1. How to Start a Startup.
  Build something users love, and spend less than you make.

2. Startups in 13 Sentences.
  Above all, understand your users.

3. Hiring is Obsolete.
  The market is a lot more discerning than any employer.

4. How to Make Wealth.
  To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage.

5. You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss.
  Startup founders seem to be working in a way that’s more natural for humans.

6. Why to Not Not Start a Startup.
  All the reasons you aren’t doing it, and why most (but not all) should be ignored.

7. Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy.
  It’s the people that matter.

8. A Student’s Guide to Startups.
  Starting a startup could well become as popular as grad school.

9. Ideas for Startups.
  The initial idea is not a blueprint, but a question.

10. Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas.
  A hacker who has learned what to make, and not just how to make, is extraordinarily powerful.

11. Be Relentlessly Resourceful.
  You have to keep trying new things.

12. The 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups.
  If you avoid every cause of failure, you succeed.

13. The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
  Some things about startups are kind of counterintuitive.

14. How to Fund a Startup.
  Venture funding works like gears.

15. The Hacker’s Guide to Investors.
  Hackers don’t know how little they know about this strange world.

16. How to Present to Investors.
  Explain what you’re doing and why users will want it.

17. The Equity Equation.
  You should always feel richer after trading equity.

18. A Fundraising Survival Guide.
  Founders have to treat raising money as a dangerous process.

19. The Venture Capital Squeeze.
  Why not let the founders have that first million, or at least half million?

20. The Other Road Ahead.
  You may not believe it, but I promise you, Microsoft is scared of you.

21. How Not to Die.
  Startups run on morale.

22. What Business Can Learn from Open Source.
  There may be more pain in your own company, but it won’t hurt as much.

23. What the Bubble Got Right.
  Even a small increase in the rate at which good ideas win would be a momentous change.

24. The High-Res Society.
  The economy of the future will be a fluid network of smaller, independent units.

— Y Combinator Startup Library

2010.11.04 Thursday ACHK