1. Research
1.1. Feedly RSS reader
1.2. Evernote
1.3. XMind mind mapping program
1.4. MindMeister online mind mapping program
2. Go further ... with Koi
2.1. Koi is a platform for people who are passionate about innovating building businesses and impacting the world
2.2. Koi supports entrepreneurs through a range of resources and the Koi community...
2.3. find out more ...
3. Note on books...
3.1. Many of the books recommended can be purchased as Kindle ebooks (at half the price!), and read on your PC with the "Kindle for PC program" (there are also Kindle apps for iPhones, iPads and Android)
3.1.1. download Kindle for PC
3.2. Hard-to-find books can be also be sourced thru AbeBooks.com
4. A Better World... (The Three Worlds)
4.1. Book
4.1.1. Jeff van Duzer, Why Business Matters to God (excellent outline of what a business should be)
4.1.2. my sermon on this topic
5. Ideas
5.1. Book
5.1.1. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point (invaluable for understanding how we REALLY make decisions)
5.1.2. Summary of The Tipping Point - available as a Kindle download
5.2. Article (PDF)
5.2.1. Hugh MacLeod, How to be Creative
5.2.1.1. brilliant!
6. Spaces
6.1. South Africa
6.1.1. National Planning Commission
6.1.1.1. 9 Challenges facing South Africa (YouTube)
6.1.1.2. Planning for Thandi's Future (YouTube)
6.1.1.3. full Diagnostic Report (PDF)
6.2. Transport & Telematics
6.2.1. AutoTech's $150m for transport startups
6.3. Internet of Things
6.3.1. AutoDesk's Forge platform for IoT apps
6.4. Base of the Pyramid
6.4.1. books
6.4.1.1. Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
6.4.1.2. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
6.4.1.3. Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu
6.4.1.3.1. mixed reviews; haven't read it yet
6.5. Cities
6.5.1. South African Cities Network
6.5.2. Future Cape Town, London, Joburg, Lagos
7. Incubation
7.1. LaunchLab in Stellenbosch
7.2. Bandwidth Barn in Cape Town
7.3. Innovation Hub in Pretoria
7.4. extensive vendor support is also available for new ventures through Microsoft's BizSpark programme
7.5. also
7.5.1. The Sable Accelerator (in Silicon Valley, for SA companies)
7.5.1.1. article
8. Non-Profits
8.1. Philanthropy University online courses
9. DAY ONE
10. DAY TWO
11. DAY THREE
12. Technology
12.1. Open IP
12.1.1. The Global Innovation Commons
12.2. CSIR
12.2.1. has plenty of great technology waiting to be commercialised
12.2.2. (talk to me if you're interested; I work with them to commercialise their IP)
12.3. NASA Startup programme
12.3.1. over 12,000 patents can be licensed from NASA
12.3.1.1. only available to companies in the USA...
13. Right Fit to You?
13.1. Book
13.1.1. Po Bronson, "What Should I Do With My Life"
13.1.1.1. summary article
13.1.2. Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code
13.1.2.1. a good guide to the "10,000 hours" !
14. Marketing
14.1. Book
14.1.1. Guy Kawasaki, Selling the Dream (and see his other excellent books)
14.1.2. Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm (and see his other excellent books)
14.2. Sales
14.2.1. Sales management
14.2.1.1. Miller Heiman, "Large Account Management Process (LAMP)" (and see their other excellent books on selling)
14.2.2. Proposals
14.2.2.1. there are some great tools out there for preparing proposals; this article covers some of the best ones
14.2.2.2. Nusii has a great free proposal cheatsheet
15. Monetisation & Value Chains
15.1. Profit migration on value chains
15.1.1. Books
15.1.1.1. Slywotzky, Profit Migration
15.1.1.2. Slywotzky & Morrison, The Profit Zone
15.1.1.3. Slywotzky et al, Profit Patterns
15.2. Wardley Value Chains
15.2.1. intro
15.2.2. Simon Wardley's blog
