1. Tools for Bootstrapping

3. Learn to Code
• HTML/CSS/Javascript
• Codecademy (codecademy.com)
• Treehouse (teamtreehouse.com)
• Youtube/Google
• Python
• LPTHW (google it)
• Udacity (udacity.com)
• Ruby (Rails)
• Rails for Zombies (codeschool.com then search)
• Rails tutorial (ruby.railstutorial.org)

4. Use Your New Skills
• Code Hosting/Collaboration
• Github (github.com)
• Bitbucket (bitbucket.org)
• Cloud Hosting
• Rackspace Cloud
• Gondor
• Heroku

5. MWT
Minimum Working Thing™

7. Read (a little)
• Books • Blogs/News
• Startup Owner’s Manual • avc.com
• Business Model Generation • Paul Graham’s Essays
• The Lean Startup • Steve Blank’s Blog
• The Thank You Economy • TechCrunch/The Next Web/Pando
Daily/Venture Beat (kinda)
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• Hacker News
• The Referral Engine
• Smashing Magazine
• The Accidental Billionaires
• 37 Signals Blog
• Steve Jobs
• bhorowitz.com
• Founders at Work
• Venture Hacks (archives too)

8. Get Out of the Building!

9. Plan (a little); Build (a lot)
• Mockups
• Balsamiq
• Notebook/Whiteboard
• Draw Stuff
• Gimp
• Aviary
• Pixelmator
• Inexpensive Design (to start!)
• 99 Designs
• Fancy Typography
• Typekit

11. Keep Up
• Files
• Dropbox
• Google Docs/Drive (remembers edits)
• Finances
• Excel/Google Spreadsheet (to start)
• Projects
• Trello
• Asana
• Github Issues
• Basecamp

13. Social/Customer Stuff
• Social Media
• Osfoora
• Hootsuite
• Friendsignia! ;)
• Email
• Toutapp and Yesware for tracking
• Smartr and Rainmaker for stalking
• Mailchimp for Newsletters, etc.
• Engage
• Hacker News and Quora for intelligent discussion
• IRC is useful for some startups
• AngelList

14. Extras
• Watch
• Foundations (Kevin Rose)
• Startup.com
• Objectified
• Pirates of Silicon Valley/The Social Network
• TWIST, Mixergy, Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, Startup Success
• Go
• Local Usergroups (#memtech)
• This Meetup!
• Tech Cocktails/Tech Lunch/Tech Coffee
• Follow
• @cliffmckinney
• @workforpie
• @FAKEGRIMLOCK