Below, I've compiled a list of readings — mostly blog posts, but also some books — that cover topics relevant to my course, i.e., lean startup management practices, product marketing/management, and business development

A startup idea is not a plan of action. A startup idea is a series of unchecked hypotheses. In essence, it is a series of questions that you haven't completely answered yet. The process of progressing a startup from idea to functioning business is the process of answering these questions, of validating these hypotheses.

What follows is a detailed how-to for analyzing your product’s customers.

Below is a lightweight tools we used at ThoughtWorks to fill a gap this gap and get our project headed in the right direction long before the first line of code every got written.

Chargify simplifies recurring billing for Web 2.0 and SaaS companies.

Launch is a stressful time for web start-ups. It’s the culmination of many month’s hard work, arguments, agreements, feature debates, and design decisions. Someone runs a deploy script and poof! You’re not in Kansas anymore, and you’ll certainly need a brain, a heart and a fair share of courage.

Exit points are the critical points at which you lose valued users. Are you keeping track of yours?

Andrew Chen, who writes the excellent blog Futuristic Play, has a nice post explaining exit points, those point in which people decide to leave your product/service/app

Y Combinator and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are happy to announce the Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Their goal is to make angel funding rounds for startups easier for both sides.

These documents were originally created for YC-funded startups to use when raising angel rounds. They seem to have worked well in trial runs so far, so we're open-sourcing them.