How to Start a Startup: The Book
Based on the "How to Start a Startup" course by Y Combinator at Stanford University, this is a reference book you'll want to return to again and again.
The Ultimate Playbook for Startup Founders
This in-depth guide reveals the secrets to raising money, hiring a great team, building products users love, getting press coverage, and more.
Includes Lessons from 25+ Silicon Valley Insiders
You'll learn from esteemed tech startup founders and investors like: Dustin Moskovitz, Paul Graham, Reid Hoffman, Ben Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Aaron Levie, Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Ben Silbermann, Patrick and John Collison, and more.
Table of Contents
Early Days
1. Read This Before You Even Think About Starting a Startup
2. Never Stop Learning: Advice from Paul Graham
3. Legal and Accounting 101
Leadership
4. How to Be a Great Founder
5. Operational Insight: How to Build a Company That Can Manage Itself
6. Management Advice: The Art of Balancing Competing Interests
Building Products
7. How to Build Products Users Love
8. Competition Is for Losers
9. Designing Hardware for the Internet of Things
10. Why You Should Build for the Enterprise
Reaching Your Audience
11. How to Run a Successful User Interview
12. Getting Press the Right Way
13. How to Land Early Customers
Fundraising
14. How to Raise Money
15. Perfecting Your Pitch
Hiring
16. How to Hire the Best Team
17. Creating Company Culture
18. Advice on Hiring and Culture from the Founders of Pinterest and Stripe
Scaling
19. Doing Things That Don’t Scale
20. 3 Essentials for Scaling
21. Lessons from Facebook’s VP of Growth
Parting Words
22. What Comes After Finding Product-Market Fit
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You'll get the full book in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats.