"Running Lean" (O'Reilly) is excellent and Ash has a bunch of useful videos as well. I think it's currently the best "business side of a startup" book out there.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCimRGeoiwUPmIddym-HdaCg
"The Lean Startup" by Ries is also good but RL is more condensed (lean?!) imo
"Startup Owner's Manual" is also good and they have a course on edx iirc
Edit: It's a udacity class, close enough. Link:
Re:Stanford's new course on building a startup
by hasenj on Monday June 17, 2013 @06:26AM
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Haha, a book would be nice, but I think really the only way to learn this is by experiencing it. The book should be more of a guide about how to put yourself in the environment that forces you to learn this stuff.
Re:Stanford's new course on building a startup
by dasil003 on Monday June 17, 2013 @11:16AM
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Yes, I agree you can only actually learn by doing. No amount of book-reading will equal your first startup in terms of practical knowledge and how to apply it. That said, one's own startup is necessarily narrow in scope and there is a ton that the active practitioner can learn from anecdotes from other startups, especially across different markets and industries, and with different talent and network constraints.
Re:Stanford's new course on building a startup
by skarmklart on Monday June 17, 2013 @01:31PM
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My signup page, FWIW: http://dontkillyourcofounder.com/
Give me the specs for a $19.9 ebook on that, please :) I've been of the mind to write something like that for a while.