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As part of required reading for a course I’m taking, I read Marc Andreessen’s “The Pmarca Guide to Startups”. It’s a shame I found this two years after it was published. And it’s a pity his blog is not better organized. Here are links to each part in the 9-part series:

1. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup
2. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 2: When the VCs say "no"
3. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 3: "But I don’t know any VCs!"
4. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters
5. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies
6. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?
7. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 7: Why a startup’s initial business plan doesn’t matter that much
8. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
9. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 9: How to hire a professional CEO

A few hours on a Sunday aren’t enough to catch up years of insightful advice on his blog.