- How to Start a Startup (YC)
- How to Build a Startup (Steve Blank on Udacity)
- CS183/Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
- CS184: Startup Engineering (Balaji S. Srinivasan)
Best:
Pando Monthly: interviews by Sarah Lacy with founders and VCs. Many go for two or three hours. She goes beyond the PR story and touches on details, doubts, decisions.
This Week in Startups: interviews by Jason Calacanis. You'll learn things that are not in the PR story. Check out the Uber interview with Travis Kalanick for some gore inceptions details..
- Founders at Work (book by Jessica Livingston)
- any book you find by someone who's done it before. VCs, founders, etc. Relevant books can be Jordan Mechner's book about Prince of Persia, Eric Schmidt about Google, Masters of Doom. These contain gems about crucial moments and how people went about doing things, building product, distribution, relations. Peeking behind the curtain.