Resources on Entrepreneurship, Startups, Innovation, and More
List created and curated by Gregg Vanourek (@GVanourek)
Business Models & Modeling
- BMDesigner
- Business Model Alchemist (Alexander Osterwalder)
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*Business Model Canvas (Canvanizer)
- Business Model Innovation
- Business Model Innovation Canvas (FluidMinds)
- *Empathy Map
- *Lean Canvas
- *Mullins and Komisar, Getting to Plan B
- *Osterwalder & Pigneur, Business Model Generation
- Osterwalder et al., Value Proposition Design
- Ramfelt, Kjellberg, & Kosnik, Gear Up: Test Your Business Model…
- Social Business Model Canvas
- *Strategyzer (toolbox for business model generation)
- Value Envelope
- *Value Proposition Canvas
Business Plans
- Barringer, Preparing Effective Business Plans: An Entrepreneurial Approach (textbook helpful for founders)
- BizPlan (online business planning tools and software)
- BPlans (Tim Berry)
- BPlans.com (business planning videos)
- Business Plans Hub (sample business plans)
- Online MBA: The Do’s and Don’t’s of Creating a Business Plan
- WellsFargoWorks.com (business plan tools)
Competitions and Cups
Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship
- *Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship
- Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
- *Humbl et al., Lean Enterprise
- *Innovation Roundtable (leading global network for innovation executives)
- Intrapreneuring Café
- *Kelly and Medina, Rebels at Work
- League of Intrapreneurs
- *Mattimore, Idea Stormers
- *Viki et al., The Corporate Startup: How Established Companies Can Create Successful Innovation Ecosystems
Creativity, Innovation, and Ideation
- Creating Minds
- Creative Confidence Blog
- Creative Confidence
- Creative Thinking
- d.school (Stanford University)
- European Innovation Academy
- Ideation360
- Idea to Value (community for creativity and innovation)
- IDEO
- Innovation Games
- *Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
- *Kelley and Kelley, Creative Confidence
- *Mattimore, Idea Stormers
- Open Lab (Stockholm)
- *Pink, A Whole New Mind
- *Robinson, The Element
- Visual Thesaurus
Design Thinking
- Design Thinking (IDEO)
- d.school (Stanford University)
- dSchool Crash Course on Design Thinking
- *Empathy Map
- IDEO
- Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
Disruptive Innovation and Innovator’s Dilemma
- *Christensen et al., The Innovator’s Dilemma
- *Christensen et al., The Innovator’s Solution
- *Christensen et al., The Innovator’s DNA
Entrepreneurship and Startups (General)
- 500 Hats (Dave McClure)
- Andreessen (Marc Andreessen blog archives, now an ebook)
- A Smart Bear (Jason Cohen)
- Ben’s Blog (Ben Horowitz)
- Blank, The Four Steps to the Epiphany
- *Blank and Dorf, The Startup Owner’s Manual
- BOSI Entrepreneurial DNA Assessment
- B-School (Marie Forleo, online learning program)
- Casnocha, My Start-Up Life
- Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing
- Clifton and Badal, Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder
- CoFounders Lab (connect and collaborate with like-minded entrepreneurs)
- Diamandis & Kotler, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
- Dragon’s Den
- Entrepreneur Tools
- ENTRExplorer
- *eCorner / Entrepreneurship Corner (Stanford University)
- Entrepreneur magazine
- *Erickson, Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business
- *Fast Company magazine
- Feld (Brad Feld)
- Forbes Startups
- Founder Institute
- FoundersFilms (YouTube channel)
- FoundersNation (find or become a startup cofounder)
- *Founders School (Kauffman Foundation)
- *Gergen & Vanourek, LIFE Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives
- *Godin (Seth Godin)
- *Graham (Paul Graham)
- Growth Hackers
- *Happy Startup School
- Her Corner (accelerator for women entrepreneurs)
- Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- How to Start a Startup (online class, Y Combinator)
- *Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
- Incorporation Guide for New Business
- *Isaacson, Steve Jobs
- *Kauffman Foundation
- Guy Kawasaki (Guy Kawasaki’s blog)
- *Mullins, The New Business Road Test
- *Mullins and Komisar, Getting to Plan B
- Mullins, The Customer-Funded Business
- Only Once (Matt Blumberg)
- Open Entrepreneurship
- Singularity University
- Startup Docs (free legal templates for startups)
- Startup Stash (curated directory of resources & tools)
- Startup Tools and Blogs (from Steve Blank)
- *Startup Revolution
- *TED
- *Thiel with Masters, Zero to One
- *Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- Venture Beat
- Venture Hacks
- VentureStorm (connecting startups with developers)
- Weinberg and Mares, Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Finance, Crowdfunding, and Venture Capital
- *Best Practices and Resources for Financial Modeling
- Captable.io (free, fully-featured cap table management tool)
- Crowdfunding for Changemakers (online course from StartSomeGood)
- Feld and Mendelson, Venture Deals
- *Financial Modeling for Startups
- Fisher, The Six Secrets of Raising Capital
- Global Business Angels Network
- National Venture Capital Association (U.S.)
