Entrepreneurship and Startups
Arizona Innovation Challenge Grant Program
Startup Weekend Resources
Startup Weekend Attendee Resources
Startup Weekend Resources
Startup Weekend Final Presentations: How to Impress the Judges
Final Presentation: What Will the Judges Be Looking For?
Startup Weekend: Judging Criteria
How to Win Startup Weekend: A Hustler’s Guide
Books for Startups (steveblank.com)
Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Design
Instructor: IDEO.org
A free online course at Acumen.com
How to Build a Startup – The Lean LaunchPad
Steve Blank
A free online course at Udacity.com
ASU Startup School
Free, online, self-paced – “a comprehensive and proven framework for developing ventures”
Kauffman Founders School
A free online educational resource dedicated to entrepreneurship
Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
A book by Brad Feld. Related articles:
Brad Feld’s four ingredients for thriving startup cities
Empirical Support for the Boulder Thesis
The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
A book by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
A book by Eric Ries
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
A book by Alexander Osterwalder, et al.
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
A book by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
Strategyzer.com – Training and Resources
Includes downloadable copies of the Business Model and Value Proposition Canvases
The Path Forward
The fast track to a scalable digital business
Startup Tucson
A Venture Community
Think Locally, Act Locally: Building a Robust Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Guidelines for Local and State Governments to Promote Entrepreneurship
Changing Capital: Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurial Finance
Demographic Trends Will Shape the Future of Entrepreneurship
How Entrepreneurs Access Capital and Get Funded
The Economic Impact of High-Growth Startups
Kauffman Foundation Reports
AZ Commerce Authority Start Up: Resource Directory
Programming
Codecademy
Learn to code interactively, for free.
Code School
Learn by doing with hands-on programming courses.
Articles
30 Questions Investors Ask During Fundraising
2017 is the year your startup gets funded
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything (Steve Blank)
AOL Co-Founder Steve Case on the Rise of Second Cities