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This is a collection of stuff that I did not think I could fit anywhere else. Let me know if you find something you think I should add to the list. Send me a tweet, or a note through LinkedIn, or leave a post on the Innovation Footprints Facebook wall.

  1. Finding information and analyzing data
    • Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research – Hack the web like a spy, the good stuff starts on page 43, and gets better by page 175
      • Style Manual & Writers Guide for Intelligence Publications – The CIA’s style guide.
    • Owlink – this browser extension makes your Google search results more useful for yourself and your team. It’s in beta.
    • The Startup Genome Project – an open innovation project on startups, startup ecosystems and high-impact entrepreneurship around the world.
    • Getting Started With Machine Learning – an introduction to tools for statistical analysis, and Machine Learning.
    • R Bootcamp – Materials developed by Jared Knowles to get you up and running.
    • Introducing R – Notes from Princeton University.
    • Statistics Done Wrong – a guide to the most common errors that people make as they perform statistical analysis.
    • Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms – by David J.C. MacKay.
    • Financial Data
      • IPO Data
      • Corporate Finance and Equity Valuation
  2. Developing a strategic plan
    • Digital Strategy – A post on Medium by Matthew Daniels; 40 Articles and Books That will Make You a Great Digital Strategist.
    • Product Management – A post on Medium by Noah Weiss; 48 Articles and Books That Will Make You a Great Product Manager.
    • Strategic Planning at Pandora – How Pandora nabbed 70 million users with only 40 engineers. The Goals Grid is a template made for that kind of strategic planning.
    • Resources (Videos) – Brief clips from the team behind mystrategicplan.com in which they explain basic concepts. There are other resources there you might want to check out. I used these videos as a quick refresher before starting two assignments that consumed nearly all my attention for two years between 2008 and 2010.
    • Pearls Before Breakfast – An article from The Washington Post of April 8, 2007 that demonstrates why you need a marketing and PR strategy. This post on LinkedIn by Anita Elberse connects the dots: What You Can Learn From The World’s Best Violinist (And His $32 Payday)
    • Never Get Involved In A Land War in Asia (or Build A Website for No Reason) – an article from 2005 about the importance of web strategy.
  3. Choosing a co-founder
    • Entrepreneur DNA – an infographic produced by the Founder Institute.
  4. Network
    • Meetup – meet other people that are interested in something you are passionate about.
    • Collabfinder – team up with someone to start a project.

This is a list of Startup and Entrepreneurship tools curated by others:

  1. New York University – an awesome collection of tools with a focus on startups and entrepreneurs in NYC, but there’s plenty here even for an entrepreneur in Timbuktu.
  2. Steve Blank’s Startup Tools – an extensive list of tools and resources. 
  3. Startup Management 101: World’s Longest Syllabus – resources curated by Tom Eisenmann who teaches a Harvard Business School MBA elective course Launching Tech Ventures.
  4. 50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Writers – from Job Profiles.
  5. Startup Stash – A curated directory of resources & tools to help you build your Startup.

Two white papers I wrote that were originally published at Tekedia.com. They seem to no longer be online, so I am posting the PDF files here.

  1. Towards A Business Model For Funding African Startups
    • A summary for the World Bank’s PSD Blog.
  2. Towards A Business Model For Funding African Startups – 2 Years Later

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