The Startup Library (613 page downloadable PDF of a pantheon of great startup blog posts and essays)
If you ever find yourself on a plane and just want some great mind poiso-- I mean reading material about startups, entrepreneurship, product management, and so on -- you should download this and read it. It's a great list of stuff.
- YC's Startup Library
- All of Paul Graham's essays (must read for any startup founder)
- Selected Wired articles about startups (The New Boom, The Long Tail)
- The story of Ars Digita by Philip Greenspun
- Creation stories of Google and Yahoo
- Evan Williams's Ten Rules for Web Startups
- and so on...
Big time hat tip to the creator of the PDF, Chirag Chamoli, and as always, Hacker News.
What you read absolutely helps you in your quest to fulfill your dreams and create your own startup. Posterous is living proof. Read and absorb. But then take action. Reading is all well and good, but as Friedrich Engels said: An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Feed your mind, but keep your hands busy.Download the 13 megabyte PDF here.
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17 comments
Aug 25, 2009
adamtaylor said...
Wow excellent job. Will definitely give this a download and read..
Aug 25, 2009
Justin Lee said...
very nice!!! i'm spreading this
Aug 25, 2009
brucecolwin said...
Great resource, though it's interesting to quote Engels, the father of Communism, on a post related to startups - the essence of capitalism!
Aug 25, 2009
Mohd Khawaja said...
Thanks alot for sharing! I'm excited to go through it as soon as I finish downloading the PDF
Aug 25, 2009
Satish Medos said...
Garry Thanks for the post....great stuff to sink in...
Aug 25, 2009
Abhisek Dutta said...
Excellent job, Garry. It would come handy for a lot of us. Thanks.
Aug 25, 2009
Thomas Stegelmann said...
Great! Thanks a lot for this collection!
Aug 25, 2009
Jose Paul Martin said...
Great Share Garry!
Aug 25, 2009
Alexey Gornostaev said...
Started to read. Great Colletion. Wish to have it as online wiki.
Aug 25, 2009
Justin Thiele said...
Wow, this looks awesome for passing the time in planes/cars/waiting rooms. Thanks!
Aug 25, 2009
Abhisek Dutta said...
excellent work... thanks a ton.
Aug 25, 2009
Dirk Dallas said...
amazing resource, thanks!
Aug 28, 2009
meetsoftslas said...
Hey !!!! The download does not work.
Aug 28, 2009
Garry Tan said...
Download works fine for me, meetsoftslas -- but you can also try getting it here: http://friendfeed.com/chiragchamoli/86e89bdb/if-you-like-y-combinator-startup-library-can
Aug 31, 2009
Chris Caceres said...
thanks for these reads garry!
Aug 31, 2009
meetsoftslas said...
Thank you Garry.this works fine
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