Links tagged “start-up”

pmarchive.com

Part 5 of the Pmarca Guide to Startups: why big-company decisions are unpredictable, and why a startup should never stake its survival on landing one such deal.

medium.com

Argues that VC firms build platform teams mainly as a go-to-market move to win deal flow, not to add operational value to companies after investing.

a16z.com

A second batch of sixteen startup metrics, from total addressable market and ARR to network effects, virality, NPS and cohort analysis, with notes on how each is misreported.

a16z.com

The sixteen startup metrics investors see most often confused or misused — bookings, revenue, ARR, LTV, CAC, GMV, churn, active users — plus common charting pitfalls.

guilhembertholet.com

Un tour d'horizon des business models existants — abonnement, location, modèle imprimante, désintermédiation, enchères, distribution, freemium, low-cost.

startupvillage.fr

Portail français de l'écosystème startup, réunissant actualités, événements, incubateurs, investisseurs, concours, services et offres d'emploi.

ycombinator.com

Y Combinator's instructions for the one-minute founder video required with an application, with four example videos from funded startups.

startupstash.com

Directory of software tools and resources for founders, grouped by category, with alternatives round-ups and a blog.

fundable.com

Platform where startups run a fundraising campaign, with a profile and data room shown to accredited investors.

launchrock.com

Builder for pre-launch landing pages that capture early sign-ups, with drag-and-drop templates and email collection.

fr.slideshare.net

White paper from the 2015 European Pre-Accelerator Summit defining what pre-accelerators do, how their programmes are structured, what they measure and how they fund themselves.

playinglean.com

Site for Playing Lean, a board game that teaches Lean Startup practice by having teams run experiments and compete for market share.

medium.com

The eFounders startup studio describes TheNetwork, the shared people, documented processes and in-house software it puts behind its portfolio companies.

lejournaldugrandparis.fr

BNP Paribas inaugure son premier WAI (We Are Innovation), un lieu d’hébergement et d’accélération de start-up dans le 2e arrondissement de Paris.

thenextweb.com

A list of 33 startup directories and launch platforms worth submitting a product to, plus 41 the author rates as not worth the effort.

talkingquickly.co.uk

Sixty-three pieces of startup advice a founder would give his younger self, on shipping, customer development, team and business fundamentals.

paulgraham.com

Essay arguing that early startups have to recruit users by hand and give unscalable personal service instead of waiting for organic growth.

paulgraham.com

Guide to the sources of startup money — friends and family, consulting, angels, seed firms and venture funds — and how successive rounds and their terms work.

paulgraham.com

Essay on the three things a startup needs: good people, something customers actually want, and spending as little money as possible.

paulgraham.com

Essay on where startup ideas come from, arguing they are questions refined by building and by working with capable friends, not finished inventions.