Here is a running list of some useful websites for people who are starting up:

Should I or shouldn’t I (become an entrepreneur)?

• Mark Suster’s brilliant post on what entrepreneurship is really like Mark Suster: Entrepreneurshit
• CB Insight’s data on startup death and longevity CB Insights: Startup Death Data

Ok, I am doing this. Now how do I get this thing off the ground?

• Sam Altman’s excellent Stanford course on “How to start a startup” Sam Altman: How to Start a Startup
• Guy Kawasaki on what a pitch to investors should look like Guy Kawasaki: Pitching
• Reid Hoffman’s detailed pitchbook and explanation of the deck LinkedIn used to raise Series B financing Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn’s Series B pitch deck
• Registering a company in India – rules: MCA site: registering a Company
• Raising capital in India – Foreign direct investment (FDI) rules: FDI rules: FAQ
• Paul Graham on how (counter-intuitively) startups need to do things that don’t scale http://paulgraham.com/ds.html Paul Graham: Do Things That Don’t Scale
• Fund-raising advice from Andreessen Horowitz: A16z: Raising Capital, this is the advice we give our founders
• Alternative funding paths and definitions of success Andrew Wilkinson: I want to be a horse not a unicorn, so I won’t take VC money

Fund-raising nuances

• Mark Suster with a more nuanced view on setting valuations and negotiating VC rounds Mark Suster: What is it like to negotiate a VC Round
• Joseph Walla on how to pick a valuation Joseph Walla – How to pick a valuation
• Heidi Roizen on how you can build a unicorn and still walk away with nothing. Ouch! Heidi Roizen: How To Build a Unicorn From Scratch and Walk Away With Nothing
• Eric Paley on keeping fund-raising in perspective http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/30/wasting-time-with-the-joneses/

Now that you’ve built it. Exit options

• Justin Kan on how to think about exit options Justin Kan: the-founders-guide-to-selling-your-company