Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

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

1. Doist built a fully remote company across dozens of countries and wrote down how they structure communication so nobody in an... Doist / Twist Article · Multi-chapter guide · Starting Up The Art of Async: The Remote Guide to Team Communication Doist
2. A founder walks through actually cutting almost all standing meetings and running the company on written updates, with the... First Round Review Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up The Secret to an In Sync Startup? Ditch Your Meetings and Try an Asynchronous Culture First Round Review
3. Built from running a large fully remote team, this is a tactical field guide to keeping distributed people aligned and... First Round Review Article · ~20 min read · Starting Up Struggling to Thrive as a Large Team Working Remotely? This Exec Has the Field Guide You Need First Round Review
4. Your short answer calls for a shared board, and this is the clearest primer on what a good one actually does: make every piece... Atlassian Agile Coach Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up What is a Kanban board? Atlassian
5. A short listen on why defaulting to real-time communication quietly hurts a team, from the people who run Basecamp remotely. It... 37signals REWORK Podcast · ~30 min episode · Starting Up The Wrong Time for Real Time (REWORK podcast) 37signals
6. Video · ~35 min video · Starting Up Kevin Hale: How to Work Together (YC Startup School) Kevin Hale, Y Combinator
7. A free, dead-simple Kanban board is often all a small offshore team needs to make work-in-progress visible to everyone at once.... Trello (Atlassian) Tool · Starting Up Trello (shared Kanban board) Trello (Atlassian)
8. A concrete, copyable pattern for the written weekly update that replaces the status meeting, straight from a team that lives by... The GitLab Handbook Template · Short reference page · Starting Up Weekly Async Updates GitLab
9. Written directly for the non-technical founder trying to tell whether engineering is on track, which is the heart of this... Tech for Non-Techies Podcast · Starting Up How to lead a development team when you're not technical Sophia Matveeva
10. This is the single most on-point read for your question: it explains bus factor and lays out six concrete ways to stop one... Founders Bar Article · 12 min read · Starting Up Bus Factor: The Silent Startup Killer Aneesh Mohanachandran
11. Written from a fractional CTO's chair, this reframes your best solo developer as a risk to actively de-risk, not just an asset... MindCTO Article · 10 min read · Starting Up Your 10x Engineer Might Be a Bus Factor of 1 Pavel Shpin
12. A software house lays out the exact practices that let any competent engineer take over a codebase: clean structure, standard... Bright Inventions Article · 9 min read · Starting Up How to Protect Software Development Projects from the Bus Factor Problem Bright Inventions
13. DHH argues that modern tools let a single individual build a genuinely competitive product, which is the strongest version of... world.hey.com Essay · 8 min read · Starting Up The One Person Framework David Heinemeier Hansson
14. This spells out the ownership rules that protect you when one person builds everything: you hold the GitHub organization, the... Outsourced.sg Article · 10 min read · Starting Up Hire Your First Developer as a Non-Technical Founder Outsourced.sg
15. A plain checklist of what you must control so your product does not walk out the door with one developer: source code, the... AllCode Article · 8 min read · Starting Up Take Ownership of Your Outsourced Software Development Project AllCode
16. When you cannot read the code yourself, an independent audit is how you get a second developer's eyes on what your one builder... SaaS Tune Article · 11 min read · Starting Up The Non-Technical Founder's Guide to Code Audits SaaS Tune
17. This zooms out from developers to the general pattern of key-person risk: any company where one person holds all the... Allied Venture Partners Article · 15 min read · Starting Up 10 Operational Risks That Sink Startups Matthew Wilson
18. Written for the Indian hiring market, this covers building a tech team from scratch, including the trap of leaning too long on... Savanna HR Article · 12 min read · Starting Up How to Build a High-Performing Tech Team: A Guide for Indian Startups Swati Sinha
19. This is the clearest single argument for why you should judge people on a work sample instead of a conversation. It cites the... Aakash Gupta Essay · Starting Up Why Traditional Job Interviews Are Useless (and What to Do Instead) Aakash Gupta
20. Being outside the big startup hubs is only a disadvantage if you compete for the same over-priced candidates everyone else... Erik Bernhardsson Essay · Starting Up How to Hire Smarter Than the Market: A Toy Model Erik Bernhardsson
21. Open source is the most public, most honest signal of what a developer can do, and this walks you through finding and... daily.dev Article · Starting Up How to Hire Developers from Open Source Communities daily.dev
22. A paid trial task only works if the task itself is well scoped, and this is a practical guide to writing one. It covers... DevSkills Template · Starting Up How to Create a Great Take-Home Coding Test Anton Fenske
23. Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) is a startup focused pond where developers who want to work at early companies actually... Wellfound Tool · Starting Up Wellfound (post a job and hire startup talent) Wellfound
24. A clear overview of the real options for a non technical founder: freelance, full time, or a dedicated team, and where to... Gun.io Article · Starting Up The Ultimate Guide to Hiring Software Developers Gun.io

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