Startup Kit: Help needed!

Posted on by Red

SkyDrive Startup-KitSkyDrive is putting together a “Startup Kit”—a repository of knowledge from the community that’ll continually grow and get better and better. We hope that there’ll be something for everyone—the founder, the engineer, the designer, the marketer, the finance guy, the investor, the growth hacker, and anyone else who loves startups, both for-profit and non-profit. Our goal is to bring together knowledge from individuals and organizations of all kinds and create one place where everyone can learn, share, and keep developing that knowledge.

If you have any of the following to share, we’d love for you to contribute!

  • Book chapters (or entire books that are free to distribute!), articles, readings, white papers
  • Templates and models to learn from and build on: business plans, pitch decks, legal documents, financial models in Excel
  • Slides from talks, workshops, Skillshares, etc.
  • Design assets (e.g. Illustrator icon packs), github links, code samples
  • Videos of talks, events, and the like

The logistics: we’re hosting all of this in a public folder on SkyDrive: http://sdrv.ms/TNY517. Anyone can access the folder and view or download anything they’d like without needing a SkyDrive account. We’d like to share this folder with contributors so that they can add to it as they see fit on an ongoing basis without having to go through us.

We’re doing this because we love entrepreneurship and building awesome things, and we think we can contribute to the community by leveraging our product this way. Let us know if you have any feedback, ideas, or would like to contribute :) We’d love to work on this with you together.

  • http://www.MovingWorlds.org/ MovingWorlds

    This is awesome – thanks for leading this effort. Looking forward to learning, and contributing.

    • http://twitter.com/RedRussak Red Russak

      Absolutely! SkyDrive has pitched in the most to make this happen. Very excited to see this all come together :)

  • http://twitter.com/midoril Midori Lawler

    This is awesome! I am on the Microsoft BizSpark team and we can definitely contribute content. Is the content focused on Seattle or is it intended to be generic?

    • http://twitter.com/RedRussak Red Russak

      Rock on! This is focused on Seattle (for now?) and we’re aiming to have a strong list together in time for Nov 1st – http://ddap12-ss.eventbrite.com/

  • http://www.facebook.com/basim.qureshi Basim Qureshi

    books, articles, resources about what? are you looking for a specific topic?

    • http://twitter.com/pommalicious Willy

      Thanks for asking! We’re looking for anything helpful to startups, whether that be technical or business-related. Some examples might be a book on product design, an article on building a strong team culture or work environment, resources for incorporating a business, etc.