7. Read (a little)
• Books • Blogs/News
• Startup Owner’s Manual • avc.com
• Business Model Generation • Paul Graham’s Essays
• The Lean Startup • Steve Blank’s Blog
• The Thank You Economy • TechCrunch/The Next Web/Pando
Daily/Venture Beat (kinda)
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• Hacker News
• The Referral Engine
• Smashing Magazine
• The Accidental Billionaires
• 37 Signals Blog
• Steve Jobs
• bhorowitz.com
• Founders at Work
• Venture Hacks (archives too)
13. Social/Customer Stuff
• Social Media
• Osfoora
• Hootsuite
• Friendsignia! ;)
• Email
• Toutapp and Yesware for tracking
• Smartr and Rainmaker for stalking
• Mailchimp for Newsletters, etc.
• Engage
• Hacker News and Quora for intelligent discussion
• IRC is useful for some startups
• AngelList
14. Extras
• Watch
• Foundations (Kevin Rose)
• Startup.com
• Objectified
• Pirates of Silicon Valley/The Social Network
• TWIST, Mixergy, Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, Startup Success
• Go
• Local Usergroups (#memtech)
• This Meetup!
• Tech Cocktails/Tech Lunch/Tech Coffee
• Follow
• @cliffmckinney
• @workforpie
• @FAKEGRIMLOCK