RESOURCES
GETTING STARTED
- GOOD: Emerging Resources for Social Entrepreneurs: A Handy Guide
- East Bay Express: So You Want to Start a Food Business
- HBR Blog: Lessons from a Failed Social Entrepreneur
- The Atlantic: How to Succeed in Business by Really, Really Trying
- New York Times: The Top 10 Rookie Mistakes for Entrepreneurs
- Inc.: 4 Critical Traits of an Entrepreneur
- Inc. How to Bring Ideas to Life
- Business Insider: What I Learned After 3 Years Mentoring Over 80 Startups
- The New York Times: Some Ways to Get Started as a Social Entrepreneur
- Shivani for Triple Pundit: Take the First Steps Towards Launching Your Social Venture
INVESTMENT
- Open Sourced Model Seed Financing Documents
- Tech Cocktail: What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati: Term Sheet Generator
- Y Combinator: Series AA Equity Financing Documents
- FeldThoughts: Revisiting the Term Sheet
- FeldThoughts: How Convertible Debt Works
- SocialEarth: 130 Ways to Fund Your Venture
- Inc.: 5 Steps to a Successful Seller Financing Deal
- Inc.: Demystifying Small Business Valuation
- New York Times: No Bitter Aftertaste From This Stock Offering
- Inc.: How to Pitch a VC: 11 Insider Secrets
- Harvard Business Review: Implementing Strategies in Extreme Negotiations
- GOOD: Are VCs Greenwashing, Or Just Nervous?
- HBR Blog Network: Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital
ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
- TNW: Being a manager doesn’t make you a leader
- New York Times: Getting New Employees Off to a Good Start
- Developed by Carnegie Mellon: Behavioral Interview Questions
- Warren Bennis: Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
- US Small Business Administration: Hire a Contractor or an Employee?
- Forbes: 12 Remote Work Trends to Achieve (Not Just Predict)
- Management Innovation eXchange i: Nobody’s as Smart as Everybody—Unleashing Individual Brilliance and Aligned Collective Genius
- Fast Company: Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers—It Ensures Productivity
SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
- Social Technology for Purposeful Organization: Holacracy
- invoicing plus expense and time tracking: FreshBooks
- Startup Plays: Create a Great Crowdfunding Video on a Budget
- microinvesting tool: MyMicroInvest
- business plan tools: LivePlan
- Investor Pitch Clinic: 50 Fantastic Free Tools For Startups
- Contractually
RESOURCE KITS & LISTS
- Social Media Marketing
- Angel Investor Networks Resource List
- Investment Firms Resource List
- Incubators Resource List
- Business Plan Competitions Resource List
- Crowdfunding
- Convertible Debt
- Allocating Founders’ Equity
- Informational Materials for Potential Investors
- Comparable Financial Metrics
BUSINESS MODEL CREATION
- AVC: Revenue Models – Data
- Technori: Why Growth Hackers are Taking Over Startup Marketing
- The New York Times: How Social Ventures Can Produce Profits
- Fast Company: 3 Ways To Predict What Consumers Want Before They Know It
- Steven Gary: The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
- Eric Ries: The Lean Startup
- Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur: Business Model Generation
- Fast Company: Want To Upend An Entire Industry? Change Its Revenue Stream
ALLOCATING EQUITY
- Enable Tech: How to Determine Equity Allocation for Early Employees
- Lightspeed Venture Partners: How to Estimate Lifetime Value
- Digging In: Startup Equity Allocation
- My Venture Pad: Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups
- Answers OnStartups: Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
- Frank Demmler: The Founders’ Pie Calculator
- AVC: Employee Equity: How Much?
OTHER
- Inc.: 12 Essential Tips to Get Social Media Traction
- startuplawyer
- foodtank: 118 Twitter Feeds Every Food Activist Needs to Follow
- San Francisco Planning Department: Food System Policy Program
- weekly lessons from business school: MBA Mondays
- Startupers
- entrepreneurship blog of Brad Feld: FeldThoughts
- entrepreneur workshop: Green Business BASE CAMP
- national network of startup communities: Startup America Partnership
- B Corporation advising: B Revolution
- Business Insider: Mary Meeker’s Latest Must-Read Presentation On The State Of The Web
- SocialMediaToday: 5 Social Media Tips to Ignore