Fast Track: Paul Graham
Paul Graham for early-stage founders: recruit your first users by hand, find ideas in your own problems, measure growth every week. Quotes from his essays, with links.
Fast-tracks
Founder profiles and frameworks you can read in minutes
Fast Track: Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel for early-stage founders: escape competition, the contrarian question, start with a small market, treat distribution seriously. The ideas of Zero to One, sourced.
Fast Track: Sam Altman
Sam Altman for early-stage founders: YC's Startup Playbook, the product improvement loop, competitors, risk-taking. Quotes from his writing, with links.
Fast Track: Naval Ravikant
A simple report on wealth, leverage, and happiness for the new generation of entrepreneurs.
