Resources for Startups
There is an abundance of free or low cost resources online that can help you in your startup journey. You can find anything from short and snappy business plan templates to best practice pitching examples.
Finding these resources can be a bit overwhelming, so we’ve pulled together some of our favourites for you:
Startup Basics
Success vs Failure
Value Proposition and Branding
Testing Ideas
Videos
- How to develop customer research questions
- Capture your business model in 20 minutes (Lean Canvas)
- How to use the validation board to test your startup idea
- How to run a user interview
- How to approach strangers for customer interviews
- Lean Startup methodology and Minimum Viable Products
Courses
Books
Tools
Legal and PR basics
Articles
- Hey you founder Rebekah Campbell on her biggest startup regret
- PR for early stage startups
- How to create press kits that get the attention of the media
Tools
- AVCAL, Open Source Seed Financing Documents
- AirTree, open source legal templates
- SourceBottle, a free online service that connects journalists with sources
- Telum Media, for PRs and Journalists wanting to know latest media moves, alerts and jobs in Asia
- Legal Vision, free legal templates to get you started
Product Development
Articles
- What drones and crop dusters can teach about Minimum Viable Product
- How much it costs to design a mobile app?
Books
- The First 30% e-book
- Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You
Tools
- InVision, transform your designs into beautiful, interactive web & mobile mockups and prototypes
- JIRA, software development tool used by agile teams
- GitHub, software builder
- Bitbucket, The Git solution
- Amazon Web Services tutorials
- Zapier, automate your work processes
- SurveyMonkey, online survey tool
- Atlassian University
- User experience checklists
- GoodUI, ideas and A/B tested patterns for higher conversion rates and growth
- CodeCanyon, 2018's best selling code, plugins & scripts
- Themeforest, mobile app templates
Customer Aquisition
Investment
Articles
- What founders need to know: You were funded for a liquidity event
- A lesson in start-ups · Interview with Steve Baxter
- How (and why) I invest in startups
- What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2018?
- How to get cashflow forecasting / financial modelling right
- How to get a warm investor intro (or not)
Tools
Book
Pitching
Articles
- 10 Steps to fix your pitch
- Sequoia, how to present to investors
- Lessons from a study of perfect pitch decks
- 5 tips for pitching your startup
Videos
- Pitch tips
- Great example pitch, ScriptRock (now UpGuard)
- Great example pitch, Aeroster pitch
- Great example pitch, Party On Demand
- Great example pitch, Tred
Tools
Australian Startup ecosystem
Coworking Spaces
Curated Startup Tools and Online Courses
- Startup Library, a Y Combinator initiative with a compilation of amazing online
- Startup School, another Y Combinator initiative that’s full of helpful online videos
- StartupU, from BlueChilli, an online startup course is designed to help entrepreneurs through all the foundations of starting a business
- Self Start, government website that helps business owners through all the nuts and bolts of starting up
- Startup Stash, a curated directory of free or low-cost startup tools such branding, MVP building, customer research and website design
- Startup Resources, another curated directory of free or low-cost startup tools such branding, MVP building, customer research and website design
- Another curated list of resources
- Masters of Scale podcast
- That Startup Show podcast
- How I Built This podcast
- Lady Startup podcast