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Ask YC: What's Your Favorite Startup Resource?

24 points by socalsamba 18y ago

aneesh 18y ago
My customers/users. They give me specific advice on how to make my product better, AND they sometimes give me money (without taking an equity stake).
- vlad 18y ago
  Sounds like customers are the main thing a company needs!
socalsamba 18y ago
Hopefully this is helpful to some of you. I took some time to compile a list of startup resources ranging from Marketing to Hiring. This list is by no means exhaustive,but it isn't bad. To make it better, I need your help. Are there any sites/templates/blogs that you would recommend to young entrepreneurs? If so, what are they? I want to include as many of your suggestions as I can. (P.S. - offline "resources" are also welcome)
- slackerIII 18y ago
  Why not just make it a wiki? I'm experimenting with a wiki for developers and testers about which libraries and services actually work (http://www.devdiligence.com http://www.devdiligence.com). It is pretty hard to get people to update a wiki page with what they know -- I imagine it will be even harder to get people outside of this community to send you info.
xenoterracide 18y ago
HN/YC/PG seems like the right answer. Do I pass?
- socalsamba 18y ago
  They're already on there. ;)
  - xenoterracide 18y ago
    actually the feed for paul grahams essays aren't it should be under blogs to read (even though technically it isn't a blog).
    - socalsamba 18y ago
      Ack. I'll take care of that. Thanks for the heads up.
xenoterracide 18y ago
http://safari.oreilly.com/ http://safari.oreilly.com/ for ~$500 a year (per person not sure on bulk licenses) access to all the IT books you could possibly want/need. (well almost all)
- lpgauth 18y ago
  Sweet, was just studying at my school library and it's prepaid.
  - xenoterracide 18y ago
    libraries another favorite resource :D
Alex3917 18y ago
I made something similar to this a while back for my friends: http://www.squidoo.com/startup http://www.squidoo.com/startup
brianr 18y ago
"Startup" is a pretty broad category, but for funding advice, http://www.venturehacks.com http://www.venturehacks.com is hard to beat.
- socalsamba 18y ago
  Good point, added.

24 points by socalsamba 18y ago

My customers/users. They give me specific advice on how to make my product better, AND they sometimes give me money (without taking an equity stake).

vlad 18y ago
Sounds like customers are the main thing a company needs!

socalsamba 18y ago

Hopefully this is helpful to some of you. I took some time to compile a list of startup resources ranging from Marketing to Hiring. This list is by no means exhaustive,but it isn't bad. To make it better, I need your help. Are there any sites/templates/blogs that you would recommend to young entrepreneurs? If so, what are they? I want to include as many of your suggestions as I can. (P.S. - offline "resources" are also welcome)

slackerIII 18y ago
Why not just make it a wiki? I'm experimenting with a wiki for developers and testers about which libraries and services actually work (http://www.devdiligence.com http://www.devdiligence.com). It is pretty hard to get people to update a wiki page with what they know -- I imagine it will be even harder to get people outside of this community to send you info.

xenoterracide 18y ago

HN/YC/PG seems like the right answer. Do I pass?

socalsamba 18y ago
They're already on there. ;)
- xenoterracide 18y ago
  actually the feed for paul grahams essays aren't it should be under blogs to read (even though technically it isn't a blog).
  - socalsamba 18y ago
    Ack. I'll take care of that. Thanks for the heads up.

xenoterracide 18y ago

http://safari.oreilly.com/ http://safari.oreilly.com/ for ~$500 a year (per person not sure on bulk licenses) access to all the IT books you could possibly want/need. (well almost all)

lpgauth 18y ago
Sweet, was just studying at my school library and it's prepaid.
- xenoterracide 18y ago
  libraries another favorite resource :D

Alex3917 18y ago

I made something similar to this a while back for my friends: http://www.squidoo.com/startup http://www.squidoo.com/startup

brianr 18y ago

"Startup" is a pretty broad category, but for funding advice, http://www.venturehacks.com http://www.venturehacks.com is hard to beat.

socalsamba 18y ago
Good point, added.