Additional informational resources related to startup communities can be found here.
- Brad Feld – Drawing Board on Startup Communities [ Video ]
- Brad Feld, Mary Grove, and Marc Nager discuss thriving startup communities and creating alignment [ Video ]
- Introducing the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Four Defining Characteristics by Daniel Isenberg
- What an Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Really Is (HBR), by Daniel Isenberg
- Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Growth Oriented Entrepreneurship, by Colin Mason and Ross Brown
- Continuously Creating a Startup Ecosystem, by Michael “Luni” Libes
- Introduction to the Los Angeles Startup Community, by Sam Teller
- Entrepreneurial Ecosystem at the Digital Age, by Vincent Pretet
- Slide 3 has a reference to the Chicago entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Berlin: What’s Missing From Our Startup Scene and 8 Ways We Can Step It Up, by Colette Ballou
- Rio Startup Ecosystem I
- Silicon Valley, London, NYC: Startup Genome Data Reveals How The World’s Top Tech Hubs Stack Up (TechCrunch), by Rip Empson
- The Startup Ecosystem Report 2012, by Startup Compass formerly Startup Genome
- Welcome to Tampa: A startup scene emerges in this beach paradise
- Forget Silicon Valley: 7 Better Cities for Startups
- Book: Startup Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
- Book: Venture Deals, by Jason Mendelson and Brad Feld
- we will be meeting with Jason Mendelson during our visit to Boulder
- Book: Do More Faster, by David Cohen and Brad Feld
- we will be meeting with David Cohen during our visit to Boulder
- Startup Genome
- Maps of local startup communities, showing the players / feeders in each community
- Book: The Art of the Start 2.0, by Guy Kawasaki [ interview with Guy at Startup Grind ]
- Uncommon Book series, by Eliot Peper
- Book: All in Startup, by Diana Kander
- Book: Bowling Alone, by Robert Putnam (pertains to income mobility, fluidity — and community)
Blog Posts by Eliot Peper that would be of interest:
- How to raise money from angel investors
- Storytelling for Startups
- Do what matters
- How to raise money from VCs? Romance.
- How to build a corporate culture
- The Heart of the Start
Books recommended by Eliot Peper:
- The $100 Startup
- Zero to One
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Venture Deals
- Rework
- The Lean Startup
- Hooked
- Small Giants
- The Founder’s Dilemmas
- The Martian
- Reamde
- The Alchemist
Online class recommended by Eliot Peper:
- How to Start a Startup – Sam Altman, Y Combinator partner
Startup Grind 2015 – Interviews [ Videos ]
- Derek Andersen, Startup Grind – I’m Not Crazy
- Sam Altman, Y Combinator – How to Get Funded by Y Combinator
- Biz Stone, Twitter – One on One with Biz Stone
- Mike Kriefer, Instagram – Let’s Talk Instagram
- Jeff Hoffman, ColorJar / Cofounder Priceline – Keys to Success for Great Entrepreneurs | Learn from the Best
- Melody McCloskey, StyleSeat – The Future of the Mobile Marketplace
- Paul Ahlstrom, Alta Ventures – 3 Strategies to Guarantee Startup Failure [ towards the end, the Paul has a wonderful video in his talk about how it feels to be a founder ]
- Scott Harrison, Charity Water – The Story of Charity Water
- Vinod Khosla, Kholsa Ventures – Fearing Failure as an Entrepreneur
- Logan Green, Lyft – How to Grow and Maintain Your Culture
Kauffman Founders School courses
- Startup Boards (Brad Feld)
- Startup Finance (Bill Reichert)
- Leadership and Motivation (Daniel Pink)
- Entrepreneurial Marketing (Anita Newton)
- The Lean Approach (Steve Blank)
- Surviving the Entrepreneurial Life (Meg Cadoux Hirshberg)
- Startups (Steve Blank)
- Founder’s Dilemmas (Noam Wasserman)
- Powerful Presentations (Nathan Gold)
- Intellectual Property (Peter D. McDermott)
- Entrepreneurial Selling (Craig Wortmann)
Additional Books about or related to Startup Communities
- The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance, by Ward Winslow and John McLaughlin
- Screw the Valley: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of America’s New Tech Startup Culture, by Timothy Sprinkle
- To write this book, Timothy spent time in the following startup communities: New York, Boulder, Austin, Raleigh, Detroit, Las Vegas, Kansas City