Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

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

1. This is the canonical argument for why you line up a lead first: a lead takes at least half the round, negotiates the term... Venture Hacks Article · 9 min read · Starting Up How do I find a lead investor? (Part 1) Nivi
2. When you are deciding between a global program and staying close to your Indian market, this lays the actual terms side by side... Ellenox Article · 15 min read · Starting Up India Startup Accelerators 2026: 26 Programs Compared Ellenox
3. This is the honest counterweight to YC's own pitch: the hard outcome data on what YC's India bet actually produced and why... Asia Tech Review Article · 8 min read · Starting Up Y Combinator reaps big rewards in India but its future in Asia is long over Jon Russell
4. Once you decide you have a real reason to incorporate outside India, this is the head-to-head that tells you where. It puts... Treelife Article · 20 min read · Starting Up Foreign Subsidiary Jurisdiction for Indian Startups: Singapore, UAE, UK or US? Treelife
5. The honest piece on who can raise on team versus who needs revenue. It states plainly that seed now looks like what Series A... CRV Article · 18 min read · Starting Up What Seed Investors Look For in 2026 CRV
6. This is the playbook for exactly your situation: it tells you to lock down runway before you are desperate, cut burn with a... First Round Review Article · 25 min read · Starting Up The Founder's Field Guide for Navigating a Crisis First Round Review (recession-era founders, investors, and operating CEOs)
7. This is the honest founder account you need before you convince yourself a cash crunch just happened to you: Benson walks... First Round Review Article · 15 min read · Starting Up The 5 Early Mistakes That Almost Killed This Founder's Startup, and How He Survived Clark Benson (Founder and CEO, Ranker)
8. This is the fill-in-the-blank machine for the tagline itself. It teaches Steve Blank's 'we help X do Y by doing Z' formula and... Help Scout Article · 10 min read · Starting Up How to Write a Value Proposition (+ 6 Modern Examples) Help Scout team
9. You asked for annotated real title slides from funded startups, and this is the deepest running archive of exactly that:... TechCrunch Article · 15 min read per teardown · Starting Up Pitch Deck Teardown (TechCrunch series) Haje Jan Kamps
10. CRV is a top-tier US fund, and this piece draws the exact line your question asks about: it states plainly that detailed... CRV Article · 15 min read · Starting Up What Investors Look For in a Pitch Deck (Seed & Series A) CRV
11. This is the data-room number, not the slide: a free, download-and-fill spreadsheet from a Point Nine partner that builds MRR... SaaStr Template · 20 min setup · Starting Up SaaS Financial Plan 2.0 (Christoph Janz's downloadable model) Christoph Janz (Point Nine Capital)
12. It walks one worked example (a specialty foods company) all the way down the funnel and, crucially, builds SOM bottom-up from... TechCrunch Article · 9 min read · Starting Up How to calculate your startup's TAM, SAM and SOM Marjorie Radlo-Zandi
13. This is the clearest breakdown of the two-decks-from-one-file idea, and it teaches with real artifacts, not theory: it puts... VIP Graphics Article · 9 min read · Starting Up Reader Decks vs. Presenter Decks: Which One Do You Actually Need? VIP Graphics
14. This is the exact 21-slide deck that got Front three term sheets in ten days, published by the founder herself with honest... Medium (Mathilde Collin, CEO of Front) Template · 12 min read + 21-slide deck · Starting Up Front Series A Deck (with the founder's own slide-by-slide feedback) Mathilde Collin
15. This is the how-to for the exact 'proof of demand you actually gathered' your answer calls for. It gives you the five things a... Alchemist Accelerator Article · 10 min read · Starting Up Using Pilots, POCs, and LOIs to Build Trust and Scale Alchemist Accelerator
16. This is the guide that argues your exact answer: stop stapling a Stanford and a Tesla logo under your name and instead show why... TechCrunch Article · 8 min read · Starting Up The team slide is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck Haje Jan Kamps
17. The cleanest India pivot story told by the founder himself: Meesho began as Fashnear, a hyperlocal fashion app, and became a... Y Combinator Video · 35 min · Starting Up On Starting and Scaling Indian Shopping Site Meesho Vidit Aatrey (Meesho co-founder and CEO)
18. This is the canonical takedown of the 2x2 you conveniently sit atop, written by a VC who screens decks for a living. It hands... Dreamit Ventures Article · 8 min read · Starting Up How to Create a Killer Competition Slide (Hint: Don't Use a Magic Quadrant!) Jack Kaufman
19. Short and blunt, straight from a working seed VC. Walk's one question, 'what would your competitors say about this slide?', is... Homebrew (hunterwalk.com) Essay · 4 min read · Starting Up If Your Pitch Deck Has a Competitive 2x2, I'm Going to Ask You This Question Hunter Walk
20. The India native counterpart, written for founders pitching Blume, Accel India and Lightspeed, where 'no competition' still... YourStory Article · 10 min read · Starting Up Pitch deck playbook: How to create a pitch that gets funded YourStory Team
21. This is the sharpest framing of why your ask is really a bet on the next valuation step. It introduces 'accretive milestones'... The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital Article · 15 min read · Starting Up Determining How Much to Raise Holloway (Andy Sparks et al.)
22. The cleanest milestone-based runway framework we found: raise for 18 to 24 months because fundraising itself burns about 6... NYU Entrepreneurship Article · 10 min read · Starting Up The Runway Equation: How Much to Raise and When to Spend It NYU Entrepreneurial Institute
23. This is the mechanical playbook for the 'send to 15 who actually invest, not 50' point: build a long list from Crunchbase,... Mercury Article · 12 min read · Starting Up Creating a target investor list for your seed round Mercury
24. This is what 'research the fund before you send' looks like for an Indian founder: a single fund broken down into its actual... Superscout Article · 8 min read · Starting Up Blume Ventures: The Early Stage Founder's Guide Superscout

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