A thread of PG Essays:

Deciding to Start a Startup

How to Make Wealth
http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html 

Why to Not Not Start a Startup
http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html 

Hiring is Obsolete
http://paulgraham.com/hiring.html 

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html 

Startup Ideas & Starting Up

How to Start a Startup
http://paulgraham.com/start.html 

How to Get Startup Ideas
http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

Ideas for Startups
http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html 

Organic Startup Ideas
http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html 

The Early Life of Startups

Startups = Growth
http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html 

Do Things That Don't Scale
http://paulgraham.com/ds.html 

The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
http://paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html

Startups in 13 Sentences
http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html

Keeping Startups Alive

The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

How Not to Die
http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html 

Default Alive or Default Dead
http://paulgraham.com/aord.html 

General Tech & Startups

Cities and Ambition
http://paulgraham.com/cities.html 

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

Relentlessly Resourceful
http://paulgraham.com/relres.html 

Good and Bad Procrastination
http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

Angel Investing

Black Swan Farming
http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html 

Philosophy

What You Can't Say
http://paulgraham.com/say.html 

Lies We Tell Kids
http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html 

Keep Your Identity Small
http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html