Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

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

1. This is the tool for the exact fight you are having: it scores each founder across Idea, Business Plan, Domain Expertise, and... Carnegie Mellon University Tool · 15 min read · Starting Up The Founders' Pie Calculator Frank Demmler In 4 answers
2. Written by one of India's top corporate law firms, this is the authoritative read on what your co-founder's current employer... India Corporate Law (Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas) Article · 12 min read · Starting Up Moonlighting: Legal Considerations and Contractual Regulation Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas In 4 answers
3. This is the India-specific playbook for exactly your situation: it names full-time versus part-time commitment as a reason to... EquityList Article · 15 min read · Starting Up Co-Founder Equity Split in India: How to Decide, Document, and Protect It EquityList In 4 answers
4. This is the government's own sample SHA, published on the official Startup India (DPIIT) templates page alongside term sheets... Startup India Template · 13-page template · Starting Up Shareholder Agreement of Company (Sample SHA Template) Startup India (Invest India, DPIIT) In 4 answers
5. Most GST explainers stop at the 40 lakh / 20 lakh threshold. This one is written for founders who need to decide whether to... Treelife Article · 15 min read · Starting Up GST Compliance for Startups: ITC, IMS, Registration, Deadlines Treelife In 4 answers
6. This is the operating manual behind the answer's core rule: don't run a remote team on vibes. GitLab runs 1,600+ people across... The GitLab Handbook Article · 25 min read · Starting Up Asynchronous communication for remote work GitLab In 4 answers
7. The founder who built a profitable, bootstrapped Indian giant to over a crore customers with zero venture funding and zero... Forbes India Article · Short read (about 8 min) · Starting Up I'm Proud That At Zerodha We Don't Have Growth Targets Nithin Kamath (interviewed by Forbes India) In 4 answers
8. This is the India-specific breakdown you owe your team: what full-and-final actually includes (unpaid salary, leave encashment,... Wisemonk Article · 15 min read · Starting Up Full and Final Settlement in India: 2026 Compliance Guide Wisemonk In 4 answers
9. Once onboarding clears, the enterprise legal team hands you a contract, and a solo founder who negotiates blind gets buried in... Bhavya Sharma & Associates Article · 18 min read · Starting Up SaaS Customer Contract Checklist for Indian Startups: MSA, DPA, SLA, IP and Payment Terms Bhavya Sharma & Associates (law firm) In 4 answers
10. Before you resign, you have one week to understand exactly what you are walking away from, and this guide zeroes in on the... Hissa Article · 12 min read · Starting Up How to Read Your ESOP Grant Letter: What Every Indian Startup Employee Must Know Hissa Team In 4 answers
11. Blank invented customer development, and this manifesto boils it into a short set of rules, starting with the idea that there... Steve Blank Essay · 12 min read · Starting Up Nail the Customer Development Manifesto to the Wall Steve Blank In 4 answers
12. 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
13. A step by step process for taking an idea to something people want without building the wrong product first. Maurya's mantra,... Ash Maurya (O'Reilly) Book · ~336 pages · Starting Up Running Lean (3rd Edition) Ash Maurya In 4 answers
14. A clean, practical playbook for the mechanics: where to place the door, what to measure, and how to avoid annoying the people... Learning Loop Article · ~12 min read · Starting Up Fake Door Testing: What It Is and How to Run One Learning Loop In 4 answers
15. A useful correction for founders chasing a market-wide 40 percent before a single cohort loves the product. The authors argue... Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Article · ~2,000 words · Starting Up Product-User Fit Comes Before Product-Market Fit Peter Lauten and David Ulevitch In 4 answers
16. Drawing on thousands of office hours, Caldwell separates when to just not die and keep going from when to actually pivot, which... Lenny's Podcast (Dalton Caldwell) Podcast · ~80 min · Starting Up Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: pivoting, resilience, and avoiding tar pit ideas Dalton Caldwell In 4 answers
17. Lenny interviewed dozens of people who built Airbnb, DoorDash, Thumbtack, Etsy, and Uber, then distilled how they actually got... Lenny's Newsletter Article · ~25 min read · Starting Up How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business (Part 1) Lenny Rachitsky In 4 answers
18. Meesho literally started as sellers running WhatsApp boutiques, which is the spreadsheet and WhatsApp validation path playing... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · ~45 min listen · Starting Up Vidit Aatrey (Meesho) on Building a Category-Defining Startup Vidit Aatrey and Amit Somani In 4 answers
19. 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
20. Cohen bootstrapped two companies past a hundred million in revenue, and he is blunt that a typical launch converts around one... A Smart Bear (Jason Cohen) Essay · 15 min read · Starting Up Excuse Me, Is There a Problem? Jason Cohen In 4 answers
21. The other side of the question, honestly told, including when a coordinated launch is actually the wrong move. It shows how... Lenny's Newsletter Article · 15 min read · Starting Up How to Successfully Launch on Product Hunt (When It's Right for Your Startup) Leo Bosuener In 4 answers
22. A practical, structured playbook for the exact fear in this question: users quietly leaking away. Lenny breaks retention into... Lenny's Newsletter Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up How to Increase Your Product's Retention Lenny Rachitsky In 4 answers
23. This is the two sentence post that named the whole category you are deciding about, from an OpenAI co-founder. Read it to... Andrej Karpathy (X) Thread · 1 min read · Starting Up The original "vibe coding" tweet Andrej Karpathy In 4 answers
24. A clear, tool by tool guide to turning an idea into a working prototype in minutes, aimed at people who do not code. It sorts... Lenny's Newsletter Article · 25 min read · Starting Up A guide to AI prototyping for product managers Colin Matthews In 4 answers

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