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  1. Startups Made Simple Book Resources


Startups Made Simple Book Resources 1

STARTUPS
MADE SIMPLE

HOW TO START, GROW AND SYSTEMIZE YOUR DREAM BUSINESS

Imagine the perfect business for you. Not only a business that you love, but one that generates consistent wealth and is so well systemized that it mostly runs itself.

In Startups Made Simple, small business expert Matt Knee (the founder of MyCompanyWorks) has created a complete guide that takes you from idea to systemized company as quickly and easily as humanly possible.


or FREE with any Corporation or LLC Order

Chapter Resources


Introduction References

  • Average successful startup founder is 45

Chapter 1 – Energy

  • Meditation Resources
    • Headspace
    • Meditation for People Who Don’t Meditate
  • Entrepreneur Resources
    • 11 Entrepreneur Groups for Support
    • 20 Entrepreneur LinkedIn Groups
    • 15 Best Facebook Groups for Entrepreneurs
    • Best Twitter Accounts for Entrepreneurs (consider giving your humble author and MyCompanyWorks a follow too)
    • Entrepreneur Meetups in your city
  • Perseverance:
    • Book: How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable
    • Book: The Untethered Soul
  • Optimism:
    • Book: Learned Optimism
  • Intermittent Fasting Guide and additional articles
  • Blood Testing Services
    • HealthLabs
    • WellnessFX
    • InsideTracker (I use this one personally)

Chapter 2 – Vision

  • Vivid Vision Examples and Instructions
  • 5 Whys and other problems solving tools

Chapter 3 – Execution

  • How to track your time
  • Pomodoro Technique and Timer (there are tons of free apps for iOS and Android)
  • Cycles by Ultraworking
  • Book: Getting Things Done (GTD) and Summaries (there are many online):
    • GTD in 15 Minutes
    • GTD 101
  • Email Filtering Application: SaneBox (click here to get a $5 coupon)
  • Task Management Apps
    • Todoist (get 2 months of Premium for free)
    • Asana
  • Note-taking
    • Evernote
    • Build a Commonplace Book
    • Building a Second Brain

Chapter 3 References: 

  • Focus being the #1 skill of self-made millionaires
  • Interruptions cost $588 billion a year
  • Average employee wastes 2 hours a day

Chapter 4 – Leadership

  • Improving Writing Skills
    • The Day You Became a Better Writer
    • The Writing Class I’d Like to Teach
    • How to Improve Your Writing
    • Clearer Thinking Through Writing
    • Book: On Writing Well
  • Persuasion:
    • Book: The One Sentence Persuasion Course
    • Book: Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter

Chapter 4 References:

  • Steve Jobs temper

Chapter 5 – Step 1: Imagine It

  • Tool: Startups Made Simple Business Idea Generator (BIG) [enter name and email above to download]
  • The Perfect Business
  • Buying an Existing Business
    • Book: Buy Then Build
    • Flippa
    • BizBuySell

Chapter 6 – Step 2: Plan It

  • Tool: Startups Made Simple Business Plan [enter name and email above to download]
  • Business Naming
    • BrandBucket
    • Business Name Generator
    • Namelix
  • Simple Website Builders
  • Survey Tools
  • Placing Test Ads
    • How to Advertise on Google
    • How to Advertise on Facebook

Chapter 7 – Step 3: Start It

  • Tool: Startups Made Simple Startup Checklist [enter name and email above to download]
  • Sample Partnership and Shareholder Agreements
    • Upcounsel
    • YCombinator
  • Equity
    • How to Split Equity
    • Avoiding the 50/50 split
    • Overview of Phantom Stock
    • How stock options work
    • Stock Option Management platforms
      • Carta
      • Eshares
  • Business Entity Formation – MyCompanyWorks (duh!)
  • Payroll Services
    • Gusto
    • Intuit
  • Bookkeeping Software
    • Quickbooks
    • Freshbooks
  • Bookkeeping Services
    • Pilot
    • RemoteBooksOnline
  • Business Insurance
  • Attorney/Accounting Finder Services

Chapter 8 – Step 4: Grow It

    • Tool: Startups Made Simple Marketing Plan [enter name and email above to download]
    • Buying a Marketing List
    • List of Marketing Channels to Test
    • Calculating your CAC and LTV
    • Tagline Generator
    • Creating a USP
    • Creating a Sales Funnel
    • Startup Tools
      • StartupStash
      • Freenio
    • Recommended CRM systems:
      • OnePageCRM
      • PipeDrive
      • Close.io
    • Sales and Marketing Books:
      • Ultimate Sales Machine
      • The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
      • Predictable Revenue
  • Recommended Designers for Marketing Materials
    • Crowdspring
    • 99Designs
    • UpWork

Chapter 9 – Step 5: Manage It

  • Tool: Startups Made Simple Strategic Plan [enter name and email above to download]
  • Tool: Sample Written Procedure [enter name and email above to download]
  • Employee Assessment Tools
  • IRS Employer vs Contractor
  • Tools:
    • Issue List – Trello or a Shared Spreadsheet or Asana
    • Shared Drive – Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive
    • Intranet – Google Sites, Sharepoint (many online via search for “intranet”)
    • Process Management
      • CleverChecklist
      • Manifest.ly
      • Process.st
      • SweetProcess
      • Tallyfy

Chapter 10 – Step 6: Systemize It

  • Core Values
    • Good Example: Coinbase – very clear, simple, brief.
    • Good list of examples
    • Finding your core values
  • Book: The Innovator’s Dilemma

Appendix

Recommended Reading:

  • 1 Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
  • Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham
  • Getting Things Done by David Allen
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins
  • No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits by Dan Kennedy
  • Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
  • The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
  • The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
  • The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • The New One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard
  • The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey by Ken Blanchard, William Oncken, Jr., and Hal Burrows
  • The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
  • Traction by Gino Wickman
  • Winning With Accountability by Henry J. Evans
  • Work the System by Sam Carpenter
Startups Made Simple Book Resources 1

STARTUPS
MADE SIMPLE

HOW TO START, GROW AND SYSTEMIZE YOUR DREAM BUSINESS

Imagine the perfect business for you. Not only a business that you love, but one that generates consistent wealth and is so well systemized that it mostly runs itself.

In Startups Made Simple, small business expert Matt Knee (the founder of MyCompanyWorks) has created a complete guide that takes you from idea to systemized company as quickly and easily as humanly possible.


or FREE with any Corporation or LLC Order



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