awesome-startup

a16z's definitions of the numbers investors will ask about, and the ones founders commonly conflate.

Behavioral analytics for retention and funnel work.

Store and synthesize customer research so insights outlive the researcher.

Collect and prioritize feature requests to build your roadmap.

Rapid, unmoderated user testing on prototypes.

Open-source BI, quick to point at your production replica.

Credential management for teams.

Libraries that are safe by default, so security is the path of least resistance.

Continuous compliance automation and audit readiness.

The baseline web application risks to design against.

Compliance automation across common frameworks.

Find and fix vulnerabilities in dependencies and containers.

An opinionated reading path.

Recruit users manually and give them an experience that cannot last.

Long-form operational advice, consistently among the best startup writing anywhere.

Notice problems you have yourself rather than trying to think up ideas.

A walkthrough of the solo, AI-assisted operating model.

Derek Sivers on why execution is the term that matters.

Global accelerator and seed fund, formerly 500 Startups.

Non-dilutive-style funding and compute credits for AI-native startups.

Focused on enterprise sales.

Day-zero investing with cofounder matching across many cities.

Funds individuals before they have a company or a cofounder.

A community for people in the pre-idea stage.

Distribution and growth tactics from practitioners.

Ries presenting the ideas himself.

Identify opportunities based on real customer needs, develop solid business models and create successful companies.

Free online entrepreneurship and business development courses from MIT, IIMB and other top schools.

An introduction to the customer development process, where founders "get out of the building" to gather customer feedback and use it to iterate on their business model.

Lecture series with an India-focused lens.

Market maps and infrastructure analysis.

Claude API docs, including prompt caching, batch pricing and agent tooling.

Argues for simple, composable patterns over frameworks, and is right more often than not.

Blind human preference rankings, a useful sanity check against vendor benchmarks.

Open-source tracing and evaluation built on OpenTelemetry.

Independent benchmarks of quality, latency and price per token across providers.

Deep company histories that teach strategy through cases.

AI engineering, for founders building on models.

Product, growth and career advice with unusually concrete detail.

Business ideas and opportunity spotting.

Operational benchmarks for B2B SaaS at every stage.

SEO, backlink and keyword research.

Social media scheduling and analytics.

Find the most shared content and the key influencers in a niche.

Behavior-triggered messaging across email, push and in-app.

Social media management.

Custom triggers to automate social and device workflows.