Launching a venture or continuing to build your business? We’ve curated a list of resources to help you wherever you are on your journey.
Pitch Decks
Pitch Deck Structure Sample
What goes into a pitch deck? This step-by-step sample pitch deck breaks down each slide critical to a successful pitch.
Airbnb Pitch Deck
Insider.com has a database of over 950 pitch decks from startups that include Uber, Postmates, and Airbnb.
Pitch Deck Library
Leveraging experiential learning through the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science’s UT Design senior capstone course to help bring high potential technology startups to life.
Videos
How to Build a Startup: Steve Blank on Udacity
The introductory course by Steve Blank covers the basics of the Customer Development Process and the key steps to building a successful startup.
Y Combinator’s Startup School
Series of videos providing answers on a wide array of startup topics. Produced by one of the country’s top accelerators.
Essentials/Toolkits
Art of the Start 2.0
An online educational resource to help learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and accelerate your success.
Venture Deals
The Pitch Elements Canvas from Actionworks helps you surface talking points for how you articulate an idea. These talking points equip you to advocate (and more importantly, get feedback on) your idea with others.
Render Capital’s Founder Toolkit
A comprehensive founder toolkit that comprises a wealth of resources, templates, and investor databases that are curated from leaders in the ecosystem.
Fundraising
Y Combinator’s “A Guide to Seed Fundraising”
This brief guide is a summary of what startup founders need to know about raising the seed funds critical to getting their company off the ground.
Books
Techstars Entrepreneurs Toolkit
An online educational resource to help learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and accelerate your success.
Pitch Elements Canvas
The Pitch Elements Canvas from Actionworks helps you surface talking points for how you articulate an idea. These talking points equip you to advocate (and more importantly, get feedback on) your idea with others.