Depends on what your venture will be about, but there's a lot of books written specifically to help entrepreneurs. The best ones IMO are the ones by Steve Blan

Depends on what your venture will be about, but there's a lot of books written specifically to help entrepreneurs. The best ones IMO are the ones by Steve Blank and Alex Osterwalder: - “Business Model Generation”, by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur - “The Startup Owner´s Manual”, by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf (haven't read it yet) - "The Four Steps to the Epiphany", by Steve Blank and others These slides are pretty good too: http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/successful-entrepreneurship-1 http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/successful-entrepreneurship... Above all, execute. I have what I believe is a very good project and it's floundering because of lack of execution (cash would help, but I should be able to make it work anyways). I've seen crappy ideas pivot into success by sheer tenacity (coupled with flexibility). Edit: more resources Getting Real by the Basecamp guys https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ http://web.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upload/handouts/Four_Steps.pdf http://web.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upl... http://s3.amazonaws.com/37assets/svn/Rework-by-Jason-Fried-and-David-Heinemeier-Hansson-Excerpts.pdf http://s3.amazonaws.com/37assets/svn/Rework-by-Jason-Fried-a...