15.3. pricing
15.3.1. Books
15.3.1.1. Lean Pricing
16. Developing
16.1. UI Design
16.1.1. lots of great articles at Smashing Magazine
16.1.2. "Step-by-Step UI Design" - great eBook for $6
16.1.3. "Before & After: How to Design Cool Stuff"
16.1.3.1. superb book on design in general
16.2. UI tools
16.2.1. ForeUI
16.2.2. Balsamiq
16.2.3. DesignerVista
16.2.4. Proto.io
16.2.5. Prototypes
16.2.5.1. just for iPhone apps; runs on Mac
16.2.6. Flint
16.2.6.1. brilliant for Mac and iOS protyping
16.2.7. more
16.2.7.1. Article on 25 UI tools
16.3. Stacks
16.3.1. StackShare
16.4. Mobile development
16.4.1. using WeChat
16.4.1.1. Good introduction to WeChat's possibilities
16.4.1.2. Naspers' R50m WeChat fund for mobile startups
16.4.2. the M Lab
16.4.2.1. (part of The Innovation Hub, see below under Incubation)
16.4.3. The Smashing Magazine "Mobile Book"
16.5. Vendor support
16.5.1. extensive vendor support is available for new ventures through Microsoft's BizSpark programme
16.6. Platforms
16.6.1. Ning
16.6.1.1. for social networks, forums
16.6.2. Evernote
16.6.2.1. for document systems
16.6.2.1.1. Online course on the API from CodeAcademy
16.6.2.2. eg Postach.io
16.6.3. Dropbox API
16.6.3.1. for sync'ing desktop and mobile apps
16.6.3.1.1. eg. YNAB
16.6.4. OneAPI
16.6.4.1. emerging standard for single sign-on across mobile operators for mobile apps
16.6.5. Keen IO
16.6.5.1. great backend for accumulating, analysing, reporting on events
16.6.6. Analytics
16.6.6.1. Flurry (free)
16.6.6.2. Mixpanel (very powerful)
16.6.7. Twilio
16.6.7.1. for voice and text functionality
16.6.8. Salesforce.com
16.6.8.1. for enterprise-facing applications
16.6.8.2. see local Salesforce.com company Agilitude
16.6.9. Bing
16.6.9.1. for
16.6.9.1.1. "Bringing the World’s Knowledge to Your Apps" - think access to the massive amounts of knowledge stored in Bing
16.6.9.1.2. "Natural and Intuitive User Experiences" - access to OCR, translation and voice control (a' la Apple's Siri)
16.6.9.1.3. "Awareness of the Physical World" - access to Bing's mapping, directions and immersive geospatial experiences (see for eg their Photosynth work, that merges hundreds of public domain photos into 360% panoramas)
16.6.10. Prss
16.6.10.1. iPad publishing
16.6.11. (Autos)
16.6.12. (Watches)
16.6.13. (AR)
16.6.14. Messaging & chat for mobile apps
16.6.14.1. SendBird
17. Funding
17.1. Government funding
17.1.1. SPII Grants
17.2. DTI and and DST funding
17.3. also
17.3.1. The Sable Accelerator (in Silicon Valley, for SA companies)
17.3.1.1. article
18. Scaling
18.1. Deliveries
18.1.1. OnTheDot
18.2. Online backups
18.2.1. CrashPlan
18.3. CRM's
18.3.1. Highrise
18.3.1.1. simple, solid, reliable
18.3.1.1.1. See here for highlights (tips)
19. pan-Africa
19.1. which countries?
19.1.1. A New Map for Business in Africa
20. Protection (from the Shark!)
20.1. LOTNetwork
20.1.1. a nonprofit community of companies that includes global giants like Canon, Red Hat, Dropbox and Logitech as well as startups. Member companies agree to provide immunity for one another in case their patents at some point fall into the hands of a troll — providing a real deterrent to frivolous lawsuits
20.2. Unified Patents
20.2.1. offers products and services on the defensive front
21. Coworking spaces
21.1. Cape Town
21.1.1. "Cape Town Office"
21.1.2. Platform9
21.1.3. Daddy.O
21.1.4. review of cowering spaces in CT
21.2. Johannesburg
21.2.1. "5 Creative Co-Working Spaces in Johannesburg"
21.3. South Africa
21.3.1. CoworkingSA
22. Branding
22.1. start here
22.1.1. read my KoiTip "Don't Be Shoemaker's Children"
22.2. Logos
22.2.1. "If You Love Your Brand, Set It Free": excellent article on the new way of thinking about branding
