Guide to Seed Fundraising - Credit: Y Combinator 
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4A-a-guide-to-seed-fundraising

Guide To Seed Fundraising

A few months ago, I had a quick chat with Jonathan Mendes, co-founder of GrowSumo (https://growsumo.com/app/) about his experience in YCombinator and his advice for Caribbean startup teams

GrowSumo - Lessons from YCombinator with Jonathan Mendes

Startup Guide Podcasts presents. Startup Guide. Podcasts for early startup founders who don't like to read, but rather listen. A collection of MUST read guides, lessons, essays and more.


Today another remarkable essay by Paul Graham

How to Lose Time and Money

July 2010

When we sold our startup in 1998 I suddenly got a lot of money. I now had to think about something I hadn't had to think about before: how not to lose it. I knew it was possible to go from rich to poor, just as it was possible to go from poor to rich. But while I'd spent a lot of the past several years studying the paths from poor to rich, I knew practically nothing about the paths from rich to poor. Now, in order to avoid them, I had to learn where they were.

So I started to (..)

How To lose time and money

Startup Guide Podcasts presents. Startup Guide. Podcasts for early startup founders who don't like to read, but rather listen. A collection of MUST read guides, lessons, essays and more.

Today How to Get Startup Ideas by Paul Graham

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.

The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way.

Problems
Why is it so important to work on a problem you have? Among other things, it ensures the problem really exists. It sounds obvious to say you should only work on problems that exist. And yet by far the most common mistake startups make is to solve problems no one has.
(..)
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How to Get Startup Ideas by Paul Graham

Lisa Qiu Fetterman is the co-founder and CEO of Nomiku, a smart sous vide machine that makes delicious home cooking accessible and affordable to everybody.

In this episode, Lisa shares how she leveraged her experiences with Kickstarter, Y Combinator, and Shark Tank to build a big business out of a small kitchen appliance, and why your next meal should be Nomiku'd.

Adventures in Startups

Lisa Qiu Fetterman (Nomiku) - Under Pressure: Sous Vide In the Shark Tank

We spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give YC and YC Fellowship companies. Message from Sam Altman

The Idea Part 1 from the Startup Playbook by Sam Altman

Introduction from The Startup Playbook by Sam Altman

2nd edition, updated November 2018, How to build your Silicon Valley startup, How to find co-founders, accelerators, incubators, co-working spaces, How to sell your startup, Including insights gleaned from 26 interviews with founders, heads of accelerators, lawyers, and venture capitalists;

Written by Andreas Ramos
Andreas Ramos is an advisor to 12 silicon valley startups. He is the author of five #1 Amazon Best sellers. He's written 14 books on SEO. He teaches digital marketing at INSEEC SF, corporate training at AcademyX, the DMA-NC certification course, and is an adjunct professor at California Science and Technology University (CSTU) in Silicon Valley. Andreas graduated Magister Artium Heidelberg from Universität Heidelberg. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and cat.
https://www.andreas.com/book-startup.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasramos/
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Narrated by Fawn Alleyne
Starting in 1997, Fawn Alleyne produced marketing and training videos for clients such as Kmart, GM, Ford, and Comerica Bank. After getting married she moved from Detroit to Montreal where she continued to produce content marketing videos. After the birth of her son in 2015, she began to focus more on her work as a narrator and voice over talent. In November 2018 she built an in-home audio booth with exceptional acoustics and sound quality. Startup was the first audiobook Fawn produced and narrated in this new booth. Follow her journey into the world of voiceover production by subscribing to her Youtube Channel.
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Startup - Intro, written by Andreas Ramos, narrated by Fawn Alleyne

Tim Brady recently sat down with Bogdan Apostol, CEO of Nestor, and talked about the importance of building a strong and coherent culture early on and shared some actions that you can take today to help you create a solid foundation for your startup.

Tim Brady is a Partner at Y Combinator. He was co-founder of Imagine K12, an edtech accelerator that merged with YC in 2016. Prior to that, Tim was Yahoo’s first employee in 1995 and wrote the business plan that attracted Yahoo’s first venture capital. Tim spent eight years as Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer.

Building a Strong Company Culture Could be Your Startup’s Safety Belt with Tim Brady

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In diesem Podcast geht es um das Thema: Mentoring für IT-Fachkräfte

// Inhalt //
01:00 - Intro Dr. Tina Ruseva von Mentessa.com
01:30 - Definition und Bedeutung von Mentoring
05:23 - Faktoren für erfolgreiches (IT)-Mentoring
06:50 - Abgrenzung: Unterschied zwischen Mentoring und Coaching
09:50 - Mentoring für IT-Fachkräfte
11:03 - yCombinator Mentoring: Modell der Zukunft?
17:17 - Tina's Mentoren
18:44 - Bedarf für IT-Mentoring; Diversity, Kulturwandel, Millenials
25:16 - Wie Mentoren bzw. Mentees finden?
27:26 - Mentoring-Netzwerke sind bereichernd
29:47 - Literatur Tipps zum Thema Mentoring
31:54 - Was ist Mentessa.com?
36:28 - Welche Mentoring-Themen sind von IT-Fach- und Führungskräften besonders gefragt?
39:51 - Ist Online-Mentoring möglich?
43:08 - Fallstricke beim Mentoring
48:05 - Mentoring Success Stories
49:35 - Mentor oder Mentee gesucht? Sprecht Tina an :)

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Buchtipp: Harvard Business Essentials: Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger Performance
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Buchtipp: Der Mentoring Kompass für Unternehmen und Mentoren
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Podcast #44: Mentoring für IT-Fachkräfte

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