- Standard Financial Model for Startups
- StartSomeGood (crowdfunding for nonprofits and social enterprises)
- StartupRunway.io (plan and manage your startup’s cash)
- TLDROptions.io (helping workers understand the potential value of their stock options)
- VCMatchApp (matchmaking site to help you find a good VC fit)
- VentureBlog
Founder Matchmaking
General & Other Resources
- Antler (turns talent into great founders of great companies)
- B-School (online course)
- Growth Hackers
- Growth Hacker TV
- Market Opportunity Navigator (from Where to Play)
- Marvel Pop App (create prototypes from drawings and turn them into working apps)
- Plotagon (create animations quickly and easily)
- Slide Share
- SWOT Analysis Guide (from FormSwift)
- TED (Technology, Entertainment, & Design) videos
- Tugboat Institute (membership organization for long-term oriented CEOs)
Incubators and Accelerators (sampling by country)
- Australia: ATP Innovations
- Brazil: Pipa
- Canada: Bootup Labs, Empowered Startups, WUTIF
- Denmark: Startup Bootcamp, Dare2Mansion
- Egypt: Flat6Labs
- Europe: DO School (Europe & U.S.), EUXCEL accelerator SpeedUpEurope
- Finland: Startup Sauna, Inventure
- France: Paris Incubateurs, iSource
- Germany: Seedcamp, New Commercial Room
- India: The Morpheus, TLabs, Seedfund, Aavishkaar
- Ireland: Startup Bootcamp
- Israel: JAL Ventures, Cedar Fund
- Kenya: iHub, NaiLab
- New Zealand: The IceHouse, Sparkbox
- Philippines: PhiLabs
- Singapore: Seed Accelerator, Get2Volume, Incuvest, Red Dot Ventures
- Spain: Startup Bootcamp, Business Booster
- *Sweden: see list here
- Uganda: Appfrica Labs, HiveColab
- U.K.: Seedcamp, Level 39, TechStars London
- U.S.: Y Combinator, TechStars, 500 Startups, Unreasonable Institute, DO School (Europe & U.S.)
Leadership and Culture
- *Blumberg, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business
- Entrepreneurial Leader Podcasts (Stanford eCorner)
- Free Management Library
- Greenberg et al., The New Entrepreneurial Leader
- *Leadership Derailers Assessment (what’s inhibiting your leadership effectiveness?)
- *Leadership Books (curated by Gregg Vanourek for Triple Crown Leadership)
- Leadership / Team Alignment Map app
- *Lidow, Startup Leadership
- *Re:Work (from Google)
- *Vanourek and Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations
Lean Startups and Customer Development
- Alvarez, Lean Customer Development
- Busche, Lean Branding: Creating Dynamic Brands
- *Constable, Talking to Humans
- Cooper and Vlaskovitz, The Lean Entrepreneur
- Croll & Yoskovitz, Lean Analytics
- *CustomerDevLabs
- *Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test
- Gelobter, Lean Startups for Social Change
- Gothelf and Seiden, Lean UX
- Humble et al., Lean Enterprise
- Lean Analytics (blog)
- Lean Analytics (book)
- *Lean Canvas (tool)
- Lean Impact
- *Lean Stack (Ash Maurya, Running Lean, blog, resources, etc.)
- *Lean Startup
- *Maurya, Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan that Works
- *Portigal, Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
- *Ries, The Lean Startup
- *Maurya, Running Lean
- Social Really Lean Canvas
- *Startup Lessons Learned (Eric Ries)
- *Steve Blank
- *Steve Blank “Lean LaunchPad” Udacity course, “How to Build a Startup”
- *Talking to Humans resources (customer development interview resources from Giff Constable)
- *VentureWell LeanLaunch Pad Master Class Video Library
Mind Mapping and Brainstorming
- Bubbl.us
- Coggle
- CoMapping
- Creating Minds
- GroupMap
- iMindMap
- MindMapMaker
- MindMapping
- MindMeister
- MoodStream
- SpiderScribe
- StormBoard
- WiseMapping
- XMind
Personal Development Resources
(curated list of the best resources, books, and podcasts on personal growth, self leadership, and life design)
Presenting and Pitching
- Pitcherific (improve your speaking skills with digital training tools)
- The Pitch (show in which real founders pitch to real investors)
- Pitch Planner Canvas (Canvanizer)
Social Entrepreneurship Resources
(curated list of the best resources and books on social entrepreneurship and social innovation)