From time to time I Pocket articles that seem like they would help me when I’ll start working toward my own business.
As I see it now, that time wouldn’t come in 2018 2019, so I’ll make a handy stash of these articles here.

That’ll help to empty out my Pocket and somewhat placate my FOMO (it seems to think that all the cool people are entrepreneurs) without it costing too much:

— You see, Mr. I-wanna-be-a-successfull-entrepreneur-guy, I’m making progress, my article list is mighty long!

When I come reading, I’ll mark them off the list and maybe even leave comments about their utility.
Also, when I come, I will have to think of something that will prevent paralysis by analysis.

1. http://30sleeps.com/blog/2007/09/27/set-your-hourly-rate/
2. http://m.wikihow.com/Set-Consulting-Fees
3. http://habrahabr.ru/post/225367/
4. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_pivot/
5. http://planscope.io/blog/giving-up-a-million-dollar-consultancy/
6. 5 Strategies for Better B2B Ecommerce - Chiefmarketer
7. 25 Amazing Ways to Boost eCommerce Conversion Rates | Search Engine People
8. B2B vs. B2C eCommerce: What Are the Key Differences?
9. Бесплатный труд
10. Startup Escape Plan: How to free up time, energy & money to build your future
11. http://letsworkshop.com/freelance-as-a-service/
12. http://casjam.com/use-outlines-and-ship/
13. Loving The Work
14. Tricks to Monetize your Side Projects – Jeremy Boyd
15. How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job
16. 21 management things I learned at Imgur — Medium
17. A Tech Founder’s Guide To Picking A Non-Tech Founder
    
    
    ↑ I skimmed over those some time in the past and something caught my eye. Unfortunately past-me didn’t leave a more substantial note. Bold ones are the ones I starred.
    
    
    
18. Why You Should Do A Tiny Product First | Unicornfree with Amy Hoy: Creating
19. Screw your ideas before they screw you (part 2) | Unicornfree with Amy Hoy:
20. The two elements of a crazy effective pitch (Part 4) | Unicornfree with Amy
21. Customer Interviews… #1.$(@! (Part 5) | Unicornfree with Amy Hoy: Creating A
22. What if I’m a “nobody”? Who’s going to buy from me? (Part 6) | Unicornfree
23. Bootstrapping Series #7 – the dreaded silent launch | Unicornfree with Amy
24. Special bonus guide – make a million bucks, or watch Buffy? (Part 8) | Unic
25. New Industry You’ve Never Worked In Before? No Problem! - Double Your Freel
26. https://leanstack.com/why-lean-canvas/
27. Blog | Kalzumeus Software
28. Ask HN: $1k side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?
29. How we Bootstrapped our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability – Canny Blog
30. Strategy: How to Develop, Structure and Shape a Winning System
31. Rich Geldreich’s Tech And Programmer Culture Blog: Things learned while run
32. How Seth Godin Would Launch a Business With a $1,000 Budget – Louis Grenier
33. The 2 Underrated Startup Success Factors | Capital & Growth Blog
34. Invisible unicorns: 35 big companies that started with little or no money |
35. Everything I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Demoing SaaS
36. Marketing Software, For People Who Would Rather Be Building It | Kalzumeus
37. http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?W1341
38. EP10: Rob Walling – outsource on oDesk, find your idea, market your product http://productpeople.tv/2013/01/23/ep10-rob-walling-part2/
39. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? | Hacker News
40. How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building Them
41. http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-184
42. http://moz.com/blog/most-entertaining-guide-to-landing-page-optimization
43. http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
44. http://ninjasandrobots.com/how-to-get-business-ideas-remove-steps/
45. http://ianlandsman.com/how-we-built-besnappy-for-317000/
46. http://www.getgrowth.com/blog/jesse-mecham-ynabs-story-growth/
47. http://pacehq.com/blog/why-im-starting-pace/
48. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8004272
49. “Aha Moments” from the 2014 BaconBiz Conference You Can Implement Today | S
50. http://m.habrahabr.ru/company/witget/blog/230247/
51. http://goodui.org/
52. http://unicornfree.com/2014/dont-fave-this-post-how-to-really-launch-in-201
53. “I launched to only one paid subscriber.”
54. Peldi at Business of Software 2010: Do Worry, Be Happy! Keeping sane as a s
55. Kathy Sierra: Building the minimum Badass User, Business of Software. A mas
56. Productize
57. How I went from a 5-line, 11-word outline to shipping an ebook in 12 hours
58. How user growth really works | by @mijustin
59. What Consulting Companies Can Learn From Product Companies
60. Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more | Andy Adams
61. Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more | Hacker News
62. Ask HN: How do you find freelance/contract gigs? | Hacker News
63. Дайджест интересных материалов о создании контента, маркетинге и Growth Hac
64. Ask HN: How to move beyond “freelancer”? | Hacker News
65. From Zero to $3k MRR in 10 days — the story of launching RubySteps | Unicor
66. Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued | Kalzumeus Software
67. Ministry of Testing - Indie Hackers
68. SubmitHub - Indie Hackers
69. How to Use Thought Experiments to De-Risk Your Startup · Coding VC
70. How to Validate Demand for Your Product — Up Up Grow
71. Discourse - Indie Hackers
72. On Starting a Software Business — Stephanie Hurlburt
73. Scott’s Cheap Flights - Indie Hackers
74. The man who built a $1bn firm in his basement - BBC News
75. Reverse Engineering A Successful Lifestyle Business: Here’s Everything I’ve
76. https://www.sideprojectchecklist.com/marketing-checklist
77. Stripe Atlas: Getting Your First 10 Customers
78. First Search
79. Stripe Atlas: Software as a Service, as a business
80. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
81. tptacek on how to run a consultancy (rise your rates!)
82. ““Working harder” is a poor strategy which your competitors can trivially replicate. Instead, spend some time measuring what tasks add value to your business and at what imputed wages. Outsource those tasks which are below your desired imputed wage, automate any task where appropriate, and simply don’t do things which don’t add value.”patio11 on Working smarter, not harder
83. Double Your Freelancing Rate - Book
84. Checklist for Picking the Best SaaS Idea - Happy Bootstrapper
85. 24 Blogs that Bootstrappers Won’t Want to Miss
86. Most Popular Posts on Fizzle (site about running your business)
87. Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week - patio11
    Some select quotes:
    
