The following sites (many of which are already showing in the “Links” list on the right) provide what Startup Guy has found to be essential information and resources for today’s modern Web 3.0 start-up teams:
Customer Development – Steve Blank’s blog about the Customer Development process (and more). Customer Development is a methodical process for determining what product features real customers will pay for. Don’t do ANY development without doing this first.
Startup Lessons Learned – The blog of Eric Ries, the Lean Startup guru. He was on the team that proved the theories of Steve Blank, the Customer Development guy.
Ash Maurya – “Practice Trumps Theory” blog by this serial entrepreneur who has documented the Customer Development process as it applies to web start-ups. Another must-read.
Master of 500 Hats – Dave McClure’s often profane, but always searingly smart, flagship blog about how to do start-ups so they don’t suck. McClure is a entrepreneur, angel and VC rolled into one, and he obviously lives the talk. He has a bunch of other blogs and irons in the fire, including being a prime-mover behind the Startup Visa movement.
Onstartups.com (blog) and Answers.Onstartups.com (Start-up Q&A site running on the Stack Overflow software). Onstartups is by Dharmesh Shah, and it is slightly self-promotional, but the advice is still great. The “Answers” site, moderated by Dharmesh and Jason Cohen (another successful entrepreneur who lives to help other start-ups) is absolutely essential.
A Smart Bear – Jason Cohen’s blog of spot-on (and sometimes contrarian) advice for start-ups. A must-subscribe.
This Week in Startups (TWiST) – Irreverent podcasts (video and audio versions) by wicked-smart serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis. Although focused on start-ups looking for angel/VC funding, each show has great information which is relevant and valuable to any start-up.
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