Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

1. A concise video lecture that walks through the key concepts and mechanics of running a fundraising process, from a YC partner... Y Combinator Startup Library Video · 40 min · Starting Up Fundraising Fundamentals (Startup School) Geoff Ralston In 4 answers
2. Video · ~5 min · Starting Up Clay Christensen: The Jobs to be Done Theory (the milkshake example) Clayton Christensen (HubSpot Marketing) In 4 answers
3. Video · About 25 minutes · Starting Up Building Product Michael Seibel In 4 answers
4. A two-minute animation showing why building before talking to customers wastes months. Useful to send a cofounder who wants to... Steve Blank Video · 2 min · Starting Up Customer Discovery: The Search for Product/Market Fit. 2 Minutes to See Why Steve Blank In 4 answers
5. Tom Blomfield's practical framework for pricing when you sell to businesses, including why to charge from the start and how to... Y Combinator Startup Library Video · Starting Up How to Price for B2B (Tom Blomfield, Y Combinator) Tom Blomfield In 4 answers
6. YC partner Harj Taggar walks through where co-founders actually come from, when to bring one on, and how to run the search... Y Combinator Startup Library (Harj Taggar) Video · 20 min · Starting Up How to Find the Right Co-Founder Harj Taggar In 4 answers
7. Migicovsky built Pebble on hundreds of these conversations, and this lecture is the specific playbook: how to find your first... Y Combinator Library Video · ~50 min · Starting Up How to Start a Startup: Talking to Users Eric Migicovsky In 4 answers
8. Video · 30 min watch · GTM Building a $5.6B company with a Product-led Flywheel with Postman's CEO Abhinav Asthana Abhinav Asthana In 4 answers
9. Video · 2 hr watch · GTM Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) Lenny Rachitsky and Jason Lemkin In 4 answers
10. Video · 25 min · GTM Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu on the Long Game, Transnational Localism, and the Future of AI Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman with Sridhar Vembu In 4 answers
11. Video · ~15 min · Starting Up Companies That Grow Without Ads (Delta-4 Theory) Kunal Shah (Founder, CRED) In 3 answers
12. Video · ~30 min · Starting Up Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution Uri Levine In 3 answers
13. Gross ranked hundreds of startups (his own and others') across five factors, and timing came out on top, ahead of team, idea,... TED Video · ~7 min · Starting Up The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed Bill Gross In 3 answers
14. Reading about the switch interview is one thing, watching one run live is another. Bob Moesta and Chris Spiek interview an... Business of Software Video · Starting Up Uncovering the Jobs to Be Done (with a live switch interview) Bob Moesta and Chris Spiek In 3 answers
15. Video · Talk, roughly 30 minutes · Starting Up David Rusenko: How To Find Product Market Fit David Rusenko (Weebly co-founder) In 3 answers
16. Video · 6 min watch · Starting Up How To Cold Email Investors Michael Seibel In 3 answers
17. Scott Kupor, who has run a16z's investing operations and written the book founders quietly read before a raise (Secrets of Sand... a16z Video · 20 min · Starting Up The Economics of Term Sheets Scott Kupor In 3 answers
18. Video · ~4 min · Starting Up The Original Dropbox Demo Video (MVP) Drew Houston In 3 answers
19. Video · ~10 min · Starting Up Product-market fit with Michael Seibel Michael Seibel In 3 answers
20. Video · 48 min · Starting Up How to Build Products Users Love Kevin Hale In 3 answers
21. Video · 44 min · Starting Up Refactoring UI (CSS Day 2019 talk) Steve Schoger In 3 answers
22. A two minute explanation of one of the most practical rules for founders: users spend nearly all their time on other apps, so... Nielsen Norman Group Video · 2 min · Starting Up Jakob's Law of Internet User Experience (video) Jakob Nielsen In 3 answers
23. Video · 18 minutes · Starting Up Design for Startups (Part 1) Garry Tan In 3 answers
24. Johnson shows that most breakthroughs are slow hunches that sit half-formed for years and combine with other fragments, which... TED (Steven Johnson) Video · 18 min · Starting Up Where good ideas come from Steven Johnson In 3 answers

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