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Tech and Venture Capital Toolkit: https://github.com/KatherineMichel/tech-and-venture-capital-toolkit

Tech and Venture Capital Toolkit

Curated list of high quality resources, mostly free. See also...

Table of Contents

People

Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors

Investor Frameworks

Tech Analysts, Thought Leaders

Venture

VC Theory

A Few Thoughts

Investment Theses

Venture Capital and How Funding Works

VC Firms, Accelerators, Resources

Lists of VC Firms and Accelerators

Angel and VC Firm Resources

Accelerator Resources

Crowdfunding

Federal

Warburg Pincus

Alphabet and Berkshire Hathaway

Economists, Investors, Philosophers

RFS, Trends, Emerging Technologies

Events Lists

Venture Analysis

Value

List

Surveys and Trends

Surveys

Google Insights and Trends

Idea State Machine and Idea Maze

Market, Business Models, Pricing, Product Tiers

Market

Business Models

Pricing Strategies

Product Tiers

Industry and Product Classifications, Associations

Associations

Unicorns

Company and Product Databases

Databases

Database Info and Benchmarking

Product/Service Directories

Wayback Machine

App and Website Statistics

Companies and Financials

Business and Tech News Sources

Directory of News Websites, Today's Front Pages, and NewsDiffs

Business

Tech

Leaderboard

Aggregated, Curated News Sources

Nuzzel Custom Feeds

Government and International Data

U.S. Departments

Patent Search and FOIA

U.S. Open Government, Data

G8 and U.K. Data

International Organizations

International Organizations Reports and Data

International Organizations Special Reports: Business and Competitiveness

International Organizations Special Reports: Development

Social Entrepreneurship

Happiness

International Info

Analyst Groups

Analyst Groups

Management Consulting Firms

Think Tanks

Business Entity and and Regulation

Corporate Law

Delaware

Kansas

Law and Transaction Services

Documents

Cap Table, Convertible Bonds, Securities, Equity

500 Startups, Tech Stars, and YCombinator Docs/RFS

Term Sheets 101

Document Web Services

Document Libraries

Financial Modelling

How to Read A Finacial Report

Investor Vocab

Measuring a Moat

IPO

Valuation

Types of Acquisitions

SEC and Other Regulatory Agencies

Special Rules

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Regulatory Agencies and Rules

General Research and Learning

Learning Resources

Wikipedia

MOOCs

Google, Google Tech, and TED Talks

General Research

Scholarly Journals

Facebook and Google Research

Shows

Because I Just Like It

Google for Education

Books and Courses

Books

Courses

MOOCs

Unconscious Bias

Project Management

Project Management Tools

Project Management Associations

Quality

Project Management Software

Software Development Philosophies

Software Prototyping

Software Project Management

Agile Wikipedia

Agile Project Management Methodologies

Sprints

Waterfall Project Management Methodologies

Process Improvement

Research and Design Sprints

Basics

Heuristic

User Centered Design, User Experience, Usability

Persuasive Technology

Government Digital

Australia

Australia Government Web Guide (Deprecated)

Australian Government Department of Finance Archive

BBC

Estonian E-Residence

The Prince's Trust

U.K. Gov

U.K. Design Council

U.S. Gov

Usability Gov

U.S. Aid Learning Lab

Google Ventures Research Sprint

Google Ventures Design Sprint

Google Ventures Design Sprint- Fast Co (Basically Redundant)

Thoughtbot Version

Google Ventures Research and Design Sprint Supporting Docs

Google Design Sprint

Google Design Approach

Google Material Design

Polymer

More Research and Design Toolkits

Xplaner and Games

Ideo

Nesta DIY

Nielson Norman

Stanford Institute of Design

Usability Net

Miscellaneous

Design

Design- General

Responsive Design

Design Publications

Portfolio and Community Websites

Flickr

KPCB and John Maeda Design in Tech Report

Company Design

Pretotyping

Prototyping

Device Mockups

Photoshop and Similar

Free Photos

Prototyping Software

Quickie Websites

Turn Key Websites

Bootstrap, Font Awesome, Foundation

Good, Basic Templates, Themes

Kickstarters

Miscellaneous

Lean Startup and Launchpad

Spinoffs

Philosophies

Software and Mobile are Eating the World, Software is Reorganizing the World

Creative Destruction, Innovator's Dilemma, and Attacker's Advantage

Launch and Growth

Notable Proposals and Pitch Decks

Pitch Deck Search

Notable Proposals and Pitch Decks

Templates

Launch Strategies

Launch Guides

General

Epic

Tools

Journalism Handbooks

Journalism Style Guides

Growth, Marketing, and Content Resources

Distribution, Growth, Sales Hacking

Marketing and Search Engine Land

Hiten Shah and Neil Patel

Popular Tools

Digital Novel

Metrics

Internationalization

Startup Transparency Examples

Buffer

Mattermark

Medium

Popular Tools

Two Factor Authentication

Browsers

Google Products, Office

API

Email

Group Communication/Chat

Livestreaming, Video, Audio

Photo Hosting

Document Hosting

Calendar

Social Media and Distribution

Customer Relationship Management

Task Automation

Payments

File Storage

Logistics

Crowd Sourced Internet Marketplace

Admin, Hiring, Payroll

Web Dev and Design

Unix and Linux

Unix

Terms

Unix Shell

Linux

Linux- Ubuntu (Debian)

