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General
Do Things That Don't Scale by Paul Graham
Alternative growth strategies for startups beyond scaling
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Books
Innovation Blind Spot
The reasons why so many companies miss innovation opportunities.
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Marketing
B2B SaaS Marketing Guide
by Alex Kracov, ex-VP of marketing at Lattice.
Article
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GTM, Growth, and Product
Kickstart and scale a consumer business
How today’s biggest consumer products got their first 1,000 users.
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GTM, Growth, and Product
GTM plan template
A simplified overview of the subject your GTM plan needs to cover
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Building a Team
Firing well
A guide by Matt Mochary on how to handle firing employees with grace.
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Fundraising
Why You Should Embrace the Post-Money SAFE
Uncovering why you should leverage this investment vehicle for your early rounds of fundraising
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Ground Up Originals
The Creative Marketer by Shlomo Genchin
Practical techniques and tools for marketers.
Newsletter
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Ground Up Originals
Neal’s Deals by Neal Mintz
Digestible early-stage funding news.
Newsletter
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Fundraising
Market Sizing Guide
Learn how to estimate your market size
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Ground Up Originals
Cheat Codes: DTC by Jordan Odinsky
Uncovering the strategies of the greatest DTC brands.
Podcast
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Fundraising
Angel investor directory
First Round’s list of angel investors.
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Fundraising
Base Templates
200+ original startup & unicorn pitch decks that raised millions from VCs & angels.
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Ground Up Originals
Ground Up Venture’s Medium
Where we publish our investment memos, deep dives, thoughts, and updates.
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Fundraising
OpenDeck
1,200+ startup slides sorted by category.
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Fundraising
Best Pitch Decks
A collection of 790+ winning pitch deck examples from high-growth startups.
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Fundraising
Writing a business plan
Sequoia’s simple guide for how to write a business plan
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Fundraising
Pitch Deck Teardowns
TechCrunch analyzes the latest pitch decks
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Fundraising
Pitch Deck Hunt
1000+ pitch deck examples from the most successful startups.
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Fundraising
How to raise money by Paul Graham
Guiding startups through effective fundraising strategies and investor relationship-building
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Fundraising
How to Present to Investors
A short guide by Aaref Hilaly from Sequoia
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Fundraising
AngelMatch
700+ pitch deck examples from top tech companies.
Collection
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Fundraising
Trulytell
An agency that creates Pre-seed and seed-stage pitch decks
Service
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Fundraising
The Non-Obvious Guide to Fundraising
Gigi Levy-Weiss shares his best fundraising tips
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Fundraising
Presenting to VCs
15 rules for the perfect pitch
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Fundraising
The NFX pitch deck library
Insights for creating a world-class pitch deck. Take a look inside an investor’s mind.
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Building a Team
How do you convince someone to join your startup?
by Dalton Caldwell, Y Combinator partner and founder of Mixed Media Labs
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