Great Startup Reads

You do not need a paid course to learn this. Here is the reading and watching I actually recommend, grouped so you can pick by what you need this week.

If you are brand new

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• Y Combinator — Startup School — free lectures from people who have done it
• The Lean Startup — the core loop of build-measure-learn
• Paul Graham’s essays — short, opinionated, foundational

Product & customers

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• First Round Review — operator tactics on product and teams
• Lenny’s Newsletter — product growth, deeply practical
• Intercom on Product — building product close to customers

Sales, marketing & growth

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• Harvard Business Review — startups — strategy and management
• Startup Grind — founder interviews and events

Fundraising & finance

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• Y Combinator — fundraising guides — term sheets, SAFEs and how investors think
• SR&ED & NRC-IRAP — the Canadian non-dilutive route
• BDC resources — plain-language finance and planning

Courses & talks

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• MIT OpenCourseWare — Entrepreneurship — free university course materials
• Stanford eCorner — founder and researcher talks
• Techstars Toolkit — accelerator resources and blog

Take the next step

Reading is cheap; doing one small thing and talking it through with someone is what moves it forward. Come to a meetup and bring whatever you are stuck on. No pitch, no sign-up, no sales — peers over beers.