How to Avoid the Three Startup Danger Points

Pmarchive

An archive of the best articles from the now sadly defunct blog.pmarca.com

The Pmarca Guide to Startups

1. Part 1: Why not to do a startup
2. Part 2: When the VCs say “no”
3. Part 3: “But I don’t know any VCs!”
4. Part 4: The only thing that matters
5. Part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies
6. Part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?
7. Part 7: Why a startup’s initial business plan doesn’t matter that much
8. Part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
9. Part 9: How to hire a professional CEO

Bonus Startup Essentials

1. The truth about venture capitalists, Part 1
2. The truth about venture capitalists, Part 2
3. The truth about venture capitalists, Part 3
4. How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with
5. Serial entrepreneurs and today’s Silicon Valley
6. The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6
7. Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data
8. Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck

Additional Pmarca Guides

1. Guide to Personal Productivity
2. Guide to Career Planning, part 0: Introduction
3. Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
4. Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education
5. Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
6. Guide to Big Companies, part 1: Turnaround!
7. Guide to Big Companies, part 2: Retaining great people

Bonus Awesomeness

1. Why there’s no such thing as Web 2.0
2. Top 10 science fiction novelists of the ’00s — so far
3. Why Ning?
4. Book of the week: Best book for tech entrepreneurs this year
5. The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet
6. Music of the week: Three views of the blues, through jazz
7. Eleven lessons learned about blogging, so far
8. OK, you’re right, it IS a bubble
9. Counterpoint: Ben Horowitz on micromanagement
10. An hour and a half with Barack Obama

The Long Kiss Goodbye

Before he stopped posting, Marc tantalized readers with a “Coming Soon” list (reprinted below). I was particularly excited about the Guide to High-Tech Startups. Maybe someday. All we can do is hope.

• Top 10 books for high-tech entrepreneurs

• Top 10 ways to do personal outsourcing

• Software — the velvet revolution and the multicore conundrum

• How to trick out a Typepad blog in 2007

• Killer Windows Media Center apps for 2007

• The truth about reporters: a multi-part series

• The Pmarca Guide to High-Tech Startups: a multi-part series

• Why Internet advertising is about to get humongous

Some more reading material for you on a Saturday. Don’t get out of the house/office, just read articles all day.