Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

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

1. Video · Short explainer video, a few minutes · Starting Up Cash Flow vs. Profit: What's the Difference? HBS Online
2. Video · long-form interview, roughly an hour · Starting Up Jason Fried Interview: Bootstrapping vs VC, Profit vs Revenue, Basecamp, HEY & Once Jason Fried
3. Video · Starting Up Cash Basis vs. Accrual Basis Accounting Explained: Which Is Right for Your Business? YouTube
4. Video · Starting Up How Indian Startup Founders Save Crores in Taxes! YouTube
5. Video · webinar-length walkthrough · Starting Up Mastering Financial Models for Your Startup with Logan Burchett Logan Burchett (Co-founder, Forecastr)
6. 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)
7. 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
8. A Sequoia partner says the quiet part out loud: the reaction to the miss matters more than the miss itself. Hilaly's move is to... SaaStr Video · 25 min (video + transcript) · Starting Up How to Manage Up and Have a Happy Board, Even When You Miss a Quarter Aaref Hilaly (Sequoia Capital)
9. Segment's founder walks through failures and near-misses so you can feel the contrast between not having fit and having it.... Y Combinator (Startup Library) Video · ~45 min · Starting Up How to Start a Startup: Finding Product-Market Fit Peter Reinhardt (Segment)
10. Caldwell has watched thousands of YC companies pivot, and he lays out what a good pivot looks like versus flailing. His key... Y Combinator Startup Library (Dalton Caldwell) Video · ~15 min · Starting Up All about pivoting Dalton Caldwell
11. Video · ~35 min watch · Starting Up How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business (talk) Lenny Rachitsky
12. Video · ~50 min watch · Starting Up The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces with Jeff Jordan Jeff Jordan and Harry Stebbings
13. A tight 17 minute talk that distills The Mom Test into the one habit that matters most: stop presenting your idea, because... The Conference by Media Evolution Video · 17 min · Starting Up Rob Fitzpatrick: (not) presenting your idea Rob Fitzpatrick
14. Video · ~45 min · Starting Up The Mom Test (author talk) Rob Fitzpatrick
15. YC partners who have watched thousands of founders unpack what the essay looks like in practice, with real examples from... Y Combinator Video · 26 min · Starting Up YC's Group Partners Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale Y Combinator Group Partners
16. Video · ~90 min · Starting Up Product Thinking Workshop ft. Kunal Shah and Shreyas Doshi Kunal Shah and Shreyas Doshi
17. Savoia, a former Google innovation lead, makes the case that most ideas fail because they are the wrong 'it', not because they... Stanford eCorner ETL (Alberto Savoia) Video · 50 min · Starting Up Build the Right It (Pretotyping) Alberto Savoia
18. Video · ~50 min · Starting Up Kunal Shah and Shailendra Singh on Business Models and Moats Kunal Shah
19. When building is easier than ever and code is the least defensible thing you own, this breaks down what actually protects a... Y Combinator (Lightcone) Video · ~40 min · Starting Up The 7 Most Powerful Moats for AI Startups Y Combinator
20. Video · ~30 min · Starting Up How to Go From MVP to Scaling Startup with Bubble (Bubblecon 2024) Bubble
21. Video · 20 min · Starting Up How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding Tom Blomfield
22. Video · 30 min · Starting Up Complete Vibe Coding Tutorial: Build a Full Stack App in 30 Minutes Matt Palmer
23. Video · 40 min · Starting Up Building a Docusign clone with Lovable (live vibe coding) YouTube
24. Video · 10 min video · Starting Up Build an App from a Google Sheet with Glide! Glide

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