Linux- Ubuntu Dual Boot

Ubuntu Terminal, Command Line, and Aptget

Ubuntu- + Programs

Linux- Other Popular Distributions

GitHub and Markdown

Git

GitHub

GitHub Services Integration

Markdown

Git Learning Resources

GitHub Alternatives

Open Source Management and Style Guides

Open Source Management

General Styleguides

Digital Agency Playbook, Blog, Styleguide, Templates

Mojombo Chromebook Recommendation

Chromebook Ubuntu Installation

Designer and Developer General

Web General

DevCenter

Guides for Development

Built With (Exluding Django)

Code Search

Example

Designer/Developer Conferences

Code Hosting

Question and Answer Forums

Licenses

Engineering Blogs

Programming Languages, MVCs

Programming and Math Learning Tools

Text Editor and Code Demonstration

Documentation

Great Unsolved Problems in Computer Science

Programming Languages and MVCs- General

Miscellaneous Programming Languages

Ruby

Ruby- Executable Specification

Rails, Jekyll- Preferred Templates and Documents

JavaScript

JavaScript Styleguide GitHub

jQuery

JavaScript Facebook React

Golang, otherwise known as "Go"

Java- General

PHP

WampServer

PHP- Laravel- Preferred Templates and Documents

PHP- Wordpress- Preferred Templates and Documents

PHP- Wordpress- Popular Themes

WordPress Development

Wikitech Development

Deployment and Cloud

IANA, Domize, DNSimple, Heroku

Heroku SSL Endpoint, SSL Self Certification, Custom Domains

Namecheap

DNS

Cloud Computing- General

Private Cloud

IaaS- General and Alternatives to AWS

PaaS- General and Alternatives to Heroku (including Google App Engine)

SaaS- General and Alternatives to GoogleApps

Ubuntu (Debian) Deployment

GitHub, AWS, Heroku Deployment Illustrated

GitHub, Heroku, AWS SSH and SSH Keys

Amazon

Amazon Web Services

AWS Regions, Instances, Free Tier Usage, Getting Started, EC2/CLI/Linux Reference

Amazon Web Services- Lambda

Heroku- General (Languages Supported- Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Node.js, Clojure and Scala/Add-ons- Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Hadoop, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ)

Heroku- Buildpacks (Other than Node.js and Python)

Heroku Multiple Environments and Site Staging

Digital Ocean (VPS)

Digital Ocean + Dokku/Deis (Alternative to AWS + Heroku)

Google Cloud and App Engine

Nitrous (IDE)

Docker

Cross Platform Dev Environment

Content Delivery Network

Mobile

Apple- Swift

Android

IDE

Emulator

Tools

Deep Linking

Standards

Internet of Things (including payments)

Internet of Things- Geo-fencing

Miscellaneous

Social Media and Social Graph

RRSSB

Apple

Facebook

Google

Google Ads

Google Monetization

Google

Google Rich Snippets

Google Webmaster

LinkedIn

Pinterest

Slideshare

Snapchat

Twitter

Yahoo and Bing- Developer, Webmaster, and Ads

YouTube (Google)

Sharing Buttons

Graph and Schema- General (See Also Facebook Open Graph)

Cookies

Testing and Performance

Databases

Databases

Stanford Open Classroom- Introduction to Databases

Types of Databases

Shard

SQL

SQL

SQLite (RDBMS, written in C)

PostgreSQL (ORDBMS, written in C, OS- Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS X, FreeBSD)

Postgrest (PostgreSQL API)

MySQL (RDBMS, written in C and C++, OS- Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS X, FreeBSD)

.NET and ASP

.NET

ASP

Node.js and Related

Node.js

Node.js Launch and Ryan Dahl

Heroku- Node.js

Google Cloud- Node.js

MEAN

Node Add-ons

MVCs General, Backbone, Ember

Yo/Yeoman, Bower, Grunt

Compilation Resources

Extension Languages

ElasticSearch

RabbitMQ

MongoDB (Document-based)

MongoDB- Drivers and Natives

Mongoose, Mongoid, Moped, Mongomapper

V8 JavaScript Engine

Node Forks

More Command Line and Shell

Command Line

Shell

Bash and Zsh (Alternative)

Emacs and Vim (Alternative)

