How to Start a Startup: The Book

Based on the "How to Start a Startup" course by Y Combinator at Stanford University, this is a reference book you'll want to return to again and again.

The Ultimate Playbook for Startup Founders

This in-depth guide reveals the secrets to raising money, hiring a great team, building products users love, getting press coverage, and more.

Includes Lessons from 25+ Silicon Valley Insiders

You'll learn from esteemed tech startup founders and investors like: Dustin Moskovitz, Paul Graham, Reid Hoffman, Ben Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Aaron Levie, Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Ben Silbermann, Patrick and John Collison, and more.

Table of Contents

Early Days

1. Read This Before You Even Think About Starting a Startup

2. Never Stop Learning: Advice from Paul Graham

3. Legal and Accounting 101

Leadership

4. How to Be a Great Founder

5. Operational Insight: How to Build a Company That Can Manage Itself

6. Management Advice: The Art of Balancing Competing Interests

Building Products

7. How to Build Products Users Love

8. Competition Is for Losers

9. Designing Hardware for the Internet of Things

10. Why You Should Build for the Enterprise

Reaching Your Audience

11. How to Run a Successful User Interview

12. Getting Press the Right Way

13. How to Land Early Customers

Fundraising

14. How to Raise Money

15. Perfecting Your Pitch

Hiring

16. How to Hire the Best Team

17. Creating Company Culture

18. Advice on Hiring and Culture from the Founders of Pinterest and Stripe

Scaling

19. Doing Things That Don’t Scale

20. 3 Essentials for Scaling

21. Lessons from Facebook’s VP of Growth

Parting Words

22. What Comes After Finding Product-Market Fit

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