Podcasts
The Pitch
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Freakonomics
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
20 VC Podcast
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
DTC Podcast
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Agile Mentors Podcast
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Nir and Far
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Steve Blank Podcast
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Leading Agile: An Agile Podcast
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Y Combinator Startup Podcast
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Startups For The Rest Of Us
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
My First Million
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Lenny’s Podcast
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
In Machines We Trust
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Reading List
The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
The definitive source on the Customer Development process that would spawn Eric Ries's Lean Startup. In the book Blank identifies his views about how entrepreneurship can be actively managed instead of an art to be passively experienced.
Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions by Tim Ash
A solid "deep dive" into the practical strategies to drive better audience engagement and conversion across your website landing pages.
Hooked. How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
A guide for product managers, entrepreneurs, designers and marketers on building habit forming products.
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
Focusing on "disruptive technology" Christensen shows why most established companies miss out on new waves of innovation.
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P.Brooks Jr.
Classic collection of essays on the challenges and pitfalls to be avoided within software development. A must read for anyone planning, managing or funding any significantly sized project that has software development as a component.
Value Proposition Design by Alexander Osterwalder
The follow up to the eponymous Business Model Generation. In this book Osterwalder details how to use the "Value Proposition Canvas" a practical tool to design, test, create and manage products and services customers actually want.
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Classic book about how design serves as the communication between user and object, and how to optimise that communication so that the experience of using the object is pleasurable. A must read if you're interested in User Centered Design.
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
In the book Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing startups and getting desired products into customers' hands faster.
Rework by Jason Fried
From the team behind 37 Signals (Basecamp etc.) comes a fresh new look at management and culture for businesses in the digital economy.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
An exploration of how we think, a detailed, yet accessible, description of the psychological mechanisms involved in how we make decisions.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
Another classic from the greatest popular writer on Management.
Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf
Gothelf does an effective job of answering the question. How do deliver UX within a framework that maps effectively to Lean customer development and agile ways of delivering software?
Websites
Growthhackers
The leading online community for learning and sharing about growthhacking - effective online marketing techniques that drive effective, scalable and sustainable growth.
Product hunt
Product Hunt is a curation of the best new products, updated every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites and technology products.
Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for developers. An invaluable resource for root cause analysis and advice.
SteveBlank.com
Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley based entrepreneur, academic and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany - considered the father of the Customer Development methodology which launched the Lead Startup movement.
Statechery by Ben Thompson
Stratechery provides analysis of the strategy and business side of technology and media, and the impact of technology on society
NNGroup.com
Arguably the leading consultancy in the field of user experience. Their website has numerous UX resources and analysis.
Boxesandarrows
Boxes and Arrows is a peer reviewed journal devoted to the practise, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business.
Mixergy
Mixergy is a website where featuring detailed interviews and courses with proven entrepreneurs about their journey of building successful products. Entrepreneurs who've been on Mixergy include the founders of Y Combinator, Groupon, Sun Microsystems and Wikipedia.
Jobs To Be Done Cards
An alternative (in the same spirit) to the Customer Development interview is the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) method to support exploration and understanding of customers/users underlying needs. These cards are a brilliant tool for guiding teams through the process.
One Month
One Month is an online accelerated learning platform featuring technology related courses. One Month currently provides online tutorials for Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Growth Hacking, iOS, Stripe, Web Security and Programming for Non-Programming.
General Assembly
General Assembly is the leading global provider of full-time immersive programs, long-form courses, and classes and workshops relevant to the digital economy - from web development and user experience design, to business fundamentals, to data science, to product management and digital marketing.
Product hunt
Product Hunt is a curation of the best new products, updated every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites and technology products.
Y Combinator
Some of the best articles about product development and start up life from Paul Graham and other YC Partners. The Startup Playbook and Why To Not Start A Start Up are required reading for all entrepreneurs in this space.