Founder Resources
Here are some useful resources that can help you build your business:
Starting up:
- How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman – Y Combinator) – (Video series)
- Y Combinator Startup School (MOOC)
- How to Build a Startup (Steve Blank) – Udacity Course (MOOC)
- Disciplined Entrepreneurship (Webpage + book)
Design:
- Google Design Toolkit (Webpage)
- Material Design Toolkit (Webpage)
- Facebook Design Toolkit (Webpage)
- Github Usability Checklist (Webpage)
- UX/UI Analysis (Service)
- VPD (Value Proposition Design) Strategyzer (Book)
Investment:
- Gust Complete Guide (Book)
- Valuations 101: Scorecard Valuation Methodology – NYC Angel Investor Group (Webpage)
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Book)
- Funders Club education center (Website)
- Executing a Due Diligence Plan (Kauffman) – (Slides)
- 5m Due diligence (Kauffman) – (Slides)
- Due diligence Checklist example (Document)
- Active investors in LAC (Spreadsheet)
- Investment ecosystem in LATAM by ALLVP (Spreadsheet)
- Learn how to brief (First Round Capital) – (Videos)
- The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding (Video)
Pitch:
- AirBnB (2008) – (Slides)
- Reddit (2013) – (Slides)
- Tinder (2012) – (Slides)
- Square – (Slides)
- Snapchat (2014) – Commercial Value Proposition – (Slides)
- Facebook – First Proposal (2005) – (Slides)
- WeWork (2014) – (Slides)
- Peter Thiel: Good Pitch Example (Website)
- Various Pitch Decks of Famous Companies (Blog)
- The NFX Pitch Deck Library (Video)
- The Art of Pitching by Seedstars (Slides)
- Body Language (Video)
- YC Early Stage pitch deck template (Slide template)
Management:
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Book)
- What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture (Book)
Recruiting:
- The Index Ventures Handbook on Talent (Website)
- Personality tests (MBTI) – (Service)
- Memory Palace (Sequoia) for sourcing your network (Spreadsheet)
- Employee onboarding (Sequoia) – (Spreadsheet)
- Recruiting plan (Sequoia) – (Spreadsheet)
Reports & Trends:
- Internet Trends Bold Capital (2019) – (Slides)
- Internet Trends Kleiner Perkins (2018) – (Slides)
- KPMG Venture Pulse 4Q 2018 (Report)
- PwC Industry Trends (Website)
- Deloitte Industry Trends (Website)
General Tools and Resources:
- DYI Toolkit (Practical Tools to Trigger & Support Social Innovation) – (Website)
- First Round Capital Resource Finder (Website)
- Andreessen & Horowitz (A16Z) Resources (Website)
- YC Startup School Library (Website)
- Google’s reWork (OKRs, Hiring, Management) – (Website)
- Sequoia Capital: Outsider Insight (Videos)
- Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford (Website)
- Insights from AirBnB (Blog)
- Founder Institute: Mexico City startup resources list (Website)
- Contxto: Top 9 podcasts every Latin American entrepreneur should listen to (Website)
Legal:
- Clerky (Service – USA)
- Stripe Atlas (Incorporate in USA – Delaware) – (Service – USA)
- EasyLex (Incorporate in Mexico – SAPI) – (Service – Mexico)
- Tally (Incorporate in Mexico – SAPI) – (Service – Mexico).
- SaaS Commercial Agreement (YCombinator) – (Docment template)
- Y Combinator fundraising documents (Document template)
- Y Combinator Series A termsheet (Document template)
- Model Legal Documents – NVCA (Document template)
- Mexican Early Stage Investment Document (Instrumento Mexicano de Inversión en Etapas Tempranas – IMIET) by MassChallenge & GreenbergTraurig (Document template)
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