22.3. Domain names
22.3.1. Checking
22.3.1.1. InstantDomainSearch for .com/org/net
22.3.1.2. IWantMyName - best guide to new TLDs
22.3.1.3. SA Whois for .co.za's
22.3.1.4. DomainTools for others (or more information)
22.3.1.5. DomainScout - great iPhone app for this
22.3.1.6. Sedo - for buying/selling domains (research pricing...)
22.3.1.7. Escrow.com - use for escrow when buying a domain
22.3.2. Registering
22.3.2.1. RegisterDomain for .za domains
22.3.2.2. IWantMyName for new TLD's
22.3.2.3. GoDaddy for all others
22.3.2.3.1. also do .co.za's now
22.4. Websites
22.4.1. Booklet
22.4.1.1. Seth Godin, Knock Knock (free PDF) - read this BEFORE you plan your site!
22.4.2. Vigo - stunning websites, from SA company (that I mentor!)
22.4.3. Weebly - great tool for doing your own site
22.4.4. Squarespace - like Weebly but
22.4.4.1. 1. way more more beautiful
22.4.4.2. 2. more expensive: $8 pm for 20 pages, $16 pm for unlimited pages
22.4.4.3. 3. steeper learning curve
22.5. Images
22.5.1. CanStockPhoto
22.5.2. iStockPhoto
22.5.2.1. tip: add "isolated" to search, to find images on white background
22.5.2.2. has become very expensive...
22.5.3. YAY Micro
22.5.4. Stock.XCHNG (free images)
22.5.5. many others...
22.6. Email newsletters
22.6.1. MailChimp (free up to 2,000 subscribers & 12,000 emails pm)
22.6.1.1. or get started very easily & quickly with MailChimp's TinyLetter service for free
22.6.2. or if you're severely tech challenged, Mad Mimi (free for up to 100 subscribers)
22.6.3. new changes to ECT ACT 2002
22.6.3.1. no more OPT-OUT !
22.6.3.1.1. fines of R1m !!!
22.7. Pitching
22.7.1. Book
22.7.1.1. Don Peppers, "Life's a Pitch"
23. Design
23.1. great graphics tool
23.1.1. Canva
24. MORE
24.1. great online tool for drawing up your business plan
24.1.1. LivePlan
24.1.2. see also their hundreds of superb free sample business plans
25. Storytelling
25.1. Books
25.1.1. Annette Simmons, The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion through the Art of Storytelling
25.1.2. Stephen Denning, The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations
25.1.3. drawing while presenting
25.1.3.1. The Back of the Napkin, by Dan Roam (and other books by him)
25.2. Podcast
25.2.1. "Sell It With A Story", by Doug Stevenson
25.2.1.1. (see his book, too)
25.3. Newsletter
25.3.1. "Likeable Expert" - an excellent guide to writing short stories for newsletters
25.3.2. (also see his son's newsletter on Copywriting...)
25.4. Comics
25.4.1. Comic Life software for Windows/Mac
26. Teams
26.1. how to divide equity
26.1.1. use vesting equity for new people
26.1.2. useful book
26.1.2.1. Slicing Pie: Fund Your Company Without Funds
26.1.2.2. The Slicing Pie Handbook: Perfectly Fair Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups
26.1.3. useful infographic
26.1.3.1. .
26.2. expert Barn mentor on partnerships
26.2.1. Mignon Keyser
26.3. slide deck
26.3.1. Startup Culture: 23 Insights From The NetFlix Culture Deck
26.4. New node
27. Managing
27.1. book
27.1.1. Kawasaki; Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services
27.2. slide deck
27.2.1. Startup Culture: 23 Insights From The NetFlix Culture Deck
28. Good Reading
28.1. Startup Digest
28.1.1. "free weekly email to help you learn more in the tech startup world"
28.2. Silicon Cape Digest
28.2.1. sign up on the site to get their weekly Digest of useful articles for entrepreneurs
28.3. Mixergy
28.3.1. fascinating indepth interviews with successful entrepreneurs (audio & transcript)
29. What is this?
29.1. it is a list of all the resources I mention during my Koi Workshops and Masterclasses for entrepreneurs...
30. Want to attend a free Workshop or Masterclass?
30.1. my Idea Workshop Bootcamp helps entrepreneurs to discover and develop a great idea for a better world
30.2. it is run regularly across South Africa by organisations like Microsoft, the Innovation Hub, mLab, the Bandwidth Barn and Stellenbosch University
30.3. I also run run regular afternoon Masterclasses in both Cape Town and Gauteng, followed by "Coffee with Neil" sessions where you can discuss your ideas with me and the others
30.4. all Koi workshops and masterclasses are sponsored by Koi partners - so you can attend for free
30.5. want to attend one? please sign up for the Koi newsletter for news of all free workshops and masterclasses
30.6. want a taste of what you'll learn in the Idea Workshop? my "KoiTips" newsletter with lessons for entrepreneurs goes out to over a thousand people. Read some and subscribe here... (please click on the link)
31. please join the KoiGroup too ... a community of entrepreneurs sharing resources & encouragement!
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32. Can't Find It ?
32.1. can't find a resource I mentioned during the workshop? or found a broken link?
32.2. drop me an email!!!
32.2.1. [email protected]