Founder Resources

Accelerators

Accelerate - first comprehensive guide to the fast-paced world of accelerator programs featuring 230 accelerator programs spread across 46 different countries. Included in this book are responses from over 150 entrepreneurs whose businesses have benefited from participating in an accelerator.

GAN - 6 continents, 59 cities, 50 accelerators—1 standard for entrepreneurial excellence. At the Global Accelerator Network, we set the bar for startup accelerators and founders with our short-term, mentorship-based program and guidelines.

Seed-DB - A database of seed accelerators and their companies.

Accelerat.io - The Yelp for accelerators.

Customer Development

About Customer Development

• Check out Customer Development Methodology

Customer interview tactics

• Watch How I Interview Customers 

• Read Tips for a better customer interview process

• Read How to structure and get the most out of customer development

• Check out Customer Interview Template

Customer Segments:

• Watch Prioritizing Customer Segments with the SPA Treatment

Value proposition(s)

• Read How to avoid building products that fail

• Value Proposition Design

  • Read Achieve Product-Market Fit with Value Proposition Canvas

  • Check out Value Proposition Canvas

Building or refining your MVP

• Watch Building Minimum Viable Product

• Watch Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing 

• Read Building the right thing vs. building the thing right

Using Business Model Canvas

• Google Template

• Canvanizer

• AirBnB Example Business Model Canvas

Metrics

• Watch Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! 

• Check out Metrics that Matter

• Check out Analytics 101 for Startups

Pitching

Creating a pitch deck

• Watch Crafting a Kickass Pitch 

• Read The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

• Read 5 Lessons from 150 Startup Pitches

• Read Sequoia Capital's guide to a business plan

• Read The Three Frameworks You Need To Create Powerful Presentations And Tell Compelling Stories

• Read The Secret Ingredient To The Best Startup Fundraising Pitches

• How-to-nail-a-5-minute-pitch      Techstars-template-final-presentations

Examples of great pitch decks:

• Read Startup Pitch Decks - 

  • Good ones: Tinder, AirBnb, Crew, Buffer 

• Read PitchDeckExamples.com - Most are for info rather than pitching live

• Play with Demo Day Pitch Deck Creator

Product/Market Fit

Understanding Product/Market Fit

• Watch Product vs Business

• Read Product/Market Fit

• Read The Never Ending Road To Product Market Fit

• Read Product/Market Fit Validation

• Read The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies

Business Model Canvas Info

• Info behind the Business Model Canvas -- Udacity course taught by the renown Steve Blank (you can pick an choose brief topics to fill in your current knowledge base)

• Canvanizer - Tool to build a business model online

• Video of the creator of the Business Model Canvas, Alexander Osterwalder, describing the business model canvas

Market Sizing

Defining your market size (Total Addressable Market, Service Addressable Market, Target Market)

• Read How to actually size your market

Competitive analysis 

• Read A New Way to Look at Competitors

• Read Death By Competitive Analysis

Thinking about competition

• Watch Competition is for Losers

Funding

How to raise money

• Watch How to raise money

• Read 16 Common Questions About Fundraising

• Read Surviving Your First Phone Screen with a VC Firm

• Read Seven Ways To Pre-Screen Your Investors

• Read 9 Seed Funding Gotchas

• Check out Lionbirds Internal Startup Assessment Template 

Seed investments

• Read The Optimal Seed Round Construction To Maximize Series A Success

• Read What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A

Spending  money

• Read How Much Cash Should Your Startup Burn?

• Read How much should I raise in my angel round? How should I spend it?

Investor updates:

• Read Why investor updates are really, really important

• Read What should I include in my monthly investment update?

Risk Management

• Risk Management Template

London Specific Resources

London Links

• LONDON Seed investors

• Techstars investor map London

• Startupweekend Resources

• Techstars content 

• SaintStartup

• The Family Resources

• Techstars speaker sessions

• Seedlegals