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Startup Fundamentals

How founders think about building something from nothing

Do Things That Don't Scale
Paul Graham · Essay
The Lean Startup / Minimum Viable Product
Eric Ries · Book
How to Get Startup Ideas
Paul Graham · Essay
1,000 True Fans
Kevin Kelly · Essay
Competition Is for Losers
Peter Thiel · Essay
All Markets Are Not Created Equal (Note to Self on TAM)
Bill Gurley · Essay
SaaS Metrics 2.0
David Skok · Essay
Blitzscaling
Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh · Essay
Aggregation Theory
Ben Thompson · Essay
Invisible Asymptotes
Eugene Wei · Essay
The New Moats
Jerry Chen · Essay
The Rise of the Solo Capitalists
Nikhil Basu Trivedi · Essay
The Cook and the Chef
Tim Urban · Essay
Blue Ocean Strategy
W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne · Book
Distribution Follows a Power Law
Peter Thiel · Book excerpt
You're Probably Too Early
Marc Andreessen (via The Startup Archive) · Essay