Book and Blog Links for Entrepreneurs

Books
The Startup Owners Manual by Steve Blank
http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-Step/dp/0984999302
The first part of Steve’s previous book for free: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36002151/Four-Steps-to-Epiphany-by-Steve-Blank-PDF-excert
Steve Blank’s slide presentations that cover some of the material in the book: http://www.slideshare.net/sblank

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898

Running Lean by Ash Maurya
http://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Plan-Works/dp/1449305172

Blogs
How to Build a Web Startup – Step-by-Step: http://steveblank.com/2011/09/22/how-to-build-a-web-startup-lean-launchpad-edition/
Great stuff: http://venturehacks.com/archives
Good entrepreneurial advice: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
Industry news: http://www.TechCrunch.com
Mr. Customer Development: http://steveblank.com/
Mr. Lean Startups, Eric Ries: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/
Incubator: http://blog.bootuplabs.com/
Marc Andreesen: http://blog.pmarca.com/
Sean Ellis: http://startup-marketing.com/
Dave McClure. Crazy… but smart crazy: http://500hats.typepad.com/greatest_hats/
Stanford Entrepreneur Club, lots of resources: http://www.gsbeclub.org/startup-resources
Lean Startup Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/lean-startup-circle
Ash Maurya: http://www.ashmaurya.com

Pitching to Investors

Venture Hack’s Pitching Book. A complete manual.   http://bit.ly/b1gSs1
Dave McClure’s presentation, Startup Viagra: http://slidesha.re/a1S3a7 http://www.scribd.com/doc/16362914/FAIL12-Ways-to-Blow-Your-Investor-Pitch

Mark Randall’s Presentation Slides (PDF)