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Entrepreneurship & Startups
Start and grow ventures — ideas, validation, funding, and execution.
The Agency Growth Program - Scale Your Digital Agency Fast
Complete 8-week program for building a hyper-profitable digital marketing agency: niche selection, high-value client attraction on autopilot, premium service sales, paid conversion campaigns, scaling and automating for freedom. 105+ trainings, 50+ hours.
How to Start & Scale a Million-Dollar Marketing Agency
Silvia Li Sam (Slam Media Lab, $2M in 2 years): legally create an agency, find your niche, get first clients, craft proposals, streamline operations and onboarding, use ChatGPT across agency processes. 47 lectures, ~4h 41m, English. Updated 1/2025.
How To Make Money Online & Start An Online Business (YouTube)
YouTube playlist (189 videos): how to make money online and start an online business — opportunities, models, and execution.
How to Start an Online Business (YouTube)
YouTube playlist (189 videos): how to start an online business — step-by-step playbooks for launching.
YC Startup School
Free online course from Y Combinator on how to start a startup: 7 weeks of video lessons by YC partners and founders covering strategy, idea validation, growth, fundraising, and operations. You learn by doing — the course requires weekly progress updates, milestones, and accountability exercises on your own venture. For early-stage founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, and operators. Scale: YC's flagship open course with an archive of talks and a global cohort of tens of thousands of founders.
Paul Graham Essays
The complete archive of Paul Graham's essays on startups, entrepreneurship, and technology, including classics like How to Do Great Work, Startup = Growth, and The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups. Each essay is a deep, first-principles study of founding, funding, and building companies, written by Y Combinator's co-founder. Ideal reading material for anyone studying startup thinking and strategy, with decades of accumulated insight.
SBA Learning Center (MySBA Learning)
A free learning platform from the U.S. Small Business Administration packed with self-paced courses for entrepreneurs. Content is organized into Journeys and Excursions covering business planning, market research, finances, marketing, and day-to-day operations, each with time estimates. Developed by entrepreneurship experts and aimed at anyone starting, pivoting, or growing a small business. Completely free with no paywall, backed by a U.S. government agency.
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Lex Fridman Podcast features long-form, expert conversations with scientists, engineers, philosophers, and entrepreneurs, exploring AI, physics, history, and human nature. Episodes run two to four hours and read like deep interviews rather than news hits, with full transcripts on the site. The archive is free to stream or download, and transcripts make episodes quotable study material. Guests range from Nobel laureates to tech founders, offering varied expert perspectives.
Indie Hackers Guides & Interviews
A free library of founder interviews and guides showing how solo founders and small teams build profitable internet businesses. Read real revenue numbers, product journeys, and launch strategies from companies at every stage. Guides cover idea validation, pricing, marketing, and growth tactics grounded in actual case stories. The interview and guide archives serve as studied material for anyone learning indie entrepreneurship. https://www.indiehackers.com
Stripe Atlas Guide
A free, structured handbook on starting a company: choosing a business structure, incorporating in Delaware, issuing equity, opening a bank account, and managing taxes and compliance. Written for founders, it teaches the legal and operational basics of incorporation step by step. The guide itself is free to read; the Stripe Atlas incorporation service is paid. Use it to learn startup fundamentals before or alongside founding. https://stripe.com/atlas/guide
Stanford eCorner
Stanford Technology Ventures Program's eCorner hosts thousands of free video talks and podcast episodes from legendary entrepreneurs, investors, and Stanford faculty, organized into series like Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders. You learn startup lessons, strategy, and innovation thinking directly from the people who built iconic companies. Ideal for founders, students, and anyone exploring entrepreneurship. Free.
Shopify Academy
Shopify's free learning platform with courses, learning paths, and lessons on ecommerce, merchandising, digital marketing strategy, and international expansion, plus verified skills credentials recognized by employers. You learn how to launch and scale an online business through structured tracks and hands-on exercises. Suited to entrepreneurs, merchants, and ecommerce professionals. Most courses are free.
r/Entrepreneur
A massive Reddit community covering every stage of entrepreneurship, from idea validation and business models to hiring and scaling, with a curated wiki of recommended books, tools, and guides. You learn through real founder stories, mistakes, and practical Q&A from millions of members. Suited to first-time founders and small business owners. Free and open to anyone.
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Starter Story
A database of thousands of real, profitable businesses with founder interviews detailing how each was started, what it cost, and how it grew, plus video episodes and curated idea databases. You learn practical business models and growth tactics from verified revenue data rather than speculation. Suited to aspiring founders researching business ideas. Interviews are free; advanced filters and deeper data require a paid plan. Free with limits.
