This growing resource page is for our clients, partners, friends, and anyone who has an interest in starting, building, growing and running a business and leading an entrepreneurial life.
If you know a resource, blog, site or RSS feed that should be here, please *tell us* and we'll add it to this resource page where it seems to fit best
startups
If you are starting a company, you may want to start with reading the e-myth. Review the business resources at score, and use some of the tools to the right to draft a business plan overview.
Don't get too pre-occupied with "the perfect plan" - a good number of successful businesses don't have any written plan until they are well along the growth path.
However it does make sense to put your ideas and plan to paper and at least have a sense of where you are heading and commit to refining that plan as you build your company. (and paying a lot in consulting or professional fees is usually a silly way to go about learning startup lessons - use your cash on things that directly drive revenue!
Until you've got a sale or a fundable business concept, you don't really have a business, so you'll either need to find a need and get selling and then adjust what you are doing in a series of course corrections - or deep dive into the planning and research required to sell others on funding your company.
Growth Stage Companies
If you have an established company, you may be more interested in the management concepts and tools you can find by visiting gazelles.com and then trying to work through verne's worksheets and reading his rockefeller habits book. Verne's not known as the "growth guru" by inc magaine for nothing... he's got a really strong synthesis of entrepreneur observations and useful tools to help you accelerate your growth.
Tech Companies
If you have a technology or concept company you could take a look at geoffrey moore's crossing the chasm, and inside the tornado books, they are very insightful into the art of getting your idea accepted and navigating the competitive landscape so your product "wins."
-last updated by: Michael Beirne
