Websites: TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news VentureBeat is the leading source for news & perspective on tech innovation. http://venturebeat.com/ CrunchBase is the definitive database of the startup ecosystem. https://www.crunchbase.com/ Tech in Asia is the go-to media platform for Asia's tech community, with annual conferences hosted in Singapore, Tokyo, and Jakarta. How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures from some of the world experts, initially given at Stanford in Fall 2014. Talks like these have really helped Y Combinator founders create their companies. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is the world's foremost study of entrepreneurship. Through a vast, centrally coordinated, internationally executed data collection effort, GEM is able to provide high quality information, comprehensive reports and interesting stories, which greatly enhance the understanding of the entrepreneurial phenomenon. Books: Zero to One: Notes Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses is a New York Times best seller by Eric. Business Model Generation: A handbook striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises by Alexander Osterwalder. Academic Entrepreneurship in Asia: The Role and Impact of Universities in National Innovation Systems edited by P. K. Wong |