Fun Reads

BetaList - BetaList is the place for early adopters to discover upcoming internet startups, and for startup founders to share their startup with the world and get early user feedback.

BetaPage - BetaPage is a small planet of like minded people who love everything about startup and innovation, who want to contribute to this planet and want to get connected with similar people.

Killer Startups - Startups.co provides education and inspiration to over 1 million registered startup founders and their teams.

Nuzzel - Nuzzel is the super-easy way to see news from your friends. We created Nuzzel to solve the problems of social overload. You can use Nuzzel to discover the best news stories shared by your friends on Facebook and Twitter without being overwhelmed or missing anything.

OWN IT - OWN IT is a trusted network of small business owners and the self-employed supporting one another in growing their businesses.

Product Hunt - Product Hunt surfaces the best new products, every day. It's a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations.

Startup Buffer - We know how hard it is to promote your startup. We are here to help! Submit your startup to awesome premium startup directory. We help you get discovered with our growth hacking techniques. Test your idea, get traction and make lots of PROFIT!

Feld Thoughts - Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars.

First Round Review - At First Round, our approach is different from other venture firms. Rather than building a portfolio of independent companies, we’re connecting a community of entrepreneurs. We believe the best advice about company building doesn’t always come from venture capitalists. In fact, it’s more likely to come from peers and practitioners.

InPower Women - At InPower Women we are dedicated to reshaping the narrative about women and power because when we speak about ourselves without shame or apology, others treat us with more credibility and respect. It all starts with us.

Medium - Stories that move with you. An app designed for readers on the go.

OnStartups - This site is for and about software startups.

ReadWrite - ReadWrite is the leading media platform dedicated to IoT and the Connected World. We work with the industry’s top technologies, thinkers, and companies to tell the stories that drive this world forward.

Shopify - Free business lessons. Get the knowledge and inspiration you need to build a profitable business — straight to your inbox.

The Global Small Business Blog - The definitive blog for entrepreneurs and small businesses interested in going global.

The Story Exchange - The Story Exchange is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to telling the personal and professional stories of women business owners — and to exploring the role of entrepreneurship in advancing women’s economic independence. We showcase the often-overlooked entrepreneurial women around the world who are contributing to their communities and collectively making an impact on the global economy.

Under 30 CEO - Blogs on entrepreneurship.

Razorsocial - We help marketing tool providers promote their offering and help our community get more benefit from marketing tech.

Search Engine Journal - Search Engine Journal is an online platform that offers news, interviews, and how-to guides from marketing experts around the world.

Springwise - Springwise Access is the leading resource to track, research and learn from the most innovative new business ideas.

Startup Anonymous - This is a community for startup enthusiasts to share stories, ask questions and offer advice free from retribution. Kinda like AA for startups.

Startup Notes - Startup Notes is the hub for unique entrepreneurial insights. On a regular basis, we publish a podcast or video interview with an accomplished founder or venture capitalist. We talk about all things startup related – from identifying an opportunity, to growing a company from 3 people to an international operation with hundreds of employees.

The Startup - Handpicked business, marketing, design, and technology articles for entrepreneurs and startups. Also home to inspiring Medium stories in productivity, life lessons, creativity, writing tips, and self improvement.

Venture Beat - Founded in 2006, VentureBeat is the leading source for news, events, groundbreaking research and perspective on technology innovation. All of our content and events provide deep context to help executives, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts make smart decisions. We aim to inform, connect and inspire.

Venture Hacks - Good advice for startups. We’ve founded companies like AngelList and Epinions, invested in companies like Twitter and helped start companies backed by Sequoia, Benchmark, and Kleiner.

Individuals' Blogs to Follow

Brian Balfour - 'm Brian Balfour, Founder/CEO of Reforge, previously VP Growth @ HubSpot. I've started multiple VC backed companies, and grown user bases to millions of daily active users. I write detailed essays on growth and user acquisition that have been featured in Forbes, Hacker Monthly, and OnStartups to help you build a growth machine.

Gary Vaynerchuk - One of the world’s leading marketing experts, Gary Vaynerchuk has built his career by being exactly where consumer attention is going next.

Hiten Shah - I’ve started three SaaS companies, Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics and Quick Sprout. One is venture capital backed & the others are self-funded. I have an email newsletter called SaaS Weekly where I share the best links of the week for anyone interested in SaaS businesses.

Morgan Brown - Today’s fastest growing startups all share one thing in common: a new approach to how they grow. Using a new way of marketing, called growth hacking, these startups have grown to millions of users and created billions of dollars in value, all without using the traditional marketing playbook.

Neil Patel - Neil Patel is a New York Times best selling author. He is the co-founder of Crazy Egg and Hello Bar and he helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP and Viacom grow their revenue.

Nicole Elizabeth DeMere - SaaS growth depends on customer success, but here’s the scary thing about customer success: It also exists outside of your platform. Success means that customers are not only using your product, they’re getting their desired outcomes – and when you bring your platform together with a strategy to help customers achieve those outcomes, you have a recipe for acquisition, retention, and insane revenue growth. This is what I do.

