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What Startups Are Really Like

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/18/technology/business2_startup_whatvcwants/index.htm

Business 2.0: What a VC wants to see in you - Jun. 5, 2006

Here is how you too can woo even the fussiest venture capitalists. SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Most venture capitalists will tell you that they invest in people, not business plans. They like experienced entrepreneurs they've worked with before.

October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail.

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

On Startups by Dharmesh Shah

Amazon start selling the paperback edition of my latest book, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur .

How to Change the World

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/#axzz0ZCkTQIgx

The Resource for Entrepreneurs.

Y Combinator: Startup Library

Startup Library

http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html

The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

The startups we've funded so far are pretty quick, but they seem quicker to learn some lessons than others.

Now is the time to start hiring the staff that can help you perfect your company's product. If a prototype is the first manifestation of your big idea, the beta transforms it into a product you might actually sell. The focus here is on usability and design.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/17/technology/business2_bulletproof_phasethree/index.htm

Phase three: Develop the beta product - May. 24, 2006

36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More!

http://readwrite.com/2007/12/26/36_startup_tips

This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. We hope that you will find these tips useful, but also please remember that they are based on subjective experiences and not all of them will be applicable to your company. These tips originally appeared as separate posts on the BlueBlog , the blog of AdaptiveBlue. [ Ed: Alex Iskold is founder and CEO of AdaptiveBlue, as well as being a feature writer for RWW.] Since the posts were quite popular, we decided to share them with the ReadWriteWeb audience during the holiday season.

Writing a business plan - How to write a business plan - Submit

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/17/technology/business2_bulletproof/index.htm

New technologies are creating new business opportunities, and radically reducing costs for startups.

Business 2.0: For entrepreneurs, now is the time - May. 24, 2006

Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund Paul Graham July 2008

StartupNation - Source for Small Business Advice, Help Starting

The web is such a big and wonderful place, packed with tools and resources which you all too often don’t know about. So to help all you freelancers out there we have compiled a gigantic list of resources, categorized up for your benefit.