Startup Research Materials

Essential startup reading, listening, and research materials. Handpicked resources for founders and anyone fascinated by the art and science of building companies.

Podcasts

• Naval: Curate People

• Naval: In the Arena

• Founders #399 How Elon Works

• Founders #355 Rare Bernard Arnault Interview

• All-In Pod E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more

• All-In Pod E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner

• All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #548: The Lost Presentation That Launched The 4-Hour Workweek — “Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World”

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #651: Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More

• The Tim Ferriss Show | #682: Bill Gurley Interviews Tim Ferriss — Reflecting on 20+ Years of Life and Business Experiments

Books

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

• The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less by Sahil Lavingia

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss

• The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Reis

• How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets by Felix Dennis

Articles

• The untapped potential of employee stock options by Index Ventures

• Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity by Marc Andreessen

• Pmarca Guide to Startups by Marc Andreessen

• Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs by Reid Hoffman

• How To Be Successful by Sam Altman

• How much should you pay yourself? by Christoph Janz

Twitter Account List

• VC/Startup

Twitter Accounts

• Sahil Lavingia (@shl)

• Marc Andreessen (@pmarca)

• Tim Ferriss (@tferriss)

• Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom)

• Naval Ravikant (@naval)

• Bill Gurley (@bgurley)

• Brad Gerstner (@altcap)

Tweets

• Asymmetric opportunities (@NavalismHQ)

• 50 Timeless @naval quotes visualised (@drex_jpg)

• My 14 "must use" no-code tools (@JustinSaaS)

• Naval 's rules (@DhananjayAtkale)

• 5 powerful mental models to help you win in a competitive world (@SahilBloom)

• How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) (@naval)

• Here's the simple 7 step framework to help you master storytelling (@heykahn)

Models / Approaches

• Business Model Canvas

• Value Proposition Canvas

• Porter's Five Forces

• The Art of the Pitch

• SWOT Analysis Model and Examples

Syndicates / Investment Pooling Tools

• AngelList (investment club US)

• leva.pe (tool CH)

• Konsento (tool CH)

• SISAT (contract CH)

• Swisspreneur Syndicate (investment club CH)

• The Syndicate (investment club US)

Tools / Services

• Airtable (collaboration)

• Bubble (no-code platform for digital products)

• Beehiiv (blog, newsletter with paywall function)

• Beautiful.ai (AI based presentation builder)

• Browse.ai (easy way to extract data from websites)

• Carrd (low cost website builder)

• Canva (free design tool)

• Customer.io (automated messaging platform)

• Cortado Mail (bundle all your updates into one email)

• Calendly (calendar bookings)

• ElevenLabs (text to speech and voice cloning software)

• Figma (collaborative design tool)

• GoDaddy (domain host)

• Gumroad (sell goods and services - no fixed fee)

• iA.net (focused writing)

• Loom (make video recordings)

• Loka (talent platform for engineering)

• Product Hunt (product launches)

• Squarespace (website builder)

• Shopify (plug & play ecommerce builder)

• Stripe (payment processing)

• Softr (no-code tool/MVP building with Airtable and Google Sheets)

• Substack (blog, newsletter with paywall function)

• Super (create a website using Notion)

• Typeform (dynamic designed forms)

• Trello (project/product roadmap management)

• Makerpad (no-code app/website builder)

• Medium (blog, newsletter with paywall function)

• Mailchimp (advanced newsletter tool)

• Notion (project management)

• Webflow (website builder)

• Zapier (app automation)

• 99Designs (logo, website, brand design)

Do your own research. No investment/tax/legal advice. Disclaimer here.