More links from our Portland Ten founders’ mailing list– these ones from our summer session. Enjoy!

Minimum Viable Product

• Great article on the benefits of taking the "minimum viable product & selling to clients to fund a company" approach: http://www.socialtimes.com/2009/09/screw-investors-get-customers/
• http://groups.google.com/group/lean-startup-circle/browse_thread/thre…
• http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/07/29/the-12-startup/
• http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product

Free Online Biz Classes from MIT

• http://www.collegemogul.com/content/8-free-online-entrepreneurial-fin…

Press/Media

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/01/10-words-i-would-love-to-see-banned-from-press-releases/

Bootstrapping

• http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html
• http://kineticac.posterous.com/ideas-are-cheap-development-easy-so-wh…
• http://www.seattle20.com/blog/Bootstrapping-stories-Financing-Your-St…

Market Research

• http://www.formspring.com/surveys.html

Beta Landing Page Sample

• http://www.panic.com/beta/

Founder Ego

• http://sarahprevette.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/gumption-the-necessity-…

Open Source

• http://newton.typepad.com/content/2009/07/professional-open-source-so…

Fundraising/Investors

• http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2009/07/bizarro-fundraising-aim-low…
• http://bostonvcblog.typepad.com/vc/2009/01/sway-and-irrational-vcs.html
• http://www.techflash.com/venture/Andreessen_Horowitz_introduces_a_new…
  http://blog.pmarca.com/2009/07/introducing-our-new-venture-capital-fi…

Pricing

• http://eliainsider.com/2009/07/24/psychology-of-iphone-pricing/

Failure

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6HEY2C6u4
• http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/01/07/is-failure-a-black-mark-for…
• http://blogs.openforum.com/2009/06/30/a-dozen-donts-for-entrepreneurs/

Guerilla Marketing

• http://www.bootstrappingblog.com/50-guerrilla-marketing-tactics-you-s…

Cap Table

• From @marc1919 truly excellent post about seed and VC investment with live spreadsheet from @capitalfactory mentor @kipmcc http://bit.ly/BfFmF

Work/Life Balance

• http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/sacrifice-your-health-for-your-startu…
• http://steveblank.com/2009/06/18/epitaph-for-an-entrepreneur/

Automating Customer Support

• You build it, they manage the calls and routing: http://www.twilio.com/

Business Plans

• How to write a business plan* (Wall Street Journal) http://snurl.com/knv4v
• Truth be told, most business plans fail to make much impression on potential investors. Most aren’t even read in full. Their shortcomings tend to be obvious even in a two-page executive summary, largely because they are written before enough real work has been done to create a solid foundation. http://snurl.com/knv4v

GTD/Productivity

• Things, built by www.culturedcode.com – runs only on mac and iPhone. Perfect, flexible Get-Things-Done application.