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Stripe Atlas Guides
Free, practical guides from Stripe Atlas on starting and running an internet business, covering incorporation, fundraising, pitch decks, SaaS business models, pricing, hiring, and equity. Each guide teaches a specific founder skill with concrete examples and playbooks, including AMAs with investors like Marc Andreessen and John Doerr. Suited to early-stage founders and operators. Free to read.
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Stanford eCorner
Stanford eCorner is the Stanford Technology Ventures Program's free learning platform hosting thousands of videos, podcasts, and articles from Stanford faculty and world-class entrepreneurs. The Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series presents full-length talks covering startup strategy, fundraising, leadership, and innovation, each with transcripts and clips. You learn by studying how real founders and investors think and decide.
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First Round Review
First Round Review is the editorial arm of First Round Capital, publishing in-depth, tactical articles and interviews with operators from companies like Stripe, Slack, and Notion. Its library covers company building, product-market fit, fundraising, and management, offering frameworks you can apply directly to your startup. Archives are organized into collections such as Starting Up and Management for guided reading, plus a free Essentials book series. Free to read since 2013.
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How to Build a Startup (Steve Blank)
Steve Blank's classic free Udacity course on customer development and lean startup principles. Learn to test business hypotheses, get out of the building, and iterate on your business model instead of assuming you know what customers want. Video lessons include real startup case studies and practical exercises. Ideal for first-time founders validating an idea before building.
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Y Combinator Startup Library
Official Y Combinator archive of essays, videos, and guides covering every stage of the startup journey, from idea validation and MVP building to growth and fundraising. Curated reading lists and lecture recordings from YC partners and top founders. Entirely free, no signup required, and updated continuously.
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How to Start a Startup (Stanford CS183B)
Complete Stanford lecture series taught by Sam Altman with guest lectures from Paul Graham, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and other legendary founders. All 20 lectures cover idea generation, product, growth, hiring, fundraising, and culture. Full course archive with readings, free forever.
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Steve Blank Blog
The definitive free resource on customer discovery, the Customer Development methodology, and lean startup practice from the author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Hundreds of articles, slide decks, and case studies on building startups the evidence-based way. No paywall, no registration.
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Cooley GO
Free legal education hub from global law firm Cooley, built for startup founders. Plain-English explainers on cap tables, equity, incorporation, fundraising, and term sheets, plus downloadable templates and sample documents. No lawyer required to start learning.
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SCORE Small Business Resources
SBA-backed nonprofit offering free business plan templates, financial projection worksheets, and a library of small-business guides. Includes a free business plan builder, plus free mentoring from 10,000+ volunteer business experts. One of the most complete free small-business resources in the US.
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For Entrepreneurs (David Skok)
Deep-dive guide library by Matrix Partners VC David Skok, best known for the definitive free explainers on SaaS metrics and unit economics. Covers CAC, LTV, churn, cash flow troughs, and the metrics that actually predict startup success. Written for operators, free for everyone.
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US Chamber CO: Pricing Strategies for Your Business
Free pricing playbook from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce explaining the major pricing strategies — cost-plus, value-based, penetration, skimming, and more — with real small-business examples. Includes practical guidance for choosing margins and adjusting prices over time. No paywall.
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Morning Brew
The most popular free daily business and startup newsletter, read by millions of young professionals. Five-minute briefings on markets, startups, and business trends delivered to your inbox every weekday. Entirely free — ads fund it, subscribers pay nothing.
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Naval: How to Get Rich
Free collection of Naval Ravikant's famous 'How to Get Rich' essays and podcast transcripts on wealth creation, leverage, judgment, and founder psychology. Widely shared reading for founder mindset, career capital, and long-term thinking. Readable online for free, no account needed.
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The Bootstrapped Founder
Podcast and newsletter by Arvid Kahl on building and selling bootstrapped, profitable startups without venture capital. Hundreds of episodes on pricing, positioning, solo-founder economics, and mental models for independent founders. All content free.
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Business Model Canvas (Official Template)
Official free Business Model Canvas PDF from Strategyzer, the framework's creators, licensed under Creative Commons. One-page template for mapping the nine building blocks of a business model: customers, value proposition, channels, revenue, and costs. The standard tool for lean startup planning and customer discovery workshops. Free to download, print, and share.
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New Enterprises (MIT OCW 15.390)
Full free MIT Sloan course on launching new ventures, taught by Bill Aulet and Howard Anderson. Includes lecture notes, video tutorials on the 24-step startup process, assignments, and sample business plans. Covers idea validation, market segmentation, unit economics, and entrepreneurial finance. Openly licensed; no registration or fees.
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