Startup Basics by Akosha

• Mental Models - Models/Framework that people can use to reason, anticipate and explain events

To understand why mental models are important - please read Poor Charlie's Almanack.

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-models/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_theorem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocatalytic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_fallacy#The_narrative_fallacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_evolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECE_principle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradeoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_(economics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovian_conditioning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_commons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_of_safety

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_error

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tendency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_queen_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mortem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrapolation

• Effective communication

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140428141014-22330283-just-because-you-said-it-doesn-t-make-it-so

• Complex vs complicated

http://learningforsustainability.net/sparksforchange/complicated-or-complex-knowing-the-difference-is-important-for-the-management-of-adaptive-systems/

http://shawnadderly.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/part-1-understanding-the-difference-between-complex-and-complicated-systems/

https://hbr.org/2011/09/learning-to-live-with-complexity

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10459/what-is-the-difference-between-complicated-and-complex