Venture Capital firm Bain Capital put up a collection of interesting and helpful tools for startups. Check out the list here.

Gabriel has a very nice post on some key aspects you should remember before signing a term-sheet with any investor. Read his article here.

Excitingcommerce.de informs about an interesting and very informative study on the behavior of online shoppers in Europe. Valuable insights for everybody selling on the Internet, developped by consulting company McKinsey & Co.

This is a nice footage taken from Business Insider on the problems that incumbent companies face in the light of competing with start-ups.

Nice article on CNN about the productivity tools that Bill Gates is using to organize his workday. Basically he combines 3 (!) screens, a tablet pc, one-note, sharepoint and a classical whiteboard marker. Hm, four out of five – my career is sooo sure.

Kolja has a nice video on the "key ingredients" for a successful speech. Nicely summarized in a 2.5 minute spot by HHL-entrepreneur Christian Angele from health portal imedo.de Get the video here.

Gruenderszene has compiled a nice overview of public funding sources for Start-Ups. Check the corresponding intro here.

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Found via deutsche-startups.de: Entrepreneur Naval Ravikant is giving advice on success factors for starting up a business. Very nice tidbits with a lot of truth in it. Read them here on venturebeat.

One of the most common question founder teams address me with when discussing their ideas is, how they can estimate their target market size. Generally you can (in lack of any suitable public data) use guestimates and proxies to come up with a more or less reasonable number.

Method one is to go top-down, e.g. [...]

There is a nice video to explain what Guerilla Marketing is. Check it out here. (yes, it becomes cheesy in the end, but the beginning is quite nice.

And if you want to see Guerilla Marketing in action, check out this video of a campaign from HHL-Startup www.wefeel.de, a service started [...]