    > build time assets: things which will save you time in the future. Code that actually does something useful is a very simple time asset for programmers to understand: you write it once today, then you can execute it tomorrow and every other day, saving you the effort of doing manually whatever it was the code does. Code is far from the only time asset, though: systems and processes for doing your work more efficiently, marketing which scales disproportionate to your time, documentation which answers customers’ questions before they ask you, all of these things are assets.
    
    > around 90% of the effort, are caused by non-coding activities: dealing with pre-sales inquiries, marketing, SEO, marketing, customer support, marketing, website copywriting, marketing, etc.
    
    > Cutting your feature set to the bone is the single best advice I can give you which will get you to actually launching.
    
    > Another thing I’d look for prior to committing to building anything is a marketing hook — something you can take advantage of to market your product in a time-effective way. For bingo cards, I knew there were more activities possible than any one company could ever publish, and that gave me hope that I could eventually out-niche the rest of the market. (This is core idea still drives most of my marketing, four years later.) Maybe your idea has built-in virality (nice if you can get it — I really envy the Facebook crowd sometimes, although I suppose they probably envy having a customer base which pays money for software), a built-in hook for getting links, or something similar. If you can’t come up with anything, fix that before you build it.
    
    (How to find ↑ this marketing ‘trick’ remains unknown to me)
88. How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting
89. Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs?
90. How to Make $5000 to $10,000 Each Month as an Internet Marketing Consultant
91. Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 8: High Touch Software Sales with Steli Efti
92. How do you stay motivated when you’re not making any money?
93. The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup
94. How to Land Your First Customers When You’re Unknown https://productizeandscale.com/your-first-customers/
95. Talking About Money [Salary]
96. How to Build a Unicorn From Scratch – and Walk Away with Nothing
97. I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5,000 in pre-orders
98. TBBO 317: Keith Perhac – Build an Online Course to Increase Profits
99. CEO - Jacques Mattheij
100. Growing a Community for Digital Nomads to $33,000/mo
101. How I Supported Myself Full Time by Building a WordPress Plugin
102. How Charging Money for Pro Features Allowed Me Quit My Job
103. How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (Examples: AppSumo, Mint, Chihuahuas)
104. Creating an AI-Powered Logo Creator and Earning $70k/mo
105. Thread by @naval: How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)
106. Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie On Why Your Customers Would Be Happier If You Charged More
107. Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client
108. Andreessen Horowitz - 16 Startup Metrics
109. The Post-YC Slump
110. Why Successful People Focus on the Bottom End of the Funnel
111. The Next Feature Fallacy: The fallacy that the next new feature will suddenly make people use your product
112. 42 Pricing Tricks Based on Psychology & Neuroscience
113. Working Remotely From A Tropical Island in Thailand
114. The Complete Guide To Finding And Selling Ecommerce Clients
115. Effective entrepreneurship: The not to-do list
116. How to Build a Million-Dollar, One-Person Business – Case Studies From The 4-Hour Workweek
117. The Epic Guide to Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch — By Yourself (Part 1)
118. YC’s Summer Reading
119. Permission to Fail
120. Understanding Accounting Basics (ALOE and Balance Sheets)
121. Understanding Debt, Risk and Leverage
