Startup Curriculum

Startup Curriculum

  1. Start here: Athena’s 1 hour startup course, Guidebook, Pick an industry, Study companies, Find mentors, Talk to users

  2. Learn fast: 1 book per week. Practice speed reading. Listen to audiobooks, videos at 3x speed whilst exercising. Use listen to webpage, PDF read aloud to continue reading when eyes are tired. Most advice is wrong, apply everything you read with a grain of salt.


  3. Idea / Product: Sam Altman's Playbook, Founders at Work, Product Market Fit Series, Running Lean, Social Radars, Paul Graham's Essays, Startup SchoolYC Library, Steal like an Artist. Building a 10x better product is the most important.

  4. Learn anything with ChatGPT prompts, Sam Altman says you can learn any field in 1 year - he taught himself to start OpenAI. What are the biggest challenges in "industry" - Who are the main companies working on "technology" - Design a undergraduate degree in "subject". What are online courses for these subjects. What are textbooks for these courses - find on libgen.rs - What are the top scientific articles on "topic". Include the DOI - Find on sci-hub.se. Who are the main researchers in "topic" - Use contactout.com to find their email or phone and connect.


  5. Learn science and deep tech that's where the biggest impact is. Elon taught himself to build cars and rockets. You can too. AI resources: a16z AI canon, Andrej Kapathy, Andrew Ng. Biotech resources: longevitycourse.org, khan academy biology, MIT biology, Lab techniques, MOOC biology. Electronics: Building a breadboard CPU, Coursera: build a computer, What's inside a smartphone, Build your own iPhone Build your own drone, Chip Giants Documentary. Manufacturing: Factory tours, 3D printing course, CAD machining. Poverty: MIT's Poverty Action Lab, Grameen bank guidebook, Nuclear Fusion: 12 year old achieved fusion. Plasma Physics. MIT nuclear engineering


  6. Growth marketing: Jared Codling's Youtube, Brian Dean: SEO, Youtube, Content, Ahref's Youtube , Shani's writing course, Personal branding school, Jeff's tactics, 500 distro, WMD Conference, Andrew Chen's blog and Cold Start Problem. Marketing school podcast. Sean Ellis's Hacking Growth book. Noah Kagan's book. Trust Me I'm Lying. Hooked, Lean Analytics.


  7. Sales: Saastr University, Founding Sales, ContactOut's 50+ real recorded sales calls,Predicable Revenues, Impossible to Inevitable, SPIN Selling, Challenger Sale, Price Intelligently, Never Split the Difference, Cognism's blog, Winning by design, ContactOut's sales hub


  8. Productivity: Work Ethic, The One Thing, The War of Art, Atomic Habits, 4hour Work Week, Tools of Titans, Mr Beast's Employee Guidebook. . Health: Outlive, Glucose Goddess


  9. Mindset: Purpose, Self Compassion, Four Agreements, Fountainhead, Alamanack of Naval Ravikant, Code of the Extraordinary Mind, Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Radical Acceptance, Talent is Overrated, The Power of Now, Happiness Trap, Siddarth, Man's Search for Meaning. Listen to audio books at 3x speed whilst exercising.


  10. Management: micromanagement is good according to: Paul Graham, AirBnB founder, Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO, Shopify founder. Crucial Conversations, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs biology and management style. Duncan's blog and substack. 1minute Manager, CEO Within, Non-violent Communication, Dare to Lead Leaders Eat Last, Principles, Start with why. High growth handbook, Empowered, Inspired


  11. Hiring: Athena's hiring guide. Don't hire according to Sam Altman keep the team small until you reach product market fit. Steve Wozniak single handled built all hardware and software for Apple I & II. Google search was made by 2 people. Contactout's Recruitment Hub, Who A Method for hiring


  12. Raising money: How to get into YC, Raise Millions, Deck Doctors, What investors look for. Investor lists: All investors, South east Asia, VC firms, Resource list


  13. Doing business in Asia: How Asia Works, Asian Godfathers, Red Roulette, From Third World to First, Deng Xiaoping, India ChatGPT books


  14. Tax: Nomad Capitalist, Treasure Islands, Secrecy World, USA ChatGPT tax resources


  15. More Resources: Blogs: Sam Altman's blog, a16z's blog  Techstar's toolkit, Marc's old blog, startup.com playbook and videos. Podcasts: 20VC, My First Million, a16z podcast, Marc & Ben, inDepth, Sequoia podcast, YC podcast, the social radars, Lenny's podcast, Marketing school, Bill Gates podcast. Videos: How to build the future, the old startup school lectures, ASUGSV, Bill Gates, Sequoia AI Ascent, LongevityCourse.org Books: Lean Startup, Zero To One, Setting The Table, Blitzscaling, Losing My Viriginity, Hard Thing About Hard Things, Idea factory, ThirdDoor, Mom Test, Singularity is Near, Singularity is Nearer, Innovators, Einstien, Dealers of Lightening, Chip War, Craig Venter, Jennifier Doudna, Eat That Frog, A technique for producing ideas, Remote, Rework, Creativity inc


  1. Start here: Athena’s 1 hour startup course, Guidebook, Pick an industry, Study companies, Find mentors, Talk to users

  2. Learn fast: 1 book per week. Practice speed reading. Listen to audiobooks, videos at 3x speed whilst exercising. Use listen to webpage, PDF read aloud to continue reading when eyes are tired. Most advice is wrong, apply everything you read with a grain of salt.


