Abdullah Yahya

• Fred Wilson Advice and spreadsheet
  • Employee Equity
  • Dilution
  • Appreciation
  • Options
  • Option “Strike Price”
  • RSU’s (Restricted Stock Units)
  • Vesting
  • How Much?
• Intro to Stock and Options – David Weekly
• Venture Hacks equity section
• Dilution – Mark Suster
• Joel Spolsky Advice on fairness
• Awesome Valuation/Equity Calculator – OwnYourVenture
• Splitting the Founders Pie – Frank Demmler
• ScottEdWalker – this legal blog is gold for a startup
• TruEquity Mgmt Tool – cap table management, free for founders
• Valuation on Revenue – Bill Gurley Above the Crowd

• Patents – U.S. Patent Office
• Trademarks – U.S. Patent Office
• Intellectual Property in the “Real World”– Antone Johnson
• “Nuts and Bolts” of Intellectual Property – Antone Johnson
• Intellectual Property for Startups – Mashtag

• Orick’s Legal Documents for Startups – priceless
• Scott Walker Advice on Termsheet Provisions
• YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents
• National Venture Capital Association – model legal documents
• Series Seed Documents – Fenwick & West Seed Investment Standard Forms, used by most angels
• TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents – Cooley Godward
• WSGR Term Sheet Generator
• Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator
• Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet – WSGR
• Docracy -Free Legal Documents
• ScottEdWalker – this legal blog is gold for a startup

• FindtheBest Venture Capital
• Startup Valuation Advice – Mark Suster May 2011
• Fundraising 101 Checklist – Walker
• Pitching a VC – Mark Suster Advice
• How VC’s Evaluate Startups – Thomvest Ventures
• VC Experts
• Seed Stage Valuation Guide – Jordan Cooper
• Alternate Funding Ideas – Business Inside

• List of Startup Incubators
• FindTheBest Incubators
• A Quora list of Incubators
• Jobs in Startups
• Lunch with Entrepreneurs
• Techcofounder – find a technical cofounder
• Founder Dating – find a cofounder

• Kickstarter – crowdfunding
• Indiegogo – crowdfunding
• Rock The Post – crowd funding
• RocketHub – crowd funding, partner with A&E
• Appbackr – crowd funding for mobile apps
• Tindle – crowd funding for makers to sell their hardware
• Quirky – shared social inventor community

 

Crowdfunding Tips / Advice

• Making an iPhone tripod & stand (Glif)
• Publishing a book (Art Space Tokyo)

• Venture Hacks Angel List – raise money with angel investors
• AngelList – connecting startups and angels
• Seed-Db – database of seed accelerators and their companies
• Gust – Platform for Startup Funding
• Guide to Super Angels – Chubby Brain
• Types of Angel Financing
• Angel Financing Tips and here

• ShareDesk – find a workspace in your city
• Coworkify – find a workspace in your city
• NextSpace – coworking spaces across California
• FoundersDen – San Francisco workspace
• OpenDesks – find workspace/meeting places
• SandBoxSuites – SF Bay Area shared workspace
• RocketSpace – SF Bay Area shared workspace
• HackerDojo – community center in Mountain View

• LendingClub – stats on funding and loans
• Prosper – Prosper funding data/API
• BBYOpen – Best Buy open product data/API
• EbayOdata – Ebay open data/API
• Yelp Academic Dataset – access 250 closest businesses for 30 universities for students
• Reuters/Thompson – API
• Yahoo – data for students/academics
• Uber – car cost of ownership
• Terapeak – ebay and Amazon data

Public or University library Resources:

• Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys
• Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries, Gale Research
• Encyclopedia of American Industries, Gale Research
• Encyclopedia of Associations, Gale Research (find Trade Associations)
• Harris InfoSource Business Directory
• Lifestyle Market Analyst, SRDS – used for collecting psychographic data

Market Research Resources Online

• FindTheCompany – corporate and organization data
• IOS / Android Market Size – Installed base
• Crunchbase – tech company/people database
• Edsurge – educational software
• Alexa – competitive website info
• SimilarWeb – discover traffic for any web site
• Silicon Valley Bank Analytics
• Compete – see competitive website traffic
• ChangeDetection – know when any web page changes
• SEC EDGAR – research on public U.S. firms
• MarketReseach.com  – Retailer of private market research reports
• ZapData.com – Dun & Bradstreet offers free statistical industry data
• Thomas – find any company in any industry
• BizStats.com – free business statistics and financial ratios
• SBDC – National Information Clearinghouse of the U.S. Small Business Administration
• Encyclopedia of Associations
• U.S. Bureau of the Census
• ESRI– Has free demographic data available by zip code
• EASI – estimated demographic statistics within a user-specified radii for any address
• Claritas – psychographic information and analysis of zip code areas
• Standard and Poors – Industry Surveys
• International Trade Statistics –
• NVCA – venture capital industry data
• PWC MoneyTree – more venture capital data
• Chemical Industry data
• FDA News – medical device and drug data/news
• Asymco – great market intelligence blog