Slides and Resources for 5/9/17 TNewTech Startup talk


SLIDES: slideshare.net/stuartbertsch


STEVE BLANK’S  Startup Tools

LEAN CONCEPTS

Ash Maurya has a great free intro course to LEAN concepts on Udemy.

See: https://www.udemy.com/lean-canvas-course

SEED FUNDING

Here’s a great rundown of a VC’s perspective on what a Seed program is and how you, as a startup, fit in.

See: http://vcwithme.co/2015/07/23/anatomy-of-a-vc-seed-program-and-you

CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT

Straight from Steve Blank

http://stuartbertsch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Customer-Discovery-Process-22-Steve-Blank.pdf

CUSTOMER VALIDATION CHEAT SHEET

From APP Sumo (Noah Kagan)

http://stuartbertsch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/validation_cheat_sheet.pdf

Sell your product before you build it:

http://tommorkes.com/lean-launch-how-to-sell-an-idea-before-you-build-it/

BOOKS:

Venture Deals

Traction

REWORK

Jobs to be Done (JTBD):

https://jtbd.info/

Why Startups Succeed Ted Talk by Bill Gross

 

Why Startups Fail:

http://stuartbertsch.com/why-startups-fail/