepreneurship and accountability" - Novak, R
"Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education" by Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades
"The New Entrepreneurial University" - Trachtenberg, S. J. (1999). Speech given to the American Association of University Administrators
"The Entrepreneurial College President" by James L. Fisher and James V. Koch
"Leaders in the Crossroads: Success and Failure in the College Presidency" by Stephen James Nelson
"Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation" by Burton Clark
"Collegial Entrepreneurialism in Proactive Universities" by Burton Clark
"Entrepreneurship and Small College Leadership. New Directions for Higher Education" by Robert Peck
