business.md

🛠 Resources / Business

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Advice

• “If you can’t be first in a category, set up a new category you can be first in.”
• The Dilbert principle: Be in the top 25% in two things (too hard to be the best in 1 thing)
• “WHAT INTERESTING THING ARE YOU WORKING ON? WHY IS THAT INTERESTING TO YOU? WHAT’S SURPRISING ABOUT THAT? IS ANYBODY ELSE THINKING ABOUT THIS?”
• “who are good at one are terrible at the other.
• When I ask him about either, he often asks me variants of the following questions:
  • “Do you understand it?”
  • “Do you think they’ll be dominant and growing 3 years from now?”
  • “Do you think this technology will be more or less a part of our lives in 3 years?”
  • He’s made dozens of spectacular investments based on his own answers to these questions, plus an added dimension: emotional response. One might dismiss talk of “gut” with a wave of the hand, but, as they say, “once you’re lucky, twice you’re good.” Kevin has replicated his success over and over again”
• SAAS checklist: https://smalldata.tech/blog/2017/08/20/create-a-saas-in-18-steps
• excellent startup cautionary tale about Flow vs Asana: https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1376985854229504007
• https://medium.com/@gsvpioneer/what-i-learned-from-reading-every-amazon-shareholders-letter-cdc35f309e8b
• Founding skills needed: https://qotoqot.com/blog/founder-skills/
• Obvious stuff about tech: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306
• Wisdom: https://minnenratta.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/things-i-have-learnt-as-the-software-engineering-lead-of-a-multinational/
• https://blog.asmartbear.com/brittleness.html
• For First-time founders: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/9537
• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/9732
• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/docs/manual/themanual#lois
• The guy's posts:
  • http://www.defmacro.org/2013/06/03/engineering-commandments.html
  • http://www.defmacro.org/2013/07/23/startup-lessons.html
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnwl-dwqx5xl0s65DE3wO8/edit#heading=h.pdmqf3646hgt?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=fav
• why startups failed: https://hackernoon.com/8-mistakes-we-made-in-our-companys-first-8-years-3d38422333b
• Questions to ask before joining startup: https://hharnisc.github.io/2018/11/25/twenty-questions-to-ask-before-joining-a-startup.html
• Startup process story: https://starterstory.com/stories/how-two-unlikely-partners-invented-the-upcart-and-went-viral-on-qvc
• really good startup advice: https://a16z.com/2015/01/18/12-things-learned-from-chris-dixon-about-startups/
• startup playbook: https://playbook.samaltman.com/
• https://medium.com/@swaaanson/zero-to-1b-8-lessons-scaling-a-startup-f9a4b631de61
• pessimistic startup facts: https://medium.com/swlh/bakers-dozen-of-facts-about-startup-what-you-need-to-know-f9e0b02eeff8
• a16z lessons: https://a16z.com/2018/09/02/sales-startups-technical-founders/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=ee596b1e9f-Benedict%27s+Newsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-ee596b1e9f-70588445
• notes from startup school: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkJ6Ruh2IiR-caT-PS3n5Yt5VKcmIsVhuQwjgqK7030/mobilebasic
• lessons as solo founder: https://tik.dev/lessons-learned
• https://blog.samaltman.com/hard-startups
• https://www.joisig.com/rules-software-startup-minimum-hassle
• tips on defending a physical product: https://medium.com/@molson_hart/starting-a-physical-product-company-youre-gonna-need-a-lawyer-13b2eecebc9f
• lean product development flow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6v6W7jkwok
• personal productivity: https://qotoqot.com/blog/improving-focus/
• how to be tax efficient, handle profit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779944

Analytics

• Posthog
• User Interview - user research recruiting platform

Banking

• https://mercury.com/
• Brex

Blogging

• Substack
• Open

Bookkeeping / Accounting

• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/53345
• Accountants
  • (Brittiney recommended some)
  • https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/55531 (SBIR specific Accounting and Business Solutions of Eastern Carolina)
• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/55834
• Pilot (also does taxes)
• Fondo (YC)
• https://www.getpaperclip.com/ (YC)

Business Models

• open source:
  • https://redislabs.com/community/licenses/
  • Open core, big business exhaust, foundations, and dual licensing all lead to models that fund development.
  • https://www.influxdata.com/blog/its-time-for-the-open-source-community-to-get-real/
  • https://ayende.com/blog/186147-A/making-money-from-open-source-software-how-we-do-it
  • https://medium.com/@ken_wheeler/a-bitter-guide-to-open-source-a8e3b6a3c1c4
  • open source: http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2018-how-open-is-too-open.html
• a taxonomy of moats: http://reactionwheel.net/2019/09/a-taxonomy-of-moats.html?utm_source=Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ae29784d0c-Benedict%27s+Newsletter+306&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-ae29784d0c-70874397&mc_cid=ae29784d0c&mc_eid=79bc2b2384
• Marketplaces -- overcoming the chicken and the egg problem: https://www.nfx.com/post/19-marketplace-tactics-for-overcoming-the-chicken-or-egg-problem
• Ideation:
  • https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-brainstorm-great-business-ideas-ab51c3d51c
  • https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-brainstorm-great-business-ideas-ab51c3d51c?ref=briefingday.com&curator=briefingday.com&utm_source=briefingday.com&utm_medium=email
  • Generation heuristics: https://avichal.com/2019/02/24/heuristics-to-generate-startup-ideas/
  • many ideas: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/
  • checklist: https://www.defmacro.org/2019/03/26/startup-checklist.html
  • 20,000 startup ideas: https://unawaz.github.io/stochastic-hill-climbing/tasks/
• startup document templates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22091603
  • Pitch
  • Vision
  • Strategy
  • Product Requirements
  • Technical Design
  • Product Opportunity Assessment
  • Product Vision
  • Run Book
• 10 types of innovation: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/10-types-of-innovation-the-art-of-discovering-a-breakthrough-product/?ref=briefingday.com&curator=briefingday.com&utm_source=briefingday.com&utm_medium=email
• find a way to have a paid community: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/community-the-new-business-model-for-indie-hackers-01908d3dc3
• business models: http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/10/catalog-of-wealth-creation-mechanisms.html

Calendars / Scheduling

• Calendly
• Cron (YC, I got an invite)

Cap Table

• Carta?
• Pulley

Chat

• Discord
• Open
• https://revolt.chat/

Community Software

• https://joinmastodon.org/
• Circle
• Discourse for Teams
• Tribe
• Invision_ _Community (the most modern old-school forum I know of)
• Hivebrite
• https://mattermost.com/ — an open source alternative to Slack.
• https://www.mightynetworks.com/
• https://comradery.com/

Compensation

• https://quip.com/HEB3Ah9dYD6o
• http://digg.com/2018/best-worst-paid-jobs-tech-sector
• http://blog.interviewing.io/exactly-what-to-say-when-recruiters-ask-you-to-name-the-first-number/
• Stock Options:
  • https://steveblank.com/2019/04/10/startup-stock-options-why-a-good-deal-has-gone-bad/
  • https://www.indexventures.com/optionplan/#pre_funding_valuation=6000000&initial_amount_raised=1500000&expected_funding_rounds_pre_exit=series-b-c-and-d&employee_country=us&option_allocation_level=6&technical_dna=5&mode=seed
  • https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/52456
• Equity: cofounder economics and control: https://khanna.cc/blog/starting-a-business-with-a-cofounder/
• negotiation: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
• benchmarks: https://jacobian.org/2021/oct/13/tech-salaries-2021/

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/56758
• Pipedrive
• Hubspot
• Streak (YC)
• Close (YC)
• Apollo to handle email
• Zendesk Sell
• Salesforce
• Jestor + Mailgun
• Zoho
• Copper
• intercom (not meanas CRM, but good for running campaigns and support tickets)

CTO

• handbook: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/58225

Customer Discovery

• https://othmane.io/writing/how_to_find_problems_to_solve
• ATF Process (Annoying, Time consuming, Frustrating problem discovery process)

Decision-Making

• https://candost.blog/how-to-stop-endless-discussions/

Document Signing

• Smallpdf
• Docusign
• Hellosign
• Rippling (part of service)
• https://www.cheapesignature.com/

Employee Benefits

• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/56137
• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/56178
• Healthcare
  • Savvy (YC)
  • https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/56075
  • Use an Employee Choice Plan like ICHRA
• PEO (Professional Employer Organization)
  • Rippling PEO
  • JustWorks
  • Trinet

Exiting

• How to sell a company: https://medium.com/@awilkinson/the-berkshire-hathaway-of-the-internet-391a8ee83db#.uvou4mrzo
• https://news.crunchbase.com/news/your-vc-needs-a-billion-dollar-exit-you-do-not/
• https://medium.com/@todsacerdoti/part-2-100m-to-1b-non-obvious-lessons-learned-selling-to-yahoo-aeab9ad6cc8a

Finding a Cofounder

• http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/grow-the-puzzle-around-you
• Jessica: When it came to investing, I had something that my cofounders didn’t have: I was the Social Radar. I couldn’t judge our applicants’ technical ability, or even most of the ideas. My cofounders were experts at those things. I looked at qualities of the applicants my cofounders couldn't see. Did they seem earnest? Were they determined? Were they flexible-minded? And most importantly, what was the relationship between the cofounders like? While my partners discussed the idea with the applicants, I usually sat observing silently. Afterward, they would turn to me and ask, "Should we fund them?" From the beginning I was careful about only funding earnest people. Back then, I never envisioned the people we funded growing into a community of thousands of YC alumni, but I always tried to create an asshole-free culture. If I could tell someone was a conceited asshole, we didn’t fund them. I’m sure we’ve since funded some conceited assholes, but early on I was pretty rigid about this. And I think it’s the basis of the culture of our alumni community.
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266463
• https://founderslist.com/cofounders
• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/56030

Financial Models

• https://www.fivecastfinancial.com/guides/financial-modeling-for-startups-an-introduction/
• https://www.stephnass.com/blog/startup-financial-model

Funding

(see lists/investors.md)

• How to do a good crowdfunding video: https://www.videopixie.com/blog/crowdfunding-video-cost-benchmark-what-works-how-much-to-spend
• What funding options are available to startups?
• Types:
  • equity: Angels, VCs, Friends & Family
  • debt: banks, p2p Lending (Upstart)
• pitching to investors: https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/pitching
• pitch decks
  • https://blog.ycombinator.com/intro-to-the-yc-seed-deck/
  • https://medium.com/the-mission/the-greatest-sales-deck-ive-ever-seen-4f4ef3391ba0
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/startup-pitch-deck-front-fundraising-venture-2018-6
• https://www.atrium.co/blog/seed-stage-funding-startups/
• relationships with VCs: https://hackernoon.com/do-vcs-really-add-value-founders-say-sometimes-f27bb956eb8c
• https://andrewchen.co/investor-metrics-deck/
• https://salon.thefamily.co/dont-freak-out-the-fundraising-bible-is-here-156a059fe824
• for open source:
  • https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainablet
  • https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-funding
  • patreon
  • open collective
  • github sponsors
• alternative: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/47004
• Series A diligence checklist: https://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-series-a-diligence-checklist/
• Funding creative endeavors: http://worrydream.com/2017-12-30-alan/
• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/55914
• pitching using Pixar's script: https://startuppitch.substack.com/p/nail-your-startup-pitch-use-pixars
• NSF grant writing tips: https://austinhenley.com/blog/500kgrant.html

Governance

• startup boards: https://reactionwheel.net/2021/11/your-boards-of-directors-is-probably-going-to-fire-you.html

Growth / Marketing / Branding

• How to leak to the press: http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/how-easy-is-it-to-securely-leak-information-to-some-of-americas-top-news-organizations-this-easy/
• How to market your product/service/company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13853199
• How to do a Kickstarter: https://www.shopmoment.com/momentist/the-complete-guide-to-succeeding-on-kickstarter-in-2017-everything-we-learned-in-raising-1-5m
• checklist: https://www.sideprojectchecklist.com/
• podcasts: https://ahrefs.com/blog/podcast-advertising/
• online advertising, selling on amazon and qvc: https://starterstory.com/stories/how-two-unlikely-partners-invented-the-upcart-and-went-viral-on-qvc
• emails: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/38216
• marketing for engineers: https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Marketing-for-Engineers
• https://blog.saleswhale.com/3-lessons-from-saleswhales-successful-abm-campaign-that-led-to-210000-revenue
• get first 1000 users: https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/p/how-the-biggest-consumer-apps-got
• https://i.imgur.com/k1758Dh.png?ref=briefingday.com&curator=briefingday.com&utm_source=briefingday.com&utm_medium=email
• Conversion Flow
  • Savvy
• Customer Acquisition
  • strategies: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/resources-for-customer-acquisition/
• growth hacks: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/2-167-new-subscribers-in-48-hours-one-tactic-you-should-try-283601e91d
• Launch
  • https://www.indiehackers.com/post/relaunch-like-a-pro-100-places-to-launch-relaunch-and-list-your-product-7c67875635
• https://www.indiehackers.com/post/11-marketing-channels-that-consistently-work-for-founders-8992a89a03
• Finding customers: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/post-a-link-to-your-product-and-well-suggest-where-to-acquire-new-users-05bb35a200
• build a community
• https://www.indiehackers.com/@eelcoj/running-a-business-is-80-marketing-and-only-20-product-b1f8b0d5e5
• places to post startup: https://www.namy.ai/blog/places-to-post-startup
• Clearbit - marketing data engine
• avoid ads: https://sparktoro.com/blog/what-if-performance-advertising-is-just-an-analytics-scam/
• product marketing: https://sharebird.com/ama/square-product-marketing-lead-pos-agustina-sacerdote-on-market-research
• agencies:
  • https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/57143
• Branding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29382127

Hiring

• How to interview someone: “Lesson number one, when people ask me what [interviewing] tips would I give, is aim for the heart, not the head. Once you get the heart, you can go to the head. Once you get the heart and the head, then you’ll have a pathway to the soul.”
• Interviewing:
  • https://github.com/yangshun/front-end-interview-handbook?utm_campaign=explore-email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=weekly
  • https://github.com/arialdomartini/Back-End-Developer-Interview-Questions?utm_campaign=explore-email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=weekly
  • https://fs.blog/2020/07/job-interviews/?ref=briefingday.com&curator=briefingday.com&utm_source=briefingday.com&utm_medium=email
  • https://meekg33k.dev/what-i-learned-from-doing-60-technical-interviews-in-30-days-ckda9sn7s00iftss13b0wd0ky
  • technical interviews: https://alexgolec.dev/google-interview-questions-deconstructed-the-knights-dialer/
  • https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/
  • questions: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/team-blog/best-job-interview-questions-business-tech/
  • YC guys offers to advise: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/56357
  • "don't interview, have a discussion" https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/dont-do-interviews-do-discussions
• Question to ask interviewer:
  • https://medium.com/@cvitullo/questions-to-ask-your-interviewer-82a26e67ce6c
• Crockford: I’m looking for quality of presentation. I want to see what he thinks is something he’s proud of. I want to see evidence that in fact he is the author of the thing that he’s defending. I find that is much more effective than asking them to solve puzzles or trivia questions. I see all that kind of stuff as useless. But how effectively they can communicate, that’s a skill that I’m hiring for.
• https://hbr.org/2018/01/how-to-hire
• hiring engineers: https://triplebyte.com/blog/convincing-engineers-to-join-your-team
• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/36455
• let it be known that you have a lot of intersting technical chalenges. thats it. youll find great people.
• smart people strongly attracted to more smart people.
• https://triplebyte.com/blog/interview-with-gmail-creator-and-y-combinator-partner-paul-buchheit
• Ask hard questions and see if they give direct, insightful answers, or if they're evasive and dismissive. It also helps if there is a product you can try. I would avoid startups that have a ton of hype and no product.
• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/53744
• evaluating technical talent: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/54430
• payments and working terms for freelance coders: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/55094
• Tools:
  • Greenhouse
• Finding people
  • "As a freelancer, I frequently check r/forhire and Hacker News monthly freelancer/seeking freelancer threads. I find quality of clients and other freelancers much better there than on Upwork or Freelancer.com."
  • YC remote dev jobs company: https://arc.dev/
• How to hire great programmers: https://youtu.be/6X-Ws9vsTxo
• How to hire engineers: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/57735
• Where to hire good engineers: https://www.toptal.com/

HR

• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/56367
• Rippling
• Zenefits

Launching

• How to launch: https://blog.amplifr.com/en/amplifr-on-producthunt/
• checklists: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/45-incredibly-useful-web-design-checklists-and-questionnaires/

Legal

• documents: Clerky
• freelance contract: https://plainfreelancecontract.com/
• patents: cautionary tales:
  • https://patentpandas.org/stories/crowdfunding-backer-patented-my-project
  • https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea

Metrics

• https://www.analyticspack.com/ (YC)

Naming

• https://failory.com/naming-a-startup
• domain name generator: https://www.namy.ai/

Networking

• http://firstround.com/review/how-to-become-insanely-well-connected/

Offices

• ffice design for technical teams: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16864925&utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=ask_hn
• https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3

Personal Effectiveness

• Thinking tools: https://untools.co/eisenhower-matrix

Presentations / Public Speaking

• https://austinhenley.com/blog/lessonsfrommyphd.html

Pricing

• How to price your product/service: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13840282
• https://conversionxl.com/blog/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can-learn-from/
• freemium: https://www.chrisfrantz.com/how-to-kill-a-unicorn/
• no free plan: https://nofreeplan.com/

Project Management Tools

• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/56373
• Linear (YC, Issue Tracker for software dev)
• Asana (for general non-software projects)
• Kitemaker.co (YC)
• https://height.app/
• Clarity (YC)
• Jira

