See Also: Venture Capital

Entrepreneur Blogroll

Case Studies

Education

• :-P
• The Entrepreneur's Dictionary by CompanyCrafters

Foundership

• Ross Mayfield on Foundership
• You Are Only A First Time CEO Once
• Hiring Newsgator's CEO: Founder's Post, VC's Post
• Noam Wasserman's Founder Frustrations Blog
• Startup team competence

Management

• Running an efficient board meeting
• The Sales Learning Curve by Mark Leslie
• Bootstrapping Top 10 List by Brad Feld

Entrepreneur Blog Posts

• Budding Entrepreneurship by Ross Mayfield
• Fixing Venture Capital by Joel Spolsky
• Camels and Rubber Duckies (How much should I charge?) by Joel Spolsky
• Superhacker and Phoneboy by Adam Rifkin
• Open Source and Entrepreneurship by Mitch Kapor
• In Defense of Big (relatively speaking) by Mena Trott
• Less as a competitive advantage: My 10 minutes at Web 2.0 by Jason Fried
• On Becoming a Self-Producer and What Business Can Learn from Open Source by Isaac Garcia
• Education in Entrepreneurship by KM
• Sales plans and sales training for startups by Karl Goldfield

Entrepreneur Essays

• An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists by Nick Tredennick, with Brion Shimamoto
• Why Startups Fail by Robert X. Cringely
• Diary of a Start-Up, the rise and fall of ArsDigita by Eve Andersson
• (see also Phil Greenspun's ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up)
• Paul Graham
• How to start a startup
• What Business Can learn from Open Source
• The Art of Starting, by Guy Kawasaki
• Simulation for Start-ups and Emerging Software Companies by Maurice Martin
• The Myth of The Great Idea by Ramit Sethi
• We Love to Debate Mintutiae by Ramit Sethi
• Your idea isn't good enough to keep secret by Ramit Sethi
• On Greed and Speed by Ramit Sethi

Entrepreneur Books

• Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
• The Power of Unfair Advantage by John Nesheim
• High Tech Startup by John Nesheim
• The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
• Tips and Traps When Buying a Business by Greg Balanko-Dickson
• Startup by Jerry Kaplan

Entrepreneur Sites

• Bplans.com - Business Planning Advice and Sample Business Plans
• Entrepreneur.com - Biz Start-ups
• PlanHeaven.com - Angel investors connect with entrepreneurs in this online portal.
• Funding Universe
• Go Big Network
• JeremyHanks.com - Adventures in Entrepreneurship
• Kauffman Foundation's eVenturing
• VC Fodder
• Yahoo Groups - Venture Capital
• SalesTrainingAdvice.com
• Entrepreneur's Journey - Articles and audio for entrepreneurs
• Buying a Business Podcast
• Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College
• The Business of Software
• BizToo - Entrepreneurs Social Network
• Startup sales mentor

I have a resource that focuses on sales training and advice on selling. Can I include it in the list above? I wanted to check first... Thanks, Josh :-)

contributed by Josh Hinds on Oct 8 4:10pm

Of course so long as it is value add!

contributed by Ross Mayfield on Oct 9 8:04am