Business Resources for Startups
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As startups are notoriously short on time we thought what better way to maximise their productivity than by providing them with the most relevant business resources all in one place!
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Us folks at Seedcamp have included each resource with a list of start-ups that have ACTUALLY found them useful. If a startup cannot back-up a resource it should not be included here.
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Companies that have contributed to this wiki include: Atomico Ventures, Entrip, FeeFighters, HyperNumbers, Patients Know Best, Plug in SEO, Speedsell, Stupeflix, TAG, Toksta, TV Pixie, uberVU, Yoose, Wasabi Ventures, Zoombu.
Any guidelines I should be aware of?
This wiki has only one cardinal rule: no self-marketing/promotion (for example: a start-up/company cannot put a link to itself).
Have a suggestion?
Great! Enter your suggestion as a comment at the bottom of this page (the home page) and on the first line simply put SUGGESTION (in capitals please so we can easily see it). Do you have a technical resource to share? Our friends at Songkick have created a wiki for technical resources so feel free to contribute your nugget on their wiki at: http://startuptools.pbworks.com
At What Stage Are You?
1. Raising Money
Negotiate Term Sheets
- Ideal first round funding terms blog post by Chris Dixon. Chris is co-founder of Hunch and “personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including Skype, TrialPay, Gerson Lehrman Group, ScanScout, OMGPOP, BillShrink, Oddcast, Panjiva, Knewton, and a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode”
- 5 minute Primer on Venture Capital Term Sheets
- How to Negotiate a Term Sheet
- How Terms are more Important than your Valuation
- Generate Your Term Sheet
- Book To Read About Venture Capital - Smarter Ventures
- Raising Venture Capital: A Primer for 1st-time Entrepreneurs
- Both sides of the table - serial entrepreneur turned VC with advice on term sheets and funding
Starting a company
2. Managing my Business
Manage your Investors
3. Strategy, Positioning And Company Core Values
Books To Read To Understand Where To Position Your Business, How To Enter Your Market And What Is At Your Core
The Best Ways NOT to Fail ("there is no knowledge inside a startup, only assumptions!")
4. Product Development
SCRUM Methodology
Development Process
Design
5. Customer Development
Focus Groups
Keeping Customers the Focus
Customer Development Process 101
6. Human Resources
Recruitment
7. Marketing
General Web Marketing
SEM (Search Engine Marketing)
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
PPC (Pay-per-Click)
eMarketing Guide (complete book for reference)
Marketing Reports and Market Research
Metrics and Analytics for Startups
Social Media
Email
8. Finance
Startup P&L
Payment Processors
Recurring Billing
Startup Friendly Accounting Software - Web Based
Banking Services
- Clydesdale Bank a Business Bank Account that lets you use posh offices for client meetings
9. Legal
Incorporating in the UK
Incorporating in the US
10. Operations
Outsourcing
Comments (5)
David Whitewood said
at 2:26 pm on Aug 4, 2009
SUGGESTION: The British Libray Business & IP Centre provides great resources for entrepreneurs including access to hard to get research data.
http://www.bl.uk/bipc/
Mirwais Zekrya said
at 1:42 pm on Aug 11, 2009
Hi David, thanks for your suggestion, that's a great. Feel free to add it as a page to this wiki if you found it useful!
Mirwais
dan said
at 10:26 am on Aug 17, 2009
SUGGESTION: Would love to see some good articles on bagging an angel investor- ideally with first-hand experiences
Mirwais Zekrya said
at 1:38 pm on Aug 17, 2009
Dan - we'll try to find relevant articles regarding getting funding from an angel investor on-board. I'll send them to you and if you found them useful you can include them in the wiki. Btw - thanks for the great contri regarding HTML Emails, so important for business communications!
All - if you have any articles that are relevant to Dan's request and you found useful do not hesitate to put it up on this wiki and share it with others.
Thanks
Mirwais Zekrya said
at 1:39 pm on Aug 17, 2009
I forgot - kudos to Dragos too for the HTML Email templates - great timesaver!
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