  3. Idea / Product: Sam Altman's Playbook, Founders at Work, Product Market Fit Series, Running Lean, Social Radars, Paul Graham's Essays, Startup SchoolYC Library, Steal like an Artist. Building a 10x better product is the most important.

  4. Learn anything with ChatGPT prompts, Sam Altman says you can learn any field in 1 year - he taught himself to start OpenAI. What are the biggest challenges in "industry" - Who are the main companies working on "technology" - Design a undergraduate degree in "subject". What are online courses for these subjects. What are textbooks for these courses - find on libgen.rs - What are the top scientific articles on "topic". Include the DOI - Find on sci-hub.se. Who are the main researchers in "topic" - Use contactout.com to find their email or phone and connect.


  5. Learn science and deep tech that's where the biggest impact is. Elon taught himself to build cars and rockets. You can too. AI resources: a16z AI canon, Andrej Kapathy, Andrew Ng. Biotech resources: longevitycourse.org, khan academy biology, MIT biology, Lab techniques, MOOC biology. Electronics: Building a breadboard CPU, Coursera: build a computer, What's inside a smartphone, Build your own iPhone Build your own drone, Chip Giants Documentary. Manufacturing: Factory tours, 3D printing course, CAD machining. Poverty: MIT's Poverty Action Lab, Grameen bank guidebook, Nuclear Fusion: 12 year old achieved fusion. Plasma Physics. MIT nuclear engineering


  6. Growth marketing: Jared Codling's Youtube, Brian Dean: SEO, Youtube, Content, Ahref's Youtube , Shani's writing course, Personal branding school, Jeff's tactics, 500 distro, WMD Conference, Andrew Chen's blog and Cold Start Problem. Marketing school podcast. Sean Ellis's Hacking Growth book. Noah Kagan's book. Trust Me I'm Lying. Hooked, Lean Analytics.


  7. Sales: Saastr University, Founding Sales, ContactOut's 50+ real recorded sales calls,Predicable Revenues, Impossible to Inevitable, SPIN Selling, Challenger Sale, Price Intelligently, Never Split the Difference, Cognism's blog, Winning by design, ContactOut's sales hub


  8. Productivity: Work Ethic, The One Thing, The War of Art, Atomic Habits, 4hour Work Week, Tools of Titans, Mr Beast's Employee Guidebook. . Health: Outlive, Glucose Goddess


  9. Mindset: Purpose, Self Compassion, Four Agreements, Fountainhead, Alamanack of Naval Ravikant, Code of the Extraordinary Mind, Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Radical Acceptance, Talent is Overrated, The Power of Now, Happiness Trap, Siddarth, Man's Search for Meaning. Listen to audio books at 3x speed whilst exercising.


  10. Management: micromanagement is good according to: Paul Graham, AirBnB founder, Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO, Shopify founder. Crucial Conversations, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs biology and management style. Duncan's blog and substack. 1minute Manager, CEO Within, Non-violent Communication, Dare to Lead Leaders Eat Last, Principles, Start with why. High growth handbook, Empowered, Inspired


  11. Hiring: Athena's hiring guide. Don't hire according to Sam Altman keep the team small until you reach product market fit. Steve Wozniak single handled built all hardware and software for Apple I & II. Google search was made by 2 people. Contactout's Recruitment Hub, Who A Method for hiring


  12. Raising money: How to get into YC, Raise Millions, Deck Doctors, What investors look for. Investor lists: All investors, South east Asia, VC firms, Resource list


  13. Doing business in Asia: How Asia Works, Asian Godfathers, Red Roulette, From Third World to First, Deng Xiaoping, India ChatGPT books


  14. Tax: Nomad Capitalist, Treasure Islands, Secrecy World, USA ChatGPT tax resources


  15. More Resources: Blogs: Sam Altman's blog, a16z's blog  Techstar's toolkit, Marc's old blog, startup.com playbook and videos. Podcasts: 20VC, My First Million, a16z podcast, Marc & Ben, inDepth, Sequoia podcast, YC podcast, the social radars, Lenny's podcast, Marketing school, Bill Gates podcast. Videos: How to build the future, the old startup school lectures, ASUGSV, Bill Gates, Sequoia AI Ascent, LongevityCourse.org Books: Lean Startup, Zero To One, Setting The Table, Blitzscaling, Losing My Viriginity, Hard Thing About Hard Things, Idea factory, ThirdDoor, Mom Test, Singularity is Near, Singularity is Nearer, Innovators, Einstien, Dealers of Lightening, Chip War, Craig Venter, Jennifier Doudna, Eat That Frog, A technique for producing ideas, Remote, Rework, Creativity inc