Sujan Patel - Sujan Patel is the co-founder of Web Profits, a growth marketing agency helping companies leverage the latest and greatest marketing strategy to fuel their businesses. Sujan has over 13 years of internet marketing experience and has led the digital marketing strategy for companies like Salesforce, Mint, Intuit and many other Fortune 500 caliber companies.

allBusiness - allBusiness is one of the world’s largest online resources for small businesses, providing essential tools and resources to start, grow and manage your business. AllBusiness.com brings you real-world expertise and practical advice from some of the best minds in small business.

Charged - Curated by Owen Williams, Charged is a weekly newsletter designed to save you time and get you up to date, without the need to keep up with noisy tech sites.

Drip - Drip is the most cost-effective way to use marketing automation to grow your business. Join for free today, and see what Drip can do for you.

Dutiee - Social good startups, social media & other world changing stories.

Entrepreneur - Entrepreneur is a North American magazine and website that carries news stories about entrepreneurship, small business management, and business.

Female Founder Stories - Welcome to Female Founder Stories, a collection of interviews with some of Y Combinator’s female alumni. Learn about things like how they got started, their experience at Y Combinator, their experience as female founders, and what they wish they'd known when they were younger.

Forbes for Entrepreneurs - Forbes is a leading source for reliable news and updated analysis on Entrepreneurs.

Founder Grid - Join close to 11,000 startup founders who receive the best 6 links from the tech/startup ecosystem every day. You're guaranteed to learn something new with each edition.

Gigaom - Gigaom is technology research and analysis firm. Our focus is on helping business leaders understand the implications of emerging technologies and their impacts on business, media, and society.

Hacker Newsletter - A weekly newsletter of the best articles on startups, technology, programming, and more. All links are curated by hand from Hacker News.

Inc Startup Section - Inc.com is where you can find everything you need to know to start and grow your business now.

Letterlist - The best email newsletters to sign up to. Curated for entrepreneurs, designers, marketers, startup founders, artists, investors, and the insatiably curious.

Noobpreneur - Noobpreneur is an award winning small business online magazine offering tips and ideas for small business owners and those who want to enter entrepreneurship with the right mindset. Our audience is mainly small business owners and business professionals.

Quora - A place to share knowledge and better understand the world.

Sidebar - Every day, the 5 best design links curated by a selection of great editors.

Small Business Trends - Founded in 2003, Small Business Trends is an award-winning online publication for small business owners, entrepreneurs and the people who interact with them.

The Startup Donut - The Donut website is aimed at helping businesses to succeed by providing reliable information and resources that can save business owners time and money.

Tech.Co - Tech.Co is a vibrant media, community and events organization for creatives, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts.

Tech Crunch - TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

UX Newsletter - ather the information. Make sense of the information. Share the information. Discuss the information. Four simple steps, when all is said and done, coalesce into a complex dance routine. From planning a product to eliciting product feedback from others—how we present and gather information is no small task.

Women Entrepreneur - Women Entrepreneur offers articles, blogs and resources specific to women for starting and growing their businesses.

Young Upstarts - Here at Young Upstarts we like to write about things that help change the world in little ways.That’s why we focus on stories and thought leadership pieces that help businesses small or large, the entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, or those who simply want to become better at what they do.

1 Million Cups - 1 Million Cups is a free, national program designed to educate, engage, and connect entrepreneurs. Developed by the Kauffman Foundation, 1MC is based on the notion that entrepreneurs discover solutions and network over a million cups of coffee.

Collective Wisdom for Tech Startups - Collective Wisdom is a podcast designed to highlight the unique attributes that make exceptional companies, well, exceptional. Each episode will provide strategies and tactics you can apply to your startup or job.

Rocketship - The podcast that inspires tens of thousands of entrepreneurs each week.

She Did It Her Way Podcast - She Did It Her Way is a collective of interviews with top female entrepreneurs who did it their way.

Stitcher Radio - Stitcher is your source for portable and personalized news and talk internet radio. From business to tech news, from politics to comedy, we “stitch” the content you want into personalized, always-current stations that you can easily listen to on your iPhone, Android or desktop. Each day, the latest segments stream to you automatically, without you having to manually refresh anything. Stitcher puts the world of talk radio at your fingertips anywhere, anytime, on the go.

The Startup Chat with Steli & Hiten - ew episodes every Tuesday & Friday. Unfiltered insights and actionable advice straight from the trenches of startup and business life.

Traction: How Startups Start - Hear different entrepreneurs share their stories on how they started.

Entrepreneurship - Personal lessons and insights from accomplished entrepreneurs are the basis of this interview series produced by Ewin Marion Kauffman Foundation and Khan Academy.

Foundation - Foundation is a monthly video series interviewing influential founders in the tech community.

Growth Hacker TV - Are you an entrepreneur who is trying to grow a startup? We have over 100 episodes where the experts on startup growth reveal their secrets. Multiple new episodes released every week.

How to Start a Startup - How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures, initially given at Stanford in Fall 2014.

Startup Grind - Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in 87 countries.

Startup Talks - Startup Talks are startup related videos and podcasts.

This Week in Startups - Jason Calacanis and a rotating group of guest experts bring you this weekly take on the best, worst, most outrageous and interesting stories from the world of entrepreneurship. Calacanis, a podcasting pioneer, gives you an insider’s look at what’s happening in the tech industry with his trademark blunt style and good humor.

#StartupMovies - #StartupMovies is a collection of movies, series and documentaries featuring startups and entrepreneurs.