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The world of tech and startups is changing very rapidly.
Here are some resources that I've found particularly useful/helpful as of late.
Airbnb's First Pitch Deck
This is exactly what it sounds like.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel's new book. A quick read at about 200 pages. Great for inspirational content.
How to Design a Billion Dollar Company
This is an article that examines some of the transactional platform-based startups that have emerged in the past few years, how they scaled, and how they reached the valuations they did.
How to Build a Billion Dollar App
This book is written by one of the founders of taxi-hailing app "Hailo" - he analyzes some of the runaway success stories in the mobile app startup space in the past 5 years or so, such as Snapchat, Instagram, Pinterest, Airbnb, etc - very methodical and provides actionable advice and resources. Very interesting.
The Lean Launchpad Course on Udacity, by Steve Blank
This is a video course taught by silicon valley legend Steve Blank. It provides a framework based on the Lean Startup principles to get you to find your product market fit within your target demographic as soon as possible while spending as few resources as necessary.
How to Start a Startup - Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Altman
Y combinator's Sam Altman and Facebook's Dustin Moskovitz talk about startup creation fundamentals.
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The world of tech and startups is changing very rapidly.
Here are some resources that I've found particularly useful/helpful as of late.
Airbnb's First Pitch Deck
This is exactly what it sounds like.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel's new book. A quick read at about 200 pages. Great for inspirational content.
How to Design a Billion Dollar Company
This is an article that examines some of the transactional platform-based startups that have emerged in the past few years, how they scaled, and how they reached the valuations they did.
How to Build a Billion Dollar App
This book is written by one of the founders of taxi-hailing app "Hailo" - he analyzes some of the runaway success stories in the mobile app startup space in the past 5 years or so, such as Snapchat, Instagram, Pinterest, Airbnb, etc - very methodical and provides actionable advice and resources. Very interesting.
The Lean Launchpad Course on Udacity, by Steve Blank
This is a video course taught by silicon valley legend Steve Blank. It provides a framework based on the Lean Startup principles to get you to find your product market fit within your target demographic as soon as possible while spending as few resources as necessary.
How to Start a Startup - Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Altman
Y combinator's Sam Altman and Facebook's Dustin Moskovitz talk about startup creation fundamentals.
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