Windows PowerShell

Shell/Text Editors- More

cURL

Dot Files

Dot Files

Startup Class Dotfiles and AWS EC2 Setup

More Back-end

Redis, Resque

Web Cache, Web Accelerator, Proxy Server, Reverse Proxy

Memcached (Object Caching)

Nginx (High-Performance HTTP Server, Reverse Proxy, IMAP/POP3 Proxy Server/Versus Unix Socket)

Jenkins CI and Travis CI (Continuous Integration), and PhantomJS (Testing, Automation, Scraping)

Ansible and Salt (Automation and Configuration Management)

Selenium (Automated Testing)

WSGI

Gunicorn (Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX)

Waitress (Production-Quality Pure-Python WSGI Server)

Trac Project Management and DB (Used with www.djangoproject.com)

Optimization

Software Stacks

Distributed and Parallel Computing

VMware, Vagrant, VirtualBox

Chef and Puppet Labs

Erlang

BSD/Free BSD

JugglingDB

CouchDB (Document-based)

Normalization

Real Time Application Frameworks

Encryption

Testing Frameworks

Event Tracking

Typeahead and Awesomeplete

Cron

Big Data

Big Data- Lambda Architecture

Big Data- Apache

Log Monitoring

Big Data- Hadoop, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch

Big Data- Cascading, Cascalog, Scala, Scalding

Software Manuals and Documentation

GNU Software and Manuals

Pandoc

Dexy

GitBook

GitHub Wiki

iPython

LaTeX

Read the Docs

Python- Django-Sphinxdoc

API Docs (including Python- Django- Rest Framework Swagger)

Video Gaming and Virtual Reality

Python and Django Toolkit

Python, Django, and Example Code

Python (See also Data Science)

Python- Packages

Python- Books and Tutorials

Awesome Python

Dedicated Python Hosting Python Anywhere

O'Reilly Test-Driven Development with Python

Python and Django Conferences

Python- Microframeworks and Template Engines

Python- Django

Python- Django Jobs

Python- Django- Packages

Python- Django- Resources

Python- Django- Books and Tutorials (Exluding Django Girls)

Python- PEP 3333 (Python Web Server Gateway Interface)

Python- Psycopg (Psycopg is the most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python programming language.)

Python- Heroku

Python- Django- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Deployment

Python- Django- Heroku Deployment

Python- Django- Digital Ocean Deployment

Python- Django- Random SECRET_KEY

Python- Django- BCrypt (Not just for Django)

Python- Django- Debug Toolbar

Python- Django- Migrations

Python- Django and Celery (Also Example code)

Python- Django- Rest Framework (Including Authentication and Generic Views)

Python- Django- Rest Framework GIS

Python- Python/Django- Internationalization and Localization, Translation

GeoDjango

PostGIS (Spatial Database Extender for PostgreSQL)

SpatiaLite (Spatial Database Extender for SQLite)

Python- Django-MPTT (Modified Pre-Order Traversal Tree)

Python- Django-Treebeard (Modified Pre-Order Traversal Tree)

Python- Django- CMS, E-Commerce

Python- Django- Other CMS and E-Commerce Options

Python- Django- TinyMCE

Python- Django- Python Social Auth

Python- Django- Search

Python- Imaging Library

Python- Django- Forms

Example Website Code and Style Guides

Python Example Website Code

Python- Django- Major Organizations and Projects that Use Django

Python- Django- Official Website and Code

Django Girls (Python- Django)

18F and Peace Corps New Website (Python- Django)

App.net (Python- Django (Also Node))

Celery Project (Python- Django)

EdX (Python- Django (Also Ruby))

Elle (Python- Django)

Gov Track (Python- Django)

LA Times Datadesk Project Template (Python- Django)

Mozilla Bedrock, FunFactory and Playdoh + Others (Python- 1/2 Django)

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Python- Django)

OpenStack (Python- Django)

Open Knowledge Foundation (Python- Django)

Opps (Python- Django)

Reddit (Python- Adapted from Django)

Bootcamp (Python- Django)

NPR + Others (Python (Also Node for Less))

Miscellaneous (Python)

Python- Django- Templates

Python- Django- Cookiecutter

Python- Django- Pinax

Ruby, Rails

Stanford University Library

PHP

Node

Preferred Non-official Templates

Drupal

Jekyll (based on Ruby)

Government Code and Style Guides

GitHub Government

18F

U.K. Gov

U.S.

Australia

Newspaper Code and Style Guides

BBC

Financial Times

Guardian Developer

Guardian Frontend (Ruby, Rails, Scala, Play, Node)

Guardian Guss

Guardian Pasteup

Guardian Mobile

Guardian Miscellaneous

NYT- Snowfall

ProPublica- News App and Data Style Guides

Disqus

General Resources

Philosophies, Milestones

Notable Interviews and Presentations

Notable Quotes

Appendix

Other Enormous Tool Lists

Awesome Awesomeness

Vocabulary

General

Finance and Investment Terms

Laws, Theories, Logic

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