Starting your company has never been easier than today. At the same time, the market is getting more competitive. As a startup founder, your job is to work out how to stay alive and thrive.
Startup tools are more accessible than ever. Million-dollar businesses are being built in bedrooms and during off-hours. The creator and entrepreneur scene is thriving!
With the rise of new opportunities, bigger niches and no-code tooling, everyone is able to build a first version of their startup, gain validation and build it into something big.
And yet – the market is getting more competitive. Where 20 years ago you had a little over 200 marketing tools, there are over 10,000 today! Can you gain an edge and differentiate yourself from the rest?
A well-written and thorough book can be an amazing path to build deeper understanding and also act as a handbook as you discover the internet's vast resources.
These are our and our experts top picks to get started building career-relevant skills.
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea?
Recommended by the experts and mentors at MentorCruise.
The Mom Test' by Rob Fitzpatrick is a guide for entrepreneurs on how to ask questions that actually validate their business ideas without bias or false assumptions. It emphasizes on asking good questions that provide genuine data and prevent the loss of valuable resources.
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"The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz is a guide for entrepreneurs and leaders that offers practical advice on managing difficult situations in business, including laying off employees, handling investor relationships, and making tough decisions.
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Jeffrey Bussgang is one of a very few people who have played on both sides of this high-stakes game. Now he draws on his unique perspective to offer high-level insights, colorful stories, and practical advice gathered from his own experience as well as from interviews with dozens of the most succes…
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Running Lean is about testing a vision by measuring how customers behave. Running Lean is about engaging customers throughout the product development cycle. Running Lean tackles both product and market validation in parallel using short iterations. Running Lean is a disciplined and rigorous process…
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The 4-Hour Work Week is all about how to change the way readers look at how they live and work and why they should challenge old assumptions. The author writes from a unique vantage point. He created a life and a career he chose out of consistently questioning the traditional assumptions about life…
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These days, courses are no longer a sequence of videos. They are usually accompanied by projects and a learning community, keeping you accountable and on the path.
Our experts recommend these courses, from free selections to paid programs.
Learn how to start a company, with help from the world's top startup accelerator - Y Combinator. Meet with other founders through weekly live video chats and share tips on how you've grown your startup.
Keep track of your startup's progress with weekly updates and get ready to launch you…
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Everything we know about how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts. How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures, initially given at Stanford in Fall 2014.
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The main idea in this course is learning how to rapidly develop and test ideas by gathering massive amounts of customer and marketplace feedback. Many startups fail by not validating their ideas early on with real-life customers. In order to mitigate that, students will learn how to get out of t…
Available on udacity.com
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Start matchingHow to create a system of "innovation accounting" within your company so that everyone is building products that meets customers needs.
The easiest and fastest ways to build minimum viable products so you can get your product launched as quickly as possible.
Available on udemy.com
By the end of this 1-hour long guided project, you will be able to create well-structured financial projections for your start-up idea to be used to attract investors. Firstly, you will learn how to calculate sales projections for your start-up. Afterwards, you will learn how to calculate start…
Available on coursera.org
Build a Digital Marketing Agency Business with Social Media (SMMA), ChatGPT, Facebook Ads, Instagram, WordPress, SEO
Available on udemy.com
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Already working in the Founder field? Our Startup consultants can help you and your team overcome challenges, implement best practices, and achieve your professional goals faster.
Connect with Startup ConsultantsIn the end, advancing your career is all about getting the right opportunities at the right time and a good portion of luck.
These are some interesting things going on in the Startup space and you probably don't want to miss them.
Building your very own product puts you on the radar of any product-focused organization hiring managers, designers and engineers. Going from nothing to something requires and builds top-notch prioritization skills, the ability to stay scrappy and shows that you can get things done.
Not much into coding? The rise of no-code tools like Zapier, Webflow and Carrd has enabled creators of all backgrounds to build sustainable businesses, without the need to hire upfront.
Sounds weird? Businesses like Makerpad and Lambda School built entirely or mostly out of no-code tools are making and raising millions of dollars!
Ready to start your own entrepreneurial journey? Our mentors are here to guide you, if you need it!