Remote Work

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889939
• http://remotehabits.com/?ref=hackernews
• https://blog.ghost.org/5/
• https://www.remoteonly.org/
• http://blairreeves.me/2018/11/09/dont-work-remotely/?resubmit=hn
• http://klinger.io/post/180989912140/managing-remote-teams-a-crash-course
• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/44928
• payments: Deel
• whiteboard: https://offbyone.us/posts/why-is-excalidraw-so-good/
• tools: https://miro.com/

Resources/

• YC Company Directory: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/directory
• https://stackshare.io/
• http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage
• https://www.startupschool.org/library
• https://github.com/leonar15/startup-checklist
• http://startupstash.com/
• https://founderkit.com/
• https://blog.teamgate.com/400-free-resources-to-grow-your-business/
• https://failory.com/naming-a-startup
• https://reads.breue.com/125-places-to-post-your-startup-product-6df5b7ad3932
• http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage
• https://www.sideprojectchecklist.com/marketing-checklist/
• https://abdoriani.com/cost-minimization-strategies-bootstrapped-founders-can-instantly-apply-to-save-over-10000/
• https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/45-incredibly-useful-web-design-checklists-and-questionnaires/
• Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnwl-dwqx5xl0s65DE3wO8/mobilebasic#heading=h.pdmqf3646hgt
• indie software makers: https://medium.com/@julienvallini/10-services-to-ship-at-light-speed-%EF%B8%8F-154b576eb4f
• startup deals: https://github.com/dakshshah96/awesome-startup-credits
• https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/tech-stack/
• open source alternatives: https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives
• https://c87.notion.site/c87/Product-Toolbox-1dd6842c177d4d60b4aae75d8d25ae34

Sales

• YC Sales Workshop with Steli: https://close.wistia.com/medias/cwdi8tt1d7
• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/53528
• https://a16z.com/2018/09/02/sales-startups-technical-founders/
• selling to SMBs: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/55284#comment-140031

Team Building / Management

• How to build an effective team - https://hbr.org/2017/01/great-teams-are-about-personalities-not-just-skills
• https://ronjeffries.com/articles/018-01ff/abandon-1/
• https://daedtech.com/how-to-keep-your-best-programmers
• http://typicalprogrammer.com/why-dont-software-development-methodologies-work
• build good culture: https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/9519
• https://medium.com/javascript-scene/how-one-jira-ticket-made-my-employer-1mm-month-7-metrics-that-actually-matter-ffb5b2376a6b
• https://getweeklyupdate.com/manager-guide
• 1-on-1 questions: https://github.com/VGraupera/1on1-questions
• https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory
• culture: Entrepreneur Cindy Gallop on how to build a successful business: “There is a formula for success in business, and it goes like this: You set out to find the very best talent in the marketplace, and then give them a compelling and inspirational vision of what you want them to achieve for you and the company. Then you empower them to achieve those goals using their own skills and talents in any way they choose. If, at the same time, you demonstrate how enormously you value them, not just through compensation, but also verbally, every single day, and if you enable that talent to share in the profit that they help create for you, you’ll be successful. It’s so simple, and virtually nobody does it, because it requires a high-trust working environment, and most business environments are low-trust. In order to own the future of your business, you have to design it around trust.” Source: The Most Provocative Woman in the World: Cindy Gallop
• Writing Effective Meeting Notes: https://meetnotes.co/writing-effective-meeting-notes/
• Negative emotions are unmet needs: https://medium.dave-bailey.com/the-art-of-not-taking-things-personally-b7a8395ce172
• effective teams and organizations, and being effective individual: https://github.com/pdfernhout/High-Performance-Organizations-Reading-List
• Mistakes Founders Make with Vision, Mission & Values
• Project Management Process Research: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/project-management-in-tech
• Designing orgs: https://commoncog.com/blog/org-design-skill/
• OKRs vs KPIs: https://userpilot.com/blog/okrs-vs-kpis/
• Tools:
  • Lattice (YC)
• Individuals Matter: https://danluu.com/people-matter/
• Big list of OKRs: https://hypercontext.com/goal-examples
• CIA Simple Sabotage (what not to do): http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabotage.html

Team Collaboration Software

• Whiteboard: https://miro.com/pricing/
• "Using Notion at a startup" https://www.kopa.co/blog/posts/how-we-use-notion-as-a-startup

Wikis / Knowledge Base

• https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/56914
• Confluence
• Notion.so
• Slab
• Cleary
• Gitbook
• FocalBoard
• notion open-source alternative: https://www.appflowy.io/