122. Launching a product,
123. We Started on a Couch: A Story of Growth from the Road Less Traveled
124. E-Commerce KPI Study: There’s (Finally) a Benchmark for That
125. Articles on attracting leads to your consulting gig
126. Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?
127. [47] Business Models for Bootstrappers
128. Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
129. The Business of Freelancing, Episode 20: Scott Yewell On His First $100k+ Project
130. Episode 208 | How To Productize Your Service with Brian Casel
131. Making Software is Easy w/ Patrick McKenzie
132. How do you create a product people want to buy?
133. Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014
134. How Not to Die
135. The Growth Handbook by Intercom
136. Founder to CEO - How to build a great company from the ground up
137. Tim Ferriss Drunk dialling starting from 30 minute, on how to choose what to do (something you yourself will pay for)
138. All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders
139. Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself
140. #30DayStartup https://www.newco.app/30daystartup
141. Emergent Ventures Fellowship Application
142. Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas?
143. Growing Our SaaS Company To $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money. Key Lessons Learned
144. How I’ve Attracted The First 500 Paid Users For My SaaS That Costs $5/mo
145. Three Sales Mistakes Software Engineers Make
146. интервью Ильи Красинского Диме Думику про свой фреймворк погружения в новый продукт, масштабирование, как предпринимателю справляться с трудностями и как генерить идеи
147. The Best SaaS Landing page examples I’ve seen (+ their secrets for conversion)
148. Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don’t scale?
149. Do Things That Don’t Scale - a crowdsourced collection of unscalable startup hacks
150. The First 100 - Measure the strength of your idea with real customers
     
     
     
     
151. More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost
152. Stripe Atlas: Writing copy for landing pages
153. How I Built A $5,000 Per Month Side Project — Campfire Labs
154. Open Startups – Postmake
155. Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
156. Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From
157. Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea? | Hacker News
158. How I Hit $115k/mo with a Status Quo Improvement - Indie Hackers
159. Summary: How to Start a Startup (YC) - Google Docs
160. How To Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital by Nathan Latka
161. Эталонный Сервис: Рестораны
162. Ask HN: Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant? | Hacker News
163. Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy? | Hacker News
164. I’m Walking Away From the Product I Spent a Year Building
165. Founder Books – Postmake
166. The Art of Thinking Long-Term Even When Money is Running Out
167. The SaaS Opportunity Of Unbundling Excel
168. Principles for Decision-Making in a Flat Organization
169. Startup idea checklist | defmacro
170. Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users
171. Speakers tend to prefer either a high considerateness or high involvement s
172. «Сгоревшие» сотрудники: есть ли выход? / Badoo corporate blog / Habr
173. How to get your first 10 customers
174. How to conduct research and successfully launch a product | ottofeller
175. Stop designing products for random people - UX Collective
176. SS19E2: Как разговаривать с клиентами
177. How to be good at sales as an introvert — Quartz at Work
178. 20,000 Startup Ideas
179. Pricing niche products: Why sell a mechanical keyboard kit for $1,668?
180. Что дальше? Или как правильно выбрать фичи для разработки
181. Ask HN: How do B2B startups sell to corporations? | Hacker News
182. How to Find Consulting Clients
183. The internet is an SEO landfill
184. Future you mastrubation

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