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.
A well-written and thorough book can be an amazing path to build deeper understand 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.
As Product Manager, user engagement is always at the top of your mind. The best way to have engaged users is to create habit-forming products. Nir Eyal walks us through the inner workings of almost addicting social apps and boils down how you can use the same mechanisms for good.
Every high-growth company eventually needs to tackle thet same set of challenges around organizational structure, late-stage funding and secondary stock sales, culture, internationalization, hiring executive for roles the founders don’t understand, buying other companies, and more. This is the handbook for navigating those challenges.
Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs—in companies of all sizes—a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.
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 successful entrepreneurs and VCs. He reveals how to get noticed, perfect a pitch, and negotiate a partnership that works for everyone.
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.
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-up expenses and finally create a profit and loss statement.
How 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.
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 your product. Get access to more than $100,000 worth of deals on AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean, Stripe, Brex, Segment, and more.
There is no better source of accountability and motivation than having a personal mentor. What used to be impossible to find is now just two clicks away! All mentors are vetted & hands-on!
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I'm Hari, and I've been building microstartups for the last 12 years.
Visa List - One stop for all your visa requirement needs when you want to travel to a new country. Built and grew to 400K MAU.
AnExplorer - All-in-one File Manager for all Android Platforms from Phone, Tablets, TV and Wear. Crossed 650K downloads last month.
Simple Ops - Performance monitoring tool for websites. Buil...
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Alex Mitchell is passionate about creating and scaling powerful web and mobile products that make a significant impact in millions of people's lives around the world. Alex deeply enjoys building and managing the product and development teams that help achieve that goal.
Alex is currently the Director of Product at Kin Insurance (www.kin.com). He was previously the CPO of ICX Media (www.icxm...
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☞ Are you an early-stage company founder?
☞ Are you in need of refining who your customers are and what product you are building for them?
My mentorship program is designed to help you test out your business idea with live customers while you build it.
Here is what you will learn to practice :
✔️ Customer Profile Development
✔️ Niche Market Research
✔️ Value Proposition Design
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"Anyone thinking about pulling the trigger on Greg's offer? Do it! I just had a call with Greg last night and he provided more value and time than I could have asked for. He spent literally 2 hours on the phone with me going over ways my business can thrive. He didn't sugar coat anything, he pointed out flaws but didn't end there, he gave ac...
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One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don't, in which case the market must not exist.
Imagine that you've just completed version 1 of your product and you're preparing for launch. You’ve greased the wheels with a few bloggers, targeted some keywords with SEO, created a bit of linkbait, and scheduled the press release to launch in the morning. At this point your co-founder turns to you and says: “What are we going to do with the $300 we have stashed away for advertising?”
As a leader in the recurring revenue world, your job is always getting harder. Competition is increasing. Your customers are expecting more from you. The relative value of your features is declining.
We found that you're going to need an entirely new approach to everything from your monetization strategy to your customer development efforts.
In 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!
For teams, we now offer a custom team offering, allowing employers and managers to pre-book sessions, get personal care and access to top mentors, regardless of their public availability.
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