Selected readings
This a selection of press articles and podcast that entrepreneurs might find useful:
FT Articles:
– FT- Number of UK start-ups rises to new record
McKinsey Articles:
– Smart cities: Digital solutions for a more liveable future.
BCG Articles:
– Stars Aligning: How Southern California Could Be the Next Great Tech Ecosystem
HBS Articles:
– Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything , by Steve Blank.
– Start-ups that last, by Ranjay Gulati and Alicia DeSantola.
– Increasing returns and the new world of business , by Brian Arthur.
Other Articles and podcasts:
– Business Insider- 50 startups that will boom in 2018, according to VCs
-Deloitte- UK Technology Fast 50 2017. A ranking of the country’s 50 fastest growing technology companies, by Deloitte.
-Codementor- How Much Does it Cost to Make An App in 2017?
– Read about the new Station F incubator, a startup campus, gathering an entire entrepreneurial ecosystem under one roof.
– You can listen to a recent podcast on Andreessen Horowitz ‘s blog, called Network effects, origin stories and the evolution of tech in which Brian Arthur covers similar content to the HBS article Increasing returns and the new world of business.
– This is a very popular podcast by David Skok where he described what makes a SaaS business successful, and what metrics are most useful in tracking performance.- SaaStr Podcast #156: Most Downloaded SaaStr of 2017: David Skok, General Partner @ Matrix Partners.
– Matrix growth academy- Zero to 100 videos, by David Skok.