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Foundation
A free online course to help you find the right business model for your first venture
100 Dollar Startup
Reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love, and create a new future.
Both Sides of The Table
Perspectives of a 2x entrepreneur turned VC at @UpfrontVC, the largest and most active early-stage fund in Southern California.
CoFounders Lab
An online platform offering discussions and networking for aspiring entrepreneurs looking for co-founders and advisors.
Creative Market
An online marketplace to get design assets sold by thousands of professional creatives.
Culture Decks
A collection of culture decks, core values, mission statements, and more from real companies.
Design Systems
A guide to creating design systems to make products more usable and teams more efficient.
Design Thinking
Design is a method of optimizing something towards a desired outcome. Dieter Rams used to say that it's a transition from existing state to desired state. Design thinking puts a framework around using design principles to solve business problems.
Digital Marketer
A fantastic blog with tons of hands-on, detailed guides on growing a business online.
Facebook Design
An impressive collection of design articles, templates, and resources from the design team at Facebook.
Foundr Magazine
A go-to digital resource for the growing ranks of craft, self-made entrepreneurs — at every level of experience.
Growth Geeks
Growth hacking as a service; hire professionals to help you grow your business online.
Growth Hackers
Great community of growth hackers to tons of useful strategies, tactics, and regular AMAs with prominent entrepreneurs.
How To Start a Startup
Everything we know about how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts.
InVision App
A powerful tool for turn static designs into clickable app prototypes without any coding.
Just good copy
Copywriting makes all the difference. Learn from email campaigns created by some of the best tech companies out there.
Made to Stick
Why do some ideas spread like wildfire? Turns out there's a method to improving how your ideas are peceived.
Masters of Scale
Masters of Scale is an original podcast hosted by LinkedIn Co-Founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman showing how companies grow from zero to a gazillion.
Principles of Product Design
You've heard me say that ideal products automate work entirely and great products make work seem easy. This guide explains the foundations of product design.
Ready, Fire, Aim
Super practical tactics and strategies to grow ventures. A decade after it was first published, it's still one my favourites.
Shopify Guides
A collection of online guides about online business from the makers of Shopify.
Startup Pitch Decks
A collection of real fundraising decks from real startups who collectively raised over $400 million.
Startups.co
The largest startup platform in the world, Startups.co offers education and inspiration to over 1 million registered startup founders and their teams.
The Entrepreneur's Handbook
A Medium publication featuring startup stories with takeaways to create yours.
The Mission
A publication dedicated to accelerated learning, tech, antifragility, and definite optimism.
The Noun Project
The only resource you will ever need to get SVG icons and make illustrations for apps, websites, marketing materials, and branding.
Where Good Ideas Come From
If you want to understand how to innovate, you need to read this book.
About Vlad
My name is Vlad Khomutov and just like a personal trainer that helps everyday people become athletes, I help regular people become entrepreneurs. In the past twenty years, I founded eight technology companies, two consulting agencies, helped more than twenty startups go to market, and made products for some of the world's biggest brands like Visa, BMW, and Disney.
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