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.

Pre-Launch Pitch Deck: This is Mint.com’s pre-launch pitch deck.

Airbnb Pitch Deck – an early version of Airbnb’s pitch deck.

Pitch Deck Library – Insider.com has a database of over 950 pitch decks from startups that include Uber, Postmates, and Airbnb.

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

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. 

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

Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company