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I wanted pointers to documents, blogs, website, etc. where there is detailed step by step instructions on important steps required for building and launching successful web startup.(if possible also templates or listing of web services that can help)

e.g.

  1. Idea Evaluation: Evaluate your tech ideas on these 10 factors and then choose the best idea to work on. If there is excel template for scoring the idea the better.

  2. Market Research: After shortlisting the most promising idea. Do market research for the idea to identify the need, potential etc. Best way to do this is to focus group/brainstorm the idea with targeted segment. Do a survey (use web service like surveymonkey, wufoo to create surveys) etc.

  3. And so forth .....

This will be a great resource to all budding entrepreneurs.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Regards

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Some More Resources:

1) Steve Blank's Blog http://steveblank.com/ Note the startup tools tab at the top right.

2) Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits Book "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development" which is considered a cheat sheet to Steve Blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany. http://www.custdev.com/ This book is a huge help. Get it.

3) Harvard Entrepreneurship Link - http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/resources/ This has articles on all your topics.

4) HBS Tom Eisenmann on Launching Tech Ventures - be sure to look at all four parts: http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2011/01/launching-tech-ventures-part-i-course.html

5) Mark Suster's Blog http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com

6) Here is another great list of resources: http://theworks.posterous.com/startup-toolshtt;

7) Check for startup meetups in your area. Sign up for the StartupDigest newsletter for the geographic areas you are interested in.

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Thanks Steve. Exactly what I was looking for – user8435 Mar 11 '11 at 5:26
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Buy & read this book

The Art of the Start

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Smart Bear podcast... also Startups for the Rest of Us podcast.

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