During our first round of Portland Ten, our founders shared a lot of links & resources through our internal mailing list– enjoy!

Market Validation

• http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/marketing/a/marketresearch.htm
  
• http://www.statpac.com/surveys/surveys.pdf
  
• http://www.bizhelp24.com/marketing/market-research-questionnaires-3.html
• http://marketing.about.com/od/statisticsandresearch/a/mrktrsrchbudget…
  
• http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/marketing/a/targetmarket_2.htm
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_research
  
• http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0803/gallery.jobsqna.fort…
  
• http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2004/03/24/5-questions-you-shou…
  
• http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing/market-research/1959-1.html
• http://www.bizhelp24.com/marketing/market-research-questionnaires-3.html
  
• http://www.bizhelp24.com/marketing/questionnaires—targeting-and-cho…
  
• http://www.bizhelp24.com/marketing/structuring-your-questionnaire—w…
  
• http://www.bizhelp24.com/marketing/tips-and-things-to-avoid-in-questi…
• http://smallbiztrends.com/2008/05/how-do-entrepreneurs-come-up-with-n…

Competition

• http://thenetsetter.com/blog/strategy/6-strategies-to-take-on-an-esta…

Revenue Models

• http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/981-the-secret-to-making-money-online
• http://spellr.us/plans.php
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_model
• http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/03/10-business-models-to-monetize-…
• http://www.boxuk.com/blog/monetizing-your-web-app-business-models
• Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free
• The benefits of a monthly recurring revenue model in tough economic times http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1471-the-benefits-of-a-monthly-rec…
• Struggling to Monetize Web 2.0<http://web2.socialcomputingmagazine.com/struggling_to_monetize_web_20...
• How to Price your Web App<http://thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/how-to-price-your-web-applic…
  
• http://delicious.com/olynnduncan/revenuemodels
  

GTD/Productivity

• http://www.gtdtimes.com/2009/04/20/david-developed-gtd-because/
• http://techwraith.com/2009/02/gtd-with-gmail-filters-labels-quick-lin…
• http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-in-labs-multiple-inboxes.html
• http://periscopegadget.com/  (Basecamp Gmail integration)
• http://www.liquidplanner.com/blog/2009/04/02/multi-frakin-tasking-bet…
• http://www.rescuetime.com
• http://basecamphq.com/

Design/Basic Identity/Landing Pages

• http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/web/50-totally-free-lessons-in-graph…
• http://www.crowdspring.com/
  
• http://www.overnightprints.com
• http://naturallyobsessed.com/ 
  
• http://new.myfonts.com/
• http://www.copyblogger.com/seal-the-deal-10-tips-for-writing-the-ultimate-landing-page/

Google Apps

• http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/03/bad_rap_against.html;jsessionid=EZFRGIRLF2BUIQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?print=true
• http://is.gd/o3rV

Iterating

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_han/623205062/sizes/l/
• http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/26/amazon-shopping-cart/
• http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product

Extreme Programming

• Ward Cunningham, on Extreme programming
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE
  

Object oriented CSS

• http://groups.google.com/group/object-oriented-css/browse_thread/thre… 

Scalability

• http://mosso.com 

Wireframe software

• Visio
• http://www.axure.com/ 
• http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/OmniGraffle/
• http://konigi.com/tools/omnigraffle-wireframe-stencils
• http://www.gimp.org/
  
• http://www.inkscape.org/
• SmartDraw

Startup Advice

• http://paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
• http://www.cpd.ogi.edu/mst/capstone/17Mistakes.htm
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip1zsUIosoA (Don’t Stop Believing, Jason Calacanis)
• From @rosshill http://twitter.com/rosshill: "Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the capability to recover when failures occur." - Pixar 

Cofounders

• http://www.myhightechstartup.com/2009/02/20/finding-a-co-founder-wher… 
• http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/advice-on-equity.html
  http://nancykingsearch.typepad.com/nancy_king_search/2009/03/what-it-… 

Finance/Accounting

• http://www.freshbooks.com/
• http://outright.com/
  
• http://shoeboxed.com/

Legal

• http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/

Webconferencing

• https://acrobat.com/
• http://www.gotomeeting.com/
• DimDim or Yugma
• iChat AV

SEO

• http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/22426.asp
  
• http://sbimonline.com/content/local-search-statistics-and-small-busin…
• Apparently, it’s estimated that 20-50% of all searches are local & 61% of all local searches result in a transaction. (From
  
• @CheriHegi<http://twitter.com/CheriHegi/status/1425906780>summarizing facts from the two articles).
• http://www.google.com/sktool/#keywords
• http://www.woopra.com

Fundraising 

• http://swooshing.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/startup-seed-raising-skillzzz/ 
• http://www.techstars.org/2009/02/07/techstars-model-seed-funding-docu…

Pitching

• StartupNow pitches (3 Portland Ten founders, starting at minute 40: http://bit.ly/DDwMP)