Over the past few months, I spent a lot of time reading various articles about startups: how to identify the best ideas, how to find the right people for your project, how to avoid common mistakes, how to make it grow without ending up with a disorganized structure. I was also interested in a topic that is more specific to non-American entrepreneurs: how to build your startup in the US without being a US citizen.

Here are "a few" articles I kept in my dedicated bookmarks folder. At least 90% of them are articles from TechCrunch, sorry about that. Some articles might be irrelevant, but I hope you will find a few interesting ones in there :)

Articles:

• Should Entrepreneurs Bet It All On The Billion Dollar Exit, Or Cash Out Small?


• The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a Great Social Product


• Why Big Web Companies Don’t Come out of Europe, Plus More Spotify Promises (TCTV)


• Jack Dorsey On Charlie Rose: “It’s Really Complex To Make Something Simple.”


• Finally, a Startup Visa That Works


• Ten Entrepreneurship Rules for Building Massive Companies « Greylock VC


• Why Even Ron Conway Couldn’t Persuade Me To Move To Silicon Valley


• Foreign Entrepreneurs Eye StartUp Visa Act - WSJ.com


• Inside Facebook… For fun and profit. | EBFE


• Delivering Happiness — A Path To Profits, Passion, and Purpose | by Tony Hsieh


• Why The New Guy Can’t Code


• Dangerous Ideas: Getting Started Is Overrated


• 5 Popular Startups and How They Got Funding


• Merger Mania: Corp Dev Execs Talk For An Hour About Who They’d Buy And Why


• One Book Every Entrepreneur and VC Should Own | TechCrunch


• Web Project Managers: Make Everyone’s Job Easy | Web Project Management tips | Web Project Manager | thesambarnes


• Start Fund And SV Angel invest $9 Million In New Y Combinator Startups | TechCrunch


• LinkedIn Takes A Deep Data Dive On Startup Founder Profiles | TechCrunch


• The Job Of A CEO At A 200 Person Company | TechCrunch


• Andrew Mason’s Silicon Valley Problem: He’s Not Here | TechCrunch


• How To Sell Your Company | TechCrunch


• The Complete Guide To Freemium Business Models | TechCrunch


• What To Look For In A Company Board | TechCrunch


• VCs Weigh In On What It Takes To Be A Successful Investor | TechCrunch


• Hell Yes, Mayor Bloomberg. I’m With You.


• Ten Principles of Eternal Team Mojo « YallaStartup!


• Skype’s Worthless Employee Stock Option Plan: Here’s Why They Did It


• Free Startup Tools: How Does Your Term Sheet Compare To The Standards? | TechCrunch


• In The Ring: Problems, Problems Everywhere | TechCrunch


• Ten Tips On How To Work With Your Board Of Directors | TechCrunch


• Keen On… Why The Third Industrial Revolution Will Take Place in Europe Rather Than America (TCTV) | TechCrunch


• There Will Be Cake: Here’s How To Motivate Your Start-Up | TechCrunch


• How DropBox Started As A Minimal Viable Product | TechCrunch


• Why Diversity Is Bad For Startups | TechCrunch


• The 9 Skills Needed to Be a Super-Connector | TechCrunch


• Trouble Hiring? Create A Cult. | TechCrunch


• Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston | TechCrunch


• How Entrepreneurs Can Create Their Own Luck | TechCrunch


• Looking To Hire Top Talent For Your Startup? Here Are Five Things You Should Know. | TechCrunch


• Now I Know: Entrepreneurs Discuss Success, Failure, And Lessons Learned In New Video Series | TechCrunch


• Jack Dorsey: “The Hardest Thing For Any Entrepreneur Is To Start” | TechCrunch


• How to Make Your Startup Go Viral The Pinterest Way | TechCrunch


• Sean Parker: “Little Startups Are Ridiculously Over-Funded” | TechCrunch


• Why Instagram Is So Popular: Quality, Audience, & Constraints | TechCrunch


• Social Proof Is The New Marketing | TechCrunch


• How Entrepreneurs Can Increase Productivity by 500% | TechCrunch


• Building For The Long Haul | TechCrunch


• Exploring The “Labs” Trend in Consumer Startups | TechCrunch


• The Web Is Rewarding Greed and Bad Behavior (Business As Usual) | TechCrunch


• Eight Ways To Go Viral


• Lies Entrepreneurs Tell | TechCrunch


• How to Survive Your First Year As An Entrepreneur | TechCrunch


• Five Myths Of The Enterprise Startup | TechCrunch


• How I Designed CodeYear.com in 1 Hour | SachaGreif.com


• Details Matter | TechCrunch


• HOW TO: Win the War for the Most Talented Employees

Good luck reading all this! Please share your own favorite links in the comments.

- François